{"id":297,"date":"2009-09-20T15:56:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T21:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourillustriousfamily.com\/dixon-spain\/?p=297"},"modified":"2009-09-20T15:56:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T21:56:30","slug":"google-books-and-familial-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourillustriousfamily.com\/dixon-spain\/2009\/09\/20\/google-books-and-familial-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Books and Familial Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Working my way through all the research possibilities that the net offers for free has been an interesting experience. Refining and re-refining searches has been rewarding, if in a limited way. Actually I say that, and the Heckington Spaynes<\/a> came out of a Google search, as did the marriages of Spains in Lincoln and the discovery of siblings for TDS<\/a>. Though the route to them was circuitous and chock-full of frustrating dead-ends and ridiculousnesses.<\/p>\n

Google Books<\/a> has been more about personality that data. Three items really interested me: the first, and perhaps the most affecting, was the reference I found to my grandparents<\/a> in a book about the Atlantic Convoys when RMDS served as First Lieutenant on HMS Reading. Next was a snipped from Recent English Domest Architecture which mentioned Hovenden House and JEDS role in redesigning the interior<\/a>, a house I knew well through my maternal family. And finally, yet another reference, in the excellently titled ‘Our Heroic Airmen and their Exploits’, to GDDS’s bravery<\/a> in the air during WW1.<\/p>\n

I am not sure have entirely mined Google, and I am not sure Bing.com and Ask.com will be any more detailed, but you never know. I’ll report back here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Working my way through all the research possibilities that the net offers for free has been an interesting experience. Refining and re-refining searches has been rewarding, if in a limited way. Actually I say that, and the Heckington Spaynes came out of a Google search, as did the marriages of Spains in Lincoln and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17,59,60,48,57,58,61,63,62,19],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gdds","tag-google","tag-google-books","tag-heckington","tag-jeds","tag-mr","tag-rmds","tag-spain","tag-spaynes","tag-tds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourillustriousfamily.com\/dixon-spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourillustriousfamily.com\/dixon-spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourillustriousfamily.com\/dixon-spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourillustriousfamily.com\/dixon-spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourillustriousfamily.com\/dixon-spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourillustriousfamily.com\/dixon-spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/ourillustriousfamily.com\/dixon-spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourillustriousfamily.com\/dixon-spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourillustriousfamily.com\/dixon-spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourillustriousfamily.com\/dixon-spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}