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From: Cynthia C Turk <>
Subject: Re: HeritageQuest Online
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:58:00 -0500


Many local libraries offer this service with their library cards.
Morley Library in Painesville, Cleveland Public Library, Columbus Public
Library, etc. It is a wonderful access for census. The images are very
nice and print well when you do the download/view/print system. The
indexes seem to be a bit better than others. At least they are truly
different, so if Ancestry or AISI did not find it, maybe HQ will. The
advanced search is also outstanding. All of the images are available,
but not every year is fully indexed yet.
HQ also has the Revolutionary War _selected_ Pension Files as
images, indexed.
It has a slew of books in images, every-word-searchable. These
include mostly county and other histories and genealogies.
The fourth great thing is PERSI, Periodical Source Index done by
Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, IN. It indexes all the
genealogy periodicals they can get their hands on. Amazing. So far, to
my knowledge, Ancestry does not have any of these last three items.
I think the announcement was that Godfrey Memorial Library in CT
will no longer have HeritageQuest Online in their database collection.
This is the one that the library card is $35.00/year. However, with so
many public libraries offering the HQ, the money was moved to some other
wonderful databases. It is very strong on newspapers and finding recent
people, which are very expensive databases.
Hope this helps,
Cynthia in Lake County

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