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    1. Heritage Quest & Pro Quest vs. Ancestry.com
    2. Does Heritage Quest & Pro Quest offer any different information than I can get on Ancestry.com?

    07/16/2006 03:31:12
    1. Re: [NJHUDSON-L] Heritage Quest & Pro Quest vs. Ancestry.com
    2. Sandra
    3. We just had a speaker at our Genealogy Society address "Using Online Censuses: A Comparison of Ancestry and Heritage Quest". Here is a bit of what she reported: Ancestry has Soundex and Wildcard searches 1790- 1820 census indexes available on both Ancestry and Heritage Quest 1830- 1840 census indexes available only on Ancestry, and includes Military field 1850 census index available only on Ancestry (gives every name) 1860- 1870 census index available on Ancestry (every name) and Heritage quest (head of household) 1880 census index (every name) available on Family Search.org and Ancestry and includes birthplace of father and mother 1900- 1920 census index available on both Ancestry and Heritage Quest( head of household). 1910 includes only head of household 1930 census index (every name) available on Ancestry, partial head of household on Heritage Quest To read more, the original article was published by the Livermore- Amador Genealogical Society in The Livermore Roots Tracer and posted online at: Part One (25: 4, November 2005): http://www.l-ags.org/tracer/vol_25_4.html-Indexes Part Two (26: 1, February 2006): http://www.l-ags.org/tracer/vol_26_1.html-Censuses I don't have any info about Pro Quest. <[email protected]> wrote: Does Heritage Quest & Pro Quest offer any different information than I can get on Ancestry.com? ==== NJHUDSON Mailing List ==== Visit the Hudson County N.J. GenWeb page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhudson/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.

    07/16/2006 12:41:39