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 >