Hi Ailsa I fear your frustration is likely to continue, for now at least Its not that you don't know how to search for names or words, it just isn't a facility available at present The only way to achieve what you wish for is if all the newspapers are OCR scanned and therefore word searchable At present they are scanned but not OCRd The Glasgow Herald for 1800 to 1949 (although nothing like all issues) are OCRd and available on the British Library Newspaper Archive or findmypast or Genesreunited All have separate subscriptions NB as newsprint varies considerably in type and condition of the paper, a lot of OCRing throws up entirely spurious results Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 30/12/2013 12:51, Ailsa Corlett wrote: > Thanks to Marg and Irene for replies. > > The year on scotlandspeople is not a problem but the actual date. Eg. on the > NZBDM web site, I can select the year then via adjusting the months and then > the days narrow it down to the exact date the event occured. They allow > searches via date/ month/ year which scotlandspeople does not > unfortunately. > Irene, a wishful thought I think. we are lucky that the Glasgow Herald is > actually online and I can search via year and date when I have the actually > date, it is knowing the year but not the actual date that is my issue and > frustration. there must be a way in which to search the newspaper for names > only in the year selected, but this is what I do not know how to do. > > Many thanks for your replies anyway > Ailsa