In conjunction with the Buller District Library, the Westport Genealogy and History Group would like to digitise the many rare historical newspapers, journals and documents held by these two organisations. The library holds old newspapers which can’t be found anywhere else and the Genealogy Group has journals and documents gifted to the group to use they wish. Age is against many of these and decay is causing concern. Once digitised the aging papers/documents can be safely stored in appropriate archival products and the digitised records can then be available for public use by researchers and historians.
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What a fabulous idea – old historical newspapers are so wonderful to read (and yet so fragile). They have so much valuable information, but often it is difficult to have access to these newspapers, without causing damage to them.
I feel it is absolutely important that we preserve our newspapers etc for future generations. These papers in particular would be of interest to people all over the world as a lot of ancestors went to Westport and the Buller for the gold and coal. Awesome that they work hand in hand with their library.
The only way to go, preserve our true recorded history by digitizing……….Fr Duck
genealogy is popular, and should be online afap