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Digitised Newspapers: Trove &

Other Major Online Collections

Shauna Hicks

www.shaunahicks.com.au

www.shaunahicks.com.au/shhe-genie-rambles

https://diaryofanaustraliangenealogist.blogspot.com.au

Twitter: HicksShauna

Adelaide Oct 2016 Shauna Hicks

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http://www.shaunahicks.com.au/shhe-genie-rambles





https://diaryofanaustraliangenealogist.blogspot.com.au/

https://diaryofanaustraliangenealogist.blogspot.com.au/

Australasian Newspapers

Digitised copies

◦ Trove (Australia)

◦ Papers Past (New Zealand)

Remember microfilm copies

- not all online yet!

Ryerson Index

- Contemporary death &

funeral notices over 5,701,344 entries

in 317 newspapers as at 24 Sep 2016


Adelaide Oct 2016 Shauna Hicks www.ryersonindex.org

http://www.ryersonindex.org/


www.ryersonindex.org



www.ryersonindex.org/bcmdates.htm

http://www.ryersonindex.org/bcmdates.htm


www.ryersonindex.org



http://trove.nla.gov.au

http://trove.nla.gov.au/



Canberra

Times

25 Sep 1992

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper


Adelaide Oct 2016 Shauna Hicks http://trove.nla.gov.au



Tags make it easy to find

your references again! http://trove.nla.gov.au



http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/


https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers


Daily Southern Cross

26 Apr 1865

Evening Post

19 Aug 1881


Daily Southern Cross

9 Mar 1867


UK & Ireland Newspapers

The London Gazette (1665 to present)

www.thegazette.co.uk

◦ Free to register and search

◦ New website now includes Edinburgh Gazette

(1699 but only continuous since 1793 to

present) & Belfast Gazette (from 1921 to

present)

London Times Digital Archive 1785-1985

◦ Palmer’s Index to the London Times 1790-1905


http://www.thegazette.co.uk/



http://www.thegazette.co.uk/



https://www.thegazette.co.uk/


www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/content/116

Always read the Help section

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/content/116




www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources

http://www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources


www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources

http://www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources/


www.slsa.sa.gov.au

http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/


www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/


http://archive.scotsman.com

http://archive.scotsman.com/


http://newspapers.library.wales

http://newspapers.library.wales/


www.irishnewsarchive.com

http://www.irishnewsarchive.com/


www.irishnewsarchive.com Remember can also be accessed

via NLA’s e-resources!

& More

http://www.irishnewsarchive.com/


www.findmypast.com.au

http://www.findmypast.com.au/


www.onlinenewspapers.com

http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/


www.barossaherald.com.au/news/faces-of-anzacs/

http://www.barossaherald.com.au/news/faces-of-anzacs/






www.onlinenewspapers.com

NB for any country in the world!

http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/


www.dublinpeople.com

http://www.dublinpeople.com/


www.hookemacdonald.ie

http://www.hookemacdonald.ie/

Conclusion

Newspapers help to add context &

interest to family and local histories

Digitised copies make searching easier

But remember it is not all online

Modern newspapers can be used to

advertise for living relatives

Start looking for your news stories now!


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