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From: Kenneth Gartner <>
Subject: Re: [MAWORCES] HeritageQuest Online from home (via a subscriptionfrom public...
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 07:16:11 -0400
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Hello Susan --

I have not had the opportunity to use this remote access, myself. I have
been considering getting a membership to the New York Genealogical and
Biographical society ($60 per year) which gives access to the
HeritageQuest Online and full-text NY Times archives (we have lots of LI
ancestors too). Some of the recent traffic on alt.genealogy suggests
this access is widespread and growing -- for example:

========== (begin quote from alt.genealogy)

Searching for Heritage Quest Online does not always turn up who has access.
First lookup your local city & county public libraries and genealogy
organizations as often they will have access for members. Telephone or
email them. I use free Public Library access because I pay taxes so why not
use what I pay for already via my taxes.

Here is a short collection of libraries offering this service for a
non-resident yearly fee. Most also have other types of databases, which you
can also access at your home computer.
If you know of any others please post:
http://www.godfrey.org/
http://www.sirin.lib.il.us/docs/mcl/docs/lib/index.html
http://www.rutlandfree.org/borrowing.html
http://www.hbpl.org/info_main.htm
http://catalog.crlibrary.org/testhtml/welcome.html

Some libraries offer free access via a statewide library card like this one
in PA
http://www.csonline.net/

Telephone or email all the counties and cities near you.

========== (end quote from alt.genealogy)

My impression is that HeritageQuest, purveyor of many kinds of
databases, is pulling back from Consumer-based customers and
concentrating more directly on libraries and large organizations
instead. In this case, I believe they are encouraging libraries to
deploy it to their patrons, though I would welcome anyone's more
knowledgeable correction of my assessment.

-Ken

wrote:

> Hi Ken and all,
> It is my understanding that this is a loophole and the Heritage Quest
> is trying to close it. I don't know if they have been successful as
> yet. Are any of you still accessing a library account from home?
> Sue
>
> God Bless America!
>
> Susan Marie Hillier Roe
>
> Seal Beach, CA


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