{"id":20,"date":"2007-10-24T08:01:24","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T08:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/?p=20"},"modified":"2007-10-24T08:05:30","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T08:05:30","slug":"trawling-google-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/2007\/10\/trawling-google-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Trawling Google Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Books contains a surprising mine of genealogical information, particularly when searching for a relatively uncommon name like &#8220;Van Cooten&#8221;. I occasionally check Google Books to see what might pop up. For full text books in the references below, search for &#8220;Van Cooten&#8221; in the &#8220;Search in this book&#8221; field at the bottom of the right-hand pane.<\/p>\n<p>There are a variety of books containing references to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vc.id.au\/gen\/getperson.php?personID=I60&#038;tree=vc\">Eugene Van Cooten<\/a> and his work as a missionary in Nigeria e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=3GgZGUp9CK0C&#038;pg=PA264&#038;dq=%22van+cooten%22\">&#8220;Abbeokuta, Or Sunrise Within the Tropics&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are numerous books about the trial of John Smith, missionary, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vc.id.au\/gen\/getperson.php?personID=I51&#038;tree=vc\">Hendrik Van Cooten&#8217;s<\/a> evidence at his trial e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=YlgSAAAAIAAJ&#038;pg=PA40&#038;dq=%22van+cooten%22\">&#8220;Report of the Proceedings Against the Late Rev. J. Smith, of Demerara&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are references to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vc.id.au\/gen\/getperson.php?personID=I36&#038;tree=vc\">Di Van Cooten&#8217;s<\/a> books on health in Indonesia e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=APX4AAAACAAJ&#038;dq=%22van+cooten%22\">&#8220;The Village Woman&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vc.id.au\/gen\/getperson.php?personID=I82&#038;tree=vc\">Harold Van Cooten<\/a> was the defendant in a legal case regarding tenancy, and is occasionally cited e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=YL4tAAAAIAAJ&#038;dq=%22van+cooten%22\">&#8220;The Solicitors&#8217; Journal&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I show up in a number of references to clinical trials involving quality of life assessment e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=1yF-DSRzMRsC&#038;pg=RA2-PA58&#038;dq=%22van+cooten%22&#038;sig=kUny0HmnTaLJmD1PFIeqfD8hIrw\">&#8220;Effect of Cancer on Quality of Life&#8221; <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two surprising references I found today were a reference to a Lucius Van Cooten of Petersham as a subscriber to <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=5rg2AAAAMAAJ&#038;pg=PA507&#038;dq=%22van+cooten%22\">&#8220;An Easy Introduction To The Mathematics; In Which The Theory And Practice Are Laid Down And Familiarly Explained&#8221;<\/a> published in 1814. I&#8217;m not sure who this is. Also in what would seem to be the 1828 edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=wrYMAAAAYAAJ&#038;dq=%22van+cooten%22\">&#8220;The Royal kalendar, and court and city register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the colonies&#8221;<\/a> is a reference to &#8220;Assistant Master, J. Van Cooten&#8221;. This is possibly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vc.id.au\/gen\/getperson.php?personID=I53&#038;tree=vc\">John Van Cooten<\/a>. I need to find a way of accessing the text of this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Books contains a surprising mine of genealogical information, particularly when searching for a relatively uncommon name like &#8220;Van Cooten&#8221;. I occasionally check Google Books to see what might pop up. For full text books in the references below, search <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/2007\/10\/trawling-google-books\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}