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Why have ancestry bothered to add the London Gazette to their site?
I can't see the point of ancestry's latest addition - the London Gazette 1825-1962? The whole of the London Gazette is available free on its own site, and searchable on there with the exception of a few issues from well before 1825. Ancestry haven't even indexed it, you have to browse. I know ancestry have web searches of various external databases included on their site, but this isn't one of those.
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Goodness knows!
I wouldn't want to try and find something in the Gazette without the benefit of a search facility. I see they also have The Times newspaper, searchable 1788-1833, which again is available elsewhere, but searchable across 200 years.
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Is there anywhere you look online for newspapers after the 1970s?
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I think they have had the Times on there for a long time, though, and the other sites with it on aren't free to everyone.
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I think you would have to look on each individual newspaper's website for their own online archives, Julie. Or if your library offers access to recent newspaper archives.
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Thank you. Julie
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Surely it's the one stop shop principle, Kite?
A lot of new researchers don't know any way of researching apart from through Ancestry.
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But if it isn't indexed on ancestry, surely new researchers are unlikely to find anything in there anyway?
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Aah Yes .. but the publicity blurb will say it is on there!!
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We can only hope that they are planning to index the London Gazette and have just made it available for browsing in the meantime. It can be difficult to find a particular entry using the London Gazette's search and I wouldn't say no to another way of searching (although Google often comes up with London Gazette results anyway.)
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