There are lots of books available free from Google Books too like :- History of the burgh of Dumfries http://books.google.com/ebooks?id=MD0PAAAAYAAJ Also the National Library for Scotland has some:- Dumfries Post Office Directory 1911-12 PDF http://digital.nls.uk/dc23/8553/85537426.pdf Dumfries Post Office Directory 1911-12 Read Online http://www.archive.org/stream/dumfriesdistrict191112dir#page/n7/mode/2up 6 There are great to read on a kindle Bruce On 9 July 2011 08:01, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Memorials of St Michaels by William McDowall e book > (Irene Macleod) > 2. Old books freely avail on the web for researchers of > genealogy (Lesley Fiedler) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 08:12:06 +0100 > From: Irene Macleod <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] Memorials of St Michaels by William > McDowall e book > To: Lesley Fiedler <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]om > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > It's also downloadable as a plain text file which you can copy and paste > into Word ...and then it's more easily searchable than using the index. > > Irene > > On 8 July 2011 04:37, Lesley Fiedler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > http://openlibrary.org/books/OL23444709M/Memorials_of_St._Michael's_The_Old_Parish_Churchyard_of_Dumfries > > > > Downloadable .PDF of Memorials of St Michaels by William McDowall > there > > is an index of names near the back of the book with page numbers > > enjoy ! lesley in Tasmania > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without > > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 15:37:31 +1000 > From: Lesley Fiedler <[email protected]> > Subject: [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] Old books freely avail on the web for > researchers of genealogy > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Sorting through my e books this entry caught my eye as I have Grahams > in my tree > > from SRS > Register of Burials Restalrig 1728-1854 > GRAHAM Mrs Grace Margaret (Gordon) relict of William Graham Esq of > Mossknowe,Dumfriesshire died at Edinburgh 1823 age 68 years interred in the > South East side of the family tomb > > > > ( I always seem to get distracted as I find something to follow up in the > process and I may have posted some of this before ) > > I have seen on eBay UK that a person is selling Genealogy DVDs with those > books as part of the collection .......the books are all freely available > on the internet and are not intended for commercial use in fact I think if > you were to hunt around all the books the seller has for sale on DVD are > freely available > > If you were to google any of the titles you should find the book online > either via Google Digitised Books or American Libraries > > So folks help yourself ! > > > whole book Register of Burials Restalrig 1728-1854 is downloadable from > here as Jocks Lodge was here and lots of soldiers from all over stationed > this is an interesting one > > http://www.electricscotland.com/history/records/scottishrecordso20scotuoft.pdf > > there are more books that can be downloaded here > http://www.electricscotland.com/history/records/index.htm > > more directories are avail free from National Library of Scotland > > http://www.nls.uk/family-history/directories/post-office/ > > Regards Lesley in Tasmania > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY mailing list, send an email to > [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY Digest, Vol 6, Issue 72 > ************************************************ >