Hello Everyone, I am sending this out to all the groups I belong to hoping that someone can enlighten me. I have been trying to access for over one week Heritage Quest Online through my local library and have not been able to. In addition, when I try to go to Heritage Quest Online from the main Heritage Quest webpage, I cannot get through and always get a page error. Just wondering if anyone knows anything about this? Thanks! Marie Butcher --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now.

For those of you who are not familiar with Heritage Quest: Some libraries offer free access to this service. Heritage Quest has on-line, searchable censuses from all 50 states, from 1790 to 1920 (searchable by head of household only), and they are working on getting 1930 up. They also have searchable, printable, and downloadable images of hundreds of public domain books and other publications, such as "History of Madison County, Illinois (Illustrated)", published 1882; "Centennial history of Madison County, Illinois, and its people 1812 to 1912", and "Gazeteer of Madison County", published 1866. I have access through the St. Louis City Public Library, and if you work within the City limits, you are entitled to a free library card. I also have access through the St. Louis County library. At one time, the Edwardsville and Collinsville libraries offered access, but I didn't see that on their website, and since I don't have cards with them, I didn't check. Lorraine has recently posted my notes regarding the holdings and services of several area libraries on our Madison County website. Click below to see what's available at the Collinsville, Edwardsville, and Granite City libraries in Madison County, at the Belleville Library in St. Clair County, and at the St. Louis City and St. Louis County libraries. If anyone else has information on what's available at other libraries, I urge you to share it with us by sending the information to Lorraine for posting. For instance, what's up at the Alton library, at SIU-E, at the Madison County courthouse? http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmadiso/libraries/index.html Carrie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ...Then they filled, with clear, shallow water, the whole breadth of this broad canal, and set little whirlpools turning in the depths, and for the first time mirrored the green banks and distant calls of birds -- while in the sky the starry nights of another, sweeter country blossomed above them and would never close. Tombs of the Hetaerae, by Rainier Maria Rilke Translation by Stephen Mitchell