Great big thanks for letting us know.
Robert H. Goss
VT Town Volunteer for Barnet, Burke, Danville, Hardwick,
Kirby, Newark, Peacham, Ryegate, Sheffield, Sutton, Waterford
Family interests: Abbott, Goss, Heath, Page
Web site:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~vtcbarne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rod Skinner" <rjs5(a)yahoo.com>
To: <vtgen-l(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 10:18 AM
Subject: [VTGEN] Digital Books Online Progress
I checked on the progress of a couple of the big efforts to put old
books
and documents online for free access. They have made significant progress
and are worth a few minutes browsing.
I looked at the three efforts: Google Books, Yahoo Open Content Alliance,
and
Archive.ORG.
rod
GOOGLE (with partners
http://books.google.com/googlebooks/partners.html)
and YAHOO (with partners
http://www.opencontentalliance.org/contributors.html). They have been
able to put significant works online. There are a number of new works
relating to local history that are useful for family search work.
Just to get a feel for what is online, I would suggest a search for the
word "Vermont", especially in the TITLE field and see what comes up.
GOOGLE
http://books.google.com/books
Select the FULL VIEW option for books free online.
Go to Advance book search to look for books with particular words in the
title or author fields.
http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search
YAHOO Open Content Alliance (OCA)
It does not appear that this has put much online yet.
ARCHIVE.ORG
http://www.archive.org
Has online text and other media. The text are at
http://www.archive.org/details/texts
Search for VERMONT yields
A number of entries on "Records of the Governor and Council of the State
of Vermont" .
The Vermont Brigade in the Shenandoah Valley, 1864 - Walker, Aldace
Freeman, 1842-1901
History of the Eighth regiment Vermont volunteers. 1861-1865 - Carpenter,
Geo. N. (George N.) Vermont in the civil war : a history of the part
taken by the Vermont soldiers and sailors in the war for the union, 1861-5
(Volume 1) - Benedict, G. G. (George Grenville), 1826-1907
Vermont in the great rebellion. Containing historical and biographical
sketches, etc - Waite, Otis Frederick Reed, 1818-1895
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