Free access to 19thC British newspapers - back in business!

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:55 pm

Hello Maz,

I’ve had the New South Wales State Library access for quite a while. I haven’t seen it advertised anywhere and you usually only come across these things by chance. I was very pleased to see the 19c British Newspapers crop up on it only about six weeks ago. It’s also available in South Australia. Some states are much more equal than others when it comes to this sort of thing.

I posted a list in the Australia section recently http://talkingscot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11832

All the best,
Alan

Maz · Post by **Maz** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:20 pm

Hello Alan

Must have been lucky that I found it and saw the British newspapers - thought they had been there all the time.

Being so far away from the 'top half of the world' where all of my ancestors came from sometimes makes it difficult in researching (thank goodness for the internet). Though I think sometimes the availability of Australian resources is very good (thinking of the WW1 information availble on the net for free) compared to the UK.

Maz

Chris Paton · Post by **Chris Paton** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:04 am

Haha... access is still possible!

Go to http://access.gale.com/gdctrial/index.html to register and fill in all the fields, and you will be able to get two weeks free access again. Make sure that you choose "international" in the state field. For the Institution name and Institution address, I just typed in "home" for each. The Gale team will then e-mail you a password etc.

Once you receive an e-mail from Gale, use your e-mail address and the password and login supplied by Gale once again at the above web address. You will then arrive at a different page that seems to want you to register again, but if you look at the right of the page there is an option to allow you to sign in with the details you have just used - this will allow you acces once more to the land of milk and honey...!

This was from the Your Family Tree magazine forum - one of the posters there has said that when your two weeks are up you can simply register again. Can't vouch for that, but it is worth a shot!

Chris

kenspeckle · Post by **kenspeckle** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:29 am

I have had NSW Library card for some time now and its only recently that Gale has been added to it I reckon they are giving trials so that we will pester our local library to take it on which is not a bad idea !
I just wish I could join the National Library in Scotland they have some choice stuff in ebooks which I thought I could download but it only got as far as sending an email to me with the info on what I was looking at wanting to download so not sure what the rick is there

regards to all from Freezing Tassie

ankerdine · Post by **ankerdine** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:34 pm

Hello Chris

I have used the free trial earlier this year and I was overjoyed with the results. Well, my I found some rather unsettling evidence about my husband's gtx2 and gtx3 grandfather's drunkeness, fines, stealing cheque resulting in penal servitude.

I tried to access the free trial again as you explained on 24 July but no joy. They said my e-mail address wasn't from an institution which I can understand.

I didn't expect this trial to last forever but would it be worthwhile registering through their "gale.marketingtrials@cengage.com"?

What do you think?

Judy Hawker

My Scottish ancestors were Tinsmiths from Kilmaurs and Wigtownshire named Marshall.

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 12:04 pm

Hello Judy,

Newspaper articles are quite often the Icing on the Census and Certificate cake and sometimes the Cream in the middle and the Cherry on top as well.

I doubt that Chris will be able to answer your question. I haven’t tried the method Chris set out, but give it another go, following the directions carefully in case something went wrong the first time. Give anything that looks a possibility a try and see what happens. They can only say no.

Warwickshire Library has a better than average collection of subscription databases available to residents of Warwickshire. It may be worthwhile if you register there and make specific enquiries about the 19th Century British Library Newspapers because the more enquiries they get maybe the greater the chance they will subscribe. http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/Web/corp ... BA005151AA

Of course if you have someone in the family who is a student at a Further or Higher Education institution in the UK you could possibly sort something out that way. http://www.bl.uk/collections/britishnew ... o1900.html

All the best,
Alan

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 12:13 pm

Hi all
This seems to work Ok, and seems pretty straightforward:
http://access.gale.com/newstrial/

Best wishes
Lesley

Post by **SarahND** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 3:04 pm

Brilliant, Lesley! =D> It works!

Back to the 19th century!
Sarah

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 4:27 am

Excellent Lesley!

(Anyone availing themselves of these demos and free trials should realise that their purpose is to generate business for Gale. Gale only sells to libraries and similar institutions. Contact your County library and ask them to subscribe to the 19th century database and possibly get access to this material on a permanent basis. In the UK, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, City of London, Hampshire, Lancashire, Newcastle City and maybe a couple of other libraries make it freely available online to residents. Why not yours?)

Alan

Post by **SarahND** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:01 pm

Anyone know of another way to get to the free 19th century newspapers? This one no longer works for me

Cheers,
Sarah