-----Original message----- Subject: The Scotsman archive goes on line To: GENBRIT-L@rootsweb.com From: Paul C <paul@thersgb.net> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:13:36 +0000 Message-ID: <41acf011.21585866@news.individual.de> Tue 30 Nov 2004 The Scotsman digital archive goes online JIM GILCHRIST THE Scotsman today makes newspaper history with the launch of its digital archive - the first time a UK publisher has offered public access to its entire archive in a searchable format. The unique online service - archive.scotsman.com - allows subscribers to log on and read any issue from the first edition of 25 January 1817, to 1900. In the next few months, this will be updated to 1950, then the present day. Subscribers will be able to "flick through" and read contemporary accounts of events at home and abroad. As a tool for historians, biographers and teachers, the archive should prove invaluable. Anyone tracing ancestors will be able to search the births, marriages and deaths columns. The site has information on use and pricing, and timeline offering free sample access. Link - http://archive.scotsman.com/ �5.95 for a 24 hour pass. -- Paul ______________________________ -----End of original message from Paul C----- -- John Gibson Chalmers - john@dgnscrn.demon.co.uk ... also at john.chalmers@us.abb.com Homepages ... http://www.dgnscrn.demon.co.uk/ and ... http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~chalmers/