You are lucky Mike, here in Down Under land I still can't get on from very early this morning and it's now 5.15pm. How bout sharing the address you have. Regards Cheryle ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael McGraw To: IRL-TIPPERARY-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 5:01 PM 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

Cheryle, I just clicked on the URL given in the e-mail yesterday morning shown below. The newspaper archive is up and running at www.irishnewspaperarchives.com I have already logged off and I just clicked on the above URL and I get the screen that says "Irish Newspaper Archive" and then it just hangs there. So now I am back on the outside like everyone else. This is typical of new sites. When they are first announced they get overwhelmed and then they take them off line for awhile to fix glitches and improves efficiency so that they can handle all the hits. We were warned it was under construction and this will probably happen for a while. I'll try again tomorrow. Best Regards, Mike McGraw Austin, TX -----Original Message----- From: Cheryle Judge [mailto:cjudge@westnet.com.au] Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 1:17 AM To: IRL-TIPPERARY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TIP] Fw: Irish Newspapers on line & free at present for early users You are lucky Mike, here in Down Under land I still can't get on from very early this morning and it's now 5.15pm. How bout sharing the address you have. Regards Cheryle

Mmmm, same here Mike and Cheryle. I should have spent more time last night, but I thought Id save my credits! Estelle >From: "Michael McGraw" <mfmcgraw@austin.rr.com> >Reply-To: IRL-TIPPERARY-L@rootsweb.com >To: IRL-TIPPERARY-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: RE: [TIP] Fw: Irish Newspapers on line & free at present for early >users >Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 02:31:31 -0600 > > >Cheryle, > >I just clicked on the URL given in the e-mail yesterday morning shown >below. > > The newspaper archive is up and running at www.irishnewspaperarchives.com > >I have already logged off and I just clicked on the above URL and I get the >screen that says "Irish Newspaper Archive" and then it just hangs there. So >now I am back on the outside like everyone else. > >This is typical of new sites. When they are first announced they get >overwhelmed and then they take them off line for awhile to fix glitches and >improves efficiency so that they can handle all the hits. We were warned it >was under construction and this will probably happen for a while. > >I'll try again tomorrow. > >Best Regards, > >Mike McGraw >Austin, TX > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Cheryle Judge [mailto:cjudge@westnet.com.au] >Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 1:17 AM >To: IRL-TIPPERARY-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [TIP] Fw: Irish Newspapers on line & free at present for >early users > > >You are lucky Mike, here in Down Under land I still can't get on from very >early this morning and it's now 5.15pm. >How bout sharing the address you have. > >Regards >Cheryle > > >==== IRL-TIPPERARY Mailing List ==== >VISIT COUNTY TIPPERARY GENEALOGY: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~irltip2/ >Contact the Listowner at: >mailto:IRL-TIPPERARY-admin@rootsweb.com > _________________________________________________________________ Ever wanted to be a TV Stylist? Win Your Dream Job at MyCareer http://dreamjob.mycareer.com.au/?s_cid=213322