HeritageQuest Online is one of two online services that offer access to images of the original U.S. census records from 1790 through 1930. (Ancestry.com is the other.) These are images of the original census records in the enumerators' (census takers') handwriting. This online service is an example of the sort of thing only dreamed of by genealogists a few short years ago: access to images of original records available from home at any convenient time.
The HeritageQuest Online service includes:
- Images of all U.S. census records from 1790 through 1930
- Images of U.S. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files
- PERSI: an index of 1.6 million references to people and places that have appeared in genealogy periodicals since the mid 1800s
- A collection of more than 25,000 digitized family and local history books that are fully searchable
The last one, 25,000 digitized family and local history books, is one that often gets overlooked. I do not know why that collection is not better publicized as it can save the beginning researcher hundreds of hours. If there was ever a book published about your family name, there is a good chance that you can read that book on HeritageQuest Online. In addition, the collection includes thousands of local history books that may describe the area where your U.S. ancestor lived.
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