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Ancestry/Genealogy

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OnionPatch

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Wed Feb 6, 2013, 01:25 AM Feb 2013

I found a book on Google Books about my g-g-grandfather. [View all]

I searched for his name and his wife's and lo and behold, a book came up called "Outline of the family of Blablabla and Blabla, his wife, of Blablabla, married on suchandsuch date in SoandSo City, Pennsylvania." There is no doubt that this is them. However, the entry says "No preview available" and No reviews and when I search every link they have for locating the book, none of them can find it. So where did this entry come from?? Does it mean there really is a book out there somewhere about my gg-grandparents? I've written to the counties associated with the family but none of them could locate a book with that name in their files or in the local historical libraries. How frustrating!!

Does anyone know where the entries for Google Books like this could come from? How did that entry get there?

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Possibly a manuscript in a library collection Spider Jerusalem Feb 2013 #1
Thanks so much! OnionPatch Feb 2013 #4
If you want to share the names and birth/death dates we can help you look Viva_La_Revolution Feb 2013 #2
Actually I was just too lazy to look up the exact title. OnionPatch Feb 2013 #3
Historical Society of Penn has it Viva_La_Revolution Feb 2013 #5
Wow. Just wow. OnionPatch Feb 2013 #6
Glad I could help Viva_La_Revolution Feb 2013 #7
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