Published Before They Were Dated

Don't get me wrong. I really like Hathitrust and use it regularly.

I find things on it that I would not find elsewhere.

However, there is one nuance with their cataloging that I don't quite understand and that frustrates my research efforts as shown in the image below.

The "American Baptist year-book 1893-1897" indicates a published date of 1868.
The "American Shorthorn herd book v 83" from 1914 indicates a published date of 1846.

This makes searching by publication date difficult.

I think that the published year may be the first year the item in the series was published, but I'm not certain. The three items noted in the image appear to be publications of an "annual" nature and perhaps that is the problem.

Comments welcomed.

Note: these search results were obtained by searching for "rampley" on a full text search at approximately 10:30 a.m. central time today.

HathiTrust Does Not Equal Google Books and Google Books Does Not Equal Hathitrust

[note: at 11:17 AM Central time on 24 February, I cannot replicate the searches shown in these screen shots. A more detailed update will be posted later today]

This is a good example of why checking more than one site, set of digital images, database, etc. is necessary.

I'm in the process of trying to locate a copy of a 1944 letter my great-grandfather sent to the Prairie Farmer magazine. Google Books is how I found the reference and the snippet view is pretty clear that the name in the magazine is Fred Ufkes.

I searched at HathiTrust for the same item and it was not located.

Of course, there are reasons why the item was not found:

• The digital image used by HathiTrust was not comparable quality to the one on Google Books.
• The OCR used by HathiTrust did not recognize "Ufkes" as "Ufkes."

The reasons aren't necessarily germane at this point--but they serve to remind us that not all sets of images are created equally.

If I had only searched for Fred Ufkes on HathiTrust I never would have located the reference.

Are you limiting your searches?

We'll have an update on the search for the 1944 issue of Prairie Farmer as the search continues.

E. Ufkes in the Ostfriesisches Stutbuch (Ostfriesian StudBook?) from 1911

I've mentioned various types of agricultural publications before but they've always been in English. This is another item that I located on Hathitrust. 

This one is not.

It is the Ostfriesisches Stutbuch from 1911.  This listing indicates the breeders of the horses listed and the owners at the time the directory was published. As with other directories it does confirm that a person with a specific name was living in a certain location at a certain point in time. 

The two references from the 1911 publication indicate E[ielt] Ufkes of Wiesens was the breeder of two horses listed. I neglected to copy a legend with the abbreviations, but I'm reasonably certain that the "V" stands for the male horse (with "Nr." being a registration number) and the "M" being the mother horse. 

The clues here are pretty minimal, but it does indicate that Eielt was probably still living in Wiesens in 1907 and 1908 when the horses were born and that he probably knew the owners (assuming there were no intermediate owners). As Ufkes was not the owner listed, it is always possible that he was not living in 1911. 

I'm not certain I need to translate the remaining portion of the entry, but I wish I had copied the abbreviations.

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Note: I had a response on G+ that included the following translation:

6229 Ferida
born 1907, brown, white forehead hair, both hind feet white.
Father: Tello, Mother: Feige
Owner: A. Goeman, Visquard, Emden County.
Breeder: E. Ufkes, Wiesens.

6887 Feige I.
born 1908, white/gray horse, little star, left behind the ball of the foot white.
F: Tello, M: Feige
Owner: J. Georgs, Damhusen, Emden County
Breeder: E. H. Ufkes, Wiesens.