1. 9 July 2015 Currie Colket Slides at: http://www.colket.org/genealogy/USF/http://www.colket.org/genealogy/USF/ Genealogical Searching for Information on the Internet

2. 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

3. Google Books

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

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9. Accessing Google Books - 3 9 Note: To get an idea how fast Google Books is growing: Dec 2008 7 hits 4 May 2009 1,035 hits 6 July 2009 1,058 hits 7 July 2015 33,700 hits

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

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13. Social Register -1 13

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15. History of Philadelphia - 1 15

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21. History of Philadelphia - 7 21 Enter Zip Code

22. Pelot Genealogy -1 22

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25. Why Can’t You Read 25

26. 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

27. Questions 27 Last Chance to Ask Questions