HeritageQuest Online™ combines digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI® Genealogy & Local History collection and other valuable content. This online database is an essential collection of unique material for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. Researchers can use HeritageQuest Online to find their ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled.

HeritageQuest Online includes all of the images, and extensive indexing, from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses. It offers more than 20,000 book titles, including nearly 8,000 family histories and over 12,000 local histories. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records, and more. 

Many other distinctive and invaluable sources of information can be found within HeritageQuest Online.  These include Periodical Source Index (PERSI), a widely recognized resource guide, updated annually, that covers more than 6,300 genealogy and history periodicals written in English and French (Canada) since 1800. There are other valuable collections such as the Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, which identifies more than 80,000 American military, naval, and marine officers and enlisted men. The forthcoming Freedman’s Bank Records is a database that documents more than 70,000 bank depositors and their dependants and heirs. The Freedman’s Bank Records is considered one of the most important resources for African-American genealogical research. All of these resources are fully searchable through HeritageQuest Online’s easy-to-use Web interface. Remote access is available.

The Web database facilitates searching for family names and localities. It’s available as a complete package of material that includes more than 20 million images.

If you're interested in HeritageQuest Online, you also might be interested in:

• Ancestry® Library Edition, one of the most important genealogical collections available today. It has unparalleled coverage of the U.S. and the U.K., including census, vital, military, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada, Europe and other areas. This database of more than 4 billion names is essential to having a complete genealogy collection and its valuable content is a strong complement to HeritageQuest Online.
• Digital Sanborn® Maps, 1867-1970™, provide access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of over 12,000 American towns and cities. Founded in 1867 by D. A. Sanborn, the Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years. No maps are consulted more in academic and public libraries.
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers^TM, which offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 19^th century. For most titles, the collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue—cover to cover—in downloadable PDF^® files. This ongoing project already includes The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and The Atlanta Constitution. In addition, a collection of Black Historical Newspapers is now available--providing an invaluable research tools for researching the lives of African-Americans in 20th-century America.