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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Ryerson Index - 1 Million SMH Entries
News from Bill on the OrangeBathurst and HHHV Rootsweb lists:
"The last update of the Ryerson Index, www.ryersonindex.org occurred on Friday night.Statistics kept by John Graham the Co-ordinator show that the site now contains in excess of one million entries extracted from Sydney Morning Herald newspapers of varying years, in nearly eleven years of indexing."
As a regular user of this amazing resource I congratulate and thank the band of volunteers who index not just the Herald but a range of Australian newspapers for our benefit.
Bill says that additional indexers are always welcome. If you can assist with this work please contact >Phil Holford philip.holford@westnet.com.au
"The last update of the Ryerson Index, www.ryersonindex.org occurred on Friday night.Statistics kept by John Graham the Co-ordinator show that the site now contains in excess of one million entries extracted from Sydney Morning Herald newspapers of varying years, in nearly eleven years of indexing."
As a regular user of this amazing resource I congratulate and thank the band of volunteers who index not just the Herald but a range of Australian newspapers for our benefit.
Bill says that additional indexers are always welcome. If you can assist with this work please contact >Phil Holford philip.holford@westnet.com.au
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Free access to SMH archive from Google News Archive
I somehow missed last week's announcement that Google had quadrupled its searchable archive of historical news articles.
Included in the new offering is free access to The Sydney Morning Herald archives. Although I cannot find information on the dates covered I have done a few test searches and recovered free articles for the time period 1840-1950.
Although personal notices do not appear to be searchable there is still a wealth of information in the archive for genealogists. In looking for my birth notice I came across an article on November 19,1949 about a relation of my fathers, a linesman who was electrocuted in the course of his work in 1949. The contents of this small article give me lots of information about young Eric.
I am going to have a wonderful day searching the SMH archives. Thanks to Diane Haddad, The Genealogy Insider for alerting us to this news.
Included in the new offering is free access to The Sydney Morning Herald archives. Although I cannot find information on the dates covered I have done a few test searches and recovered free articles for the time period 1840-1950.
Although personal notices do not appear to be searchable there is still a wealth of information in the archive for genealogists. In looking for my birth notice I came across an article on November 19,1949 about a relation of my fathers, a linesman who was electrocuted in the course of his work in 1949. The contents of this small article give me lots of information about young Eric.
I am going to have a wonderful day searching the SMH archives. Thanks to Diane Haddad, The Genealogy Insider for alerting us to this news.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Keneally's list turns up at the library
Read the Sydney Morning Herald's story of the amazing State Library of NSW find amongst papers it recently purchased.
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