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Title: "Papers Past" Updates Part II **complete**
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Tuesday 02 August 11 06:19 BST (UK)
Wow we sure all love Papers Past  ;D
Have started a new thread, we had hit 21 pages  8) ;D :o

So keep up the posts and suggestions and questions for the team at PP, who drop in
Bye
althea
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Kiwi Girl on Tuesday 02 August 11 07:26 BST (UK)
Quote from: paperspast
Hi all - feel like a little diversion? Fancy putting your search skills to work? We've come up with a competition celebrating Papers Past's 2 millionth page - all entries go into the draw to win a Kobo e-book reader.

To enter, email us a link to a Papers Past article featuring your namesake (first name and/or last name and/or full name) - details here:
http://www.natlib.govt.nz/about-us/news/family-history-competition

Entries have started coming in already, I have to stay I've had an absolute blast reading some of the articles linked, there's been some great stuff dug up. We haven't put the details up on the PP site just yet, but I wanted to let you all know directly just in case you might want to enter.

Just thought it was worth adding this here for any who missed it - I blame the bee ;)

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Post by: newbe_nz on Tuesday 02 August 11 10:06 BST (UK)
Love the bee kiwi girl ;D
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: spades on Wednesday 10 August 11 00:32 BST (UK)
Hi Papers Past,

In reply#164 of the previous 'Papers Past' topic (page 16) I was asked which of the several newspapers named the 'Guardian' I was referring to when I requested that it be available online.

I have just received confirmation from Hokitika Museum that the full title was the Hokitika Guardian and Evening Star

By the way, the Hokitika Museum Archivist tells me that they hold issues of this newspaper up to 1940 on microfilm.

Spades
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Post by: Canterburynorth on Thursday 11 August 11 02:35 BST (UK)
Hello Papers Past,

I wondered if there are any plans to add the North Canterbury Gazette to the collection?

Regards
leandra
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Thursday 11 August 11 05:44 BST (UK)
Hi Papers Past,

In reply#164 of the previous 'Papers Past' topic (page 16) I was asked which of the several newspapers named the 'Guardian' I was referring to when I requested that it be available online.

I have just received confirmation from Hokitika Museum that the full title was the Hokitika Guardian and Evening Star

By the way, the Hokitika Museum Archivist tells me that they hold issues of this newspaper up to 1940 on microfilm.

Spades

Hi Spades - thanks for the clarification, I'll pass this on, and great sleuthing!
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Post by: PapersPast on Thursday 11 August 11 05:48 BST (UK)
Hello Papers Past,

I wondered if there are any plans to add the North Canterbury Gazette to the collection?

Regards
leandra

Hi Leandra -
At this stage there aren't - but we can investigate this. Preliminarily, I think a big hurdle might be copyright, due to the date range of the title. I'll raise this in our next selection meeting for you.

Thanks!
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Post by: Kiwi Girl on Thursday 11 August 11 05:56 BST (UK)
I know it's all, want, want, want....  but I'd love more ODT's maybe up to the 1960s.... or even later...  any chance?

(http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/custom/paperspast/images/mastheads/ODT.gif)
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Friday 12 August 11 01:30 BST (UK)
I know it's all, want, want, want....  but I'd love more ODT's maybe up to the 1960s.... or even later...  any chance?

(http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/custom/paperspast/images/mastheads/ODT.gif)

In all honesty, probably not much chance unless there was some big movement in the area of copyright. I'll pass that on tho, you never know...
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Saturday 13 August 11 03:06 BST (UK)
Hi Paperspast
A big gap is the upper Coromandel
I just see there are a few editions at National library
A few would be better than non

Title: Coromandel mail.
Publisher: [Coromandel, N.Z. : s.n., 1872?-1882?] 

Location: Alexander Turnbull Library, Newspaper Colln
 
Library holds: 1874:Mar.10-May21<27/11>
 1881:Feb.19-Dec.10 (lacks May14?,Jun.4?,Jul.2?,Aug.)<27/11>
 1881:Mar.5,12,Apr.23,Jul.30,Aug.13,20,27<332/6>
 1881:Mar.5,12,Apr.23,Jul.30,Aug.13,20,27<332/6>
 1882:Mar.11<332/6>

Bye
Althea
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Post by: PapersPast on Monday 15 August 11 01:30 BST (UK)
Hi Althea,
I think we'll eventually get to a point where we've located all the old issues we can, and we'll have to just put online the best record we have available. I'll bring up the general issue of Coromandel coverage at the next meeting, and the Coromandel Mail as a specific title.

Cheers!
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Post by: kiwihalfpint on Monday 15 August 11 02:06 BST (UK)
Hi Althea,
I think we'll eventually get to a point where we've located all the old issues we can, and we'll have to just put online the best record we have available. I'll bring up the general issue of Coromandel coverage at the next meeting, and the Coromandel Mail as a specific title.

Cheers!

That will be great if you can.


Cheers
KHP :)
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Post by: Janette on Tuesday 30 August 11 03:11 BST (UK)
Is it true that the NZ Herald will start to gone online from next year?

Cheers Janette
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Post by: kiwihalfpint on Tuesday 30 August 11 03:15 BST (UK)
Is it true that the NZ Herald will start to gone online from next year?

Cheers Janette

Really?  Where did you hear that?


Cheers
KHP
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Post by: Kiwi Girl on Tuesday 30 August 11 03:17 BST (UK)
:o Wow my ears pricked up - or rather my eyes went all round and excited when I read your post Janette!   :o
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Janette on Tuesday 30 August 11 03:18 BST (UK)
On the other board

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/MessageBoard/Messages.aspx?id=805251&topic=40

Cheers Janette
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Post by: PapersPast on Wednesday 31 August 11 06:21 BST (UK)
Is it true that the NZ Herald will start to gone online from next year?

Cheers Janette

If I can qualify that by saying that it might be in about 6 months, give or take a bit in case of the unforeseen, then yes. We quite often have to shift our release schedules around, so please don't hold your breath!
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Post by: Janette on Wednesday 31 August 11 06:22 BST (UK)
That will be marvellous wooooooo hooooooooooooo

Cheers Janette
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Post by: kiwihalfpint on Wednesday 31 August 11 06:56 BST (UK)
That will be marvellous wooooooo hooooooooooooo

Cheers Janette

A belated xmas pressie ;D
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Kiwi Girl on Wednesday 31 August 11 07:02 BST (UK)
Even a little is a great help!  Next Stop - the Press  ;)
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Saturday 10 September 11 23:29 BST (UK)
Hi Paperspast
I know over the years I've asked
but can you give an update on the Thames Advertiser

The Treasury at Thames does have some microfilm, but because its never really been indexed it is very under utilised
The unique thing is if you need a selling point to getting it scanned it seemed to be a much more indepth newspaper on mining matters but also general news. Also BMD notices were either put in one paper and not another..so alot of genies would be very interested if online.

I see national library has some editions from 1870 whereas the microfilm available at some libraries is 1874

Many thanks
Althea
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Ringrose on Sunday 11 September 11 08:47 BST (UK)
What is the wren site for Papers Past please
Ringrose
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Janette on Sunday 11 September 11 08:49 BST (UK)
Hi Ringrose

this is their website

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=p&p=home&e=-------10--1----0--


Cheers Janette
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Post by: PapersPast on Sunday 11 September 11 23:51 BST (UK)
Hi Althea - we've done some investigating of the title, enough to get to the stage where we could say "digitise it", although we obviously haven't digitised it yet.
So in short, we've done the prep, and now it's a question of finding the resources to do the digitisation work.

On that note, may I bring to your attention this topical announcement - http://www.natlib.govt.nz/about-us/current-initiatives/papers-past-collaborative-newspaper-digitisation-project-2011-2012
We've only just put this up on our main website, so I wouldn't expect that much word would have gotten out beyond librarians up in Thames.

