The Library Will Be Closed for the Indepence Day Holiday

The library will be closed Thursday, July 4 and Friday, July 5 for the Independence Day holiday. We will open Saturday at 9AM as usual. Have a safe and happy 4th everyone!

Dover Public Library Teen Summer Reading Program

The Teen Summer Reading Program is in full swing and we have some AMAZING prizes!  Earn tickets for time read, physical activity, and trivia questions answered.  The more tickets the more chance you have winning.  Here are some of the prizes you could win: (the theme is a Universe of Stories and so that is why the prize packs have a planetary theme.)

  

Mercury: 4 passes to the Jenny Thompson Pool

(3 names will be drawn on July 17)
 

       Venus: 4 mini golf passes to Hilltop Fun Center. 
(1 name will be drawn on July 17)

Earth: $20 Gift Card to Barn Z’s

(5 names will be drawn on July 17)

      Mars: 2 Free Passes to Canobie Lake Park
(3 names will be drawn on July 17)

       Jupiter: An Introductory Lesson for 2 at Indoor Ascent Climbing Gym
(1 name will be drawn on August 1)

       Saturn: $40 in Fun Cards for Dover Bowl:  can be used for laser tag, bumper cars, or bowling!

(6 names will be drawn on August 1)

       Uranus: $25 Amazon Gift Card
(4 names drawn on August 1)

          Neptune: Kindle Fire HD7 Tablet:  7” Display, 8 GB

(3 names will be drawn on August 1)

          Pluto:  1 free passes to Take Flight to experience their
 Aerial Adventure Course
( 1 name will be drawn on August 1)

       Sun:  2 free escape rooms at Monkey Mind in Portsmouth
(5 names will be drawn on August 1)

Have You Tried HeritageQuest?

Anyone researching their family history is probably aware of the Ancestry database which advertises frequently. The Library offers Ancestry on the Library computers, we also offer HeritageQuest, a genealogical database that you can use at the Library, or at home. HeritageQuest allows you to browse through thousands of family and place histories, genealogical books, documents, and official records. 

HeritageQuest offers the following core data sets:

• U.S. Federal Censuses feature the original images of every extant federal census in the United States, from 1790 through 1940, with every-name indexes for all years.
• Genealogy and local history books and directories deliver more than 40,000 family histories, local histories, city directories, and other books.
• Revolutionary War records contains original images from pension and bounty land warrant application files help to identify more than 80,000 American Army, Navy, and Marine officers and enlisted men from the Revolutionary War era.
• Freedman’s Bank Records, with more than 480,000 names of bank applicants, their dependents, and heirs from 1865–1874, and full-page register views, it offers valuable data that can provide important clues to tracing African American ancestors prior to and immediately after the U.S. Civil War. It is considered one of the most important resources for African-American genealogical research.
• U.S. Serial Set records the memorials, petitions, private relief actions made to the U.S. Congress back to 1789, with a total of more than 480,000 pages of information.

Whether you are just beginning family research or have spent years tracing your history, HeritageQuest Online has a wealth of genealogy data.The next time you visit the Library, pick up the password to Heritage Quest.