Is it possible to have too many books? » geneaology http://neverenoughbooks.org The ongoing account of my quest for more bookshelf space Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:06:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Family tree online http://neverenoughbooks.org/2007/03/09/family-tree-online http://neverenoughbooks.org/2007/03/09/family-tree-online#comments Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:53:54 +0000 Sarah http://neverenoughbooks.org/?p=52 I’ve got the first bit of the family tree up on the website here (remarkably enough under Genealogy). It’s lots of fun to click around through all the people. There’s lots more people and photos coming. Since there’s information on living people in here, the whole thing is password protected. Just drop me an email or leave a comment if you’d like access and I’ll send you the login information.

]]> http://neverenoughbooks.org/2007/03/09/family-tree-online/feed 4 Great genealogy find http://neverenoughbooks.org/2007/03/03/great-genealogy-find http://neverenoughbooks.org/2007/03/03/great-genealogy-find#comments Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:39:20 +0000 Sarah http://neverenoughbooks.org/?p=46 So recently I’ve gotten back to my sporadic genealogy hobby. We’re very lucky in that we have stacks of info for both lines (Wharff/Butler & Sargent) through my maternal grandfather. One of the best of these is a book, Thomas Butler And His Descendants: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas and Elizabeth Butler of Butler’s Hill, South Berwick, Maine, 1674-1886, compiled by Dr. George H. Butler and published in 1886. We have an original copy of the book but it’s in sad shape.

Due to a computer glitch, I lost the original file I had worked on in my genealogy program. So I have to redo all the Butler information. I decided that I would look on the web to see if I could find another copy. And not only did I find the book but I found it on CD-ROM! It’s a PDF scan of the original book but it’s been all OCR-ed and edited to it’s even text searchable. And it was only $12 including shipping. I was also able to find (now that I knew to look) a CD-ROM of the reference, The Sargent Record compiled by Edwin Everertt Sargent, that my great aunt referenced in all her Sargent research. The web is a wonderful thing. (BTW, although it wasn’t the only place by any means, both CDs were purchased on ebay from 2 different sellers.)

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