I try to keep lists of online resources for different categories to use in my Genealogy 101 Workshops and OASIS Beginning Computer Genealogy classes. Perhaps my lists will help other researchers (I love to share!). I'm updating my lists.
Here is a list of six large online genealogical and historical book collections (in order of free then subscription sites):
* Google Books (http://books.google.com/) -- Free, more than anybody else, I think! Entries can be found using Google Search engine. Book page images. PDF or text file can be downloaded. Books can be added to online personal Google library and read online.
* BYU Family History Archive (http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc) -- Free, more than 60,000 genealogy related books. Book page images. PDF file can be downloaded.
* Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/details/genealogy) -- Free, more than 17,000 genealogy related books, plain text obtained by OCR. Text file can be downloaded. Entries can be found using Search engines.
* HeritageQuestOnline (http://www.heritagequestonline.com/, accessed only through a subscribing library) -- Free through subscribing libraries, about 26,000 books. Book page images. Individual pages can be downloaded as JPG images.
* Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com/) -- Subscription required, more than 20,000 books. Book page images. Individual pages can be downloaded as JPG images.
* WorldVitalRecords (http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/) -- Subscription required, more than 9,000 books. Book page images. Individual pages can be downloaded as JPG images.
If a reader knows of more large genealogical and historical book collections, please let me know and I will add to the list above. Thanks!
Welcome to my genealogy blog. Genea-Musings features genealogy research tips and techniques, genealogy news items and commentary, genealogy humor, San Diego genealogy society news, family history research and some family history stories from the keyboard of Randy Seaver (of Chula Vista CA), who thinks that Genealogy Research Is really FUN! Copyright (c) Randall J. Seaver, 2006-2021.
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Thanks for sharing!
Randy,
Check out Our Roots, a Canadian on-line reference library at http://www.ourroots.ca/e/. This is the link to the English version of the site but there is also a French version available. A great resource for Canadian ancestry.
Ian
Hathi Trust Digital Library
Kirtas Books
Making of America - University of Michigan
Making of America - Cornell University
Project Gutenberg
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