Oops -- I see I "mis-spoke" in my message. You can only access Ancestry from the library, which I think you already knew! Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Clark" <susan.g.clark@comcast.net> To: <germany-passenger-lists@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 12:59 AM Subject: Re: [G-P-L] using heritageQuest at home? > Hi, Joanne, > > I just looked through the Fort Bend library site and found Ancestry, which > you can access from home, but no HeritageQuest. The online services are > under the heading Databases. > > Susan > NJ Librarian > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joanne Schmidt" <jcsmitty1212@yahoo.com> > To: <germany-passenger-lists@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 11:17 PM > Subject: Re: [G-P-L] using heritageQuest at home? > > >> Thanks, Darlene. However, when I go to my library online site I don't see >> anything there that indicates online services. I live in Houston but have >> my library card through Fort Bend County. I may try to get a library card >> in Harris county to see if that will allow me to access the Houston >> Public >> Library online--although both counties are in Houston. >> >> All I want to do is check a name in the 1930 census. My LDS local >> center, >> which is normally open on Saturday morning until 1 p.m., was closed today >> for some reason. >> >> Joanne >> >> Darlene M Leonard <darldahl@juno.com> wrote: >> If your library is anything like ours here in Yakima, WA we can access >> our libraries online site. Then we go to their online services and we >> find Heritage Quest and if at home we click onto "outside the library" >> but we can only get Heritage Quest this way not Ancestry. Through >> Heritage Quest we can get the census', PERSI, newspaper articles and >> books. >> At our library (city) and at our Family History Center they are connected >> to Ancestry but we have to go to either of them for that. >> I think the only way you can get to Ancestry from your home is to pay for >> their service or get one of their 14-day freebies. >> I have used this for the census' and finding books but nothing else. >> Darlene Leonard >> darldahl@juno.com >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> --------------------------------- >> Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >