Month: October 2025
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Searching for Elspeth
I have been trying to put together a piece about a member of the Nicol family who has left only a very small footprint in the records available both on Ancestry and Scotland’s People. Although the British Newspaper Archive has given me some hope of finding more. You will recall from earlier posts that the…
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Newspapers
I have taken out a subscription to The British Newspaper Archive at a cost of £99 for the year. This gives me access to every newspaper that the Archive has digitalised, which is quite a considerable number of newspapers and magazines. It has a powerful search engine which, if you input the correct information, such…