FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk) and the British Library (www.bl.uk) have extended their newspaper digitisation collaboration, with more promised content for the British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.com).
The project, which has already passed 90 million pages of digitised content, will deliver another 70 million pages over the next five years. When the partnership was initially created in 2011, the goal was to create forty million pages over ten years, so this will see the initial aspirations more than quadrupled (you can read about the initial launch of the project at https://britishgenes.blogspot.com/2011/11/british-newspaper-archive-beta-initial.html).
For further details visit https://www.family-tree.co.uk/news/renewed-british-library-findmypast-partnership-70-million-further/.
Chris
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It might be better if they retranscribed the pages that they've already issued. I've asked them many times. From the articles I have found by sheer chance, there must be billions of facts in existing papers that will never be found except by accident. Any free transcription engine does an immensely better job from the same images.
ReplyDeleteThis is one of the better from a random search for births, which should start BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES
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Not a single name is correct.