I know that this is a bit of a cheeky segue, but the announcement was so timely to your question that I had to mention it.
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Post by: Thamesite2017 on Sunday 11 September 11 23:58 BST (UK)
Many thanks
I have just read the docs at that site

So is it a matter of costs? Do you need local libraries to fund the process
Bye
Althea
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Kiwi Girl on Monday 12 September 11 00:02 BST (UK)
So.... could communities raise funds to get it done?  Is there a price guide - or do we submit the paper we want and get a quote from you guys?

Just curious  ;)
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Monday 12 September 11 00:16 BST (UK)
It is partially a matter of costs, and also a case of wanting to give community groups the chance to drive the material they want through to delivery on Papers Past.
I know that the document refers to "partnership with other collecting organisations", which infers libraries and museums etc - but note that we have collaborated with trust groups previously, and there's no reason why a library couldn't be a proxy in some way for a community effort.
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Post by: PapersPast on Monday 12 September 11 01:43 BST (UK)
So.... could communities raise funds to get it done?  Is there a price guide - or do we submit the paper we want and get a quote from you guys?

Just curious  ;)

My apologies - I didn't really answer your question did I?
We don't have a price guide, or "Menu", if you will, as such. The document linked off that page gives some per-page costs, and we can give you an indication or quote if you would like to suggest a title. If you'd like to get in touch directly (email paperspast[at][/blue]natlib.govt.nz) we can help you out and get the ball rolling. (Replace [at] with @)
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Post by: PapersPast on Tuesday 20 September 11 02:39 BST (UK)
Here's something else for some of you to digest, the technically curious amongst you at least. I hesitate to say "have a play", because it's not strictly play, but you might find the payoff worth it.
The good folk who built the Papers Past platform have built a new image server, and the new image server has some really neat tricks up its sleeve.
Have you noticed that it's a little awkward to save images from PP? If you right-click on an article and "save-as" the image, you often just get part of the image, not the whole thing. This is because the article is actually several images, so it becomes a matter of chance as to which one you click on when you try and save.

Our new imageserver still works like this, but it can also do a few other very handy things - like combining those composite images of articles into a single image, which means that you can ask it to give you nice, single article images, and at whatever size you want.

Have a look at the sample link below:

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/imageserver/imageserver.pl?oid=AMBPA19040112.1.1&area=all&width=700&maxheight=2000&ext=png

Open that link in another browser window, and you'll see a nicely proportioned front page. In that address bar, try modifying that width value of "700" to something larger or smaller and you'll see how this works. The height value can also be played with obviously, if the image cuts off the bottom of a long article.

Conversely, if you modify the text "AMBPA19040112.1.1" with the corresponding string found in the URL of any other page or article (eg ODT18820213.2.8 ) you'll get an image for that page or article instead.

Another example, of a huge long article now saved as one image file instead of many smaller images. If you click on the image it should switch between fullsize and fit-to-screen - and you'll notice that if you right-click on it, and choose "save-as", you'll get one proper image, not just a little segment.

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/imageserver/imageserver.pl?oid=ODT18820213.2.8&area=all&width=300&maxheight=10000&ext=png
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Post by: johnbarr on Tuesday 20 September 11 21:12 BST (UK)
That's a big improvement PapersPast  ;D

I see that the file type extn at end can be changed from png to jpg, as well, before saving.

Thank you

John B
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Post by: PapersPast on Tuesday 20 September 11 23:51 BST (UK)
Thanks John, I wasn't sure if people would be interested, but I figured it would be really handy in the case of long articles particularly. Glad to see it might be of some use to you!
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Post by: SignalHill on Thursday 22 September 11 05:58 BST (UK)
Blank Images on Papers Past Search

I have come across several instances where searching returns a blank page or partial page but seems to show there is an item of interest.   

Explanation for this provided by Papers Past
" it looks like the image file we have up on the Papers past site is faulty, so we've logged it for re-processing.  Fortunately, the Preservation Master file is fine, so a new copy can be derived from this quite happily.

We really appreciate that you spotted this and let us know - if you come across any more in the future, please send them our way.   It is possible that the issue that caused this glitch might have affected other image files on the system, so there might be other instances that we have missed too.
"

Papers Past are happy to receive other instances from Rootschatters

Signal Hill
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Thursday 22 September 11 06:00 BST (UK)
Thanks SignalHill :)
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Kiwi Girl on Thursday 22 September 11 07:22 BST (UK)
Hi there, are there any whisperings about digitising the '8 O'Clock'?  Apparently it was an Auckland Newspaper until the 1980s...
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Post by: kiwihalfpint on Thursday 22 September 11 07:25 BST (UK)
Hi there, are there any whisperings about digitising the '8 O'Clock'?  Apparently it was an Auckland Newspaper until the 1980s...

Yep, it certainly was.   


Cheers
KHP
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Post by: Janette on Thursday 22 September 11 07:46 BST (UK)
Yep,once a week on a Saturday
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Post by: PapersPast on Thursday 22 September 11 23:46 BST (UK)
Hi Kiwi Girl -
You're the first person to bring that title up. It might be an interesting one for us to tackle in the future, but resolving the copyright issues would be a biggie...
In short, there haven't been any whisperings at our end about this. I'll bring it up as a suggested title for you tho :)
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Post by: spades on Friday 23 September 11 00:11 BST (UK)
Hi Kiwi-Girl and fellow lobbyers,

So what was in the '8 O'Clock' that made it so interesting? From an earlier post I thought it might be a sports supplement.

Spades
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Post by: PapersPast on Friday 23 September 11 00:28 BST (UK)
Whilst the 8 o'clock was a bit before my time, a quick bit of googling tells of an interesting paper - big for sports results, people waiting outside dairies on saturday evening for the paper to arrive, the occasional photo essay from events and concerts - sounds like quite a colourful read.
How far from the mark am I Kiwi Girl?
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Post by: Janette on Friday 23 September 11 00:31 BST (UK)
Thats sounds about right,I think it went from 1950 to 1985.

I think all the horse racing results were in it too


Cheers Janette
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Post by: Kiwi Girl on Friday 23 September 11 01:12 BST (UK)
That sounds about right from what Mum said too.  She said a brawl at the GluePot would have fitted in perfectly among the Rugby / Racing and other Sport results.

I don't know if it was a national paper or just an Auckland one...

I was only put on to it by my neighbour who found out his Dad had been a bit of a lad in the 1970s and was involved in some rough and tumble at the GluePot, we think on a Saturday in March / April 1971.  I had a look through the Herald for that time but, as I said, got a bit sidetracked with other interesting titbits...
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Post by: kiwihalfpint on Friday 23 September 11 01:32 BST (UK)
Thats sounds about right,I think it went from 1950 to 1985.

I think all the horse racing results were in it too


Cheers Janette

Think you are right Janette cause my friends father was into horse racing.  There was always trouble at the "Gluepot" :D


Cheers
KHP
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Post by: kiwihalfpint on Friday 23 September 11 01:44 BST (UK)
Not quite sure if it was the 8 o'clock or the Sunday News, but there used to be a competition that appeared weekly in the sports part.  They showed a footie picture of a game that had previously been played, and the ball was removed, it was called "Spot the Ball" (I think).   You marked the spot where you thought the ball was, sent it in and you could win cash if you were spot on.


Cheers
KHP
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Post by: Thamesite2017 on Friday 23 September 11 03:11 BST (UK)
Loved that game, although used to amaze me how they ever determined a winner
must have been many surely!
Althea
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Post by: johnbarr on Friday 23 September 11 03:24 BST (UK)
I don't know if it was a national paper or just an Auckland one...

Not national, only Auckland I think. Equivalent in Wellington was the "Sports Post" which came out 8pm Sat with all local sports results of the day. Very popular too. Published in Wellington by the "Evening Post".

