Newspaper archives?

Question:iam researching a very popular name! and have hit a brick wall. the name is williams from shropshire 1791. i want to try newspaper archives as i feel this would be relevant and i havent tried it yet. does anyone know any sites that are user friendly?
if you can help then you are a genius.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: iam researching a very popular name! and have hit a brick wall. the name is williams from shropshire 1791. i want to try newspaper archives as i feel this would be relevant and i havent tried it yet. does anyone know any sites that are user friendly?
if you can help then you are a genius.

Have a look at the links posted below, they are all associated to Shropshire, there is the archives for the Star newspaper, the Archives for the whole of Shropshire and much more, hope they help.
http://www.shropshire.gov.uk/archives.ns...
http://www.shropshire.gov.uk/archives.ns...
http://www.telford.gov.uk/Leisure+cultur...
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SAL/Arc...
http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/t...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/news/arc...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/history/...
hope this helps.

For all your needs my friend http://www.journalismnet.com/archives/uk...

Not on-line, but if you want old newspapers details, there is a newspaper museum at Colindale, North London, part of the British Library.

I can't see how there are going to be relevant newspaper archives unless your ancestor was particularly famous or notorious. There may be a family history society in the area that would do parish record look-ups for you, if you want to go back further than the post 1837 Birth, Marriage and Death Registration records, and the census records from 1841 onwards.