HeritageQuest Online through NCLive

• Ninety minute online module• State Library of NC and NCLive

HeritageQuest Online through NCLive

• Edward Hirst - I/T Librarian– South Rowan Regional Library

• Mardi Durham – Reference Librarian– Iredell County Public Library

Objectives

• Download and print images• Perform an advanced search • Save, print, and email search results with the

Notebook feature

Can you think of any advantages you will have

by being familiar with HeritageQuest?

NCLive Home Page

Subject List

HeritageQuest Home

Census Demo

• Basic Search

What questions do you have about using the Basic

Search?

Census Exercises

Try Census Exercise Part One: Basic Census

Search. Please click the Green when done

and type your answer in the chat.

Under the Census Basic Search tab find Rosevelt Brown in the 1920 Census in North Carolina. Find one fact about either of the

names.

Census Demo

• Advanced Search• Census Browsing

What questions do you have about using the Advanced Search and Browsing the

census?

Census Exercises

Try Census Exercise Part Two: Advanced Census

Search. Please click the Green when done

and type your answer in the chat.

Do an Advanced Search for Hiram Haskill in 1870 Maine. What was his occupation?

Printing Images

You may also follow along with the Printing

Images in HeritageQuest document.

Print Image 1

Print Image 2

Print Image 3

Print Image 4Snapshot

Print Image 5

Print Image 6

Print

Print Image 7

Print Image 8

What questions do you have about Printing?

Printing Exercise: Part Three

• Please try Part Three: Image Exercise Page

Number Search. Please click the Green when

done and type your answer in the chat.

In “Find By Page Number” – Search: Series 1850- M432, Roll: 127, and Page: 120.

Browse to the entry for this famous President. Print the names, ages, sex, and

occupations for this family.

Searching Books, PERSI, and Revolutionary War

Records

Searching Books

• People• Places • Publications

Searching Books

• Full Index• Keywords• Operators

Searching Books

• Best possible image

Searching PERSI

Revolutionary War

• Women & children• Insect and water

damage• Handwritten by a

pension employee

Book Search Demo

Exercise Part Four

Our next exercise is the book search.

Be sure to click the Green and you may share

your results in chat.

Publications- Advanced SearchingUsing the advanced publication search, type Greensboro in the city of publication field and

Emerson in the publisher field. Click View Image to see the Title Page. How might this information benefit someone interested in

genealogy? Can you think of another way it might be useful?

Searching Freedman’s Bank Collection

What questions do you have about The Freedman’s Bank ?

Freedman’s Bank Collection and U.S. Serial Set Exercise

Part Five.Time for our last exercise, please try Part Five.

Be sure to use the Notebook to print (or email

or download) today’s results. Please click the

Green when you are finished.

Look at the document titled HeritageQuestSerialSetDocument

from the U.S. Serial Set. Read the account of Lewis Armstrong

With the information you read, try and find his record in the Freedman's Bank Collection.

(hint: you may have to try spelling his name differently)

Use the Notebook feature to print your search results from today’s session.

What We Covered Today

• Downloaded and printed images• Performed an advanced search• Saved, printed, and emailed search results

with the Notebook feature

What Questions Do You Have?