Trove Newspapers - a rich source of County Clare material
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2015 2:22 am
Large numbers of people from County Clare emigrated to Australia, especially during the 19th Century. As a result Australian newspapers provide a rich source of material for researchers interested in County Clare, in the form of obituaries and other biographical notices, as well as more general items about Clare and its people.
The Trove site at http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper operated by The National Library of Australia offers digitised and fully searchable copies of a huge, ever-expanding range of Australian newpapers.
Some examples of the material available can be seen in the transcripts donated by Margaret O’Heir at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... x_news.htm
The Catholic weeklies the Freeman's Journal and the Catholic Press are especially rich in Clare material.
A word of caution though. There is a town called Clare in the Clare Valley region of South Australia, so a search using the word "clare" will turn up lots of SA material, whereas "county clare" will eliminate these.
Each newspaper search is multi-faceted, in that concurrent searches are conducted in other areas, such as books, journals, pictures, diaries, archived web sites etc, and hits in these areas are indicated on the side of the screen, so that one can easily follow the link to a promising lead.
The site also provides a facility to compile your own list of successful searches on, say a person, family or subject. These lists are freely available for other researchers to view.
The Trove site at http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper operated by The National Library of Australia offers digitised and fully searchable copies of a huge, ever-expanding range of Australian newpapers.
Some examples of the material available can be seen in the transcripts donated by Margaret O’Heir at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... x_news.htm
The Catholic weeklies the Freeman's Journal and the Catholic Press are especially rich in Clare material.
A word of caution though. There is a town called Clare in the Clare Valley region of South Australia, so a search using the word "clare" will turn up lots of SA material, whereas "county clare" will eliminate these.
Each newspaper search is multi-faceted, in that concurrent searches are conducted in other areas, such as books, journals, pictures, diaries, archived web sites etc, and hits in these areas are indicated on the side of the screen, so that one can easily follow the link to a promising lead.
The site also provides a facility to compile your own list of successful searches on, say a person, family or subject. These lists are freely available for other researchers to view.