Hi Howard, I seem to remember that when Google announced their project of bringing books on-line that one of their partners was the New York City Library. Probably the Research Division. If so, that should include their genealogical collection, most of which is now beyond copyright protection. I've noticed that HeritageQuest, which is being pulled from genealogical society subscriptions, has many on-line books imprinted on the cover page as being from that same collection. So I throw this idea out to the list. What if, as some of us suspect [me, anyway], that Ancestry.com put pressure on HeritageQuest to pull back those genealogical society subscriptions in order to drive individual subscriptions back to Ancestry, only to find that Google was recreating that same database and becoming a free genealogical powerhouse? Anybody got a friend at Google? Ask them to sub-index the appropriate books they're copying under a genealogical heading so we can sort them more easily. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Howard Swain Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 7:18 PM To: dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com Subject: [DUTCH-COLONIES] NJ early land record abstracts now online at Google Hi all, While looking for something else (as usual), I discovered that vol 21 of the NJ Archives (aka Documents Relating, etc etc), which as the early patent and deed abstracts for NJ land records, is now online at Google Books. See: http://books.google.com/books?vid=0TBQOIngGiheymL6Ja0JozW&id=Pk0OAAAAIAAJ&pg =PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=inauthor:berthold+inauthor:fernow#PPR3,M1 They have more of the NJ Archives series, but (as seems usual for them) it is hard to find which ones they have and where they are. Regards, Howard hswain@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The control of the Genealogy sites and information is now dispersed beyond recapture and purity,it can never be brought back with accurate lineages again. ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Brady" <brady.j@att.net> To: <dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 8:42 PM Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] NJ early land record abstracts now online atGoogle Hi Howard, I seem to remember that when Google announced their project of bringing books on-line that one of their partners was the New York City Library. Probably the Research Division. If so, that should include their genealogical collection, most of which is now beyond copyright protection. I've noticed that HeritageQuest, which is being pulled from genealogical society subscriptions, has many on-line books imprinted on the cover page as being from that same collection. So I throw this idea out to the list. What if, as some of us suspect [me, anyway], that Ancestry.com put pressure on HeritageQuest to pull back those genealogical society subscriptions in order to drive individual subscriptions back to Ancestry, only to find that Google was recreating that same database and becoming a free genealogical powerhouse? Anybody got a friend at Google? Ask them to sub-index the appropriate books they're copying under a genealogical heading so we can sort them more easily. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Howard Swain Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 7:18 PM To: dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com Subject: [DUTCH-COLONIES] NJ early land record abstracts now online at Google Hi all, While looking for something else (as usual), I discovered that vol 21 of the NJ Archives (aka Documents Relating, etc etc), which as the early patent and deed abstracts for NJ land records, is now online at Google Books. See: http://books.google.com/books?vid=0TBQOIngGiheymL6Ja0JozW&id=Pk0OAAAAIAAJ&pg =PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=inauthor:berthold+inauthor:fernow#PPR3,M1 They have more of the NJ Archives series, but (as seems usual for them) it is hard to find which ones they have and where they are. Regards, Howard hswain@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

> >Anybody got a friend at Google? Ask them to sub-index the appropriate books >they're copying under a genealogical heading so we can sort them more >easily. > >Jim Dear Jim, I don't have a friend at Google, but recently in the Wisconsin State Journal newspaper in Madison, Wis., it was announced that Google is working with The Wis. Hist. Soc. to put on-line many books in their collection. The WHS library in Madison is outstanding in their genealogy resources, not just of Wisconsin, but all of US. So this may help many of you folks get access to this wonderful resource. Elsie Wilson Elsie H. Wilson 5620 Harris Cir. Fitchburg, WI 53575 (608) 835-6791 ehwilson@charter.net