You wrote: > Hi > > You mention, HeritageQuest, ie. Library Census research online. > I use it and find missing censuses. I can go to a library and access > Ancestry.com and find it. Have you had these issues? > > Bert No!

I have access to Heritage Quest through my membership to NYG&B (at least until April). I also have an ancestry subscription. When I can't find someone on ancestry, I try heritageQuest and usually do locate them. I don't know if the difference is in the indexing, the transcribing, or the search engine, but there is a difference. Of course the best index when not finding a name and misspelling is suspected is the written indexes--Accelerated Indexing System or some such name. The wrong spelling is more apt to be obvious looking at the index yourself instead of relying on a search engine to find it. Barbara "Pamela J. Sears" <[email protected]> wrote: You wrote: > Hi > > You mention, HeritageQuest, ie. Library Census research online. > I use it and find missing censuses. I can go to a library and access > Ancestry.com and find it. Have you had these issues? > > Bert No! ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Barbara L. de Mare, Esq. Historian, genealogist and attorney 155 Polifly Road Hackensack, New Jersey 07601 (201) 567-9440 office [email protected] (home) http://historygenealogyesq.blogspot.com/

>From what I've read, the two were scanned and indexed independently, so one may be more accurate on a given name than the other. Also the quality of the image varies. On a recent occasion, the page I was looking for was illegible on Ancestry because it was too dark and illegible on Heritage Quest because it was too light. I finally looked at the microfilm at my local historical society and it was perfectly clear. I find that Ancestry has better search capability (name variations, more fields to search, etc.), but Heritage Quest images are apt to be better. The main problem with the Heritage Quest index is that it searches for the exact name you enter without offering variations on the name. Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara de Mare" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 11:32 AM Subject: Re: [NYORANGE] Missing censuses? >I have access to Heritage Quest through my membership to NYG&B (at least >until April). I also have an ancestry subscription. When I can't find >someone on ancestry, I try heritageQuest and usually do locate them. I >don't know if the difference is in the indexing, the transcribing, or the >search engine, but there is a difference. > > Of course the best index when not finding a name and misspelling is > suspected is the written indexes--Accelerated Indexing System or some such > name. The wrong spelling is more apt to be obvious looking at the index > yourself instead of relying on a search engine to find it. > > Barbara > > "Pamela J. Sears" <[email protected]> wrote: > You wrote: > >> Hi >> >> You mention, HeritageQuest, ie. Library Census research online. >> I use it and find missing censuses. I can go to a library and access >> Ancestry.com and find it. Have you had these issues? >> >> Bert > > > No! > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > Barbara L. de Mare, Esq. > Historian, genealogist and attorney > 155 Polifly Road > Hackensack, New Jersey 07601 > (201) 567-9440 office > [email protected] (home) > http://historygenealogyesq.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >