-----Original Message----- From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com [mailto:gc-gateway@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of ginnyflies@usa.net Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 10:19 PM To: NYQUEENS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [QUEENS] Ask NY STATE Library to offer remote access to certain databases This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WUB.2ACI/1600 Message Board Post: New York State Genealogists are banding together via an on-line Petition to the New York State Public Library requesting the STATE Library to seek - STATE FUNDING to be utilized to provide holders of valid New York State Public Library Cards with REMOTE on-line internet access to HeritageQuest Online, a collection of online databases including original U.S. census records, Revolutionary War pension applications, more than 20,000 local and family history books, Freedman's Bank records, AND ProQuest Historical Newspapers, including the New York Times Historical Newspapers 1851-2003. Please visit the Link Below to read and sign this Petition, if you agree with what it is trying to accomplish. http://www.petitiononline.com/fundhqpq/petition.html The petition is designed for NY Residents only. HOWEVER, If you are an out of state resident and would be willing to pay a fee for remote access - sign with your City and State of residence and add a comment stating this. The CONNECTICUT STATE Library offers the Historical Hartford Courant (1764 - 1922) both in the Library and REMOTELY to anyone with a Connecticut public library card, including a library card or "Archives Pass" from the Connecticut State Library. Now what I would like to see is the NEW YORK State Library offer the same for the NEW YORK Times 1851-2003 to those who are holders of Valid NEW YORK Public Library Cards or a valid NEW YORK STATE Public Library Card. . . . . . ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx