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Re: A Eureka Moment
« Reply #9 on: Friday 07 October 16 17:52 BST (UK) »
If you are looking for elderly notices, FindMyPast have a large and continuously growing set of Irish newspapers.

If it's the modern ones you are after, try the website associated with a local paper. Many of them use the same database. I was surprised when searching the notices of a local rag in Washington state to find a mention of another person in my one-name study listed as a mourner at two funerals in Nottinghamshire.

Come to think of it, I was also surprised to find a 21st century funeral report at all. I thought that style of reporting died out about 1960. Most of today's papers don't print anything unless there is money to be made from advertising.

There was a time when the newspapers received a list of deaths direct from the Registrar; I once came across a notice (about 1900 iirc) informing the readers that this was being discontinued, but simple announcements would still be printed for free. Additions such as "family flowers only" would have to be paid for.
Looking at ALSTON in south Ribble area, ALSTEAD and DONBAVAND/DUNBABIN etc. everywhere, HOWCROFT and MARSH in Bolton and Westhoughton, PICKERING in the Whitehaven area.

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Re: A Eureka Moment
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 08 October 16 01:08 BST (UK) »
I was trying to look for any notices from 1900 for my great great grandfather James Masterson in Enniskillen Ireland, I'll give findmypast a go thank you

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« Reply #11 on: Monday 10 October 16 08:56 BST (UK) »
If you are looking for elderly notices, FindMyPast have a large and continuously growing set of Irish newspapers.


Is that a separate data set from the BNA, which FindMyPast gives access to?

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« Reply #12 on: Monday 10 October 16 15:11 BST (UK) »
Being Ireland rather than the UK, I think you need the more expensive subscription. Certainly the announcements of additions always refer to them separately.

If you don't have the relevant subscription, your library may well do.
Looking at ALSTON in south Ribble area, ALSTEAD and DONBAVAND/DUNBABIN etc. everywhere, HOWCROFT and MARSH in Bolton and Westhoughton, PICKERING in the Whitehaven area.

Census information is Crown Copyright. See www.nationalarchives.gov.uk for details.