Last week I found a great bit of information on my great-great grandfather in a book digitized by Google. He was featured in a book about poets from South Dakota (and I came across this book with a simple Google search!). When I looked at the book, I was pleased to find that there were [...]

Inspired by her love of genealogy, retired librarian, Mollie, began to develop a searchable website for free online books nearly three years ago.  After gathering nearly 5,000 links she very generously put it on the web in December 2007, entitled Genealogy Book Links. Since that time it has grown to contain nearly 20,000 titles with 7,500 in the [...]

“I found this great book (or online family tree). It pushed my family tree back five more generations!!” How many times have you heard that and wished, “Where is the book like that about my family?” Well maybe you should think twice about that wish. How reliable is that book?
Oh the joys and frustrations of compiled [...]

For those of you out there with Hungarian ancestry (or ancestors from the former Kingdom of Hungary), you will want to be aware of a great resource book by Jordan Auslander called Genealogical Gazetteer of the Kingdom of Hungary. This gazetteer is based on the 1877 Gazetteer of the Kingdom of Hungary. It includes incredibly [...]

Do you ever find wonderful information in a book on the Google Books website, only to quickly become discouraged because you can’t figure out how to print a page of the book and you don’t want to spend a lot of time transcribing the information in it? I have, and I’m guessing many others feel [...]