I enjoy using Heritage Quest at home using library card to obtain entry to the data base. The books are wonderful. Many of them are not available at our library and finding material in books besides using the censuses has enabled me to spend many hours researching at hours such as now (3:20 a.m.) The lack of census indices for several years hasn't limited my research. I just browse the states and counties and years of interest until I find what I need. Also like the method Heritage Quest has to print out censuses pages with citation on top of page. Have Ancestry also and use it quite a bit to dig into records again not available locally. What with $3.00 a gallon gasoline, parking fees and rental fee for film I am pleased to have Ancestry available at home. All this may be the tip of the ice berg, but fortunately it alerts us to the fact that an ice berg exists under that vast ocean which we much fish in to find our ancestors records. Poldi in Texas -- "She is insane, of course. The family history has become a mania for her." Hercule Poirot http://www.FrontPorchRockerNews.blogspot.com http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Langford This project includes Lankford spelling also. "Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while by violence, military, civil, or ecclesiastical." --Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson, 1810 To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html