I use papers on FMP which has a paygo subscription.

British Newspapers may be a better option particularly if they have a £1 month subsc on offer...which occassionally they do.

The link for the books https://books.google.com/?hl=en use this just as you would google search engine, if you take the quote The history of the MINTA family in England dates back to 1700 when an Italian family of that name was forced to flee from Italy for politucal reasons......

dump it in the search bar the relevant books and hopefully more info should appear...

It may be worthwhile checking https://one-name.org/surnames_a-z/ to see if any one has made a study of the name MINTA