The Dover Public Library encourages you to discover your personal history and build your family tree with these selected links.
Ohio Genealogy Express this site, dedicated to “free genealogical research” contains a wealth of information including biographies, cemeteries, newspaper articles, tax records, land transfers, and wills. You can sign up to receive email updates and search within the site
FamilySearch.org sign up for a free account and get access to records, resources, and services from the largest genealogy organization in the world
Fold3® Library Edition is the premier collection of historical military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served from the Revolutionary War through recent conflicts. It contains millions of records from world-class archives, many of which are exclusively available on Fold3 Library Edition.
Ellis Island & Castle Garden before it was Ellis Island, Castle Garden saw many immigrants from our past. Be sure to check both sites! It’s estimated that 1 in 4 people have an ancestor that immigrated through Ellis Island
NARA the National Archives & Records Administration can provide many stepping stones for budding genealogists
American Memory the Library of Congress’s American Memory collection provides invaluable research searchable by topic
Find a Grave a great resource for searching for your ancestor’s grave sites – oftentimes pictures as well as transcriptions of dates and information found on the grave markers – you can also submit data from your own local cemeteries!
Ohio Death Indexes a compilation of digitized records related to deaths, obituaries, marriages, and cemetaries – great for finding specific dates and maiden names for female relations
Chronicling America provides free online access to over 17 million digitized historic newspaper pages covering 1789-1963 from over 50 U.S. states and territories. Made possible through the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Library of Congress, and state partners, like the Ohio History Connection.
Ohio Memory, the collaborative statewide digital library program of the Ohio History Connection and the State Library of Ohio, features even more freely-available Ohio newspapers. These digital newspapers even go up to present day!
Digital Access to Non-Circulating Materials
- Combination atlas map of Tuscarawas County, Ohio
- A Brief History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio by Julius Miller Richardson
- The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio : containing a history of the county; by John Brandt Mansfield (1884)
- Portrait and biographical record of Tuscarawas County, Ohio : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States (1895)
- Index of wills, Tuscarawas County, Ohio (books 1-9, 1809-1894) by Nellie M. Raber