I have been using Heritage Quest through a library. It has the census records & hundreds of books about Sussex County that can be read on line or downloaded & printed. The offer no CDs but who needs them. The Rev. War pension records are wonderful. Check with you local library to see if they have the service. I prefer Heritage Quest to Ancestry. ----- Original Message ----- From: "A Schaumann" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 12:27 PM Subject: RE: [NJSUSSEX-L] Ancestry vs. Heritage Quest, vs. Genealogy.com libraries on line > In response to Helen's question, I searched for Minisink on Heritage Quest > and got 240 hits. They include histories, genealogies and some church > histories. I haven't explored the hits at this point since it has been less > than a week since I discovered I could access Heritage Quest Online from > home. I live in Delaware and we have a county library system. A library card > is free if you are a resident and with your card and a pin number the > library gives you, you can access Heritage Quest by going through your local > library. Besides books there are some Revolutionary War Records and Census > Records, although they don't have as many indexed as Ancestry.com. They also > have the PERSI index (not the actual articles) of genealogy and local > history articles. I am amazed at what I have found in only five days! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Helen Graves [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 2:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NJSUSSEX-L] Ancestry vs. Heritage Quest, vs. Genealogy.com > libraries on line > > Re: access to Minisink history books and CDs on-line via paid subscriptions > > Ancestry.com vs. Heritage Quest > Ancestry.com vs. genealogy.com > > I do not have access to Heritage Quest, so I do not know if they offer > access to history books, published family histories, or CDs. Do they? If > so, what is the annual cost... and how does it compare to Ancestry.com? > > The cost to subscribe to Ancestry.com's history and family history section > is $79.95/year. It is also offered by the quarter if you want it for only 3 > months. > > Ancestry.com vs. genealogy.com > > I checked out the books and CD's accessible by a subscription to > ancestry.com vs. genealogy.com library section. It seems ancestry.com > offers more references for Minisink research than genealogy.com does. > Comparing titles of books and CDs, the lists are not the same, so you might > find specific titles available only on genealogy.com, which might make it > very worthwhile. > > My primary question to the list is ... how does Heritage Quest compare to > Ancestry.com ?? as I have no access to Heritage Quest to compare them. > > Helen Graves > in a quandry over subscribing to > Ancestry.com for $79.95 or to Heritage Quest via a $35 library card > > >