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9 July 2015 Currie Colket Slides at: Genealogical Searching for Information on the Internet

Overview Google Books Google Books - What is Google Trying to Do? Accessing Google Books Genealogy Examples – Social Register – History of Philadelphia – Why Can’t You Read Some Books – Pelot Genealogy Parting Thoughts

Google Books

Google Books - 1 New Capability to Access Books – Works just like a web search for –Magazines, Interesting, Highly Cited Books, etc. –Fiction, Non-Fiction, History, Random Subjects Searches are based on text scanned from images, so very error prone Capability Changing – One Lawsuit recently settled – Others In Process –Agreements with Publishers, Libraries –Concepts are evolving –Will be vastly different 10 years from now 4

Google Books - 2 Accessed from the “More” Pull Down Reference Pages Available Some books can be viewed Online –Book is out of copyright (OK for much research:-) Really great for Genealogical Researh –Publisher has given Google permission –Partner Program provides Preview of Book –Most provide small snippets Provides relevant information on book –Book reviews, web references, maps, etc. 5

Google Books - 3 Links to Vendors to buy the book Links to Libraries to find nearest library –Accesses WorldCAT to provide location Totally different database from the web- based Google Search Database 6

Accessing Google Books - 1 7

Accessing Google Books - 2 8

Accessing Google Books Note: To get an idea how fast Google Books is growing: Dec hits 4 May ,035 hits 6 July ,058 hits 7 July ,700 hits

Accessing Google Books

Accessing Google Books - 5 George bI. Colket George H. Colket H = Hamilton 11

Accessing Google Books

Social Register -1 13

Social Register

History of Philadelphia

History of Philadelphia

History of Philadelphia

History of Philadelphia

History of Philadelphia

History of Philadelphia

History of Philadelphia Enter Zip Code

Pelot Genealogy -1 22

Pelot Genealogy -2 23

Pelot Genealogy

Why Can’t You Read 25

Parting Thoughts Eventually mechanism to buy and read online Of all books that have ever been published Good tool to find genealogical information in books. “Our ultimate goal is to work with publishers and libraries to create a comprehensive, searchable, virtual card catalog of all books in all languages that helps users discover new books and publishers discover new readers.” 26 Local, Regional Histories, Named Places City Directories, Telephone Directories Social Registers

Questions 27 Last Chance to Ask Questions