Using the text option is fine. I'd remind people to switch back to the image and proof the text. The text is from OCRing the image and can have mistakes. Google uses very high-end OCR software and the mistakes are minimal, but they do occur. The image is the source. Not the text. That is the main reason that I put the images online for all of the transcriptions on the Massachusetts Vital Records Project. Also, by copying the image and the title page of the publication, you don't really need to cite the web site's URL in your documentation. This is because you have the exact same image you'd get if you went to a library and photocopied the book. John Slaughter In memory of our son, Brennan. 11/10/88-5/31/01 - http://John.EssexCountyMA.net/Brennan/ E-mail for veterans - http://US-Vets.us On Sun Apr 4 11:28 , Jackisr@aol.com sent: >I was just mentioning on another List - one "hint" someone gave me about a >year ago. In order to "print out" - one page - from an on-line book - >you need to go to the top of the page and click on "Plain Text." Once >you get that, you can "copy" that page and "paste" into a Word document >(Wordpad?), and from there you can print it out. I find it easier for >me to "copy" the page and then "paste" it into an e-mail to myself. >Once >I "receive" it, I can print it out. (Can never remember whether this >is >for Google / Book or HeritageQuest / Book.) > >Thanks for mentioning this - this is GOOGLE BOOKS. I use this text >option all the time and copy and paste it right into the NOTES section for >individual in my FAMILY TREE MAKER (FTM). I also copy and paste index items >from Ancestry right into my FTM too. Such as census records (index) and WW1 >Draft records. The FTM cleans up all but most of what I want and I remove >the rest and add to it when I see scan of item. > >We should share our genealogy tips from time to time. I can add it here >because I have been putting GOOGLE BOOKS items on my LAMBERT and other >families ever since discovering the "text" option. > >I might add - yesterday was the first day I found items from the Boston >Evening Transcript in the GOOGLE NEWS ARCHIVE. This appears to be a new >addition to that database. Also, I check all these databases from time to >time and often find new items. They are being added to on a daily basis. >Aren't we lucky to be doing genealogy research in the 21st century! > >I woke up at 3 AM to amazement that my 2-great granduncle JAMES SULLIVAN >RUSSELL, math teacher at the Lowell High School, again helped me with my >research. He was the one who first placed an item in the Boston Evening >Transcript that was followed up one week later by someone else with information >from family bible on our LAMBERT family. >This not (by far) the first time he has helped me. (he was born 1807 in >Carlisle, MA., and d. Lowell in 1903). > >Jacki Russell >Jacqueline Sleeper Russell >_http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi\?db=jacquelinesr_ >(http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi\?db=jacquelinesr) > > >In a message dated 4/4/2010 3:32:05 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, >bbffrrpp@comcast.net writes: > >I was just mentioning on another List - one "hint" someone gave me about a >year ago. In order to "print out" - one page - from an on-line book - >you need to go to the top of the page and click on "Plain Text." Once >you get that, you can "copy" that page and "paste" into a Word document >(Wordpad?), and from there you can print it out. I find it easier for >me to "copy" the page and then "paste" it into an e-mail to myself. >Once >I "receive" it, I can print it out. (Can never remember whether this >is >for Google / Book or HeritageQuest / Book.) > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MAMIDDLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MAMIDDLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message