Findmypast newspapers

[mckha489]

I think the layout is clearer, and sets out the possibilities.  It allows you to enter dates without interfering and trying to tell you what you want!  I have always thought it was a better searching tool than the BNA anyway so this puts it further ahead.

I am with Molly

[Top-of-the-hill]

  Coming back to this, I still find this newspaper search very difficult to use. I have a cutting in my hand which must be from a local Kent paper, but undated. I have tried names, keywords, date range and any combination with absolutely no result. I know I am not too good at this, but should it be this hard?

[JenB]

  Coming back to this, I still find this newspaper search very difficult to use. I have a cutting in my hand which must be from a local Kent paper, but undated. I have tried names, keywords, date range and any combination with absolutely no result. I know I am not too good at this, but should it be this hard?

I use the FindMyPast newspaper search a lot. I've found that when something like this has happened to me its often not the search terms that are at fault, but the quality of the original scan.

[Tickettyboo]

  Coming back to this, I still find this newspaper search very difficult to use. I have a cutting in my hand which must be from a local Kent paper, but undated. I have tried names, keywords, date range and any combination with absolutely no result. I know I am not too good at this, but should it be this hard?

If its a physical cutting, perhaps the particular paper or the relevant date is not yet online.
Happy to give it a go if you want to post or pm the details

Boo

[Ray T]

It could well be hard especially if you know neither the newspaper title nor the publication date. It's quite possible that FindMyPast Newspapers don't have the edition you're looking for or the names have been mis-transcribed.

Have you tried searching on Ancestry? Ancestry quite often throws up interesting newspaper references - even without a newspaper sub - and it's relatively easy to cross reference these to FindMyPast in order to view the original.

[SouthseaSteel]

Extensive though FindMyPast/BNA and Newspapers.com maybe, I can only imagine they cover a small fraction of the UK historical newspaper archive.  The two key local newspapers relevant to my own family havent had a single word archived at either site!!   

[Top-of-the-hill]

  Ray - I think you may have solved this. I don't believe the Kentish Gazette is available for the 60s/70s and that is the most likely place for the cutting to have come from. Must bear that in mind in future!