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  1. Challenge to High Jump with The Doodler

    Do you love jumping games? Try this free doodle jump game now!!! Watch out for black holes, moving objects, and platforms that disappear—they'll try to knock you off! Be quick to shoot them down.

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  2. "Great suggestions for preserving history! Researchers accessing paid archives might find PersonalLoan.ph useful to: 1) Digitize family news

    "Great suggestions for preserving history! Researchers accessing paid archives might find https://www.personalloan.ph useful to: 1) Digitize family newspaper collections (avg. £200 scanning cost) 2) Fund genealogy trips to local record offices 3) Cover British Newspaper Archive subscription gaps during key research periods. Did you know? 61% of amateur historians recoup costs by publishing findings! #ArchiveEconomy

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  3. What is Incredibox Sprunki?

    Incredibox Sprunki takes this concept to new heights by introducing custom characters, diverse soundscapes, and thematic elements like horror, comedy, and fantasy, offering endless creative possibilities.

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  4. How to Search for Obituaries with Limited Information?

    Hi everyone,

    I'm hoping someone here might be able to offer some advice. I'm trying to locate an obituary for a distant relative who I believe passed away in the late 1950s or early 1960s, likely in the Manchester area. Unfortunately, I only have a rough estimate of the time period and a partial name — I know the surname (Thompson), and possibly the first initial (J or G).

    I've tried some keyword combinations in the search bar, but I'm struggling to narrow it down without hundreds of unrelated results. Are there any tips or tricks for refining obituary searches…

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  5. Option to turn off unwanted frills.

    Please provide an option to turn off saved searches and all other pop-ups so that the search is simple like it used to be.

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  6. Web Site performance and OCR

    Firstly I think you are doing a great thing with this archive; good job!
    However my experience of trying to contribute to your project in a small way and correct the plethora of errors which your very basic OCR generates in the articles I am researching has been very frustrating. Reviewing and correcting a few thousand words is taking hours when it should take maybe only an hour if the performance of the website was quicker and if the user interface for editing had been better designed. In Microsoft Word or some similar software I can see all the errors…

    4 votes
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  7. Save a single article

    I have been reading for a couple of years that you hope to make it possible to save a single article instead of a whole page but I haven’t seen any progress in providing this, are you actually going to provide this option? it is why I let my subscription lapse, I would rejoin if this was sorted.

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  8. academic citations

    adding a citation button to help with citing your amazing newspaper

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  9. Search for a phrase is often ignored

    When I search for a phrase, for example "W. Hunter" to get only hits for "W. Hunter" it is very annoying that I get endless hits for just "W." Can the search engine not be taught to ONLY look for "W. Hunter" ?

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  10. Exact searching

    Because words like "and", "of" etc. seem to be used as operators, I often can't use them in the way I'd like. For example, I want to search for the EXACT phrase "The Horse and Hounds". At the moment, I can't see how to do it.
    I would like to be able to search for an EXACT phrase , e.g. "The Horse and Hounds" without

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  11. Pages for all counties

    Some coverage of all uk counties in the first instance...still many with no pages at all.

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  12. adoption of corrections

    When I edit an article's text, when are those corrections taken into account for a future search? I have been doing corrections for months and none of them have been picked up in subsequent searches.

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  13. A Timeline, simple base line of world/UK event dates occurring at, or near the atricle date

    Place the articles in some kind of timeline, a simple baseline graph idea would help I suppose. I don't have a plan but whenever I find an article concerning an ancestor it would help to picture the time he was living in - who was on the throne, world action concerning Britain etc.

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  14. Highlighted articles

    I'd like to be able to download and/or print a page that highlights articles of interest as they appear on the screen.

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    Open - Under review  ·  The British Newspaper Archive responded

    Can you give us some more detail here? How would we work out which article were of interest to you, or are you just wanting an easier way to save and print individual articles as you come across them?

  15. rewards for repairing OCR efforts

    a reward system for repairing defective OCR results

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  16. Publication issue

    Provide the issue number of the publication in the header information.

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  17. Poor Page Quality

    Ability to flag scan quality issues with some pages and get them rectified.

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  18. Academic Citation

    The BNA has become an invaluable tool for researchers. I'd like the ability to download a citation of the records in the common formats MLA, Chicago etc.Your database is likely to contain the required information such as source, date, page number and so on. Is there any chance of such a facility being added?

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  19. Next/previous day

    Provide a forward/backward button when viewing a page so that you can skip to the same page in the next/previous day of the same publication

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  20. Improve viewer layout to make it easier to navigate

    I prefer the page layout used by Gale News Vault. It makes it much easier to scroll through a news article. The default window in BNA is too small, and changing to full page view makes it very difficult to navigate the page.

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