I’m thrilled see see that my old employer is moving ahead with making more records available to genealogists. Following is their news release:
ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Later this summer, family history enthusiasts and genealogical experts around the world will have access to more than two billion new records in HeritageQuest® Online. This popular and authoritative resource—powered by Ancestry and distributed by ProQuest—is one of the largest genealogical databases available to libraries and will include records from more than 60 countries.
Appealing to libraries and researchers worldwide, the new content includes:
- More than one billion birth, baptism, marriage, death and census records from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, and Asia
- 915 million US public records, including the Social Security Death Index
- 133 million cemetery indexes from the US, Canada, Europe and Australia
- More than 7 million names identified in a new map collection
- 600,000 images from the Library of Congress Photo Collection, 1840-2000
HeritageQuest Online, with its remote access and international content, offers libraries an updated and comprehensive research database enabling any patron’s quest to discover available ancestral information from historical documents published worldwide.
“Our relationship with ProQuest has allowed us to add new functionality to the HeritageQuest Online product and we are pleased that we are now able to also bring more content to the platform,” said Brian Hansen, Vice President of Emerging Businesses at Ancestry.
“For the full benefit and delight of our users, who need deep and substantial genealogical data from across all continents, Ancestry and ProQuest have again evolved HeritageQuest Online to enable library patrons fill in the blank spaces of their family histories and stories,” said Andon Baltakov, Vice President of Product Management at ProQuest. “ProQuest will continue to offer authoritative resources that advance and transform the research experience for the growing community of genealogists and family history enthusiasts.”
HeritageQuest Online is a vital genealogy resource for libraries, and complements the library editions of Ancestry.com and Fold3.com. Searching of this vast and diverse collection of global records is simplified with customized search filtering, such as exact match, phonetic, location, and more. ProQuest is the market leader in providing libraries with the greatest scope of genealogical resources and historical databases, encompassing both primary and secondary sources.
