Thanks a million. Shirley ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edwin "Tex" Irvin" <edwirvin@yahoo.com> To: <vabedfor@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 2:10 PM Subject: [VABEDFOR] Google books > Hi Shirley: Go to the search engine Google.com Up top you will see a > little pull down arrow marked "more." Click on that and then click > "books." Then the sky is the limit. Type in "genealogy" in the little > search box. You will get 50 pages of different books. Or type in a > surname or a county or a state. Or a name of a book or subject. "History > of", or "Sketches of," Whatever. Up top you will see "full view." Click > on that and you will see only complete, entire books. The "limited view" > option will show you selected portions of books that are not entirely > available, usually for proprietary or copyright reasons. Most of the older > books are in the public domain now. But the limited view books are worth > looking at also. You might find a pertinent page that is not blacked out, > or at least a clue on where to look further. Edwin > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > To post to the list, email: VABEDFOR@rootsweb.com > To contact the list admin, email: VABEDFOR-admin@rootsweb.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VABEDFOR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >