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.

The table of contents for Twelve Virginia counties, where the western migration began / by John H. Gwathmey is in alpha order by topics not in numerical order. Very different.

You can search the obituary archive at: 
 
http://obits.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/obit.cgi

Two of my free reference offers which appear on my website: Comet-Lines.com

More to come

The first is index to Voices from the Field
http://www.comet-lines.com/home/free-references/198-2/

and
Index to Heritage and Homesteads [Granville Co, NC]
http://www.comet-lines.com/home/free-references/heritage-and-homesteads-index/

Heavenly research link. Thanks Internet Archive

BRINGING DEAD LINKS BACK TO LIFE

We’ve all had the experience of following a hyperlink only to find a terse and rather geeky message, “404 Document Not Found.” But “not found” may not necessarily mean “gone forever.” The page you are looking for may have been archived by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and be only a click away. 

Working with Mozilla, publisher of the popular web browser, Firefox, we developed a free, experimental add-on for Firefox that automatically provides you with links to archived copies of otherwise "not found" web pages available via the Wayback Machine. Please join in our experiment by enabling the Firefox add-on and emailing any feedback to info@archive.org.

So today I started moving items I have in Pocket online to a Pinterest site. Pocket is nice, now that I think about it Zotero would have been an option, too.

BUT there are two major sites to share:
http://www.genealogytools.net/deeds/

and looking for where to look:
https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Online_Genealogy_Records_by_Location

These links are active for your viewing pleasure. 

Tomorrow I am off to the Richard H Thornton library to sort files in the North Carolina Room. Other new thoughts. Check the book Lewis of Warner Hall for Davis information.
Current goals. If I spell them out, I have to do them, right? Organize Davis records, look for estate of Thomas Davis' son who died before he did in the court records, 'hoping' he died in Granville County. Organize and extrapolate tax records to see where everyone was before 1860.
Oh yeah, the 1889 tax book for Frederick County, Maryland. I've got the original remember? Bought at a yard sale after it was picked up on the sidewalk having been deaccessioned by the Frederick County, Maryland system as unimportant.