The law, rules and regulations affected by the life of every one of our ancestors. This guide deals with their contacts and conflicts at local, county level, not only when their activities were criminal, in all their interaction with their neighbors and authorities, Matters which now occupy the attention of a hundred and one local and national civil servants and statutory bodies were then under the haphazard control of a small body of men which no qualifications beyond the ownership of property. In the mass of records they left, all human life is mirrored tarnished by grim as the reflection may be. They are a badly underused source for family historians, and I hope this guide will help to show their potential value. More information Family History from Newspapers - A McLaughlin Guide by Eve McLaughlin.
Newspapers are a marvelous source of information but they contain varies according to period.
Before 1750, most personal news concerns the nobility and gentry, or notable crimes and scandals. In the next century more local personalities crept in. There was little directly concerning ordinary events and people until the last century. These books will advise what you can expect to find, from obits to advertisements, crime and scandal reports. Talks about national, provincial and local collections.