I am getting very discouraged. It seems that when I try to do research lately all I get his ancestry and they want money for the information that I give them. I just hate putting in a name and getting nothing but locked sources. Grower "Genjunkie" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > When several organizations I belong to recently began offering remote > access to Heritage Quest I remembered the positive things about it > that I had read in these groups. > > After using it for several weeks, I must say that it pales by > comparison to Ancestry.com. There are no primary marriage, probate, > land or other records there, and the large section dedicated to > "books" is largely useless for those of us who check the sources of > secondary materials instead of taking them at face value. > > Worse still, the census records are shabbily indexed. For example, I > have found several individuals in the Ancestry.com census index who do > not show up at all in the Heritage Quest database. > > The only advantages I see are: > > 1.The few "indexed" census years HQ has, such as the 1860, that AC > does not. (Although, let's face it, if we cannot trust the index what > good is it really?) > > 2. The images are clearer on some of the earlier census records. > > > I tried genealogy.com last month and found it ridiculously inadequate. > All in all, I'd rather pay the $100 per year for Ancestry.com and get > a tool I can use with confidence. > > >