Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Tuesday's Tip - Check Out Digitized Genealogy and Family History Books

This week's Tuesday's Tip is to check out digitized genealogy and family history books to find books or articles about your ancestors.

There are a number of websites that have digitized genealogy and family history books, such as compiled surname genealogies, locality history and records, etc.:

1)  Google Books (https://books.google.com) - has over 30 million digitized books free to access.

2)  Internet Archive (https://archive.org/) - has over 10 million digitized books free to access.

3)  HathiTrust Digital Library (https://www.hathitrust.org/) - has over 14 million digitized books free to access.

4)  MyHeritage Books and Publications (https://www.myheritage.com/research/category-8020/books-publications) - has over 447,000 genealogy-related digitized books free to access.


5)  FamilySearch Books (https://books.familysearch.org/) - has over 280,000 genealogy-related digitized books and manuscripts free to access:


6)  Genealogy Gophers (https://www.gengophers.com/#/) - has over 80,000 genealogy-related digitized books free to access.


7)  Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com) - has over 23,000 digitized genealogy-related books, not free to access).

8)  GenealogyBank (http://www.genealogybank.com) - has over 14,000 digitized genealogy-related books, not free to access).

Each site has a different set of search fields and search options (e.g., wild cards, exact matches, included words, excluded words).

There are other digitized books websites with significant genealogy and family history hol;dings - which ones should I add to this list?

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1 comment:

Geolover said...

Randy, thanks for this handy list.