Hermon, I tried your search engine and it is wonderful. Just found things I have been searching for forever. Thanks much. Carolyn ----- Original Message ----- From: HERMON B FAGLEY <hermfagley@juno.com> To: <WVHAMPSH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 7:51 AM Subject: [WVHAMPSH-L] Search the web for "digital library",researchers! > I don't know how many books I just discovered! Many ! I'd known of some > digital libraries-I have several aleady book-marked. But pal,Jeanne > Barton > had sent me an url [web address] of the U.Pittsburg's digital library to > research > French and Indian war times. And the url did not work,in any combo I > could try. > So,I went to my favorite search engine,which right now is www.google.com > and ,in quotes l like I use to search a name like "JOHN DOE" ,I typed " > digital library" and had a mass > of hits. Digital libraries are all over the place. I've come to prefer > digital works to normal works because of search engines. I have a little > shareware search engine on my own > hard drive called 'BOOL.exe".I'm sure there are many,and no,I don't > remember where > I found it,on-line 4-5 years ago. But I love to research with it. I'm > not limited by the index > the author of the work prepared. Search for unusual 1st names, or > locations, or dates, or whatever. And quickly. I do the same at on-line > libraries like www.ancestry.com. > Their search engine form may have blanks labeled 1st name and last > name, but I might type FORT for 1st name and PITT for last name. Or LOCH > for 1st name,and NESS for last name, or ship Welcome, or BULL > RUN,or Marlboro furnace. > Experiment. > Genealogists,on www.google.com and likely more,type a surname DOE and > add the > word genealogy. Search for DOE genealogy,or SIMMONS genealogy,AND,OF > THE > HITS, CLICK ON DOE FAMILY FORUM, or simmons family forum . > >