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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Resources

Folks,

I am not sure if everyone or only Google account holders have access to
Google Book Search (http://books.google.com/books). At any rate, I find it
rather useful at times. It lists numerous books, gives large excerpts from
copyrighted ones and presents non-copyrighted (i.e. older) ones *in toto*,
and the latter can also be saved in PDF format. I believe that all books are
archived in PDF format. What is neat is that they respond to searches in
which case the program tells you on which pages the searched-for expressions
appear, and they are highlighted in the text inside the book. I have found
entire dictionaries even.

At any rate, I stumbled across an old book on a topic that I find rarely
covered, leave alone to which an entire book has been devoted:

Th. A. Fisher*
The Scots in Germany : being a contributions towards the history of the
Scots abroad*
Edinburgh: Otto Schulze, 1902.
http://tinyurl.com/5qa698

The book is available in its entirety and can be saved as a PDF document.

I find it rather interesting. It deals with the history of international
politics and trade as well as Scottish migration to areas that are now parts
of Germany, Poland and Russia. There is much mention of the Hanseatic
League, and Frisian and Slavonic people are mentioned as well. Of course you
need to bear in mind that the book was published a good hundred years ago
when knowledge and views were not as they are today. Nevertheless, the book
contains a good deal of information that to most of us is of considerable
interest.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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