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Try books digitized on Google

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Alison

Alison Report 15 Jun 2008 15:23

Marie and everyone

Thanks this site is excellent. Also if you go on www.archive.org some of the books are fully digitized and you can either do a search for the name you want or flick through them page by page and print them off.

Alison

Marie

Marie Report 14 Jun 2008 22:38

Glad it has been useful and thanks for the Snippy tip Sue, very useful.

Marie

Paul

Paul Report 14 Jun 2008 15:21

Thanks Marie.

I have just found that my John Carter 1747 was from East Langdon in Kent while googling their books. This has been a mystery up to now. Excellent !

Paul

Heather

Heather Report 14 Jun 2008 13:49

Yes its a great site, you find the most unexpected stuff on there.

MarilynB

MarilynB Report 14 Jun 2008 13:13

Thats a great site Marie, thanks for the tip.
I have put it in my favourites.

Marilyn

Researching:
Stirrup, Williams, Winter, Newton, Johnson, Barrett, Bruce, Bruen, Hartley, Proffit, Rogers, all in Manchester and loads of other names and places

Lindsay

Lindsay Report 14 Jun 2008 12:07

Thanks for this...found a copy of a poem by a distant rellie describing the family home in the 1820s!

Well worth a look.

Sue in Somerset

Sue in Somerset Report 13 Jun 2008 23:42

Been using them a lot lately. Very useful.

I find using the little Snippy program very handy for copying extracts. Do a search for Snippy........it's very small and safe to use. I've installed it on my desktop so I can copy bits when I want.

I think Vista can do it anyway but Snippy's handy for earlier versions of Windows and you don't get all the extra bits you don't want like you do if you do Ctrl +Alt and Print Screen.

Sue
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Marie

Marie Report 13 Jun 2008 22:37

Evening all, just thought I would see if anyone else has used books.google.com for their searches. I have done full view searches and tried Kent and Heritage, the surname I'm researching and come up with all sorts of lovely old books with lots of data, even a whole family with deaths listed in Bengal!. It is a great site for rummaging. I dare say others have found it but it is a while since I was on here so thought I would share. Let me know what you think.

Happy rummaging
Night all

Marie in Kent