Thursday, January 26, 2017

Ok researchers; everybody knows this site, right? This is a new interface to the archives of the Obituary Daily Times. Database entries 18775047 last updated on Thu Jan 26 02:21:50 2017

http://obits.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/obit.cgi

Monday, January 23, 2017

I had an interesting research/commercial lesson yesterday. . I found a book I wanted to read on Worldcat which I then ordered through ILL. Since it was published ca 1907 [dates differ] I went to see if it was on Googlebooks to download. Google said it was available in a Kindle version for 99 cents. So I decided to buy the Kindle version. In the process of buying the book I saw that the Internet Archive was mentioned in connection with the book. I then went to Internet Archive and saw that the book was available there as a download, also.
Now the takeaway of this: The book on Kindle is images. You cannot do a string search on the Kindle images.
On Internet Archive you can download the book as a text file. You can do a string search on the downloaded text file. 
Getting the book on Internet Archive was much more rewarding.