This is the info I got on the budge cuts and its effect on the Texas State Library. If you have had access to Heritage Quest, you know how wonderful it is to those of us in rural areas of TX. If you have not had access to Heritage Quest, well you have missed out on an wonderful resource to the US census and it has wonderful search abilities to it. I started once to forward this to this list because it is so good and so active. Not sure we can make a difference in these hard economic times but every ant pushing makes a difference. I encourage you to talk with your library and see what might can be done. Gil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bobbie Ross" <bwross@htcomp.net> To: <TXCORYEL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 4:26 PM Subject: [TXCORYELL] Heritage Quest > > HeritageQuest will not be funded by the Texas State Library and Archives > Commission as part of the core TexShare database suite starting July 1, > 2004. This is due to the severe cutback in the database budget imposed by > the last legislative session. > The Texas State Library and Archives Commission has plans to attempt to > raise the necessary subscription fee for HeritageQuest through a "pledge > drive" format. Working with all of the TexShare member libraries and local > genealogy societies we hope enough money is raised to continue state wide > access to this database. I encourage you to contact your local librarian to > discuss a way for you to voice your support for a pledge drive. More > information about the pledge drive may be found here: > http://www.texshare.edu/programs/academicdb/pledges/index.html > > Thank you for your interest in HeritageQuest and the work of the Texas > State Library and Archives Commission. > > > Russlene > Russlene Waukechon > TexShare Database Coordinator > Texas State Library and Archives Commission > 512.463.7402 > 512.936.2306(f) > rwaukchn@tsl.state.tx.us > > > Donna, I really hadn't heard anything about it, like you I will be sad if > they take this source from us. I find so many sites with the census already > on them. Getting harder and harder to spread free genealogy around these > days. > Bobbie Ross, co-ordinator for Coryell and Hamilton Counties TXGenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txcoryel/ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txhamilt/ > Coryell and Hamilton County Lists > > > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > !DSPAM:408f09ee46391496451872!