----- Original Message #5----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 3:02 PM Subject: Re: [TNANDERS-L] Heritage Quest and census records Hi Carolyn Heritage Quest Online features three significant genealogy resources: The complete U. S. Census, 1790-1930, features new and more accurate indexes (in progress), searchable by place of birth, age, ethnicity, etc. (Click on the "What's New" link in the database to determine which indexes have been completed.) The fully searchable Periodical Source Index (PERSI) features more than 1.6 million citations from 6,500 genealogy periodicals. Heritage Quest's online collection of more than 25,000 family and local history books are searchable by every word. Milly Piros*Garfield Heights ----- Original Message #4----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 7:01 AM Subject: Re: [TNANDERS-L] Heritage Quest and census records Milly, Does Heritage Quest just have census records?? I have Ancestry and not familiar with Heritage Quest. Carolyn Whaley ----- Original Message #3----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 6:52 PM Subject: [TXBEXAR] USING HERITAGE QUEST FROM HOME I'd like to offer a little tip about the census records on HQ. If you want to print a census page, scroll to the top and click on "Download" and then "View". The image will come up in Adobe Acrobat. Then you can use the little icon on their tool bar to outline just the part of the census page that you want - thus eliminating all the black area that is around some of them, or the folded area from the previous page. In other words, you can just outline the actual census page. Then use the Print icon in the Adobe tool bar and click on the little button to make the image fit the page. The prints come out much nicer, and I've gotten some much better prints from HQ than the ones I got from using film from the library. Happy hunting Joanne ----- Original Message #2----- From: Susan Tilleman To: [TXBEXAR] [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 6:26 PM Subject: Accessing Heritage Quest from home with library card See the following posting from another list. I tried accessing Heritage Quest with my San Antonio Public Library card and it worked! You do need to go through your public library's Internet site to access it, though. In the case of the San Antonio Public Library, I first accessed their home page at the following site: http://www.sanantonio.gov/library/?res=1024&ver=true I next clicked on "Articles and Databases," which is listed on the left side of the page. Then I scrolled down and clicked on "Heritage Quest Online." After entering my name and library card number as requested, and clicking on "Go," I was able to access the Heritage Quest database. There is a wealth of information available at this site, including census records and some hard-to-find books. (I wish I had tried this a long time ago!) San Antonio library cards have to be renewed in person annually, free of charge to Bexar County residents, at one of the San Antonio libraries. ... Sue Tilleman List Administrator http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/i/l/Susan-E-Tilleman/?Welcome=1046272098 ----- Original Message #1----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 11:03 AM Subject: [TNANDERS-L] Heritage Quest and census records Hi List Did you know if your county library has access to Heritage Quest and you have a library card, you can access the census records from your home? and it's FREE through the library. If your library don't subscribe ...why not BEG them to<G> Milly Piros*Garfield Heights