Check your local libraries as well, many are now offering access to both Ancestry and Heritage that you can access from home with your library card. James Nolan MIS Northeast Analytical, Inc 2190 Technology Drive Schenectady, NY 12308 (518) 346-4592 x11 jimn@nealab.com -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Brooks [mailto:trib@tributaries.org] Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 16:28 PM To: BROOKS-NE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BNE] HeritageQuest offer for Massachusetts residents Passing on this truncated item from today's Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter. Unfortunately, the article is incomplete because Dick Eastman charges for the balance of the information. I'll see if I can't find it somewhere else. (There's nothing about this offer on the HeritageQuest or ProQuest web sites.) If any of you is a paid subscriber to Eastman, I encourage you to post the rest of this message, including details on how to access this offer. HeritageQuest, as I've said here more than once, is an outstanding resource library, and available for $35 a year through the Godfrey Memorial Library in Middletown, CT. Chris ========================== Free Access to HeritageQuest Online for Massachusetts Residents HeritageQuest Online is one of two online services that offer access to images of the original U.S. census records from 1790 through 1930. (Ancestry.com is the other.) These are images of the original census records in the enumerators' (census takers') handwriting. This online service is an example of the sort of thing only dreamed of by genealogists a few short years ago: access to images of original records available from home at any convenient time. The HeritageQuest Online service includes: Images of all U.S. census records from 1790 through 1930 Images of U.S. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files PERSI: an index of 1.6 million references to people and places that have appeared in genealogy periodicals since the mid 1800s A collection of more than 25,000 digitized family and local history books that are fully searchable The last one, 25,000 digitized family and local history books, is one that often gets overlooked. I do not know why that collection is not better publicized as it can save the beginning researcher hundreds of hours. If there was ever a book published about your family name, there is a good chance that you can read that book on HeritageQuest Online. In addition, the collection includes thousands of local history books that may describe the area where your U.S. ancestor lived. ==== BROOKS-NE Mailing List ==== To search previous posts by subject line: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/BROOKS-NE-L/ The address is case-sensitive.