John B
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Post by: kiwihalfpint on Friday 23 September 11 03:32 BST (UK)
Didn't the Sunday Star take over from the Saturday Star and 8 O'Clock?


Cheers
KHP

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Post by: PapersPast on Friday 23 September 11 03:53 BST (UK)
As I understand it, that's correct KHP.
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Post by: SignalHill on Friday 14 October 11 09:51 BST (UK)
Dunedin it was Star Sports published by The Evening Star (which eventually amalgamated with O.D.T.)

SH
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Post by: DonL on Tuesday 18 October 11 00:37 BST (UK)
I don't know if it was a national paper or just an Auckland one...

Not national, only Auckland I think. Equivalent in Wellington was the "Sports Post" which came out 8pm Sat with all local sports results of the day. Very popular too. Published in Wellington by the "Evening Post".

John B

As a youngster (12 or 13) I used to deliver the "Sports Post" around the Hutt Valley, NaeNae and Taita areas every Saturday night -  a great evening for tips, mainly from those jovial characters who had had far too much to drink.

DonL
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: DonL on Tuesday 18 October 11 00:38 BST (UK)
I don't know if it was a national paper or just an Auckland one...

Not national, only Auckland I think. Equivalent in Wellington was the "Sports Post" which came out 8pm Sat with all local sports results of the day. Very popular too. Published in Wellington by the "Evening Post".

John B
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Monday 24 October 11 23:03 BST (UK)
Hi everyone -

We have another newspaper selection meeting later this week, and I was wondering if anyone would have any other newspaper titles (in addition to the ones we've mentioned in this forum previously) they'd like to nominate.

Are there any titles you'd like us to start investigating? If so, just reply and let me know.

Cheers!

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Post by: DonL on Monday 24 October 11 23:58 BST (UK)
In the 1950s there was a newspaper distributed in the Wellington Area in competition with the Evening Post, it may have been The Southern Cross or something similar -  I believe it was affiliated with the Labour Party.  This may be Worth considering.

DonL
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Post by: PapersPast on Tuesday 25 October 11 00:02 BST (UK)
Thanks Don! I'll pass that on.
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Post by: johnbarr on Tuesday 25 October 11 21:44 BST (UK)
Hi PapersPast,
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to make suggestions  ;D

I'd like to see some papers from Golden Bay.
The local GB Museum advises they have the following papers in their collections, but there might be more copies available elsewhere?

The Takaka News 1896
The Golden Bay News 07/05/1908
The Golden Bay Argus 12/3/1908, 19/03/1908
Golden Bay Times - (various dates in quite a delicate nature)  1914, 1917-1920, 1926-1929

John B
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Tuesday 25 October 11 23:29 BST (UK)
Hi John - those are excellent suggestions, I'll admit bias, I have a soft spot in my heart for the 'bay. It sounds like there might be a bit of need for some preservation work on that material too. I'll bring this up at the meeting. Cheers!
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Post by: Thamesite2017 on Wednesday 26 October 11 16:15 BST (UK)
Newspaper selection  ;D did I hear you say...Thames Advertiser  :'(

Seriously, is Auckland Weekly News on list of to dos, or are Auckland Libraries doing that
they have so many images in their heritage collection,,but would love more
I spent a few hours this week hunting for Thames and found over 400 names identifiable in photos
there were many great articles, but not always complete.
It seems an amazing resource and the pictures articles seem to cover a wide area of at least the north island

Bye
Althea  ;D
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Wednesday 26 October 11 23:14 BST (UK)
Hi Althea,

The Auckland Weekly News is on the to-do list, but there are a few microfilm issues to solve with that one. However, in more positive news, the Thames Advertiser is getting closer - we've committed to duplicating the microfilms that we have, which is a precursor to getting those films digitised.
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Post by: kiwihalfpint on Wednesday 26 October 11 23:21 BST (UK)

the Thames Advertiser is getting closer

Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Cheers
KHP
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Post by: Janette on Wednesday 26 October 11 23:38 BST (UK)
Ooooooooooooooh,KHP is very excited ;D ;D ;D

Cheers Janette
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: DonL on Thursday 27 October 11 00:22 BST (UK)
That's very good news

Can't wait till the next lot of papers go live.... ;D :)
DonL
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Post by: PapersPast on Wednesday 02 November 11 03:44 GMT (UK)
Hi all,
just to let you know, the next bunch of papers will probably be a few months away yet, I'm not sure if we'll be able to sneak them in for Christmas, so most likely sometime in the new year. The major title in the release will be The Press, so it'll be worth the wait!
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Post by: Kiwi Girl on Wednesday 02 November 11 03:47 GMT (UK)
Yay!  The Press will be awesome to have online!!!
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Post by: DonL on Wednesday 02 November 11 04:02 GMT (UK)
Great news. Well done Papers Past staff

Love ya

DonL
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Post by: newbe_nz on Wednesday 02 November 11 04:09 GMT (UK)
WooHoo, Thanks so much

cheers
newbe
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Post by: kiwihalfpint on Wednesday 02 November 11 04:50 GMT (UK)
Another one jumping up and down. :D


Cheers
KHP
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Post by: PapersPast on Tuesday 06 December 11 00:30 GMT (UK)
Hi all - quick update time.
It looks like The Press might be able to go online sometime after the new year - I don't think we'll be able to sneak this out for xmas, as much as we'd like to.
Also, shortly we'll be announcing our selections from the Papers Past collaborative digitisation nominations process we ran. I won't pre-empt our announcement, but I know the titles will put a smiles on a few faces on this forum, so there should be something to look forward to there. I'll update you all after the announcement is made in the next week or two.

Lastly, we've done a bit of work on the AtoJs. Aghadowey (forum mod) noticed that long pages were causing his computer to freeze, so we've now divided long reports into 50-page slices, so that they load reasonably, and can be navigated by clicking on "Next pages" and "Previous pages" links.

This means that information in the typically long Police Reports can now be searched - which is great because there's some juicy stuff in there!

http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&cl=search&d=AJHR1898-I.2.3.2.2&srpos=2&e=-------100--1---bySH---0-AJHR_1898_I_H-
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Post by: Thamesite2017 on Tuesday 06 December 11 00:34 GMT (UK)
Thanks for checking in
I've been keeping an eye out incase I had missed anything
Bye
Althea
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Post by: PapersPast on Tuesday 06 December 11 00:37 GMT (UK)
No problem! I actually keep this site open all the time in my browser at work, just to keep tabs on things. Feel free to prod me anytime!
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Post by: Kiwi Girl on Tuesday 06 December 11 00:48 GMT (UK)
looking forward to The Press and titilated by what else is on the horizon   ;)

nice pic insertion Althea  :)

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Post by: kiwihalfpint on Tuesday 06 December 11 01:36 GMT (UK)
Looking forward to what the New Year brings

Cheers
KHP

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Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: DonL on Tuesday 06 December 11 01:52 GMT (UK)
Thanks for that information and for keeping us updated. Very much appreciated by all I am sure.

Looking forward to the new updated pages.

DonL
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Tuesday 06 December 11 02:08 GMT (UK)
Paperspast
Have been meaning to ask
is there any plans to change the search options, or adding a search within
say you may want a phrase "x y" plus z anywhere in the article

sometimes using all words you can still end up with hundreds
I guess if you have any little tricks on searching better, I'm sure we'd all love to hear them
or any other tips on anything to with papers  8)
Bye
Althea
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Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Tuesday 06 December 11 02:57 GMT (UK)
Hi Althea -
you've actually already cracked it. Search "all words", and try a boolean phrase like:

"bruce thompson" +fire

That should do it. You can refine it further with other boolean arguments, like:

"bruce thompson" +fire -horse

...etc. Just be careful not to refine it too much, as you will get to a point where you have legitimate results ending up outside the scope of your search, a kind of search result collateral damage.

