Valarie There is apparently an index at the National Library of Ireland but I am unsure how complete it is. A large number 19th century newspapers in British Library have been scanned. These newspapers including the Freeman's Journal: http://www.bl.uk/collections/britishnewspapers1800to1900.html http://www.galegroup.com/tlist/bl_ncnp.html Once scanned the newspapers are indexed using optical character recognition (OCR). While improving OCR is far from perfect but is a great starting point. These scanned newspapers may be accessed through some large libraries and universities for free. The National Library of Australia has such access through its e-resources but only for people at the library or who have remote access through a special arrangement. I have made many (about 12,000) extracts (the hard way by reading the microfilms) from the Freeman's Journal and other Irish newspaper and have put them up on my website. -- Regards Nick /Home/ http://members.iinet.net.au/~nickred/ <http://members.iinet.net.au/%7Enickred/> /Sites managed/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~registryofdeeds/index.html <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Eregistryofdeeds/index.html> http://www.igrsoc.org/index.htm http://members.iinet.net.au/~nickred/majuratennis/ <http://members.iinet.net.au/%7Enickred/majuratennis/>

Thanks for this Nick. I will follow this up. Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney. Researching: BEDDY, CULLODEN, DYAS and ROWAN in Belfast, Dublin, Wicklow & Wexford Guild of One-Name Studies No: 4825 for CULLODEN & HIGGINSON -----Original Message----- From: irl-limerick-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irl-limerick-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nick Reddan Sent: Saturday, 22 March 2008 10:12 PM To: irl-limerick@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRL-LIMERICK] Freemans Journal Valarie There is apparently an index at the National Library of Ireland but I am unsure how complete it is. A large number 19th century newspapers in British Library have been scanned. These newspapers including the Freeman's Journal: http://www.bl.uk/collections/britishnewspapers1800to1900.html http://www.galegroup.com/tlist/bl_ncnp.html Once scanned the newspapers are indexed using optical character recognition (OCR). While improving OCR is far from perfect but is a great starting point. These scanned newspapers may be accessed through some large libraries and universities for free. The National Library of Australia has such access through its e-resources but only for people at the library or who have remote access through a special arrangement. I have made many (about 12,000) extracts (the hard way by reading the microfilms) from the Freeman's Journal and other Irish newspaper and have put them up on my website. -- Regards Nick /Home/ http://members.iinet.net.au/~nickred/ <http://members.iinet.net.au/%7Enickred/> /Sites managed/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~registryofdeeds/index.html <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Eregistryofdeeds/index.html> http://www.igrsoc.org/index.htm http://members.iinet.net.au/~nickred/majuratennis/ <http://members.iinet.net.au/%7Enickred/majuratennis/> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-LIMERICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message