Richard, thanks so much for the info. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Edwards" <rte45@yahoo.com> To: <mostone@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 5:57 AM Subject: [MOSTONE] FYI--Free source of Census' no longer on MoStone >I wanted to be sure that none of the MoStone researchers remained >handicapped by lack of access to the census which were available until >recently on the MoStone site. > The missing census' for Stone Co, 1860, 1870, 1900, and 1910, are all > available on HeritageQuest. They have a searchable index which will take > you to an image of the census page. 1930 is also available but does not > have an index so one must browse the census images. > > This is of course not just for Stone Co Mo but for all the US census. All > census from 1790 to 1930 are there. 1830,1840, 1850 and 1930 have no > index but are browseable since the actual census images of those years are > available. > > HeritageQuest is accessable through libraries which subscribe to the > service. My library in Asheville and the library in the county next to me > have it. I called the library in Springfield Mo yesterday and they have > it. To access through Springfield Mo one must have a library card (gained > by library membership). You then go to the Springfield Library website, > go through a couple of screens to the HeritageQuest site where you are > prompted to enter your libraries name and your membership number. You > then have access to the site. > > My library grants access through a state program called nclive from whose > site one indicates your library and then one enters a code which is given > to me by my library. > > HeritageQuest also has Rev War Pension files, images of thousands of > books, and a search engine for indexed periodicals. > > > So if you want to have this check with your library reference desk. A > small town library may not have it but keep checking with larger and > larger libraries till you find it, then become a member of that library > and you can then access HeritageQuest and the Mostone missing census from > your home computers > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MOSTONE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >