The Ryerson Index people are primarily indexers, although some are willing to do lookups. Lookups are available for quite a few newspapers, not just the SMH. It seems that some people are just not looking carefully enough at the Ryerson site. To see which papers are available, I suggest you work carefully through the following steps: * go to the home page at www.ryersonindex.org and click on "Requesting a lookup" in the left-hand column; * this takes you to a page explaining that some SMH entries are available online, so you can do those yourself without having to ask for a lookup; * if you want an earlier SMH or a different paper, click on "Request a Ryerson Lookup" on the RHS bottom of the page; * this takes you to a page headed "Requesting Lookups" -- first click on the link at the end of the second line "For a list of available lookups, see this list."; * then you have a page headed "List of available lookups", providing a detailed list of which papers, and for which periods, lookups are available; * if the paper/period you want is there, hit the Back button on your browser to take you back to the "Requesting Lookups" page; and * read all of that page very carefully and, if there are no other avenues available to you, fill in and submit the lookup request. Be aware, however, that (as I said above) Ryerson is primarily an indexing service, not a lookup service. There are some who believe that the Ryerson indexers should not be expected to do lookups, and if the lookup service becomes overloaded, it may well disappear. Having said all that, perhaps I can help Hayley with her original request. I try to go to the National Library once a week (although it did not happen this week), and I may be able to look up the Daily Telegraph notice that you want. Perhaps you could contact me off-list, Hayley, and I'll see what I can do. Lindsay Graham, Canberra Hayley wrote: > Unfortunately our state (WA) library is one that does not have this > newspaper. Looks like a trip to Sydney is the only way I will find my info > > > Thanks all. > > Cheers > Hayley > > -------Original Message------- > > From: MargM > Date: 24/11/2009 8:15:45 PM > To: genanz@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Daily Telegraph Newspaper > > "Hayley" <hales@e-wire.net.au> wrote in message > news:mailman.462.1259042952.2037.genanz@rootsweb.com... > Hello Jewelly. > > Could you please tell me where Please. Someone else suggested this > also, > but When I go into Requesting a look up it only offers look ups for > Sydney > Morning Herald no other newspapers are offered. > > Hayley > > Various volunteers do look ups are alot more newspapers than just > the Sydney Morning Herald . > I do the SMH for 1976 and my local CC Express > You just need to read the info on the Ryerson web site > http://www.ryersonindex.org/ > > There is no look up service for the Sydney Daily Telegraph vias > Ryerson . Only the NSW State Library has films of this newspaper in > the greater Sydney area . The National Library in Canberra would have > these films and probably the other State Libraries > > Bye > > > -- > MargM > Beautiful Wyong Shire > NSW > >