Find My Past-British Newspapers

[thebounder]

Thank you cuffie81.  I tried your method and it works perfectly, but by adapting that method slightly produces a better result.

By still searching for "Cropper", but adding the filter to only search for the Weekly Dispatch for that date, displays the correct link that takes you directly to the article.

It's not ideal, but it seems to work, thanks for putting me on the right track.

[cuffie81]

That's odd, it didn't work for me before. I wonder if they've just changed something (seems unlikely, FindMyPast are rarely that quick to fix anything).

Trying again, just searching by "Cropper" and drilling down by date the result link is now correct. Odd.

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search/british-newspapers?date=1930-12-07&date_offsetdate=1930-12-07&modifiedfacets=true&exactnames=true&exactkeywords=false&keywords=cropper

[thebounder]

My original post now seems to work perfectly, so maybe Find My Past has updated something.  I might add that this is not something that I found for the first time today, it has been bothering me for months, so it's not just a temporary mistake.

However it only seems to be fixed for the Weekly Dispatch.  If you try searching for "Slate-Club" on Reynold's Newspaper for 14th December 1930, the link shown doesn't work, but by using the method provided by cuffie81, the article can be found on Page 8, even though they say there are only 3 pages.  How can you have a newspaper with 3 pages anyway.