Hello Janet,   No joy, I'm sorry to say - your date being 20th century and the database being just "19th Century British Library Newspapers", but I looked through anyway using all your keywords, just in case I could find any pre-death snippetts about them. I also went through all the 1900-1916 Myers deaths in The Times archive (which goes up to 1985). Wish I could have found you something.   Regards, Adi --- On Thu, 4/23/09, Janet Hopkins <janetchopkins@hotmail.com> wrote: #yiv1484661935 .hmmessage P { margin:0px;padding:0px;} #yiv1484661935 { font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;} Hi Adi, Do you think that you could be so kind as to look up a Maria Myers, who died about 1915?  She would have been over 80 years old, and was living in Gateshead with her son Henry on the 1911.   I have been looking for years for her maiden name,  which was listed on two of her children's birth certificates differently.  One said Snalp, and the other said Swallop.  Maria, aka Minnie, was from Holland, and likely had a heavy accent when she was registering the births.  So, I have ordered the birth certs for three other children of hers that I found, (with hubby William Myers), and we'll see how they render the elusive Dutch surname.  I am thinking it was probably Schelb, Schaap, or Schelbach, or something similar. I am hoping that any death record for her would list the maiden name, but understand that it's not likely. Janet   > --- On Wed, 4/22/09, Janet Hopkins <janetchopkins@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Would anyone know if there are any online newspaper archives for Gateshead > and Newcastle, where I might obtain death notices or obituaries? > > > Hello Janet, > > The Newcastle papers are on a subscription database which my library has. If > you want to give me the names, I'll take a look for you. Be warned though - > most notices are a single sentence, not the long paragraph obituary that is > customary today. > > Regards, > Adi __________________________________________________________________ Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. Click on Options in Mail and switch to New Mail today or register for free at http://mail.yahoo.ca