I hope this helps - although it seems you hardly needed any  ;)
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: johnbarr on Tuesday 06 December 11 03:04 GMT (UK)
Well, it certainly helped me  ;D

Thanks for asking, Althea, and reply from PP

John B
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Tuesday 06 December 11 03:22 GMT (UK)
Dohhhh
I never realised that you could use that type of searching here..like at google

If you could know the hours I have spent  :'( searching for all terms with out the + or -

what a difference
you are a lifesaver  8)
Bye
althea
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Tuesday 06 December 11 03:26 GMT (UK)
No problem Althea - the only downside is that now we'll lose all those extra pageviews your extra searches were adding to our webstats! I'm sure we'll cope ;) Best of luck, and happy digging.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Fresh Fields on Tuesday 06 December 11 04:33 GMT (UK)
Hi all - quick update time.............[Edit]...............

Lastly, we've done a bit of work on the AtoJs. Aghadowey (forum mod) noticed that long pages were causing his computer to freeze, so we've now divided long reports into 50-page slices, so that they load reasonably, and can be navigated by clicking on "Next pages" and "Previous pages" links.

This means that information in the typically long Police Reports can now be searched - which is great because there's some juicy stuff in there!

http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&cl=search&d=AJHR1898-I.2.3.2.2&srpos=2&e=-------100--1---bySH---0-AJHR_1898_I_H-

Hello and thanks for that info. Along with this tip from my previous research,

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,567861.0.html

who knows what I'll be finding out next.

- Alan.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Tuesday 06 December 11 05:13 GMT (UK)
Paperspast LOL
I think I just about own the Thames Star!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you see massive page views there
Have been researching a sports booklet plus usual sidetracks...first time events, characters etc
It never ceases to amaze me the wonderful info

I had to laugh, I thought I'd found some early flying club, called "Thames Flying club"..wow I thought..early flight
turns out it was for Pigeons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Fresh Fields on Tuesday 06 December 11 06:31 GMT (UK)
Paperspast LOL  ....[Edit]....

I had to laugh, I thought I'd found some early flying club, called "Thames Flying club"..wow I thought..early flight
turns out it was for Pigeons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello. Was that at the time of our Pigeon Post Heritage out of Auckland to the Islands ? Late 1890's & early 1900's

http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/auckland-places/3/2

- Alan.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Tuesday 06 December 11 10:26 GMT (UK)
Hi Alan
Yes, thats the time
In 1900 they had the birds taken to Wellington..imagine how long that would have taken
bless them they flew home in 7hr 19min 50 sec for the winner!!! Wellington to Thames, not a bad effort!!!
Bye
Althea
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Mackiwi on Tuesday 06 December 11 20:23 GMT (UK)
Paperspast,

Is the Christchurch Press on your list? I am looking for early 1900's

Mackiwi :)
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Tuesday 06 December 11 23:30 GMT (UK)
Hi Mackiwi - it's on our list and coming up soon, you should see it within the next few months, early-1860's to mid-1910's.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Mackiwi on Wednesday 07 December 11 01:11 GMT (UK)
Paperspast, O dear I was hoping 1923 would be included
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Wednesday 07 December 11 20:56 GMT (UK)
Sorry about that - eventually it will be, but for now the issues up to 1915 are within our means.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Mackiwi on Wednesday 07 December 11 21:46 GMT (UK)
Paperspast, Thats okay, Rome wasn't built in a day either.
Merry Christmas to you all.  :) :)
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Monday 19 December 11 21:15 GMT (UK)
Hi everyone - we put out a press release last night, which some of you may have seen, but most of you probably haven't yet...no matter! The press release announced the titles we will be putting online across the next 12 months as a result of our collaborative program. These are the titles that are going online that various community groups have nominated, on the basis that they have pitched in to help us with costs.
Keep in mind that there are other titles going online over the next year outside of this list too, and we've already talked about some of those here and there (eg The Press, Thames Advertiser), but I thought some of you might like to see this list as well.

Without further ado, copied from the press release:

    Akaroa Mail: ca. 8000 pages from 1921-1939
    Lyttelton Times: ca. 3,500 pages from 1862-1865
    Manawatu Daily Times: ca. 5500 pages from pre-1900 and from 1906-1908
    Manawatu Evening Standard: ca. 8000 pages from pre-1900 and from 1906-1910
    Horowhenua Chronicle: ca. 11,000 pages from 1910-1920
    Bay of Plenty Beacon: ca. 7000 pages from 1939-1945
    Hutt News: ca. 5000 pages from 1934-1945
    Northern Advocate: ca. 12,000 pages from 1921-1925 (pending permission from copyright owner)
    Waikato Times: ca. 4000 pages from 1872 and from 1887-1892
    Westport Times: ca. 2000 pages from 1875-1878

A further two titles will be offered the opportunity to have pages microfilmed over the next six months and then digitised in the following financial year:

    Hutt Valley Independent
    Upper Hutt Weekly Review

It has been fantastic seeing these papers coming to Papers Past, and I'd like to thank all those people who have ever gone to their local library and hassled asked them to consider putting their material up on PP. We'd love to run this initiative again in 2012, so for those of you keen to see specific newspapers, keep going to your local library and keep hassling kindly requesting that they get in touch with us about digitising their microfilms!
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: kiwihalfpint on Monday 19 December 11 21:30 GMT (UK)
Cool Bananas! 8)

Thanks PP.   Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year.
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Cheers
KHP
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Monday 19 December 11 21:33 GMT (UK)
To Paperspast and team
 ;D
What you have done for research on all levels in New Zealand is beyond words  :o
Its easy to become quickly spoilt
I speak mainly for Thames..to be able to sit in the comfort of ones home and research topics is amazing
and I am for ever in your debt
Special thanks
Althea
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Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: ellvera on Monday 19 December 11 21:34 GMT (UK)
Best Christmas present ever ;D ;D ;D
Thankyou paperspast ,your work is very much appreciated
Have a happy Christmas
Barbara
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Monday 19 December 11 21:55 GMT (UK)
Merry xmas all - thanks for using and enjoying the site!

(http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/imageserver/imageserver.pl?oid=NZFL19011221.2.37&area=1&width=700&color=32&ext=gif&key=)

SANTA CLAUS ON HIS WAY TO WELLINGTON.
New Zealand Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 77, 21 December 1901, Page 13, reproduced by kind permission of the National Library of New Zealand.



Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Dale on Saturday 24 December 11 01:51 GMT (UK)
Merry Christmas!
I think in the 1960s/70s there were 2 publications that should be considered for the future!

1. In Wellington there was a supplementary to the Evg Post (I think) named the "Sports Post" (?)  Every Saturday they had a page or 2 of photos of various social events which had taken place the previous week- I know I have several clippings of "social appearances " in various stages of inebriation which future historians will gloat over! :-[

2. Almost every city had "The PHOTO NEWS " depicting many weddings  and identifying those elusive witnesses!

AS I have already appeared as "deceased" because of my name on a younger sibling's headstone by NZ SoG  and also appear in National Archives Gateway I'd prefer you wait a decade or 3 for publication of proof of my sinful youth! ::)
Merry Christmas all
Dale
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Helenw52 on Saturday 24 December 11 05:00 GMT (UK)
Nelson Photo News:  http://photonews.org.nz/nelson/index.html 1960- 1972


Tairawhiti Museum’s Research Centre holds a complete set of it, in which people of all ages delight in looking at.

http://www.tairawhitimuseum.org.nz/exhibits-galleries/collections/general/
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Tuesday 03 January 12 21:03 GMT (UK)
Nelson Photo News:  http://photonews.org.nz/nelson/index.html 1960- 1972


Tairawhiti Museum’s Research Centre holds a complete set of it, in which people of all ages delight in looking at.

http://www.tairawhitimuseum.org.nz/exhibits-galleries/collections/general/


Thanks Helen! What great links - do you know if the Tairawhiti Museum hold many other regional Photo News titles?
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Saturday 07 January 12 18:23 GMT (UK)
Hi all
I have discussed before my hopeless search technical knowledge
this tip was given on another newslist
for searching via google,,,
the example was for info on W J Suiter 1887 and they added l=m for no maori pages

"W.J. Suiter" 1887 -"l=mi" site:http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Well worth playing around with for your own examples
Bye
althea
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: johnbarr on Saturday 07 January 12 20:53 GMT (UK)
Hi Althea,
That is a very useful hint, but I think it needs a little more explanation.  ;D

Languages:
To get results showing only pages in Maori add  "l=mi"   (mi is the operator for Maori)
To exclude pages in Maori add    -"l=mi"             (there should be a space before the minus sign)
exclamation marks required where shown above.

