Wel, here in the Highlands we have the Am Baile council website which provides a free index to half a dozen historical local newspapers, and by indicating items of interest, the approrpiate library holding that paper will scan the article and e-mail it to you, all for free! Gordon Johnson in Caithness On 08/01/2012 08:01, [email protected] wrote: > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: British Newspaper Archive (Vanessa Dixon) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 19:52:11 +0000 (GMT) > From: Vanessa Dixon<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] British Newspaper Archive > To: Alex Elliot<[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]"<[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Well it lets you know if there is an article of interest, its not that expensive, a lot cheaper than travelling to Dumfries to look at the newspapers, especially if you live overseas. Its quite an expensive business, scanning all the newspapers etc so they have to cover the cost somehow. > ? > Vanessa > > ?All records are subject to error. Let they without typo caste tea thirst scone! > View my photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/snapshistory/ > > > ________________________________ > From: Alex Elliot<[email protected]> > To: Vanessa Dixon<[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, 7 January 2012, 19:20 > Subject: Re: [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] British Newspaper Archive > > > thanks Vanessa for the info but is there any point in a free search if you cannot view for free > > Regards Alex ? a poor Scot > > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Vanessa Dixon<[email protected]> wrote: > > Some of you will be aware that?The British Newspaper Archive is now going online, at the moment they have listed - Dumfries and Galloway Standard 1844-1860. To search the archive is free, but to view requires you to buy credits. >> ? >> http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ >> ? >> Vanessa >> >> ?All records are subject to error. Let they without typo caste tea thirst scone! >> View my photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/snapshistory/ >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY mailing list, send an email to [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY Digest, Vol 7, Issue 6 > ***********************************************