Time flies - and I have been actively searching out some more parish registers to place on my web site. It's amazing how many are available for free (if not to download then to read online). Many can be looked up on Googles book site. Other works of interest (certainly those that are out of copyright) can be found on the pages of the Gutenberg project. However, the biggest of them all for old publications is the million books project.
It's a great source of copies of publications from the last century and earlier, many of which you will never find in any local library. It includes publications from the major universities in the USA and Canada, as well as other sources.
You really cannot go wrong with this site - for almost any subject the site has something for everybody. I have found it invaluable. As these sources are digitized then those who wish to consult them may do so without further damage to the, often rare, originals. It's a shame that more institutions are not persauded of the virtues of such a scheme. Certainly at the university I attended, the only thing not encouraged in libraries.... were readers!
The addresses of the sites are:
Google Books: http://books.google.com/
Gutenberg : http://www.gutenberg.org/
Million Books: http://www.archive.org/details/millionbooks
Have fun...
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