For a personal subscription you can call the GODFREY MEMORIAL LIBRARY and participate in the "Godfrey Scholar" program for $35.00 per year. You can browse the records that are not indexed. This is a TON of value for the money. Credit cards are accepted and within minutes you are in the system, they will walk you thru the few easy steps one at a time. I promise you that you won't be dissappointed. The phone number is: 860-346-4375 Nell in Mississippi > Is your public library online? Does it have a subscription to Heritage > Quest? Many libraries do although it is often not well publicized. If your > library is a subscriber and is online you can get some great free > information from your home. You may need to contact your library for your > user name and password. Often the user name is built in and the password is > your library card number. > > Heritage Quest provides access to the ProQuest Historical Newspapers New > York Times 1851-1998 Database and to Heritage Quest Online which includes > all census images through 1930 and an incredible searchable collection of > over 25,000 old family and local histories. This is a growing database. > Currently the indexed censuses available are 1790-1820 and 1860-1870, 1890 > [what there is of it]-1920. [Keep in mind the 1880 census is available to > search at www.familysearch.org although the images are not free.] The books > are mind boggling. There are now 7932 family histories, 12049 local > histories and 260 primary sources. Both the indexed censuses and the book > collection are searchable. > > Cheryl Rothwell > logancty@mindspring.com > Logan County, IL, Coordinator, ILGenWeb www.rootsweb.com/~illogan > Central IL Regional Coordinator, ILGenWeb > Clark, Downing, Harding, Lucas et al > > > > > ==== ILMARION Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the ILMARION List if you are in mail mode, send to > ILMARION-L-request@Rootsweb.com. If you are receiving messages in the digest mode, send to ILMARION-D-request@Rootsweb.com >