I have spend the last several hours on Heritage Quest as well as half an hour long distance on the phone with my Dad. Left a message on Mom's phone. Wow! Found lots of cool stuff. I was able to locate several family members on the Census and find family names in several different books. I don't have many names that go back very far and some information is pretty vague. It is always very neat to see a digitized copy of the actual document.
I decided to google some of the names I had a found a geneology that someone already had. I then took the names and punched them into Heritage Quest to check them. You have no idea how excited I am. I meet my paternal grandparents when I graduated college in '98. Our family is not that close. Even when I called my Dad, he didn't know much and doesn't really care too. I found my great, great, great grandparents. They came from Ireland and then to Canada and ended up in Michigan where most of that side still lives. I will definately be using this resource more!
There were several publications that our name appeared in too. I tried to search Proquest for those publications but no luck!
I am so excited I can hardly stand it. My husband is warning me not to become a computer zombie since I've been on most of the day!
Jenn, Heritage Quest is available from home. We look forward to your comments on it.
ReplyDeleteuh-oh, Jenn! You have discovered the treasure trove of genealogy here. So glad you got in, and whoo-hoo! Dig in!
ReplyDeleteI ended up on the computer and phone for several hours with my Mom, who lives in Oregon. We found a bunch more info.
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