The thought occurred to me to try and determine how many digitizedbooks are now (as of February, 2010) online. Then, I would try toestimate/guess how many of those are genealogy related.
I realize that the task is likely impossible, but I would like to havesome idea of the magnitude of the online book community. My first stopis Google Books. It appears that Google doesn't publicize the actual number of books scanned. But an article in the Official Google Blogof October 9, 2009 gave the total at more than 10,000,000. Doing aquick search in Google Books on the subject of "genealogy" returnsabout 26,000 books, while a search on "family history" returns about17,900. Google Books has three levels of online availability; LimitedPreview, Snippet View and Full View. Only Full View gives the entirebook's contents.
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