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The Genealogist’s Virtual Library: Full-Text Books on the World Wide Web with free CD-ROM

Many genealogists have likely tried to find family infor-mation on the World Wide Web. The Internet has become an increasingly popular place to do research-not only for serious genealogists and local historians but for everyday computer users interested in tracing their family histories. The growing availability of full-text books and journals on the Internet has made vast amounts of valuable genealogical information available at the touch of a button. And, now there is an easy way to locate the most useful texts on the web! The Genealogist’s Virtual Library is an outstanding new volume that offers a comprehensive bibliog-raphy of full-text books and journals. The Genealogist’s Virtual Library directs you to the sites on the web that contain the full-text of books; these sites contain complete texts of books, not just synopses or listings. It identifies thousands of family genealogies, biographies, and local histories. The Virtual Library provides an extensive listing of these

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    In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as “rather soiled by use.” When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as “well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an Elizabethan hand [that] bring to life an early and earnest owner”; and the book’s buyer, for his part, considered it to be “enlivened by the marginal notes and comments.” For this collector, as for an increasing number of cultural historians and historians of the book, a marked-up copy was more interesting than one in pristine condition.William H. Sherman recovers a culture that took the phrase “mark my words” quite literally. Books from the first two centuries of printing are full of marginalia and other signs of engagement and use, such as customized bindings, traces of food and drink, penmanship exercises, and doodles. These marks offer a vast archive of information about the lives of books and their place in the lives

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