U.S. Federal Censuses feature the original images of every extant federal census in the United States, from 1790 through 1940, slave, veteran, and non-population schedules, and more related content.
Genealogy and local history books provide more than 7 million digitized page images from over 28,000 family histories, local histories, and other books.
Revolutionary War records provides access to the complete NARA Series M804 collection - Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, a collection of an estimated 83,000 application files from officers and enlisted men who served in the Revolutionary War in all branches of the American military: army, navy, and marines.
Freedman’s Bank Records, with more than 480,000 names of bank applicants, their dependents, and heirs from 1865–1874, offers valuable data that can provide important clues to tracing African American ancestors and researching the Reconstruction Era.
Links to the following content are also available to the following collections:
U.S. Congressional Serial Set records the memorials, petitions, private relief actions made to the U.S. Congress back to 1789, with a total of more than 480,000 pages of information.
Periodical Source Index Archive published by the Allen County Public Library, is recognized as the most comprehensive index of genealogy and local history periodicals. It contains more than 2.3 million records covering titles published around the world since 1800.
The new HeritageQuest Online offers new capabilities and benefits to patrons:
The intuitive interface provides a fresh user experience that will be familiar to Ancestry.com users.
The U.S. Federal Census 1790-1940 - a highly valued resource that now includes complete every-name indexes and unique interactive maps.
Census data exceeding 700 million records that can now be discovered using Exact Match, Phonetic, Variant, Soundex, Wildcard and Keyword Searches.
Searching full-text of the expanded collection of more than 40,000 family and local history books – is now enhanced with thumbnail images and hit highlighting.
A new Image Viewer offers basic and advanced capabilities without any plug-in, making it easy to share images with family and friends.
Image resolution that is significantly improved with the addition of greyscale and color.
Two blog posts to read ~ Check comments for user experiences with the 'new' HeritageQuest