I'm definitely getting lots of really good obit information (includes family names, dates and place of birth, etc) from Legacy Obits. I also signed up to Legacy Obits Messenger, though have some problems with the links - easy enough to then google the name and find the obit though. I'm now just going through the older obits and its helping match up families in US and Canada. While we are on message services, I'm not sure if everyone has come across google alerts - not much good if you have a very common name or the surname is also a place name (though I think you can do some advanced filtering), but can be quite useful for picking up news stories (and obits) related to your surname. Corinne Curtis #5579 On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Peter Copsey via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > I believe the coverage for UK is poor. I tried Smith obituaries for any > county within the last 2 weeks and there were only two hits, both for the > same person. Better results are to be expected from the Guild's Newswatch > Project. > > But the Legacy site is excellent for USA and Canada obituaries. > > Peter Copsey > Member 1522 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jill Bhar via > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 3:42 AM > To: Jimmy Isard ; goons@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [G] GUILD NEWSWATCH PROJECT > > If you'd like to search newspapers yourself, you can go to www.legacy.com, > which claims you can search from millions of obits from more than 1,500 > newspapers worldwide. I can only find the following countries: > > Australia, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, England, New Zealand, N. Ireland, > Republic of Ireland, Scotland and U.S. > > You can search all records, countries or regions at one time for the last 24 > hrs up to all records. And you can search using first and last name or just > surname. > > Jill Bhar > 1494 > > > > > > On 2014-11-16, at 12:24 PM, Jimmy Isard via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > >> Looking for new volunteers to take part in the Newswatch Project full >> details of what is involved can be found here >> http://one-name.org/members/newswatch.html . If you go to this site it >> will >> give you the names of the current papers being researched and what is >> invovled >> >> It is not very time consuming it takes me about 10 minutes a week to check >> the Surrey Mirror and then forward on to the member. >> >> It can be any type on newspaper local daily or even magazine or company >> newspapers. Members who have gained from marriage challenges may find this >> a >> way of repaying other members. >> >> If you have any further question feel free to contact me >> >> Jim Isard >> newswatch@one-name.org >> >> >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc >> http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Google alerts, I have them set up for all my main variants. I use it to put interesting stuff on my Featherstone Society Facebook page, I get a lot of stuff about Featherstone Rovers( Rugby League team), and anything that happens in Featherstone in the West Riding of Gods country, and any problems in Featherstone prison in Staffordshire. There are a few other other things I get regularly, but after a while you just ignore and a quick scan down the alerts I can pick out the unusual. I also use a mapping web site https://uencounter.me/ and plot Streets and Road named after my names, I get quite a few house sales containing road names. It can usually find names in Australia, USA and Canada, however it's not so good at locating streets in the UK. It also seems to pick up Obits that the Legacy site misses. I started to use Evernote at the beginning of the year and I just clip the obit page straight to my obits folder, I have 166 this year to date. Not that I have time to do anything about them but they are part of my study. Anything from News watch goes into the same folder. forwarded by E mail. Hope this gives you some idea's Paul 2627 Featherstone's Worldwide On 24/11/2014 12:03, Corinne Curtis via wrote: > I'm definitely getting lots of really good obit information (includes > family names, dates and place of birth, etc) from Legacy Obits. I > also signed up to Legacy Obits Messenger, though have some problems > with the links - easy enough to then google the name and find the obit > though. I'm now just going through the older obits and its helping > match up families in US and Canada. While we are on message services, > I'm not sure if everyone has come across google alerts - not much good > if you have a very common name or the surname is also a place name > (though I think you can do some advanced filtering), but can be quite > useful for picking up news stories (and obits) related to your > surname. > > Corinne Curtis #5579 > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Peter Copsey via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: >> I believe the coverage for UK is poor. I tried Smith obituaries for any >> county within the last 2 weeks and there were only two hits, both for the >> same person. Better results are to be expected from the Guild's Newswatch >> Project. >> >> But the Legacy site is excellent for USA and Canada obituaries. >> >> Peter Copsey >> Member 1522 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jill Bhar via >> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 3:42 AM >> To: Jimmy Isard ; goons@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [G] GUILD NEWSWATCH PROJECT >> >> If you'd like to search newspapers yourself, you can go to www.legacy.com, >> which claims you can search from millions of obits from more than 1,500 >> newspapers worldwide. I can only find the following countries: >> >> Australia, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, England, New Zealand, N. Ireland, >> Republic of Ireland, Scotland and U.S. >> >> You can search all records, countries or regions at one time for the last 24 >> hrs up to all records. And you can search using first and last name or just >> surname. >> >> Jill Bhar >> 1494 >> >> >> >> >> >> On 2014-11-16, at 12:24 PM, Jimmy Isard via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: >> >>> Looking for new volunteers to take part in the Newswatch Project full >>> details of what is involved can be found here >>> http://one-name.org/members/newswatch.html . If you go to this site it >>> will >>> give you the names of the current papers being researched and what is >>> invovled >>> >>> It is not very time consuming it takes me about 10 minutes a week to check >>> the Surrey Mirror and then forward on to the member. >>> >>> It can be any type on newspaper local daily or even magazine or company >>> newspapers. Members who have gained from marriage challenges may find this >>> a >>> way of repaying other members. >>> >>> If you have any further question feel free to contact me >>> >>> Jim Isard >>> newswatch@one-name.org >>> >>> >>> >>> _____________________________________________ >>> >>> RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc >>> http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >>> in the subject and the body of the message >> _____________________________________________ >> >> RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc >> http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in >> the subject and the body of the message >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message