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There are thousands of books that have content relevant for family history research including [[directories]], civil lists, biographies and military histories. As well as reading around a topic or finding out about a place, it is worth searching on an ancestor's name in inverted commase.g. "John Doe". You might may have to try various combinations of the name. This is particularly successful for ancestor's ancestors of a certain social class living in the first half of the nineteenth century, but you never know what you might may find. Try tracing an officer's career via listings of promotions, look for births/marriages/deaths or find the postings of an [[apothecary]]. Using the Advanced Search to narrow down the time frame of publication can be useful.

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Note that the Clip function will only appear when the Google Book page is in HTML Mode. What if it’s not there AND the book is Full View? Click on "Overview " (top left hand corner) and go to the very bottom of the page. If it says Standard Mode, click on this wording and HTML Mode should appear. When you then Read subsequently read the book, the Clip function should be available.

'''Digital Library of India ''' has many interesting books whose titles you can see if you search using words such as Bengal, Calcutta , Madras and Bombay. However to actually view these books you will need to download a plugin whose details you will find on the website. Books available include volumes of the ''Calcutta Review which are '' published later than the volumes those available on Google Books, books in the Indian Records Series, Yearbooks etc

'''Gallica ''' is the digital library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. A researcher has advised:<br> There are a surprisingly large number of English books, especially scientific journals, and travelogues. Somebody in France was systematically collecting these throughout the early and mid 19th century. There was an earlier version of the "Great Game" going on between Britain and France. My 4 x great uncle John Croft Hawkins, a Bombay Marine officer , took the first steam vessel up the Euphrates to Hit in what is now modern day Iraq.<br>I knew he had done this, because it is mentioned in his obituaries, but do you think, I could find an account of it in the British papers. ? No, either it was so "secret" that the papers were hidden away and lost, or the ants had got it. Yet, I have found a nearly contemporary French account of his progess.<br>! I have found books there in Galica that are not available in Google Books, and some that are only snippet view Snippet View in Google Books are also available therein Full View.

'''Digitized Afghanistan Materials in English ''' from the Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection at the University of Nebraska-OmahaLincoln.

The website says: '''South East Asia Visions ''' is a collection of European travel accounts of pre-modern Southeast Asia from Cornell University Library's John M. Echols Collection. The site provides online access to more than 350 books and journal articles written in English and French. The works in the collection were selected for the quality of their first-hand observations and, together, provide a comprehensive representation of Southeast Asia.