Hey you book nerds genealogy is a great place for those who
really like to dive into books and today I'm going to show you
how you can find books for your genealogy research online some
of the suggestions are going to be free and others are going to
be paid as I take you on a journey of where you can find
books online I'm also going to give you book type
recommendation so stay tuned to all of the website
recommendations and the book type recommendation and if you
happen to be using any of these books or sources in your
research, make sure you let me know which ones, which types in
the comments below. Now, the first is almost everyone's
favorite and that is Google. Going over to Google Books and
I'm going to show you how you can find books that identify
your ancestor by name and make sure you do Google Books which
will be books.Google.com so I'm going to type in the name of my
ancestor Robert V Zenstein if I leave out the V I don't
necessarily get books about him but play around with your
search results to make sure you get the ones you're looking for
so here is physical review 1924 Robert V Zumstein if you
want to look at the book online you want it to say read. Uh if
it says preview or preview not available, you won't be able to
look at it online. So, I'm going to click in here and I
can start seeing the American Physical Society. It highlights
all the V. So, Robert Sand the Zumstein and then I have a
Robert V Zemstein right there together and then I can go
through and Zumstein see Minutes at the Chicago Meeting in 1923. So he
went to a meeting and I can find out more about that
abstracts of different papers. If I type in Effingham Townley,
there are a lot of really great books on the one I wanted to
highlight, the mystery solved. Now, if you followed my series
on John Townley, the brick wall and I walked you step by step
how I came up with the solution to who John Townley's father
is, Effingham Townley, which one? I mentioned the Lawrence
Townley inheritance that I was looking at in newspapers. Well,
the mystery there is an entire book on the Lawrence Townley
Chase Townley Marriage and Estate question sometimes if
you see something in a newspaper go and try to either
look for the people involved or the event involved over on any
of the books sites see what you can find this is actually a fun
read and unfortunately we're not related to this line
directly in any way the next resource I like to use is the
Internet Archive Archive org. One type of book that I like to
look for is County History. Are you using County History into
your genealogy resource? If you are, put a link down in the
comments below. So, when you want to look for County
History, type in something similar to the phrase History
of and then the location. So, down here on the Internet
Archive, I have War History of Santa Clara County and I
wouldn't have that that war history was there if I hadn't
just put in history of. So, now I can look at the participation
of individuals from Santa Clara County, California in any type
of conflict or engagement. There's multiple copies. This
one's from the Library of Congress. I do like these
little pop ups that tells you who the contributing repository
is and this one is from the California Digital Library that
can also give you some other suggestions of different
resource to look at. Here we just picked up another one.
California Digital Public Library. Here is the Allen
County Public Library and notice I can come in here and I
can look at the book right online. Now, some books are
restricted and you have to borrow them and what that means
is with your account, you need to log in to the Internet
Archive and then say on one of our this book and then you can
borrow it online. So, some of em are free and you don't have
to sign in and some of them you have to sign in and you can
borrow them. The next website is HathiTrust and the
recommendation I have for you of book types to look for is
anything with the title First Settlers of. I love these books
because it come from a lot of first families of organizations
or just researchers interested in a particular location for
genealogy or other historical purposes. When I type in first
settlers of here on HathiTrust, I see 277 results. Now, I do
want to show you something that's really important. Notice
that I have this drop down filter to title. If I don't, if
I just have all fields, I'm going to get really rotten
results. Well, maybe not so rotten but they're not what I'm
looking for. So, make sure you put title settlers of should be
in the title and now I can get to First Settlers of South
Carolina female index to genealogy logical dictionary of
the first settlers of New England the History of the
Pilgrims I want to find something that says full view
limited search means I'm not going to be able to see it
online it will tell me where multiple volumes there might be
an online version but I'm going to go ahead and click on
this full view one and then on HathiTrust I can actually read
the Look how old this book is. I'm so glad somebody didn't
throw it away and it took time to digitized it. The Digital
Public Library of America is handy for records within the
United States. It is based from the Library of Congress and my
recommendation for you is to be looking for laws related to the
States Your Ancestors lived in. Now, when I was researching my
family in Pennsylvania, I went to the laws and discovered that
women had different inheritance rights in Pennsylvania at the
time I was researching than in other states and when I was
talking about this with a fellow colleague she was like
that that's not accurate. I'm like oh but it is and I sent
her to the statutes for Pennsylvania and she said wow
that's really fascinated and I didn't know that. So really
dive into the law because you may discover that your
ancestors were required to do things were allowed to do
things earlier or differently than in the other states of the
United States. So, when I type in statutes of and then put in
a specific state, I get a number of results. Remember, we
want to be able to read it online. So, we want anything
that has the full item view, view, full item. There is
statutes of the University of Pennsylvania. I wasn't
expecting that charges and statutes and I have to keep
looking and what I'm trying to find is anything that has the
dates in it that covers the time period I'm researching so
I like this one it's from Penn State University and I can view
the full item it has a number of clicks to actually get there
but what I'm trying to do is get down to this catalog page
so when I scroll down I want something that says full view.