Sites:
To get results from only one site add  site  then the URL
e.g. to limit search results to pages from PapersPast.
site:http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
no exclamation marks required.

These limiting operators can be combined, as in the example shown by Althea.

Hope this helps - and I've not made any mistakes  :o

John B

 
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Saturday 07 January 12 21:14 GMT (UK)
Thanks JOhn B
I wondered if I had pasted right..wasn't sure about the spaces..so I probably mucked that up
so could you use that site for anything eg like Trove, Aussie papers where ai end up with thousands of results!!
Bye
Althea
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: johnbarr on Saturday 07 January 12 21:16 GMT (UK)
Yep, works on any site.

and by adding the space then - you can exclude any site  ;D

Might pay to check here
http://www.google.co.nz/advanced_search?hl=en

John B
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Kiwi Girl on Sunday 08 January 12 19:54 GMT (UK)
Fan-jolly-tastic!

Learnt something new already for this year... oh no, hope I haven't peaked too soon...
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Tuesday 31 January 12 04:22 GMT (UK)
Hi everyone -
I thought I'd let you all know that we've just made available some new AtoJs content - 60,000 pages worth, including many returns lists full of names.  Hopefully there should be a few tidbits in here to tide you over until the upcoming Papers Past release comes online - enjoy!

http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Tuesday 31 January 12 05:06 GMT (UK)
Wow
i think its a matter sometimes of searching Ajhr's by a topic
this one is postmaster s and staff 1881
http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&d=AJHR1881-I.2.2.4.2&pg=51&e=-------10--1---byDA---0cornes--

eg for Thames seems to give all staff!!

Bye
althea
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: kiwihalfpint on Tuesday 31 January 12 05:16 GMT (UK)
Only found one of mine mentioned for the Thames 8)  Thanks Althea :)


Cheers
KHP
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Tuesday 14 February 12 21:51 GMT (UK)
Hi all - good news!
The first 50 years of The Press, from 1861-1915, is now live on Papers Past. This is thanks to the assistance of Christchurch City Libraries, who helped us out with this. In addition, we've also released the Maoriland Worker, which covers 1910-1024 - happy digging!
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Tuesday 14 February 12 21:54 GMT (UK)
 ;D
I can't imagine how we managed before
It is amazing how this initiative has opened up history/research to people all around the world
Thankyou
althea
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: newbe_nz on Wednesday 15 February 12 00:37 GMT (UK)
Thank you for letting us know about "The Press"  Can now do a bit more searching

Cheers
Newbe
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Kiwi Girl on Wednesday 15 February 12 00:56 GMT (UK)
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Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: DonL on Wednesday 15 February 12 02:58 GMT (UK)
Not as elegant and wonderful as Kiwigirl -  but thanks a million.
I am sure there will plenty to dig up from these new (old) records

DonL
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Wednesday 15 February 12 03:15 GMT (UK)
Hi everyone. It's a really interesting title, I notice that in the early 20th Century issues, it often has a lot more pages than the Evening Post of the same period, which I think is going to translate to more results. However it covered a population base of a pretty similar size, so I'm not quite sure what that means in terms of genealogy implications.
I'm really interested to know what you all find in the pages compared to other papers on the site - if you get a moment, let me know if you spot any interesting tidbits or have any observations!
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Fresh Fields on Thursday 16 February 12 06:56 GMT (UK)
Hi all - good news!
The first 50 years of The Press, from 1861-1915, is now live on Papers Past. This is thanks to the assistance of Christchurch City Libraries, who helped us out with this. In addition, we've also released the Maoriland Worker, which covers 1910-1024 - happy digging!

Hello PP - looks like a lot of DIGGING to me. The joys of proof reading your own copy. It always trips me up.

- Alan.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Charlie Bucket on Thursday 16 February 12 08:46 GMT (UK)
It's great having an obscure publication, the Maoriland Worker, on PP. Who would have thought that such a publication existed.

Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: craigt on Thursday 16 February 12 21:51 GMT (UK)
Hi Papers Past,
going back over this post, you mention the restrictions placed on your ability to digitize newspapers by copyright, and am wondering whether you could explain this, i.e how long a period this usually applies. I have often used the Wellington paper the Evening Post, it's fantastic that it goes up to 1945, is this the benchmark or could you possibly digitize beyond this date?
Cheers,
Craig.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Thursday 16 February 12 23:10 GMT (UK)
Hi Craig -
I just drafted up a detailed reply and then decided that it looked too much like a letter from a lawyer. Pardon me if I spare you the boring details and cut to the chase:
We sought the approval of Fairfax to reproduce the Evening Post material up to 1945, so it's worth noting that this is a negotiated benchmark rather than a simple date-cutoff/expired copyright situation. We always want to respect the rights of the copyright holders so that we can build future options through having good relationships with them. It's entirely possible that we could reproduce material after this date if we are able to secure the approval of the relevant copyright holders.

Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Fresh Fields on Friday 17 February 12 00:05 GMT (UK)
Hi Craig.

I too was interested in the reply from PP. I recently looked into PP once again to check out titles, then decided the clipping I had, must have been from the UK.

The diary noted the name Philip GIBBS, and the DAILY CHRONICLE, in 1918.

Thanks to RC we now know he was a War time correspondant. The question now is was he on staff, or free lancing as I'm lead to believe it has an impact on copyright, should we decide we want a "proof copy" of the clipping.

The opinion, as expressed by a UK, RC member being:-
"Copyright on newspaper articles is either 70 years from UK publication if he was staff (which is long gone) or 70 years from the death of the author, if he was freelancing......."

- Alan.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: millymcb on Friday 17 February 12 00:17 GMT (UK)
Hi...

Just following the interesting conversation and wishing I had relatives in NZ so I could look them up on PapersPast  ;D ;D ;D

Milly

Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Janette on Friday 17 February 12 00:38 GMT (UK)
Hi Milly,

We are very lucky with Paperspast

Cheers Janette
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: kiwihalfpint on Friday 17 February 12 00:53 GMT (UK)
All those little snippets we never knew about :D


Cheers
KHP
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Friday 17 February 12 00:59 GMT (UK)
Hi...

Just following the interesting conversation and wishing I had relatives in NZ so I could look them up on PapersPast  ;D ;D ;D

Milly



Well, it's always possible that you might have relatives that you don't know about... ;)

Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Friday 17 February 12 01:03 GMT (UK)
Hi Craig.

I too was interested in the reply from PP. I recently looked into PP once again to check out titles, then decided the clipping I had, must have been from the UK.

The diary noted the name Philip GIBBS, and the DAILY CHRONICLE, in 1918.

Thanks to RC we now know he was a War time correspondant. The question now is was he on staff, or free lancing as I'm lead to believe it has an impact on copyright, should we decide we want a "proof copy" of the clipping.

The opinion, as expressed by a UK, RC member being:-
"Copyright on newspaper articles is either 70 years from UK publication if he was staff (which is long gone) or 70 years from the death of the author, if he was freelancing......."

