With thanks to Tony Sargeant, who mentioned this on the homepage of the Bucks FHS, at www.bucksfhs.org.uk ... I've discovered Slough History online, at www.sloughhistoryonline.org.uk/ , which describes itself as: "A unique local history archive including newspapers, articles, photographs, stories and memories." There is a large selection of photographs, accessed through themes, or via the Search box at the top right of the homepage. The main gem for Family Historians is that there are scanned copies of the Slough newspapers between 1883 and 1929. Rather than being OCR searchable, they've been indexed by volunteers. You can search for entries in the births, marriages, deaths and memorials column from 1883 to 1929, and names and topics in the 1883 to 1889 span. Wendy

Thanks very much for this useful information. I recently visited Slough library and was able to find several references in the local paer for 1832 to 1840 for my Appleford ancestor who was the postmaster at Windsor. It was so quick and simple as someone has carefully indexed the newspaper on a cardex system. Another ancestor died in Slough and several others married at Upton so this site is of great interest.. Godfrey Collyer. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendy Archer" <wharcher@cvd.co.uk> To: <eng-buckinghamshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 5:45 PM Subject: [ENG-Buck] Slough History Online > With thanks to Tony Sargeant, who mentioned this on the homepage of the > Bucks FHS, at www.bucksfhs.org.uk ... > > I've discovered Slough History online, at www.sloughhistoryonline.org.uk/ > , > which describes itself as: > > "A unique local history archive including newspapers, articles, > photographs, > stories and memories." > > There is a large selection of photographs, accessed through themes, or via > the Search box at the top right of the homepage. > > The main gem for Family Historians is that there are scanned copies of the > Slough newspapers between 1883 and 1929. Rather than being OCR > searchable, > they've been indexed by volunteers. You can search for entries in the > births, marriages, deaths and memorials column from 1883 to 1929, and > names > and topics in the 1883 to 1889 span. > > Wendy > > _____________________________________________ > > Have you considered adding "postems" to "your" events on > www.freebmd.org.uk , giving your contact details? Other researchers will > then be able to make contact. Click on the info button to add your postem. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-BUCKINGHAMSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >