I have a search with Legacy.com and they frequently send me links to obits. But you can't expect them to include the kind of local papers that Newswatch deals with. I've just had a newspaper article from Newswatch about one of my names that I would never have got from one of the news archive services. I would say I was delighted to get it but it was very sad so I can't say that - but all you researchers will know what I mean. Anne Shankland ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Copsey via" <goons@rootsweb.com> To: "Jill Bhar" <jill.bhar@gmail.com>; <goons@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 11:40 AM Subject: Re: [G] GUILD NEWSWATCH PROJECT >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 >