Our library has access to Heritage Quest and we cardholders can use it at home. Last night after a full day of reading microfilm at the library and finding some "new folks" I was on Heritage Quest using their available censuses and putting together two family groups. What could be better? Having Heritage Quest is a gift we can all appreciate and use. I hope that they will add more census years but until they do I will be happy with the ones they do provide. Going there again today to search another new name and see who the folks are. Tree Mother PS: If you have documents and can type them out, please donate them to the genweb pages for the areas where the documents were created. About a week ago I found a family bible on a genweb page and told a group of cousins about it and now there are some very, very happy researchers on the NET who did not know about this bible. Blessings on a lady named Judith. > I will second E. W. Wallace's recommendation of Heritage Quest > databases. Also note that they recently added some Revolutionary War data. > > I found it a useful and much cheaper alternative to Ancestry.com's > Census images. The Knoxville, TN library allows me to get an > out-of-county card for $25 per year. Heritage Quest does not have online > indexes to all Census years, but familysearch.org provides the 1880 > index and data. > > The Godfrey Library would have been my second choice. > > Myron E. Williams > Crossville, TN > > Hdanw@aol.com wrote: > >>Many local libraries have subscribed to HeritageQuest, which, I >> understand, >>rents [or whatever the term] its online database to libraries and >> institutions >> only--not to invididuals. >> >>With the high price of gasoline, traffic problems, and so on, this may be >>the way to research, but you still have to try to find the original >> records, as >>many of the books on HeritageQuest are VERY old. >> >>Among the attractions to genealogists: >> >>Censuses--not all of which have been indexed >> >>PERSI - The genealogical periodical index which was compiled in the >> recent >>past by the Allen Co. Indiana Public Library at Fort Wayne. It >> originally was >>in books and later on microfiche and is now online at HeritageQuest >> >>Some images of some books of general interest to genealogists, including >> the >>Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers and the books compiled by Boddie, some >> of >>them hard to find at times, but pertinent to those of us with colonial >>Virginia roots. >> >>Of interest to Germanna colonists: >> >>The Kemper Genealogy compiled by Willis N. Kemper >> >>[John Blackenbacker has pointed out its flaws, at least in the history >> part] >> >>B.C. Holtzclaw's genealogy of the Holtzclaw clan >> >>In order to access this online database, you have to have a valid library >>card with a number on it [that is your password] >> >>Some small counties do not have this subscription. I learned from one >> of >>the rootsweb lists that the Godfrey Memorial Library in Connecticut [I >> believe >>it is a private library--but correct me if I am wrong] will let you >> purchase >>a library card for a small fee--$35.00--and you can use a credit card. >> (How >>easy is that?). (By the way, if you have New England heritage mixed in >> with >>your Southern heritage, be sure to check Godfrey's book store listings.) >> >>Pass this info along to your friends. And don't forget to search for >>records for your counties in the PERSI index!!! >> >>E.W.Wallace >> > > > ==== VA-SOUTHSIDE Mailing List ==== > Problems Subscribing or Unsubscribing ? Contact: > G. Lee Hearl List Adm. at: glh@naxs.com > Hosted by Rootsweb http://www.rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > >

Possibly others made the same mistake I did? Heritage Quest has all the Census images. It is just that certain years (1830, 1840, 1850, 1880, & part of 1930) are not indexed. They can still be examined. Just click BROWSE in the upper lefthand corner. If you know your quarry's township or enumeration district it is not too bad. Myron E. Williams Crossville, TN tonin1@airmail.net wrote: >Our library has access to Heritage Quest and we cardholders can use it at >home. Last night after a full day of reading microfilm at the library and >finding some "new folks" I was on Heritage Quest using their available >censuses and putting together two family groups. What could be better? >Having Heritage Quest is a gift we can all appreciate and use. I hope that >they will add more census years but until they do I will be happy with the >ones they do provide. > >Going there again today to search another new name and see who the folks are. > >Tree Mother >PS: If you have documents and can type them out, please donate them to the >genweb pages for the areas where the documents were created. About a week >ago I found a family bible on a genweb page and told a group of cousins >about it and now there are some very, very happy researchers on the NET >who did not know about this bible. >Blessings on a lady named Judith. > > > > > > >>I will second E. W. Wallace's recommendation of Heritage Quest >>databases. Also note that they recently added some Revolutionary War data. >> >>I found it a useful and much cheaper alternative to Ancestry.com's >>Census images. The Knoxville, TN library allows me to get an >>out-of-county card for $25 per year. Heritage Quest does not have online >>indexes to all Census years, but familysearch.org provides the 1880 >>index and data. >> >>The Godfrey Library would have been my second choice. >> >>Myron E. Williams >>Crossville, TN >> >>Hdanw@aol.com wrote: >> >> >> >>>Many local libraries have subscribed to HeritageQuest, which, I >>>understand, >>>rents [or whatever the term] its online database to libraries and >>>institutions >>>only--not to invididuals. >>> >>>With the high price of gasoline, traffic problems, and so on, this may be >>>the way to research, but you still have to try to find the original >>>records, as >>>many of the books on HeritageQuest are VERY old. >>> >>>Among the attractions to genealogists: >>> >>>Censuses--not all of which have been indexed >>> >>>PERSI - The genealogical periodical index which was compiled in the >>>recent >>>past by the Allen Co. Indiana Public Library at Fort Wayne. It >>>originally was >>>in books and later on microfiche and is now online at HeritageQuest >>> >>>Some images of some books of general interest to genealogists, including >>>the >>>Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers and the books compiled by Boddie, some >>>of >>>them hard to find at times, but pertinent to those of us with colonial >>>Virginia roots. >>> >>>Of interest to Germanna colonists: >>> >>>The Kemper Genealogy compiled by Willis N. Kemper >>> >>>[John Blackenbacker has pointed out its flaws, at least in the history >>>part] >>> >>>B.C. Holtzclaw's genealogy of the Holtzclaw clan >>> >>>In order to access this online database, you have to have a valid library >>>card with a number on it [that is your password] >>> >>>Some small counties do not have this subscription. I learned from one >>>of >>>the rootsweb lists that the Godfrey Memorial Library in Connecticut [I >>>believe >>>it is a private library--but correct me if I am wrong] will let you >>>purchase >>>a library card for a small fee--$35.00--and you can use a credit card. >>>(How >>>easy is that?). (By the way, if you have New England heritage mixed in >>>with >>>your Southern heritage, be sure to check Godfrey's book store listings.) >>> >>>Pass this info along to your friends. And don't forget to search for >>>records for your counties in the PERSI index!!! >>> >>>E.W.Wallace >>> >>> >>> >>==== VA-SOUTHSIDE Mailing List ==== >>Problems Subscribing or Unsubscribing ? Contact: >>G. Lee Hearl List Adm. at: glh@naxs.com >>Hosted by Rootsweb http://www.rootsweb.com >> >>============================== >>Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for >>ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: >>http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx >> >> >> >> > > > >

The censuses that are available now at HeritageQuest are 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1860, 1870, 1890, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930 partial. These plus the free 1880 at Familysearch are enough for most purposes, plus I then go to the county websites which often carry some of the other years.