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Title: Irish Newspapers, 1763-1890 Online
Post by: david64 on Friday 21 September 12 12:44 BST (UK)

Evening,

Ancestry have just launched a collection of newspaper images from 30 newspapers from 1763-1890.

They can be browsed here:

http://bit.ly/S91QXu

At current there is no OCR index, though I'd image there will be soon enough.

Title: Re: Irish Newspapers, 1763-1890 Online
Post by: FBI47 on Saturday 22 September 12 00:39 BST (UK)

thanks for the information.

Barb

Title: Re: Irish Newspapers, 1763-1890 Online
Post by: Mo37 on Saturday 05 March 16 17:05 GMT (UK)

I have 4 old newspapers found in my father's house some years ago and lying in a cupboard in my house since. I was wondering what is the best thing to do with them. They are not in great condition but are readable.
One is  ' The Belfast Newsletter" dated 12th June 1750. Number 1333. It has Henry and Robert Joy at the top.
One is 'Belfast Commercial Chronicle" dated 23rd December 1807.
The other 2 are 'The Northern Whig' one dated 18th February 1840 and the other dated 26th August 1868.

Mo

Title: Re: Irish Newspapers, 1763-1890 Online
Post by: david64 on Saturday 05 March 16 17:08 GMT (UK)

One option is to sell them on eBay. Another would be to give them to a library.

You could also digitalise them and post them online.

Title: Re: Irish Newspapers, 1763-1890 Online
Post by: Telinlethaed on Sunday 06 March 16 21:19 GMT (UK)

Transcribe the vitals from those papers and post them on rootschat. Great help to others.