Eleanor: I am able to access Heritage Quest online through the TXShare connection that our local City Library has. Was fortunate enough to finally get the username and password....since I have a current library card. If I remember right, there was some discussion on this mail list earlier this year about the capability of accessing Heritage Quest over the internet, through whatever connection your local library has....after obtaining the key things....the TXShare internet address, and the username and password. I think the hard part...at least here...was getting a librarian to understand what I was talking about and then, getting those key things from them. After going to the correct internet address to get you into the TXShare "spot", it asks for the username and password. Then, after typing in the username and password, it opens up to a variety of things....but, after scrolling down about 2/3rds of the way, on the right hand side is "Heritage Quest". Clicking on that takes you into the Heritage Quest screen and lets you select searching in the Census, Books, or PERSI. What I've found in the Book search area is a number of early published (beginning of 1900's) books that have been scanned, page by page. And, these pages can be printed from your computer if you want a "hard copy". The only "down side", if there is one, is that if you don't move within this site after you've been in it....for say, 4 or 5 minutes...you get called away from your computer....you will have to go completely out and then, go back into the TXShare site, use the username and password, scroll down and click on Heritage Quest, etc. Because, a Heritage Quest screen comes up and asks for a user name and password....and those are different than the ones that the TXShare uses....and won't let you back in to HQ. Otherwise, its great! And, HQ tries to fill in for the census years that Ancestry.com doesn't have yet. I've only had a few cases where neither HQ nor Ancestry.com didn't have up a certain census year in a certain area of the U.S. that I needed. Neither HQ nor Ancestry.com have ALL the census years for all the U.S. areas up to search; so, it's nice that they sort of "compliment" each other for the most part. Hope this isn't too confusing, and is of some help. Take Care, Sallie R. Frazee El Paso, TX binkfraze@aol.com