[Genealib] No more remote access to HQ

[Chris & Tom Tinney, Sr.]

UC San Diego has available online "HeritageQuest main page.
Restricted to UCSD IP addresses."
http://melvyl.cdlib.org/F/XJ2UBUG2VPIQYSBBJ4UN11C735RAHMES5MQG8KJYBQ4FTKEGPN-08168?func=file&file_name=find-b&local_base=CONLIN

The California Libraries Catalog is at:
http://www.calcat.org/
   Anyone can view the holdings of all the participating public
   libraries in California.  People who have a California address
   may enter that address to gain access to the "All Libraries"
   view which shows the holding of all the libraries worldwide
   that participate in this shared catalog.  In California
   the "All Libraries" view includes academic, law libraries
   and special libraries.
http://academic-genealogy.com/californiastateinformation.htm#library

Someone on this list may wish to try the above site and report
their findings, (as to connecting with "HeritageQuest"), using the
California Libraries Catalog URL, noted above.

Respectfully yours,

Tom Tinney, Sr.
Who's Who in America,
Millennium Edition [54th] through 2004
Who's Who In Genealogy and Heraldry,
{both editions]
Genealogy and Family History Internet Web Directory
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/
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Dick Eastman wrote:

> 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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