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

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Objectives Download and print images Perform an advanced search Save, print, and search results with the Notebook feature

Have you used HeritageQuest before?

Can you think of any advantages you will have by being familiar with HeritageQuest?

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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 4 Snapshot

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 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 Searching Using 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 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 ed search results with the Notebook feature

What Questions Do You Have?