Robertson Gorrie

Forwarded from the Ryerson index mailing list

Google has scanned many issues of the SMH – generally ½ to ¾ of each year – going through to the end of 1989.

TROVE is still the go-to site for pre-1956, because searching is better and the coverage is almost complete, but Google now helps to significantly fill the gap from 1956 to 1989.

With a publication date from Ryerson, it is a doddle to find the notices in the Google scans, because you see a two-page spread as a thumbnail and it’s very easy to identify the page with the notices on it before zooming.

Go to http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=lL5f5cZgq8MC and start searching.

I don’t know whether Google will continue scanning to fill the gaps in their coverage, but in any case, it is a major breakthrough to have another 8,000 or so issues of the SMH available.

The Age (Melbourne) is also there (click the “Browse all Newspapers” link in the top right corner for a list of all available papers), and there may be others.

Are great many other newspapers too