Google Books

Have you ever wanted to know more about the history surrounding your early French-Canadian ancestors? Try going to "Google Books" for more information. Many early history books have been scanned and you can find them in the original French, many with English translations and also in English.

To get to "Google Books" go to Google and look for "More" at the top of the screen. Click on "More" and choose "Books" from the drop-down menu. You can do your keyword searches from there. Once you are in a book, you can search in it for other keywords.

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You'll find books such as, Francoix Xavier's Garneau's "History of Canada - From the Time of Its Discovery Till the Union Year (1840-1)" translated into English at http://books.google.com/books?id=ZyS9g_mTN-oC&pg=PR3&dq=%22histoire+du+canada%22+garneau+translation&ie=ISO-8859-1; Champlain's Voyages by Samuel de Champlain at http://books.google.com/books?id=7u0ErQ0xWDEC&pg=PA3&dq=champlain&ie=ISO-8859-1; and William Charles Colby's book on personalities in early Quebec, "Canadian Types of the Old Regime: 1608-1698" at http://books.google.com/books?id=I48dAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=william+charles+colby&ie=ISO-8859-1. Just click on the underlined URL to take you to the site.

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Explore Google Books - you'll enjoy the experience.

Opening of the Library for the 2007 Season

The last couple of weeks have been very busy at the library getting ready for the new season. We received a major bequest of over 200 books from the family of Betty Bellinger Bateman who was a life-long genealogist.

Betty had family connections in Pennsylvania and New York including Palatine ancestors. She had ancestors from Union County and the Susquehanna and Buffalo Valleys in Pennsylvania. In New York her ancestors were from the Mohawk Valley and Jefferson and St. Lawrence Counties. You can view her gift at http://www.nnyacgs.com/files/BATEMAN2.pdf . Betty's research will be available in our Family Section.

The library bought or had donated to us many books this year. We bought protestant church records from southern Quebec. Donations included Vermont military records of those who fought in various wars, Chazy, NY church records and several Acadian descendant books. View the list at http://www.nnyacgs.com/newmaterial.html . The new books will be on display in Room 2 until November. We are going to need a lot of new shelving for our new aquisitions and so are saving money toward that end. It should be a great year.