On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:23:27 -0800 "Frances" <fkeenan@goldrush.com> writes: > Our library pays HeritageQuest over $ 600 a year for its card holders > to use the site. That is why it is free to only card holders in its area. > Frances And my library pays well over $1,000 to have it available in the library and at home for library members. Although anyone can walk into the library and use it onsite, only the residents of the 5 municipalities that send their tax dollars to the library are allowed to have HQO at home (or whereever they can get Internet access.) I used my HQO access in Salt Lake City sitting in the largest genealogical library in the world. I did ask why they did not have it, and you know the answer.... too expensive for the number of people and computers they would need to serve. HQO keeps getting better with over 25,000 scanned images of books which are every word searchable, and now since last Friday, they have PERSI. -- Elissa ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!