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HeritageQuest Challenge Week Five:
Search for Samuel Hadley from Hampstead, NH with the birth year of 1707. Click the result for “Global, Find A Grave Index for Burial” link. Scroll down to the URL option and click that link, which will bring you to a website called Find A Grave.
Scroll down and click on Sarah Hadley Stevens under Children. Scroll down and click Judith Stevens Stone under Children. Scroll down and click on Malvina Stone Arthur under Children. Which US President is listed as one of her children?
Submit your answer to Julie at JWatt@HampsteadLibrary.org by 11:59pm on Sunday, August 2 to be entered into this week’s raffle.
Link to HeritageQuest Database (you will need your library card number to log in): HeritageQuest
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HeritageQuest Challenge Week Four:
Harriette Noyes was the author of A Memorial History of the Town of Hampstead, New Hampshire which was published in 1899.
Use the “Search City Directory” function on Heritage Quest and search her name along with Hampstead, New Hampshire as the location. You should get 23,619 results (notice that none of the results on the first page show Hampstead under “Residence Place”). Filter your results to “Exact” - you should get 0 results.
Toggle back to “Broad“ results, click on the first record, and then click the image - where does it say she lived?
Submit your answer to Julie at JWatt@HampsteadLibrary.org by 11:59pm on Sunday, July 26 to be entered into this week’s raffle.
Link to HeritageQuest Database (you will need your library card number to log in): HeritageQuest
Browse our online brochure or pick up a copy in the library for a full listing of events going on. You can also check online calendar for the latest on events. Click here for our full calendar.
Sign up for the Summer Program at the front desk of the library! Earn a raffle ticket for signing up for the program, for reading a book/audiobook/3 magazines, submitting a book review, and for attending an event listed in the brochure with an asterisk (*).
Additionally, we're conducting a poll to determine Hampstead's favorite books, calling it The Great Hampstead Read, to complement our Great American Read challenge. You can vote for your top choices (please limit it to five books) via this link or in-person in the library by Saturday, July 4th, and we'll share the results after!
