Thanks David You are way ahead of the game over here. I would make one point again - just to be controversial. If you are involved in DNA - you need to get to living people today. There is a drive to protect personal privacy which is making that increasingly difficult. So for anyone under 40 - my first port of call these days is Facebook. Very recent newspapers are very useful too - especially obituaries - but those are being truncated these days too. I regard this as the Law of Unintended Consequences. The drive in family history is to share more and more - but folk in the UK in particular fear for their information being sequestered by someone who posts it on Ancestry - it gets corrupted and can then never be undone. I really would recommend Debbie Kennett's new book on DNA and Social Networking if you want to learn more about all this. It is a globalised game now, like it or not - and I can remember back to the days when there were no Welsh family history societies and no magazines, pre-1975. Communication is instant and ability to correct things is getting almost instant - and a better quality end product eventually emerges. But some folk you encounter just don't want to hear that their work is wrong - both in the UK and in the USA, in my experience. Brian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Rowlands Sent: 17 March 2012 20:58 To: Dyfed List Subject: Re: [Dyfed] NLW scanning Welsh newspapers to put online I too agree. If you want to see an example of newspapers going on-line, we've been very lucky in Australia that the National Library of Australia has been putting major and regional newspapers on-line. In most cases this is only up to the 1950s. Nevertheless, it has been possible to do a lot of family history using this resource. In addition, as an example of 'crowd-sourcing', the NLA has been using anyone who would care to register with them to correct optical character recognition errors, and tens of millions of lines have been fixed by this means, with some people having corrected over a million lines each! I hope the NLW picks up on this idea, as it is unlikely OCR will read everything correctly and this makes it difficult then to find. See: http://trove.nla.gov.au/ David Canberra On 17/03/2012, at 9:59 PM, Charani wrote: > Brian P. Swann wrote: > >> Think this is a perfectly valid reason to get excited. >> >> I have certainly made quite extensive use of them in the USA to reconstitute >> families. > > I agree. Newpapers can add plenty of meat to the bare bones of a > family as well as pointers for further research. > ================================ Dyfed list http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html ------------------------------- 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