Thanks, Mike, I thought it was just me -- couldn't figure out how to search a page for a key term once I'd accessed the page -- guess that's not possible to do at this point. Fortunately, the one potential ancestor I was looking for was only mentioned on one page. It took awhile to locate his name, but well worth the time as I found more military information about him. Lisa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael McGraw" <mfmcgraw@austin.rr.com> To: <IRL-TIPPERARY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: February 11, 2006 2:01 AM Subject: RE: [TIP] Fw: Irish Newspapers on line & free at present for early users > > I logged onto the site early this morning right after reading about it in > the first e-mail. > I was required to register and was given 10 free credits, the value of > which > I don't fully understand. Since the site is still under construction they > are probably letting people use it for "testing" and marketing and at some > point in the future there will be charges. It is now about 15 hours since > I > first signed on and I can still browse through my original search results. > > There are a few problems that I have noticed. When the search results are > displayed you get some gibberish that is produced when the OCR (optical > character recognition) software tries to decipher the text in the image. I > was a little surprised it found my search word based on how it mangled the > others - I also wonder how many it missed. Reading the image is much > better > and you can adjust the magnification. The image on the screen occupies too > small of an area. It is like trying to watch a baseball game through a > knothole in the outfield fence. Also, there is a thumbnail size image of > the > whole page displayed to the right with a purple navigation bar > superimposed > over it so you can see where you are on the page. This thumbnail and the > navigation bar can be toggled off which allows you to see more of the > actual > enlarged image of the page. Although the search term is on the page > somewhere there is no indication as to exactly where on the page it is > located and you must search the entire page. If you left click the mouse > on > the image and hold it down you can move the page around to view a > different > portion of it which is very nice. > > The browser "Find in this page..." function doesn't work in connection > with > these images. There is a selection tool in the small tool bar displayed at > the left of the screen. You can select an area of the image in a yellow > tinted rectangle but pressing the scissors icon which logically means > "cut" > gives you another window with an error related to "page not found." If you > try to use the browser commands of "Select All" and then "Copy" nothing > winds up on the clipboard. If you just try to use the browser "Print" > function you just print a blank page with header and footer but no > content. > > If you just want to grab the small snippets that you can see in the tiny > window they give you for viewing you need to resort to using the "Print > Screen" button the will capture the screen shot on the clipboard. You can > then paste it into Microsoft Photo Editor or Photoshop and crop the full > screen down to the newspaper image only. Then you can print it, save it or > paste it into a word document and try to reassemble the whole article in a > most tedious fashion. > > I went back and played around a little more. Doing a right click on the > mouse offers a few more options. These include a zoom in and zoom out > function and a print function that will print out at your selected > magnification as much of the column length that will fit on a page. Not > bad! > There does seem to be a bit of a problem getting to align the section > printed to the column of interest - but perhaps with a little more > practice > I will be able to master that function. > > Of course, once I sign off tonight I might not get back on tomorrow. > > Best Regards, > > Mike McGraw > Austin, TX > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cheryle Judge [mailto:cjudge@westnet.com.au] > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 11:20 PM > To: IRL-TIPPERARY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [TIP] Fw: Irish Newspapers on line & free at present for > early users > > > Hervey Bay has the little green men too. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mason family > To: IRL-TIPPERARY-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 3:11 PM > Subject: RE: [TIP] Fw: Irish Newspapers on line & free at present for > early users > > > Nor me in Brisbane > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Terry Eakin > > Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 6:48 AM > > Subject: Irish Newspapers on line & free at present for early users > > > > > > Beryl & Brian > > > > The newspaper archive is up and running at > www.irishnewspaperarchives.com > > > > There are eight titles at present but the earliest is The Freemans > Journal > > 1763 - 1924 but not all issues have been loaded yet but most of the > first > > 70 years of Freemans is there to use. Other titles are The Irish > > Independent, Leitrim Observer, The Meath Chronicle, Sunday > Independent, > > The Anglo-Celt, The Connaught Telegraph and The Tuam Herald. > > > > The site is free at the moment but will cost later once the site moves > > > from the construction stage. So use it and print from it while it is > free > > and learn how valuable it is especially for the Assizes trials and > > sentences such as transportation. The navigation bar at the top left > > loads automatically and is easy to use. You need broadband or cable > to > > make use fast and easy. Dial up can be used to check the site out but > is > > very slow. > > > > The site may sometimes be off line for maintenance so just try again > later > > when this happens > > > > www.otherdays.com site in Bray has closed without notification and was > > > supposed to have been purchased by Ancestry.com but I cannot confirm > this. > > I am going to the Ordnance Survey map launch next Friday night 17th > Feb > > here in Sydney. Melbourne has a launch on 23 Feb as per last Blarney. > > > > I'll be off to Ireland on 22 August and arrive home on 21 October 2006 > > > attending the UHF Conferrence from 25 - 30 September 2006 in Belfast. > > > > Regards > > > > Terry Eakin > > All Ireland Sources Newsletter > > 9 February 2005 > > > > > > ==== IRL-TIPPERARY Mailing List ==== > > VISIT COUNTY TIPPERARY GENEALOGY: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~irltip2/ > > Contact the Listowner at: > > mailto:IRL-TIPPERARY-admin@rootsweb.com > > > > > > > > ==== IRL-TIPPERARY Mailing List ==== > Online Tipperary Census: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~irltip2/census_ndx.htm > >