[Genealib] Ancestry Off Site

[Rhonda Stoffer]

Ancestry Library Edition does not allow remote access like HeritageQuest does, so that option would not be available to you.
 
Rhonda Stoffer
Marion Public Library

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From: genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu on behalf of Linda van der Veur
Sent: Sun 9/10/2006 10:42 PM
To: Librarians Serving Genealogists
Subject: [Genealib] Ancestry Off Site


Our local genealogical society has been using the personal Ancestry.com subscription for a number of years.  Now we are told that we will need to subscribe to the Library version which will cost us about $1,600.00 per year.  It's much too expensive for our small society so we will not renew the subscription.  It's very frustrating that we would be charged the same as any large library but it seems they need to squeeze as much money out of libraries that they can.  (As you can see, I'm very disgusted with Ancestry.)  What I need to know (without calling Ancestry and getting more frustrated),  could Ancestry.com be available to our local society using a subscription through our public library such as we do with Heritage Quest.  We are able to access Heritage Quest by logging on at our genealogy library and using our public library card as the password.  This might be the answer for small libraries/societies like ours.  Have any other small libraries had this same problem?  If so, how did you handle it?
 
Linda Collison van der Veur
Napa, California
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