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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: GeriK64 on Monday 29 July 19 10:42 BST (UK)
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Hi everyone,
I was thinking of subscribing to a newspaper collection, preferably one with British/Irish and American information. Can anyone recommend/help me?
Thanks
Geri :)
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Last year I treated myself to an £80 or thereabouts subscription to the British newspaper archive . I really hammered it for a year , and I'm still wading through all the stuff I downloaded . I wouldn't subscribe every year , but I got my value out of it last year , and it was very useful for searching for the ship movements of a Victorian ancestor as he sailed around the world. There is also an American one but I think that would be very American centric .
Membership of Findmypast gives access to the British newspaper archive, but by going direct it has a slightly better interface. However as a former IT professional, I thought the interface was about 15 years out of date. The search options were very limited compared to what I would have expected.
Martin
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"There is also an American one but I think that would be very American centric ."
Gosh, that would be weird. I wonder why an American site would focus on American papers?
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Some American newspapers are available free at:
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/
http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
And also check out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_newspaper_archives
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I too wondered about a subscription to British Newspapers Archive but as Martin pointed out they are available on Find my Past. However, I don't know whether FindMyPast has the same number of newspapers and years as British Newspaper Archive. Does anyone know??
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If you are in the UK some libraries have newspaper access. I can access my local library from home with my library card number.
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The actual data on FindMyPast and BNA appears to be the same. It's possible that the search routines on FindMyPast may take a bit longer to reach new digitisations, but it won't be by much, as it's all done electronically these days.
The newspaper pages shown on FindMyPast actually have …/bna/.. in the url, so it appears that they are only keeping one copy of the basic data.
I've just checked the "what's new" on BNA, and they mention the same titles as I saw announced last Friday on FindMyPast.
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For new subscribers only FindMyPast's 'Pro' package includes newspapers.
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/starter-plus-pro-package
Some existing members still have their cheaper old packages which include newspapers but are no longer available to new subscribers ;D
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The actual data on FindMyPast and BNA appears to be the same.
BNA is owned by FindMyPast, so I think we can be pretty sure the records are the same, which ever way you access them.
British Newspaper Archive > Company Information
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/content/company_information
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Thanks to all who replied re my query of content on British Newspaper Archives & Find my Past. Will now probably subscribe to FindMyPast
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For new subscribers only FindMyPast's 'Pro' package includes newspapers.
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/starter-plus-pro-package
Some existing members still have their cheaper old packages which include newspapers but are no longer available to new subscribers ;D
Nooo! I didn't know they were taking newspapers out. Looks like I will be an ex-customer once my sub runs out.
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For new subscribers only FindMyPast's 'Pro' package includes newspapers.
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/starter-plus-pro-package
Some existing members still have their cheaper old packages which include newspapers but are no longer available to new subscribers ;D
Nooo! I didn't know they were taking newspapers out. Looks like I will be an ex-customer once my sub runs out.
They did this quite some time back. But I think, as Rosie said, if you keep your current subscription it'll just roll over and there's no need to 'upgrade' to their new subscription model to keep access to the newspapers. I could be wrong though.
Who Do You Think You Are Magazine > Findmypast introduces new pricing structure
http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/findmypast-introduces-new-pricing-structure
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I was trying to work out how long ago they changed them so thank you. ;D
I have kept my 'Britain' sub for F M P which still includes newspapers and I paid around £100 last annual renewal so good value for what I need as I don't need Ireland or abroad
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There are I believe some Irish Newspapers on British Newspapers Archive, there is also a Irish Newspapers Archive. They used to do a 24 hour sub but I can't see it now, a month seems to be the shortest now.
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I hope that's right about auto-renewal. I definitely don't want to be auto-renewed onto an inferior package.
Added: must be right (thanks) as the WDYTYA article is from Nov 2017 and we have all renewed since then. Phew :D
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I hope that's right about auto-renewal. I definitely don't want to be auto-renewed onto an inferior package.
Added: must be right (thanks) as the WDYTYA article is from Nov 2017 and we have all renewed since then. Phew :D
Sorry if I made you think it was something new.
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FindMyPast used to be a little behind BNA in getting updates, but this may no longer be the case. Of course, with FindMyPast you get all the otehr stuff as well.
Before subscribing, check that it has issues for the part of the country you're interested in. London papers, for example, have been conspicuous by their absence for a long whlle and are only slowly appearing now.
Also look at some of the overseas free collections, like the Australian Trove (http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/) and New York Times (http://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html) tom name but two as overseas newspapers reprinted many articles from UK ones for the benefit of ex-pats or just to avoid printing blank columns.
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There are I believe some Irish Newspapers on British Newspapers Archive, there is also a Irish Newspapers Archive. They used to do a 24 hour sub but I can't see it now, a month seems to be the shortest now.
They do. I subscribed 2 days ago and found Irish papers ie Clare and Ennis and Tipperary Times etc
I also subscribed for a month
Maybe its me but I am still learning the interface and the way its presented. Or alternatively I have been spoiled by Trove the Australian resource
Looking for emigrant names and shipping lists ie Trove has a lot of info and I am yet to work out the best method of finding names in the English/Scottish/Irish papers( if they are listed)