This is from the NEHGS newsletter. Good time to be looking for those hard to find books. Bette Reminder: NEHGS Auctions Used Books on eBay, July 14-20 Mark your calendars! Beginning July 14, NEHGS will be auctioning a selection of hard-to-find used books including vital records, town histories, and genealogies. All books are suitable reading copies for reference, and most (but not all) are volumes from our research library. The list includes both reprints and original editions. Here is a sample of auction items: Vital records of Arlington, Massachusetts to the year 1850. Exeter, Rhode Island historical cemeteries. Old families of Downpatrick & District from gravestone inscriptions, wills and biographical notes. Genealogy of the Estabrook family, including the Esterbrook and Easterbrooks, in the United States. One branch of the Miner family with extensive notes on the Wood Lounsberry Rogers and fifty other allied families of Connecticut and Long Island. If you have never tried bidding on eBay, check out www.ebay.com in advance. Click on Welcome New Users for help in getting started and learn how to register, search, bid, and buy. Remember, the dates for this seven-day auction are Wednesday, July 14 through Tuesday, July 20. Search eBay for the seller NewEnglandAncestors to browse our listings and bid often. A link to eBay will appear on our website, www.newenglandancestors.org, during the week the auction takes place.