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Ancestry/Genealogy

csziggy

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2. A lot of the old genealogies, family histories and local history books are at Archive.org

Reply to Rosie1223 (Original post)

Sat Mar 3, 2012, 12:14 PM

Mar 2012

The Internet Archive. Some are available free from Google Books, too.

A suggestion if you find one at Archive.org - download the PDF scan of the original AND the plain text HTML page. Their PDFs are nor OCR'd and not searchable. The plain text is searchable but the OCR is not great. I use the HTML page to search, then verify the information from the PDF copy. And if I'm making hard copies for my Mom, I print the original page from the PDF.

I also save their catalog page for the book so I have all the bibliographic information for the source.

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Before you buy a genealogy book, check here [View all] Rosie1223 Mar 2012 OP

Ohhh thank you!!! kdmorris Mar 2012 #1

A lot of the old genealogies, family histories and local history books are at Archive.org csziggy Mar 2012 #2

There is one I use for the Hochstetler family, that is quite good The Genealogist Mar 2012 #3

Many of the old researchers went to the locations and actually looked at old records csziggy Mar 2012 #4