In the FWIW dept... if you become a member of Kentucky Genealogy Society you receive a password for Heritage Quest that you can use at home. ;-) http://www.kygenweb.net nt ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Carrie <hetaerae@swbell.net> To: ILMADISO-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 22:38:34 -0500 Subject: [ILMADISO-L] Heritage Quest Online > 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 > > ==== ILMADISO Mailing List ==== > Search Engine for Genealogy Madison County Illinois > http://www.google.com/search? q=Genealogy+Madison+County+Illinois&btnG=Google+Search ------- End of Original Message ------- VCI WebMail http://www.vci.net