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I have been doing some thinking about family history as of late… quite a bit. You know what would really be an awesome addition to our ability to do family history work? If we were able to get the family history library online with Google Books.
Google is notorious for making deals with libraries to put stuff online. It would be especially important for much of the material in the Family History Library. I believe that we are working on some of it right now with FamilySearchIndexing. But there is a lot more out there that I don’t think we can get to. The LDS.org website about the library says there are 278,000 books in there!
For those who are not familiar with Google Books, there is an AWESOME about page for each book that links books to other books (helpful for trancing ancestors). When they scan it in they also do it using Optical Recognition, so you can search for individual names through an entire book in seconds! There is even a map function that searches the book and places markers on a map from the book.
It would be awesome…
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2 Responses for "Google Books for Family History Library"
I have been searching for a way to effectively share family history books online. I have four books that relatives spent tons of time and money publishing. But it would be so much easier to publish once on the Internet rather than paying to print a limited number of books. I’ll be looking at Google Book Search as a possible solution.
BYU is already doing this. If you go to this link:
http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/ you will find the digital images of family histories that are already done. If you also look in the Family History Library Catalog on FamilySearch.org you will see links to these digitized books.
The LDS Church is currently digitizing all of the microfilms in the granite mountain vault. So can start to see some of these efforts at: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html?datestamp=1205128227421
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