Hi Listers, I have forwarded a message just posted on the Cambridgeshire list, as this could be a handy thing for us all Sometimes simple ideas are the ones we miss Bob Hutchins Email: [email protected] Website & Genealogy Database www.bobhutchins.me.uk > > Hi Listers > > Not sure if I'm the only one to just find about this but thought it might > be > worth sharing - http://books.google.com/books > > What is Google Book Search? > Search the full text of books to find ones that interest you and learn > where > to buy or borrow them. > > How does Google Book Search work? > Book Search works just like web search.When we find a book whose content > contains a match for your search terms, we'll link to it in your search > results. Clicking on a book result, you'll be able to see everything from > a > few short excerpts to the entire book, depending on a few different > factors. > > > > I typed in 'Challis +Sawston' in the search for full text and found an > obituary for my 5x Gt Grandfather in 'The Gentleman's Magazine' of 1816. > > Under a page heading of 'Obituary; with Anecdotes of remarkable Persons' > it > gives the following paragraph : > > Aged 64, Mr Thomas Challis, farmer of Sawston, near Cambridge, much > esteemed; in all the duties of life, he was just, friendly and > affectionate. > He has left a widow and large family to lament the loss of a dear husband > and an affectionate father. > > A much fuller picture of a man I previously only looked at as > Farmer/Husband/Father to 8 with dates of birth, bap and burial ! > > Hope someone else finds a little gem. > I'm off to search some of my other family name and location combinations > :-) > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > >