More newspapers removed from Find My Past

[Candolim_Imp]

Background - last year, FindMyPast changed up their subscriptions, removing UK only premium memberships, meaning if you wanted to keep access to UK newspapers, you had to upgrade to a premium global sub, at a significantly higher price. I had to accept this, as I really wanted to keep access to the newspapers, and there were a few other databases I wanted to keep access to. The upside was that at least I got international newspapers included.

Not long afterwards, the non-UK papers were quietly removed from the database.

I've noticed today, while searching for death notices in the Liverpool papers, that all the results stop at the end of 1957 (with the exception of some returns for an obscure Walton paper for 1988-1989).

I used to be able to access the Liverpool Echo up to late 20thC.

Does anyone have any idea what's going on with this? Is it just the Liverpool Echo? has this happened across the board?

[mckha489]

That’s weird isn’t it.
Those post 3 Dec 1957 ones are still on the British Newspaper Archive and I thought the two were linked.

[mckha489]

I wonder if it’s while they upload more? (Thinking positively) as they are advertising

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/50-million-newspaper-pages

[Candolim_Imp]

That’s weird isn’t it.
Those post 3 Dec 1957 ones are still on the British Newspaper Archive and I thought the two were linked.

Yes. I checked the newspaper archive, and they're still there (I don't have a sub for that, as I was accessing via my FindMyPast sub)

[Candolim_Imp]

I wonder if it’s while they upload more? (Thinking positively) as they are advertising

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/50-million-newspaper-pages

I do hope so. I need this resource. Took me hours of puzzlement as to why so many reasonably affluent folk weren't in the death notices before I decided it couldn't be so many bad transcripts & ran a test.

[mckha489]

Yes I am the same.

I have just realised the Periodical collection has gone too
Ot at least the link to it that used to be under British and Irish newspapers


Added. = PERSI

Added. It’s “gone back home”. But luckily, free

https://news.legacyfamilytree.com/legacy_news/2022/02/you-can-go-back-home-again-persi-at-acpl.html

[Candolim_Imp]

Tweeted FindMyPast last night. They asked for some details and have said the titles should be available, so are working on a fix. I don't know if it's affected other titles - might be worth checking any you are very familiar with and feeding back to them if there seem to be years missing