Abrams Collection Genealogy Highlights
September/October 2002
Volume 4, Number 5
Genealogy information on the Internet is helping Americans research their families' history by providing access to documents and indexes like never before. Instead of traveling across the country or to foreign lands to locate documents, online databases can bring high quality, reliable genealogy information to you locally. Understanding the value of the information provided in genealogy databases, the Library of Michigan has subscribed to AncestryPlus and Heritage Quest Online. These online databases are collections of content rich, digitized data available via the Internet requiring a subscription fee for access. All Michigan residents have access to HeritageQuest through MeL, the Michigan eLibrary, at mel.org. Visitors to the Library of Michigan have access to Ancestry.
HeritageQuest Online provides users a unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture.
AncestryPlus offers users more than 1 billion names in more than 3,000 unique databases. New records are added each day.
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Names: Users have access to hundreds of millions of fully searchable individual records
contained in thousands of databases.
Databases: This diverse and growing collection of databases includes the Social Security Death Index, U.S. Census Records, Ireland Vital Records, German Immigration Records, Historical Register and Dictionary of the U.S. Army 1789-1903, the Register of Revolutionary War Officers and numerous databases dedicated to specific ethnic origins and regions.
Location: Users can search by geographic location. In addition, AncestryPlus provides maps and gazetteers collected from sources worldwide.
Share: The Ancestry World Tree is an ever-growing collection of user-submitted family trees that combined list tens of millions of names.
Learn: From the beginner to the expert, AncestryPlus offers tips and resources that will assist in the search for your family's roots.
Database descriptions from www.Ancestry.com (9-28-2002)
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Genealogy & Local History: 25,000+ family and local history books, every word is searchable. These titles are assembled genealogies, local histories, primary source
materials, and genealogical and local history serials including material from all 50 states and Canada.
U.S. Federal Census: Now includes census images for 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1840, 1870 and 1910 and indexes for 1790, 1800, 1810 and 1870. The page images and corresponding indexes for the entire census, 1790-1930 are currently being added. The indexes will be newly created by HeritageQuest and will have more than 1 million corrections and more than 25,000 additional names. In addition to the ability to search by name, the census records will be searchable by place of birth, age and ethnicity.
And more: After 2002 HeritageQuest Online will continue to grow.
Database descriptions from HeritageQuestOnline.com (9-28-2002)
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Access to AncestryPlus and Heritage Quest is open to any visitor to the Library of Michigan. Time limits may be imposed if others are waiting. Access is free; however, users must pay $0.20 per page if they choose to print (please bring dollar bills as our printing system does not accept change).
HeritageQuest Online is available anywhere to Michigan residents through MeL, the Michigan eLibrary, at mel.org.
AncestryPlus is available at the Library of Michigan. Other libraries may also have a subscription. Please contact your local library directly.
Please contact any library before visiting regarding their Internet access policies.
Unfortunately, AncestryPlus is not available for use by Michigan residents from Internet connections outside Michigan libraries.
For information on home access directly through Ancestry.com or HeritageQuest Online, please see their Web sites. On their Web sites, you will find information regarding subscription fees. Some content on Ancestry.com can be accessed for free.
Ancestry.com
www.Ancestry.com
HeritageQuest Online
www.HeritageQuestOnline.com
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Updated 08/06/2008
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