Hello All I noticed that libraries such as the British Library in London has Derry Newspapers going back 200 years. I suspect that Derry or Belfast has them also. Has anyone found if these papers carried births, marriages, and deaths during the 1800's? Is this a good source? Chuck Loeher Grosse Pointe, Michigan Researching McLaughlin and Doherty in Inishowen.

Most local libraries have newspapers relating to their area. The Belfast Newspaper Library attached to the Central Library in Belfast also has a big selection of Northern Irish newspapers - including some short lived titles around the time of the 1798 rebellion. I have looked at actual newspapers there and in the British Library and NLI in Dublin. They are a good source as long as you are fairly precise about dates. Old papers had no pictures to break up the page and have very dense ,closely written print and ads which are tiring on the eyes. So looking for something that happened in 1802 is a lot of reading and all to easy to miss. As for BMD notices, those for the Belfast Newsletter have been indexed by the Linenhall Library in Belfast- (card index). You have to remember though, that newspapers chronicled the doings of the rich and well known and the criminal classes - not unlike today's really. You are unlikely to find many mentions of ordinary everyday folks and many of those couldn't afford to put announcements of BMDs in the paper either. That said, I do find newspapers useful if you have an approximate date for a specific event and now and again you can strike gold. Rachel From: <Inishowen1305@aol.com> To: <DONEGALEIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 4:16 AM Subject: [DONEGALEIRE] Derry Newspapers > Hello All > > I noticed that libraries such as the British Library in London has Derry > Newspapers going back 200 years. I suspect that Derry or Belfast has them also. > > Has anyone found if these papers carried births, marriages, and deaths during > the 1800's? Is this a good source? > > Chuck Loeher > Grosse Pointe, Michigan > > Researching McLaughlin and Doherty in Inishowen. > > > ==== DONEGALEIRE Mailing List ==== > All email to listowner should be sent to > postalq@grnco.net > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >