Getting Books - 3 Parts and Counting

  

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Titled another way, this post might have been "identify it, find it, and bring it home." Carrie Cartwright Bergquist says "I'm a paper person." Personally, I'm more of a "download bits person." Either way, a lot of what happens is the same. This is part of a continuing series on finding that "special book or document."

In the meantime, here's a "hot tip." Any documents found from this series can also be searched for from our local Ocean Shores FamilySearch Center. It's got many online databases that are simply not available within a two-day trip from Western Washington.

Part 3 - Test of the Best

 

FamilySearch LIBRARY Results for "Franklin County" Search

Having a gauntlet thrown down, a member of our SOCIETY wondered what might be found about “Franklin County,” as in the Franklin County in Tennessee. Here’s what came up when using "Part 2 - Checking the Top Genealogy Library Catalogs"

Simple Way to Get Date Information

As it turns out, there is no need to keep dates of events consigned to either a paper file or in a document stored for reference. While our own site provides a good reference for those grave markers that say "Joseph Goggins died January 28, 1816, aged 27 years, 2 months and 7 days" on Simply ask Google for simple date questions! This probably works with other search engines as well. Certainly duckduckgo provides the answers, though not quite in as big type at the top of the search. Ditto for Yahoo. Usually a simpler query gets better results than an involved question.

Example 1 includes official census day dates. One obtains the same results from "census day 1790." Apparently Google is smart enough to know that something like "census day 1891" is some sort of British thing, though it doesn't mention that the England and Wales Census was the day before the Canadian version.

Google tells when was census day in 1790