{"id":4248,"date":"2017-03-04T15:52:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T15:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4248"},"modified":"2017-03-04T15:52:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T15:52:54","slug":"a-google-book-reference-for-a-1764-british-convict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4248","title":{"rendered":"A Google Book Reference for a 1764 British Convict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Periodic searches of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\"><em>GoogleBooks<\/em><\/a>\u00a0are necessary for just about every ancestor, no matter how unlikely it may seem that their name will appear in print.<\/p>\n<p>James Rampley was a resident of County Suffolk England who was transported in 1764 to the\u00a0Americas. He appears in Peter Wilson Coldham&#8217;s <em>The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775 (<\/em>Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988.), serves to index entries in court records that reference transportation to the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally I search for James in\u00a0<em>GoogleBooks<\/em> on the hope that some printed material from Baltimore or Harford Counties in Maryland (where he settled) will mention him and provide some additional clue about his life.<\/p>\n<p>I never dreamed he would be mentioned, even in passing, in a study of crime and justice in 18th century England.<\/p>\n<p>And yet he was. A search for\u00a0him on\u00a0<em>GoogleBooks<\/em> located such a reference.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4249\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/google-james-rampley.jpg\" alt=\"google-james-rampley\" width=\"665\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/google-james-rampley.jpg 665w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/google-james-rampley-300x65.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The recently published\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1909976113\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1909976113&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=gentipoftheda-20&amp;linkId=2a8184473be5a6c546f6d32a7d780138\" target=\"_blank\">Fields, Fens and Felonies: Crime and Justice in Eighteenth-Century East Anglia<\/a><\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=gentipoftheda-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1909976113\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0apparently mentions James and his conviction. The reference to James is apparently brief. However, I am tempted to purchase the reference if only to gain some understanding of the system that caused James to be transported to Maryland in 1764.<\/p>\n<p>James is not the first person I found in\u00a0<em>GoogleBooks\u00a0<\/em> who was a complete surprise and I&#8217;m hoping he won&#8217;t be the last. The reference to him was on the second page of search results on\u00a0<em>GoogleBooks<\/em>&#8211;that&#8217;s a good reminder to work past that first page of results. Google doesn&#8217;t always put all the &#8220;good stuff&#8221; on the first page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Periodic searches of\u00a0GoogleBooks\u00a0are necessary for just about every ancestor, no matter how unlikely it may seem that their name will appear in print. James Rampley was a resident of County Suffolk England who was transported in 1764 to the\u00a0Americas. He appears in Peter Wilson Coldham&#8217;s The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775 (Baltimore, MD, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}