- Alan.

Hi Alan -
I believe it's similar over here, with 75 from publication and 50 from date of death of the author, but this doesn't necessarily fall along the lines of staff vs freelancers.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: craigt on Friday 17 February 12 05:47 GMT (UK)
So we are lucky to get some papers past 1937, the 75 year cut off point as per the previous post; hopefully other papers will waive copyright so we will get more relatively recent records of our rellies.
Craig.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Saturday 18 February 12 06:37 GMT (UK)
Craig
Although not specific to Paperspast
but there are lots of groups that are indexing papers and even at Index NZ you will often find lots of material to follow by this method
plus all the NZSG groups that have BMD indexes/newspaper clipping projects.

Bye
Althea
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: minniehaha on Tuesday 20 March 12 04:04 GMT (UK)
Not sure where I should be putting this response or even if the paper has already been mentioned, but if we can't have THE OTAGO DAILY TIMES, could we PLEASE have more of

THE OTAGO WITNESS.

Would just love to have more from the Otago region.

Fingers crossed!!!
Minniehaha.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Tuesday 20 March 12 21:29 GMT (UK)
Hi Minniehaha,
Request noted! Just an additional note on the Otago Witness: from the early 20th century it started to include quite extensive photographic supplements, and this could prove to be one of the best sources of images of people from the Otago area of that period. We are investigating whether we could scan this material in greyscale as opposed to the normal 2-colour black and white scanning that we use for Papers Past, because this will give those photographs quite good quality, assuming we can get good-quality microfilm in the first place.
I'm hoping we see some genealogical results from those images - that would be just fantastic to see.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: minniehaha on Tuesday 20 March 12 23:56 GMT (UK)
Thank you for noting my request re The Otago Witness. Yes, I am aware of the photographic content of the later editions and any improvement in the reproduction of these would be much appreciated as the quality of those to which we now have access, leave much to be desired when comparing them to the original photographs.

I still live in hope that you may yet be able to extend the range of the Otago Daily Times. (PLEASE!)  

Kind regards,

Minniehaha.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: jericho on Wednesday 21 March 12 01:57 GMT (UK)
Hi




Just wondering, and yes I know I have asked before, but I would be interested to know, if there would be any  chance of the Oamaru Mail becoming available anytime soon, and like minniehaha live in hope of the Otago Daily Times becoming available.



jericho
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Wednesday 21 March 12 02:54 GMT (UK)
Hi both -

I don't think more issues of the ODT will be coming to Papers Past this year (well, you never know, but it's unlikely) - however we definitely haven't forgotten about it, we're working on it. The Oamaru Mail is a bit deeper in the to-do pile than the ODT at this stage unfortunately, sorry Jericho. We've actually done a bit more (at this stage) on the North Otago Times, which served the Oamaru area, so I hope this is of some consolation.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Friday 27 April 12 01:01 BST (UK)
Hi everybody -

We've got the next batch of Auckland Star coming online soon, we haven't confirmed the exact launch date, but it is very close. The new data goes up to the end of 1926, I'll post here when it's live. It looks like it's going to be quite a hectic year for releases for us, particularly in the next few months. Enjoy!
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: mare on Friday 27 April 12 01:04 BST (UK)
Wonderful ! will certainly be on the lookout for that one and any more ... and  many thanks again to PP x
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: kiwihalfpint on Friday 27 April 12 01:53 BST (UK)
Thanks PP :D  Will certainly be looking forward to that one. :)


Cheers
KHP
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Lucy2 on Friday 27 April 12 02:31 BST (UK)
Grateful thanks, PP and your wonderful team.    :)

Ooooh  .... new releases - (even more exciting to some of us, than Christmas presents ! )  :D

   ~  Lu

Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Fresh Fields on Friday 27 April 12 04:47 BST (UK)
Hello Papers Past.

A BIG thank you from me too. Days on end in libraries pooring over print and film, under flickering fluorescent lights, that my eyes object to, are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. GREAT !

Access in short bursts, from the comfort of my home, suits me.

- Alan.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Mk2_Zephyr on Friday 27 April 12 07:45 BST (UK)
Hi everybody -

We've got the next batch of Auckland Star coming online soon, we haven't confirmed the exact launch date, but it is very close. The new data goes up to the end of 1926, I'll post here when it's live. It looks like it's going to be quite a hectic year for releases for us, particularly in the next few months. Enjoy!


Rocking ...   :)
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: DonL on Saturday 28 April 12 02:33 BST (UK)
Great news -  and many thanks for this fantastic resource

DonL
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Fresh Fields on Saturday 28 April 12 05:03 BST (UK)
Hello Papers Past.

You may like to review the indexing for the clip below. Search Subject "John HANKS" auto indexing should probably have read "John BANKS"

- Alan.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Saturday 28 April 12 07:59 BST (UK)
Hi ALan
I'm sure we all find similar examples everyday..but correction is not part of the process

Paperspast, has a system like the Australian Trove ever been considered where corrections could be made?
Bye
Althea
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: ellvera on Saturday 28 April 12 08:36 BST (UK)
Well said Althea
paperspast beats Trove in my opinion- I'm just grateful to have access to such a wealth of information :)
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Monday 30 April 12 04:40 BST (UK)
Hi Fresh Fields -

Looks like the optical character recognition has missed a letter there. This does happen quite a bit, due to typographic errors/bad fonts/ink spots/etc, ultimately because OCR is imperfect in allowing for these things. It's enough to provide a pretty serviceable search facility across the texts, but it does have errors. However, this leads me into Althea's question...

We have indeed been investigating a way to correct these errors for a while. We've tested a system, it works just fine, but we've had a lot of other work on our plates that has delayed this. I'm a bit embarrassed, because I was hoping we would have been able to deliver this by now - we get so many emails about it, and it is something we've been talking for a while.

It will happen. It will!
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Fresh Fields on Monday 30 April 12 11:10 BST (UK)
Hello all.

As per first post of mine to the thread, I LOVE PP and the ease of it's search engine to use. The HANKS/BANKS thread addition, was not intended as a criticism.

As I was about to go out the door, it was easier for me to post a link here to be picked up by Goggle, than to hunt for a contact address for PP on the off chance, that they had a manual way of adding another search link to that copy, with an alternative indexing reference.

From what I have seen to date, PP has been more successful with character/type identification, than that seen on some other leading Archival sites.

Keep up the good work.

- Alan.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Monday 30 April 12 18:51 BST (UK)
Have been meaning to thank the person..who way back somewhere here suggested using 'snipping tool' for taking snippets from paperspast (and anything!)
I discovered it was part of vista addons..it is a lifesaver.
So thankyou  ;D

If you haven't used it google will easily find it

Bye
Althea
Title: Clipping - Terms of use - Copyright
Post by: Fresh Fields on Monday 30 April 12 21:10 BST (UK)
Hello Anthea.

Your snipping tool comments were of interest, so I went looking for the discussion.

With my memory not being as sharp as I would like, I copy everything that comes to hand, and have taught myself by trial and error, how to copy/cut and paste. Then transfer to an old photo editing programme [PA] that is on my old computer. In this programme I can edit and over print, and save in various formats and sizes. If copy and paste does not work, I screen dump and then edit to the content I’m interested in and over print with a source credit, so that the original copy can be acknowledged and the original found again, if I can not find my saved copy.

What I found most interesting was the post clarifying the issues of copy right and TERMS OF USE as clipped below. I must put my hand up as being as guilty as most with the lack of a detailed study of the terms of use copy.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,591626.10.html

QUOTE
Re: Cut & Paste articles from online newspapers?
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 11 April 12 07:02 BST (UK) »   

________________________________________
Some people are getting confused between copyright and terms of use (which is a contract, far more onerous, easier to enforce and claim compensation when breached).

