This is terrific! Thanks. Beth On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Pat Connors <nymets11@pacbell.net> wrote: > Thanks to Colleen, Down Under, for passing this great info to me so I > could send it to my various lists. > > > The site for the Aust newspapers is http://newspapers.nla.gov.au > It is a project of the Australian National Archives and is free to > search, you don't have to be a member of another library. > > You will find historic newspapers from circa 1803 - 1954 from all > Australian States and about 60 different newspapers. The states > being Queensland, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Australian > Capital Territory (Canberra), South Australia, Western Australia and > Tasmania (where most of the convicts were taken). > > According to NLA web site there are 2½ million pages and 25,620,00 > articles (how they work that out I don't know, probably guestimation!) > On their "About Us" page it gives a description of how best to use the > site. > Coverage: A graph showing years and the papers digitised. > Legal Stuff: Yes, that's what it is called - not too frightening > Known bugs: No, not viruses but just how your search results might come > up or why they might not come up. > All in all a very easy site to navigate & use, there is an easy > enlargement tool & save the image & easy print button. > > > -- > Pat Connors, Sacramento, CA > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com > > > ====Irish American Mailing List===== > Add/check your surname to the Irish-American mailing list Surname Registry > at: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRISH-AMERICAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Elizabeth W. Tordella, MS, RN ewtordella@gmail.com