[TI] Free Online Genealogy Books

[Larie Tedesco]

We received this email and thought I would forward it.....
Larie



 
For some time I've known about this and it just dawned on me I should  
be sharing this with members of all the lists I'm on!

Archive.org http://www.archive.org hosts public domain materials in  
audio, video, image, and text format. I first became acquainted with  
it for its holdings of free mp3s of Old Time Radio Shows, and old  
music recordings from 1900-1920s. Later I discovered their holdings  
of images of old books now in public domain. Most books can be  
downloaded in PDF format to your computer, or you can embed them into  
your own website.

I've found marriage records, lots of county biographicals, you name  
it. Oh, and there are some family histories there, too. You might get  
lucky! What's great is, most have OCR searches (image recognition) so  
you can search for surnames once you arrive at the book image page.

Once at Archive.org site, you can search genealogy books by entering  
something like "north carolina genealogy" [don't use the quotes  
though] and in the pulldown list of Media Type, choose "Texts".  You  
can be more specific, such as entering the county, too. Some book  
titles failed to mention state in the title and didn't come up when I  
entered the state spelled out. Yet, when I used county name plus post  
office state abbreviation in the search, the book title came up. Or  
just enter county and state without word "genealogy." You have to  
play around with this. Search terms depend on how keywords were  
entered upon submission.

For ideas how you can incorporate Archive.org's books into your own  
website, see what I'm currently working on: my Vintage Cookbooks  
http://vintagecookbooks.healthyeatingandlifestyle.org site and my  
Complete Loy History http://loyhistory.com/html/onlinebooks.html  
website. (I still have a lot to do before all this is finished. I'll  
probably change Loy page to have individual pages for each book, like  
cookbooks site. It's slower loading with so many books on one page.)

Enjoy!

Delores

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