Google Books for beginners

[kerryb]

Brilliant Paulene andso lucky!

I'm off to search on a few of my names.  I only ever really used it for places but you never know I could be lucky too 

Kerry

[willow154]

Good luck, Kerry

[VictorianDreamer]

Celia,

I have the same problem with mine. I get either Agatha Christie, or James Christie, the auctioneer. To stop that from happening, it depends on their name. In my case, I DO want James Christie's, as they run through the family, but I don't want Agatha Christie, as we don't have any Agatha's at all, so, when I type in my search, I'd type it like this:

Christie  -auctioneer -Agatha

Any links with those two words with the minus signs before them, shouldn't come up, which should then leave  closer to home searches. In your case, put your family name and -author. Good luck 'hunting'

Victoria

[VictorianDreamer]

Paulene,

Another excellent find. (Can't blame me for keeping you up though  )

Victoria

[VictorianDreamer]

Kerry,

Hope you find loads, or at least one or two surprises.

Victoria

[MKG]

All of you free book fanatics (that includes me) should take a look at Project Gutenburg as well, especially if you want background details - furniture, food, dress, political etc. etc.

Watch out though - you'll soon fill up your hard disk 

[Lydart]

Its here ...

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page?fb_page_id=6195089915&

[willow154]

Thank you, Lydart

[kerryb]

Kerry,

Hope you find loads, or at least one or two surprises.

Victoria

So far none, but then how many mentions did Ag Labs get in books 
Although I do have a hard copy of a book that mentions how my great x 4 grandfather got his unusual name Gaius Diana. 

Kerry