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→Newspapers online - external links
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers Google news] Free site with vast selection of old newspapers and an overall search facility.
*[http://gale.cengage.co.uk/times.aspx The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985]. Access to the Times Archive is available with various [https://mynews.secure.force.com/webjourney/webj_subscription?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.thetimes.co.uk%252Ftto%252Farchive%252F current subscriptions] to the ''Times'', unless you have free access through a library . Refer [[Miscellaneous tips]]. Available in the [[British Library]] Reading Rooms.
*[http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=2114&id=201071 findmypast] - British Newspapers and Irish Newspapers are available to individuals Britain Full & with a Pro subscription (previously called World Subscriptions subscription, or the top subscription) but not via library and community subscriptions. (Irish Newspapers require a World Previously British newspapers were also available with the British subscription, but this no longer applies). The newspapers are from the collection of the [[British Library]] and are the same newspapers as are included in the British Newspaper Archive<ref name=BNA>[https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2017/05/28/webinar-qa/ Webinar Q&A] British Newspaper Archive blog May 28, 2017.</ref> see following item. The date ranges for the newspapers are not listed on findmypast, but are listed on the BNA. The Search may be better on the BNA, (BNA says it is "more sophisticated"<ref name=BNA/>) and some people are known to search on the BNA, and then access the images on findmypast.
**[[FamilySearch]] includes two collections which consist of index records
***[https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2562514 British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices] "A collection of marriage and birth notices found in different British Newspapers. This collection comes from The British Newspaper Archive, and is a collaborative project with FindMyPast.com".
