I have a question. I am not sure that HeritageQuest was bought out by Ancestry. I believe they are using some Ancestry features, but did they get bought out? I thought they were still owned by ProQuest. Emily Garber Phoenix, AZ

Emily, The HeritageQuest collection of databases is still owned by ProQuest. As of March 2015 (the 4th, I think it was) HeritageQuest became "powered by Ancestry" and now uses the searching, indexes, and interface from Ancestry. There was some unhappiness I saw on the Librarians serving Genealogists list I subscribe to at the loss of some of the old indexing and searching that was available on the old HeritageQuest interface. And it was old--10 if not 15 years old. On the good side was a complete index to all the censuses, as well as the addition of some additional census materials and additional materials in some of the other databases. ProQuest is an institutional vendor that supplies databases with information about many subjects to all types of libraries. HeritageQuest is one of their genealogy databases and they also allow libraries to let their users use it from home. In Wisconsin (where I am) it is available to any state resident because it is part of a collection that is subscribed to at the state level. ProQuest also supplies Ancestry Library Edition (and libraries can't allow home use of that), Historic Map Works, Sanborn Maps, and likely others that I'm not thinking of off the top of my head. Here's a link to some information from ProQuest http://proquest.libguides.com/genealogy_home Megan Isely La Crosse, WI (a librarian by profession) On 5/4/2015 11:48 PM, Emily Garber via wrote: > I have a question. I am not sure that HeritageQuest was bought out by > Ancestry. I believe they are using some Ancestry features, but did > they get bought out? I thought they were still owned by ProQuest. > > Emily Garber > Phoenix, AZ > > ------------------------------- > 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