I also have a library card from a neighboring city library, which has a reciprical agreement with our local library to receive HQ online. I use it all the time. Several have mentioned not all the census years are indexed. The census years not indexed are still available On HQ. You just have to look at one page at a time the old fashioned way we used to do research. Alice Sanders The other Washington [state] -----Original Message----- From: Paul Drake [mailto:pauldrake@charter.net] Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 3:12 PM To: VA-SOUTHSIDE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VA-SOUTHSIDE-L] Re: [VA-NORTH] Heritage Quest - Does Your Local Library Have This Online Database? I surely second Myron's recommendation. Check with your local or nearby libraries by asking if they have Heritage Quest on-line for those who have a library card or for some modest fee. Many fine libraries do. I use Chattanooga as a holder of a library card there. Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: Myron E. Williams To: VA-SOUTHSIDE-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 5:54 PM Subject: [VA-SOUTHSIDE-L] Re: [VA-NORTH] Heritage Quest - Does Your Local Library Have This Online Database? 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 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.2/65 - Release Date: 8/7/2005 ______________________________

Here is a method to help search on HQ. For example, instead of searching the whole run of census pages, go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ selected the state and county, then look for the 1950 census. Many, not all, are indexed with the name and page, then you can go back to the HQ and narrow you search. Harold