This morning, I updated the Live Roots Catalog with the latest books available from a variety of providers (including free online books). This meta-catalog is the source behind the "Resource Results" in the Live Roots Search Engine (also available at Genealogy Today as "Resource Search"), and currently has over 232,000 entries.
What makes this search engine interesting for genealogists and research librarians, is that it's a single catalog which emphasizes the overlap between publishers in the results. What also surprises most visitors... only 25% of the listings are fee-based! And, the system gets updated daily with new entries.
Here's a partial listing of the publishers included:
- Ancestry.com - daily updates +API
- Boyd Publishing Company
- Brookhaven Press
- Bunnell Genealogy Books
- Chattahoochee Valley Libraries Archives
- Colonial Roots
- Ericson Books
- Family History Archive (from BYU) - monthly updates
- Family Roots Publishing
- Family Tree Legends
- Genealogical Publishing Company- monthly updates
- Google Book Search (selected texts) +API
- Gorin Genealogical Publishing
- Heritage Books, Inc. - monthly updates
- Higginson Book Company
- Internet Archive Text Search (selected texts) +API
- Missouri History Museum Genealogy Index
- OldYearbooks.com
- Picton Press
- Scribd (selected items) +API
- Stevenson's Genealogy Center (family histories)
- The Students of Southern California (yearbooks)
- WorldVitalRecords.com - daily updates +API
I'm always looking for additional publishers to include; if I've missed any please let me know.
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