Hdanw@aol.com wrote: >Do not overlook discussing with your public librarian the possibility of >interlibrary loan of some of these coveted books. Many genealogy books do >not circulate, and lately I have had to read my ILL in the borrowing >library--I cannot check it out. But, the price was right!!! And I was able >to photocopy the pages (plus the Title Page, of course) I needed for my >research tasks. > >E.W.Wallace >who has colonial Albemarle Co. roots - along the Blue Ledge > Many public libraries are now also subscribing to Heritage Quest Online by ProQuest, with scanned census images for every state and year (some indexed) as well as over 25,000 scanned books (family & local histories).Many of these libraries have it arranged so their patrons can access the HeritageQuest databases from home using their library card numbers to log in on the library site. It's well worth encouraging your library to do. Diane > >

Try looking up the info for Sutro library In San Francisco area, I was loaned a book on the Wilmoth and another on the Parsons family and I copied ever y page at the local copy place got it in Sacramento from Sutro great system SANDRA TYLER DUNCAN Sacramento, CA http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=purplevw1&I11.x=17&I11.y =7 http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthb.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: <genmail@1st.net> To: <VAALBEMA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 1:55 PM Subject: Re: [VAALBEMA] Old Family and County Histories - Some Available on Film > Hdanw@aol.com wrote: > > >Do not overlook discussing with your public librarian the possibility of > >interlibrary loan of some of these coveted books. Many genealogy books do > >not circulate, and lately I have had to read my ILL in the borrowing > >library--I cannot check it out. But, the price was right!!! And I was able > >to photocopy the pages (plus the Title Page, of course) I needed for my > >research tasks. > > > >E.W.Wallace > >who has colonial Albemarle Co. roots - along the Blue Ledge > > > Many public libraries are now also subscribing to Heritage Quest Online > by ProQuest, with scanned census images for every state and year (some > indexed) as well as over 25,000 scanned books (family & local > histories).Many of these libraries have it arranged so their patrons can > access the HeritageQuest databases from home using their library card > numbers to log in on the library site. It's well worth encouraging your > library to do. > Diane > > > > > > > > > > ==== VAALBEMA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, send a blank email, with only the word unsubscribe > in the body of the message, to: vaalbema-L-request@rootsweb.com > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >