Showing posts with label Digital Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Digital Books. Show all posts

09 February 2017

GPC Goes Digital! eBook Editions of Many Titles Now Available


GPC Goes Digital!  eBook Editions of Many Titles Now Available

The most recent GPC newsletter, Genealogy Pointers, shares …


Our new site, library.genealogical.com, offers eBook editions of nearly 800 of our best titles, with more titles being added throughout the year. Mobility is just one of the benefits of our genealogy eBooks. All of our eBooks are priced at least 30% below their print counterparts, and there are no shipping costs associated with eBook delivery. That means that you will save from $5.50 to $7.50 on each eBook you order. At library.genealogical.com, you can • Search for books by locality, subject, time period, and other categories. • Look inside the book to view pages from the publication and search within the text. • Buy the book easily with just one click, registering with Google, Facebook, or your email. • Read the book instantly on our site or download it to the eReader of your choice. • Cut and paste content directly from the book to your genealogical project, without having to retype the information. We encourage you to visit library.genealogical.com, play around with its features, and send us with your feedback. Just so you know, we will continue to produce good-old-fashioned books. In the not-too-distant future, however, you will have your choice of print or electronic every time.

Though I do love a good print book to sit down on my couch and read, when doing research, there can be a convenience to accessing digital books; I find that they don’t tumble off of my lap the same way.  Just yesterday I was going through a series of print books, trying to keep them open, pulling content from then (while typing with one hand), while trying to keep them balanced on my lap – not a pretty sight – and, ebooks would have definitely been easier.



What’s your favorite GPC title?  Has it gone digital?






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21 July 2016

DPLA and FamilySearch Partner to Expand Access to Digitized Historical Books Online


DPLA and FamilySearch Partner to Expand Access to Digitized Historical Books Online

Last month DPLA and FamilySearch announced the following …

BOSTON/SALT LAKE CITY— In concert with the American Library Association national conference in Orlando, Florida, this week, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and FamilySearch International, the largest genealogy organization in the world, have signed an agreement that will expand access to FamilySearch.org’s growing free digital historical book collection to DPLA’s broad audience of users including genealogists, researchers, family historians, students, and more.

Family history/genealogy continues to be a popular and growing hobby. And FamilySearch is a leader in the use of technology to digitally preserve the world’s historic records and books of genealogical relevance for easy search and access online. With this new partnership, DPLA will incorporate metadata from FamilySearch.org’s online digital book collection that will make more than 200,000 family history books discoverable through DPLA’s search portal later this year. From DPLA, users will be able to access the free, fully viewable digital books on FamilySearch.org.  

The digitized historical book collection at FamilySearch.org includes genealogy and family history publications from the archives of some of the most important family history libraries in the world. The collection includes family histories, county and local histories, genealogy magazines and how-to books, gazetteers, and medieval histories and pedigrees.  Tens of thousands of new publications are added yearly.

“We’re excited to see information about FamilySearch’s vast holdings more broadly circulated to those trained to collect, catalog, and distribute useful information. Joint initiatives like this with DPLA help us to further expand access to the rich historic records hidden in libraries and archives worldwide to more curious online patrons,” said David Rencher, FamilySearch’s Chief Genealogy Officer.

Dan Cohen, Executive Director of DPLA, sees the addition of FamilySearch’s digital book collection as part of DPLA’s ongoing mission to be an essential site for family history researchers: “At DPLA, we aspire to collect and share cultural heritage materials that represent individuals, families, and communities from all walks of life across the country, past and present. The FamilySearch collection and our continued engagement with genealogists and family researchers is critical to help bring the stories represented in these treasured resources to life in powerful and exciting ways.”

FamilySearch is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and preservation of personal and family histories and stories, introducing individuals to their ancestors through the widespread access to records, and collaborating with others who share this vision. Within DPLA, FamilySearch’s book collection will be discoverable alongside over 13 million cultural heritage materials contributed by DPLA’s growing network of over 2,000 libraries, archives, and museums across the country, opening up all new possibilities for discovery for users and researchers worldwide.  

Find more about FamilySearch or search its resources online at FamilySearch.org. Learn more about Digital Public Library of America at https://dp.la.  

You can access the Family History Books collection of FamilySearch here. Some of my favorite places for digitized books are Internet Archive and HathiTrust.

What is your favorite portal for accessing digitized genealogy-related books?




Editor’s Note: Previous Upfront with NGS posts regarding Digital Books …


Editor’s Note: Previous Upfront with NGS posts on DPLA can be found here and on FamilySearch can be found here.









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28 December 2015

FREE Collection of Books Now Available on MyHeritage



Collections of digitized books keep popping up.  The newest one to join the growing ranks of such collections is available on MyHeritage.

We've just added an exciting new collection to MyHeritage SuperSearch™, containing over 37 million pages in 150,000 books relevant to family history!

The new collection includes tens of thousands of digitized historical books, with actual images of the books' pages, and all their text extracted using Optical Character Recognition. The books span the last four centuries and include family, local and military histories, city and county directories, school and university yearbooks, church and congregational minutes and much more. A vast amount of rich data from diverse publications makes this collection a fantastic source of rare genealogical gems, providing insight into the lives of our ancestors and relatives...

You can search this collection directly here.  As a test case I searched on publication place = North Carolina and keywords = “Wake County.”  There are purportedly 1,301,429 results though I only looked at the first 40 or so which included Yackety Yak (UNC Chapel Hear College Yearbook), Shaw University Catalogue (HBC), Minutes of the South River Baptist Association annual sessions, City Directory of Asheville NC (1910), Greensboro City Directory (1912-1913), Walsh’s Charlotte NC City Directory (1907), and much more.

I did a quick look at Internet Archive and NC Digital and Mocavo and Hathi Trust and none of them seemed to have the exact same publications across board suggesting that there is value to adding this digital book archive to your genealogy tool list.

Did you find something “new” to you via this database?







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23 October 2015

Google Books Wins When Court of Appeals Rejected Author Guild's Copyright Infringement Claim

Google Books Project Example Book Snippet

Late last week the Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Author Guild’s claim that the Google Books Project infringes on copyright. 

I personally find the Google Books Projects and its snippet feature very helpful when doing family history research.  Seeing a snippet in a book has sent me on a mission to then try and find a hard-cover version of the book, either in a library or for purchase for my research, or to access an e-version via The Internet Archive, Hathitrust, or via similar online projects.  Without some of the snippets I have come across, I would have never thought to consult some of the books which have popped up and which I have then used as wonderful sources for clues, obscure document references, historical context and more.

You can read the various details about the lawsuit and the issued opinion as written by those more knowledgeable than I.

+ Google prevails in copyright appeal (The Legal Genealogist)

Interested in the nitty-gritty details?  Check out the full opinion in Authors Guild vs Google, Inc.

Here’s some press from non-genealogical perspectives ...
+ Big Win For Fair Use In Google Books Lawsuit (Electronic Frontier Foundation)




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