The site which hosts the images has terms of use attached, by accessing the images one is agreeing to comply with the terms of use.
If one "takes a screenshot" that is a breach of the terms of use copyright does not come into the equation.

Cheers
Guy

END OF QUOTE

And another thread:-

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,583146.0.html

Interesting reading for those wishing to save old images from the print media.

- Alan.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Monday 30 April 12 21:25 BST (UK)
Ohhhhhh makes sad reading..lock me up now  :'(
I thought it was to good to be true

Please paperspast drop back in soon and let us know
is it okay to use the product 'snipping tool' or are screen shot captures illegal

Many thanks
Althea
Title: The issues.
Post by: Fresh Fields on Monday 30 April 12 21:44 BST (UK)
The ISSUES as per the PP website.

Cut and pasted without permission.

Copyright and reproduction statement

This website is copyright to the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna M&#257;tauranga o Aotearoa. All use of information from this website must be acknowledged appropriately, and permission must be sought before copying any images, programs, and so on from the website.
For information about copyright and reproduction of digitised material available through this website, see the Copyright Guide.

Copyright guide

The Papers Past website provides access to digitised copies of historical New Zealand newspapers. This copyright statement relates specifically to the digitised newspaper content on Papers Past. Additional information about specific papers can be found on each newspaper title page.
Material on this website has been provided in good faith for users by the National Library on the basis that:
•   the newspaper publications provided from the 19th and early 20th century are out of copyright
•   in most cases digitised copies replace microfilm versions previously provided to the public
•   for more recent newspaper publications (up to 1945), permission has been sought from the publisher to reproduce the material on this website
Duration of copyright in New Zealand
A significant amount of the content on Papers Past is out of copyright. In New Zealand, where an author or publisher cannot be identified and it can be reasonably assumed the author died 50 or more years ago, copyright has expired.
As a guide, it may be reasonable to assume copyright has expired for newspaper items published more than 100 years ago, and that they are therefore available to be copied and republished without permission.
Where the author or publisher can be identified, in New Zealand the copyright term is the life of the author plus 50 years. For works that are still in copyright, permission from the copyright holder is needed before copying or republishing the works, with the exceptions of fair dealing for criticism, review, research or private study.
If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found in-copyright material on our website, for which you have not given permission, or is not covered by a limitation or exception in New Zealand law, please contact us for a copy of our takedown procedure.
Reproducing material from Papers Past
If you copy or republish material from this website that is out of copyright or for which you have gained permission from the copyright holder, we kindly ask that you acknowledge the National Library of New Zealand as the source of the information. If the material is republished online, we would appreciate a link to where you found the information on this website.
This copyright statement does not constitute legal advice, and the National Library of New Zealand is not responsible for any loss or damage caused as a result of following it.
Find out more about copyright terms and legislation
Find out more about copyright terms and the public domain on the DigitalNZ website.
Learn more about New Zealand copyright legislation: New Zealand Copyright Act 1994.

- Alan.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Monday 30 April 12 23:24 BST (UK)
Hi Fresh Fields/Althea -

I'm just on my way out, but I can give you some quick comfort regarding screenshots etc...

Just as a general guide, aside from copyright, you won't get in any trouble for snapping screenshots if:

- Your use of the material is for personal study or non-commercial
- you attribute the material (eg, Grey River Argus, 12 June 1874, page 4)
- you acknowledge the source of the material (National Library, Papers Past)

And especially if:

- you provide a link back to the PP article if you're doing this online.

We love it when people use our material. If you're unsure because your intended use is slightly different to the above, or just if you want to be thorough, email paperspast[at]natlib.govt.nz and ask. If your usage is along the lines of the above, go forth and screenshot!

I hope this helps. I have to dash now, but I'll pop back in later, because I know that this is an incomplete picture and some of you might want something more definitive.

Cheers!

Emerson


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Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Charlie Bucket on Tuesday 01 May 12 07:07 BST (UK)
Hello Fresh Fields

So John Banks was in the news in 1877 also.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Thursday 10 May 12 01:03 BST (UK)
Just an FYI - the new Auckland Star material is live now!
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: newbe_nz on Thursday 10 May 12 01:32 BST (UK)
Cool one, Off to have a look

Newbe
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: kiwihalfpint on Thursday 10 May 12 01:48 BST (UK)
Just an FYI - the new Auckland Star material is live now!

Woo Hoooooo ...xmas has come early :)


Cheers
KHP
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Mk2_Zephyr on Thursday 10 May 12 03:34 BST (UK)
 :)
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: ellvera on Thursday 10 May 12 04:57 BST (UK)
Thank you ;D
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Thursday 10 May 12 09:28 BST (UK)
You're very welcome. I'll pass on to the rest of the PP team that there are some happy genies in this corner of the internet :)
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: kiwihalfpint on Thursday 10 May 12 09:34 BST (UK)
Oh yes, one happy person here, had a picture of rellie up on page :)


Cheers
KHP
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Thursday 10 May 12 10:57 BST (UK)
Wow auckland Star amazing news coverage for thames
and my poor old Cornes' who usually get hardly any results...57 and 2 photos!!!
a long night ahead  ;D
Bye
althea
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Tuesday 15 May 12 05:55 BST (UK)
I've actually found a lot of stuff in this batch of Auckland Star on my great-grandfather's return from Gallipoli, it's been absolutely fascinating.
What's doubly fascinating for me is that while I've always considered myself more of a technologist than genealogist, the more I use the site, the more I can see the genealogy bug taking hold...
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: mare on Tuesday 15 May 12 06:35 BST (UK)
 ;) Aha ... it can get addictive when you start making actual connections ... good find!

 I've gleaned a couple of new snippets too ... thanks again!
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Wednesday 30 May 12 05:41 BST (UK)
Hi everyone,
just a minor update - good news and bad. The bad news is that we're "experiencing technical difficulties" in broadcasting parlance, so if you're browsing the site tonight you might need to refresh the page if it looks like it's taking a long time to load, because otherwise it will just keep you waiting. I'm hoping we get this solved pretty quickly.
The good news is that we've got another batch of papers for you all, not too far away at all. Stay tuned! I hope this suitably makes up for the current "technical difficulty" situation :-)

Emerson
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Wednesday 30 May 12 07:37 BST (UK)
Hi Emerson
LOL you drop us info to keep us on our toes wondering whats next!!!

WE can't wait for the next batch/releases  ;)
Bye
Althea
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Fresh Fields on Wednesday 30 May 12 11:26 BST (UK)
Hello again.

And here's me still cross checking the Auckland Star releases to see if I or the Auckland Library's old card indexes have missed any material, of significance, to our early Auckland pioneers. Got 66 hits for the first name I tried, and still got more names yet to go, when I can set aside the time.

What amazes me is the standard set by the text recognition programme you are using. While it sometimes miss translates, I've had a hit or two for printed copy that was so poorly inked, that I would have thought, you would have needed the human eye, to recognise the type/word.

Researchers, world wide, continue to hold up PapersPast as the bench mark to be comparing their local service by, and also add "and it's free".

Thanks PP.

- Alan.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Monday 11 June 12 22:59 BST (UK)
Hi all - there's new content available on PP now. Enjoy!

Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: kiwihalfpint on Monday 11 June 12 23:09 BST (UK)
Thank you PP .... off for a gander :D


Cheers
KHP
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: ellvera on Monday 11 June 12 23:23 BST (UK)
Wow! thats putting it mildly ;D
More Waikato Times  :D ..............Many thanks PP
Barbara :)
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Sunday 24 June 12 22:31 BST (UK)
Hi everyone - just a quick note to let you all know that we've just updated the http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz collection - the site now goes all the way up to 1930. Additionally, there's another Papers Past content release coming up very soon. Phew....it's been a very busy month for our team!
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Sunday 24 June 12 23:23 BST (UK)
LOL, just when we think we are done..more good news  8)

I'm like a broken record with the Atoj's, telling people to check them
so much info, lots of surnames but so great for background on towns and events
Especially relevant for things to do with goldfields, land transfer etc
Lots of new info for Thames hospital..must go looking now....
 ;D
Althea
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Tuesday 26 June 12 23:25 BST (UK)
Hi all - good news, our first run of NZHerald (1863-1884) and the third installment of Auckland Star (taking it up to 1945) are now both live on the site. Enjoy!

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

Boy, it was hard to resist the urge to shout that one from the rooftops. Huge thanks to the good folk at Auckland Libraries and APN who collaborated with us on this.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: kiwihalfpint on Tuesday 26 June 12 23:27 BST (UK)
Thank you, this has made my day. 8)


Cheers
KHP
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: newbe_nz on Tuesday 26 June 12 23:31 BST (UK)
Well done to PP. Will go see if I can find anything new ;D

Newbe
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Tuesday 26 June 12 23:58 BST (UK)
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :o
no need to say more..as the others said apologies we have somewhere to go asap
NZ Herald here we come
Bye
Althea  8)
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: kiwihalfpint on Wednesday 27 June 12 00:00 BST (UK)
I have found plenty ..... one very happy person.



Cheers
KHP
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: ellvera on Wednesday 27 June 12 00:50 BST (UK)
Best Birthday present EVER ;D ;D ;D
Thankyou pp
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Wednesday 27 June 12 01:11 BST (UK)
Well, happy birthday to you! I didn't know how to wrap the gift sorry ;)
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Kiwi Girl on Wednesday 27 June 12 02:28 BST (UK)
(http://bzupages.net/attachments/13270d1265696007-newspaper.gif)
So fan-jolly-tastic!  Thank you all so much for your hard work!
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Wednesday 27 June 12 11:15 BST (UK)
Well what a crazy night
the auckland star is proving amazing
tonight found about 10 more Thames nurses, one Thames trained Nurse who died in POW camp WWII
Part below from Auckland Star 6/10/1945 (http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19451006.2.108.1&srpos=705&e=--1927-----100-AS-701-byDA-on--2thames+hospital--)
in between that so many family marriage, death notices, coroners reports.....etc
This was sure a popular paper and covered the news going on throughout the Thames Valley area
Phew..
Bye
Althea
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Wednesday 27 June 12 22:43 BST (UK)
Does anyone have any tips on how to improve the pictures found on papers past
just altering brightness and contrast doesn't work
anything else that can be done?

Bye
Althea
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Thursday 28 June 12 01:38 BST (UK)
Hi Althea -

the images are comprised solely of black and white pixels, there's no in-between grey, so playing with contrast and brightness unfortunately won't do anything. We might be able to get better quality images off the microfilms, so if you let us know what images you're after I can look into this. Just send me a list of links to the PP versions and we'll work from that.



Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Sunday 15 July 12 23:41 BST (UK)
Hi all - you may or may not have noticed that we're experiencing issues at the moment. Our DNS is having issues, so the site is up one minute and then down the next. I'll post updates over in http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,606557.0.html if anyone wants to stay in the loop - I'm really sorry about this, but our staff are working on this as I write and I'm hoping we'll have this sorted relatively quickly.

Righto, I'm off to tend to many, many emails. Drop me a line if you want to get in touch -

Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Monday 16 July 12 05:50 BST (UK)
Hi all, as per Spade's request on the outage thread, I'll put the update here.

It's fixed!

Some people might still experience a few further issues that will resolve as network caches update around the country/world, but this will resolve by itself sooner rather than later.

Sorry for the problem everybody, thanks for being gracious about it!
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Kiwi Girl on Monday 16 July 12 05:58 BST (UK)
Thanks for all the hard work behind the scenes - we do love the Papers Past!

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nH5E6mclu3o/SKyFDJmHlTI/AAAAAAAABf4/nSm-KQAjMpw/s400/Kertesz+Blimey)
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Marrel on Sunday 29 July 12 01:01 BST (UK)
Having Papers Past as a resource has changed the face of my family research.
Thank you for this.

What chance of the Cromwell Argus and the Southland News making an appearance

Adair
Title: PAPERS PAST-new release! - NZ HERALD.
Post by: minniehaha on Monday 06 August 12 19:32 BST (UK)
The first twenty-one years of "The New Zealand Herald" are to be released on Papers Past today, according to an item in today's issue of this newspaper.

The period covered is to be from 1863 to 1884, comprising 50,000 pages. It is the first of a planned release of papers through to 1945.

Minniehaha.
Title: Re: PAPERS PAST-new release! - NZ HERALD.
Post by: Kiwi Girl on Monday 06 August 12 22:06 BST (UK)
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: spades on Monday 06 August 12 22:36 BST (UK)
Topic merged with existing thread.

Spades
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: kiwihalfpint on Monday 06 August 12 22:46 BST (UK)
KG are you shouting for Gold for this? ;D



Cheers
KHP
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: newbe_nz on Monday 06 August 12 23:11 BST (UK)
NZ Herald 1863 - 1884 was added in June or am I missing something
Could be too many late nights ??? ???

Newbe
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: kiwihalfpint on Monday 06 August 12 23:16 BST (UK)
Yep it was added in June Newbe
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: newbe_nz on Monday 06 August 12 23:18 BST (UK)
Thanks KHP ;D
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: minniehaha on Tuesday 07 August 12 00:46 BST (UK)
Not sure Newbe, but that's what the report in today's NZ Herald says.

Minniehaha.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Monday 20 August 12 03:45 BST (UK)
Hi everyone - just an FYI for you that all going well, we should have a new batch of papers going online around midday tomorrow NZT, including the early years of The Dominion.

Normally I don't say exactly what or when we're releasing in case we miss the date, but we're pretty stoked about this release so I thought I'd share.
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: kiwihalfpint on Monday 20 August 12 03:55 BST (UK)
Thank you PP, something to look forward to.



Cheers
KHP
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: spades on Monday 20 August 12 04:45 BST (UK)
Fantastic news, Papers Past, thank you for letting us know in advance. ;D

Congratulations to you and your team.

Spades
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Kiwi Girl on Monday 20 August 12 05:01 BST (UK)
What excellent news - a cuppa and a browse, the perfect lunch  ;)

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5Ln0qQhpZpk/TnK-zisSVzI/AAAAAAACYlA/cZPn7gAgNfs/s1600/1950s_housewife2.jpg)
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Marrel on Monday 20 August 12 07:51 BST (UK)
Mmmmm... might have to close the office door and pretend I'm marking essays
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: PapersPast on Monday 20 August 12 23:22 BST (UK)
Hi all - the new content is up now :) I'll pass on the kind words to the team!

Best not to let those essays build up too much eh Marrel?
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: spades on Monday 20 August 12 23:27 BST (UK)
Woo hoo!

And Althea will be thrilled ;D

Thanks, Papers Past team.

Spades
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: newbe_nz on Tuesday 21 August 12 00:19 BST (UK)
Thanks for extending The Press to 1920.

Will do some reading later

Thanks so much PP team

Newbe
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Tuesday 21 August 12 01:15 BST (UK)
 ;D  8)  ;D
what more can one say
Paperpast team rule!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thames Advertiser her I come  ;)
Bye
Althea
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II
Post by: ellvera on Tuesday 21 August 12 01:18 BST (UK)
Oh Wow ;D
Te Puke Times - off to look for my Harris family.
Thankyou pp ;D
Barbara
Title: Re: "Papers Past" Updates Part II **complete**
Post by: Thamesite2017 on Tuesday 21 August 12 22:27 BST (UK)
Thread closed
New posts to Part III please
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,611884.0.html
Bye
Althea