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From: "Janis Gilmore" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Family & Local History Subscriptions
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:51:57 -0700
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I agree about the Godfrey Library - unless you have some way to get a
library card at a large urban library, which will often carry with it
Heritage Quest access (same that you get through Godfrey, as I understand,
with slightly different search capablilities), free of charge.

Janis

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordon Banks" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Family & Local History Subscriptions


> Godfrey Library is far and away the best value for what you get. I have
> subscribed to Genealogy.com's library and got some good stuff out of
> there, but have pretty well mined out my ancestors. Their family
> message lists are the most valuable thing there and they are free
> anyhow. I've subscribed to Ancestry and used their census mostly before
> I had the Godfrey subscription. Their British section is not very good,
> but they keep promising they'll put more on line. If they would do a
> deal with the UK government they could probably have a great site, as
> there are now getting to be a lot of online British records that it
> would be nice to find all in one place. The NEHGS site is quite good if
> you have a lot of New England ancestors.
information.
>

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