Could newspapers from Manitoba, Canada reveal your family’s forgotten history?

You’d think Findmypast meant they had Manitoba newspapers to search. It’s misleading, if not downright deceptive.

Clicking on “See Manitoba, Canada newspapers” takes you to the start of a listing of 203 matching newspaper and publication articles from the British Newspaper Archive that mention Manitoba.

Those results may be of interest, but they’re not Manitoba newspapers. The BNA has no Manitoba newspapers! There are some Canadian papers in the collection — from Ontario.

So yes, newspapers from Manitoba, Canada, could reveal your family’s forgotten history. They did for me, thanks to the Newspapers.com collection, not Findmypast/BNA.

 

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