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Google Books: the tool you should use every day!

Lisa Louise Cooke
Jul 12, 2017
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Search Operators
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Digitized Books
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Unexpected Finds
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Translating
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About this webinar

25 million digitized and searchable free books are at your fingertips. Learn how to make the most of this goldmine chock full of historical data! You’ll discover the best techniques for finding fully digitized book FAST, and search secrets for locating genealogical data. Learn to capitalize on and translate the foreign language volumes from your ancestor's homeland. Then we’ll go beyond the obvious and track down maps, images, photos and more.

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Lisa Louise Cooke
Lisa Louise Cooke is the producer of the Genealogy Gems Podcast, the popular and long-running genealogy podcast which has been downloaded over 3 million times! The podcast is avai
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