<genmail@1st.net> wrote: > Heritage Quest Online is only a subscriber service for > 'professional' institutions, such as libraries (free for you if you > find a library with it). It may also be accessible from your home > computer by signing on with your library card through your library > website, if your library has it set up for remote access. Check with > your library and work on them to get it. They haven't finished > indexing the 1920 or 1930 census, but I've encountered far fewer > mistakes in Heritage Quest than in the other two, and it offers all > the census images. It also has over 25,000 family and local history > books available online. A good summary of the indexing approach for Heritage Quest (summary deleted). Two additional points: 1. If your library does not have access to ProQuest / Heritage Quest, you can gain access to it (both the census images and the book images) by joining the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society ($60 a year). 2. The Heritage Quest indexes do not have fewer errors than Genealogy.com - the indexes at Genealogy.com ARE the Heritage Quest indexes. <g> Regards, Richard Pence "Richard A. Pence" <richardpence@pipeline.com>

Richard A. Pence wrote: >2. The Heritage Quest indexes do not have fewer errors than >Genealogy.com - the indexes at Genealogy.com ARE the Heritage Quest >indexes. <g> I heard that before. I suppose I've just been lucky enough neither to come across nor hear of errors regarding Heritage Quest; although there's been a number of times I've double-checked HQ and not found an error there, when someone has specifically reported one on Genealogy.com. Maybe they've just had more reported to them for correction in the past. The first error I ever actually found on HQ was found just today...Byron indexed when it was very clearly Myron in the image. Diane genmail@1st.net