Have You Tried HeritageQuest?

Anyone researching their family history is probably aware of the Ancestry database which advertises frequently. The Library offers Ancestry on the Library computers, we also offer HeritageQuest, a genealogical database that you can use at the Library, or at home. HeritageQuest allows you to browse through thousands of family and place histories, genealogical books, documents, and official records. 

HeritageQuest offers the following core data sets:

• U.S. Federal Censuses feature the original images of every extant federal census in the United States, from 1790 through 1940, with every-name indexes for all years.
• Genealogy and local history books and directories deliver more than 40,000 family histories, local histories, city directories, and other books.
• Revolutionary War records contains original images from pension and bounty land warrant application files help to identify more than 80,000 American Army, Navy, and Marine officers and enlisted men from the Revolutionary War era.
• Freedman’s Bank Records, with more than 480,000 names of bank applicants, their dependents, and heirs from 1865–1874, and full-page register views, it offers valuable data that can provide important clues to tracing African American ancestors prior to and immediately after the U.S. Civil War. It is considered one of the most important resources for African-American genealogical research.
• U.S. Serial Set records the memorials, petitions, private relief actions made to the U.S. Congress back to 1789, with a total of more than 480,000 pages of information.

Whether you are just beginning family research or have spent years tracing your history, HeritageQuest Online has a wealth of genealogy data.The next time you visit the Library, pick up the password to Heritage Quest.