Here's Penn State University. I'm going to go ahead and click
view and then I'll finally get into the book to see and notice
I started out on the Digital Public Library of America and I
wound up back on HathiTrust. I was confused there for a moment
but that's the beauty of this Digital Public Library of
America very similar to the Internet Archive. It will find
any of the views that are available and then take you to
the associated website to be able to see it online. You know
I'm going to recommend a FamilySearch. I am a
FamilySearch fan girl and they have a great book collection
online. Now, some of their records are in their search
form location. Some of their records are in the browse only
indexes and then, there are other records of interest over
in the books under the record types of interest. In this
case, we're going to look at probate records. When I you get
to a search view within the website, you'll see records,
genealogy, catalogs, books, and wikis. So, make sure you click
on books. Direct links will be in our show notes. Click on
books and then type in a search term and in this case, we're
going to do probate. Click search and now you will have a
lot of search results when you stay that broad. So, Probate
Records of Norway registered Copenhagen Progate Records
Searching American Probate Records. So, that's a how to
book This is a probate record from Indiana, Miami County.
Early American probate inventories that you just keep
going on and on and on. Uh what you're looking for is when the
blue button says Access Level Public and view full text
results. So, we're going to click on that and we're
going to view and once I'm signed in, I can actually begin
navigating through the book. Now this is the final free one
that I know of if you have any further recommendations be sure
to use the comments section below and then I'll be able to
share it with other viewers. So WorldCat is great. Um my
recommendation for you is that you look for ethnic genealogy
sources. So Germanic Americans, African American, Swedish
Americans, or other ethnic groups or out the world and
notice it is WorldCat. Not only can we look for ethnicity-based
resources on WorldCat but we can also look for journals and
magazines. So, here I'm going to look for the dramatic
genealogy journal and I'm going to actually make sure I select
books and then search books. There are quite a few search
results here. Let the genealogy of the Pre Lutheran Bible.
That's interesting journal of Lutheran Ministers short of
female genealogy transcend. There's some things that look
like oh yeah that's pretty spot on. Uh Journal of German
American History, Early Settlers of Waterloo genealogy.
So type in something where you are trying to be specific but
also scroll down to see what other options are there. So
this is filmed by the genealogical Society of Utah.
It's the Journal 1907- 1926. it is the one I was looking for
and notice here the closest library to my address is in
Salt Lake. Let me tell you about Internet Library Loan.
What's great is I can go over to my Public Library and I can
do something called Inter Library Loan. Internet Library
Loan. I can order that book through Inter Library Loan and
it can be brought to my local library for up. It is usually
free unless you bring it back late. Some libraries will have
a small fee attached to it. So, it's another way to extend your
dollars. The Internet Library Loan based on recommendations
from WorldCat. Now, I will have all of the links to these book
recommendations as well as the book types to look for in the
shownance that are found over on my blog, Family History
Fanatics dot com. Let's dive in to some of the paid book
sources you may want to investigate. The first one I'm
going to show you is from Ancestry.com and the books that
I have recommended for you is Military Books. To access the
books that are available on Ancestry.com. Click on search
card catalog. Over here on the side, you can type in a title
if you know which regiment you're looking for. You can
also put in keywords. For now, I go make sure you don't have
any filters check but I'm going to type in regiment because I'm
looking for a regiment history and there's actually 87 that
have that in the title. I wanted to look at the History
of the Seventh of New York. And it is searchable but I can also
browse. So I'm going to look at the chapter and now I'm in the
book and I can read the book about this History of the
seventh seventh regiment of New York. Another great resource
that I've already talked about in a previous video when we
talked about Social History is Find My Past and there you go.
Social History is what I want you to look for. So both look
for the video that will be in the description box on how to
use Find My Past to find that Social History but also go use
Find My Past to find the books. For Find My Past to get to the
books, click on search
record sets. I'm going to filter to Canada to my location
I'm going to sort by subcategory and then come down
here until I see something that says Social History. So, here's
Social History
All of these are great but I do remember one about folktails.
Folklore. I want to click on that. Um I'm going to just type
in page number two. I will be able to get in to this PDF
file. And start reading the book. I can't say it enough
that I love MyHeritage for City Directory. So, let's hop
on over to see why. So, here on MyHeritage , the US City
Directory Collection. I'm going to type in Aleta Geisler
and now, I see all of the City of Directory Results. The one I
love the most is between 1953 and 1957 between 19 twenty-six
and nineteen thirty-nine. Let me show you why this is so
incredible. Once again, instead of spending hours and hours and
hours looking for nineteen fifty-three, fifty-four,
fifty-six, fifty-seven, fifty-eight, and fifty-nine,
MyHeritage found all of them and I can look at the city
directory and just click through all of them in one
location. It really is pretty cool. If you made it this far
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genealogy journey. Now, there are a number of genealogical
societies that have books that you can access online or you
can ask a librarian to do a look up for you. One website
that I recommend is American Ancestors that belongs with a
New England genealogical society. Um NEHGS. I
always get it mixed up what that stands for but American
Ancestors if you have New England Ancestors in your
heritage. So the Digital Library and Archives of the
American Ancestors is great because you may be able to find
some free resources as well as some paid ones. Um make sure
you log in to Better Results but when I clicked on the
History of Ancient Windsor, I'm actually able to see part of
this book and there might be a point where I have to pay to
see the rest of the book and that's okay. At least get you
kind of started. You can search this collection. You can search
within this record. It's a really handy tool. So, there
you have a number of online resources to use to either look
at books online or find where you can order the book through
Internet Library Loan which is really handy when you need your
dollars to stretch or you live in a remote place like Los
Alamos where it takes 45 minutes to get to WalMart I hope
that you will utilize these sources and tell me of your
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