Dear All, I recently received the message below from an ex-collleague of mine. It looks to be a really useful site. The only thing that I'd like to add to the notes below is that when you find a page of interest in the early documents, you will not be able to search it using your browser's own search (Ctrl/F), you must use the 'Search' option within the web page itself. Some of the results pages are large and may take time to download. If you want to supply feedback on the site, DON'T send it to me or this list, use the 'Contact Us' link under the 'About Us' menu on the web site itself. Don't break it too quickly ! ;-)) Subject: Fwd: Gazettes Online Date: 15/10/2002 14:47:16 Hi Ian. I thought you might like to know about the latest site my company's launched. We've had people busy scanning and OCR-ing a century's worth of paper archive of the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes (the official UK newspaper of record, published by the Parliamentary Press - now part of TSO). Having got all the data out of the documents via OCR, we've generated searchable PDF documents. The PDF's are just TIFF images, but also contain OCR data including the locations of words so they can be searched and highlighted. On top of this we've put a search engine so that you can, for example, search for any mention of Hartas in the Gazettes between 1900 and 1997 (the ones from 1998 onward are available in proper electronic form). So if a Hartas won a military medal or other official honour, you'll find out about it! Have fun at http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk -------- End of forwarded message -------- -- regards, Ian Hartas ---------------------------------- Why is it that the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary? ----------------------------------