[Genealib] No more remote access to HQ

[Dick Eastman]

ALL California residents may obtain free access to HeritageQuest Online 
from their homes.

You need a library card from one of the participating libraries that 
offers library cards to all California residents. HOWEVER, obtaining 
that library card might not be convenient: in most cases, you must go to 
the participating library in person to obtain your library card. For 
many Californians, the nearest participating library might be a long 
ways away.

According to the information entered by users of the Encyclopedia of 
Genealogy at http://www.eogen.com, the following libraries offer remote 
access to HeritageQuest Online to ALL California residents: Alameda 
County Library, County of Los Angeles Public Library, Long Beach Public 
Library and the Placentia Library District. I suspect there are more. 
(If you do know of more, please enter that information into the 
Encyclopedia of Genealogy's pages at http://eogen.com/HeritageQuestOnline.)

One library in California is unique in that it gives library cards to 
residents of ALL states. Technically, ALL Americans may obtain free 
in-home access to HeritageQuest Online through the Los Angeles Public 
Library. The problem is traveling to that library one time to obtain a 
library card in person. That requirement obviously will stop most people.

By coincidence, I will be in Los Angeles in a few months for another 
reason and hope to test this for myself. I plan to stop by a branch of 
the Los Angeles Public Library and obtain my own library card. (I live 
in Massachusetts.) That should give me an additional method of accessing 
HeritageQuest Online from home.

Thanks.

- Dick Eastman


Laura Spurrier wrote:
> Dick Eastman's blog implied that all public libraries in Calif. offer 
> access to Heritage Quest.  I checked the link he offered to a list of 
> such libraries and found it covered perhaps 25% of the state.  The 
> rest of us are out of luck.  My local public library certainly doesn't 
> offer it.  Perhaps coverage is better back east?
>     Laura Spurrier
>
> On Jun 12, 2006, at 9:09 AM, Mary K. Mannix wrote:
>
>> I think this would be a great time for all us public librarians to
>> make sure that the genealogical societies in our areas are aware of
>> the ease of which their members can get library cards, even at our own
>> systems or in the systems where they live, and therefore keep access
>> to HQ. I am often amazed at the traveling genealogists who come
>> through my room who didn't even know they could get to HQ from their
>> public libraries.  We always check their systems for them and don't
>> think we have ever looked one up that did not have HQ. Mary
>>
>> PS I will admit that I didn't even know that the societies could get
>> such subscriptions and I can see it being a pricing issue.
>>
>>
>> --Mary K. Mannix
>> Maryland Room Manager
>> C. Burr Artz Public Library
>> Frederick County Public Libraries
>> Frederick, MD
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