Since I am at home and cannot access AncestryLibrary, I will do the Heritage Quest portion first. I searched the Gilbertson name in Minnesota censuses and found no one related to me. Only three names came up and none from Spring Grove where I have had many Gilbertson family members living since the early 1890s. It was, however, great to view the papers in handwriting of the Gilbertson's it did come up with from 1870s.
I experimented with each portion of Heritage Quest but never could find any of my relatives or my husband's. I did find The Learning Center which would be very helpful in instructing how to use the site and find information, but I could not open any of the topics. "Getting Started With Family History Research" looked like just the topic for me and I could choose from beginner, advanced and intermediate. I could not get it to open. It was blue and underlined like you should be able to open it and all the other ones available would not open either. Maybe another time.
Sorry for your frustration, Kathy. We think the Learning Center is a great resource for genealogists. You may have browser incompatibility issues, so if you were in Internet Explorer, you might like to try Chrome or Mozilla, etc. The links lead to videos and sometimes pdfs about the selected topic. I find searching in Heritage Quest to be trickier than in Ancestry, especially in the census, so I think you did very well. Thanks for your work on this!
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