Event Courses and Workshops Finding Your Family in Newspapers: Using Chronicling America for Genealogical Research
Date and Location
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When: Wednesday, August 3, 2022
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT
This event will be livestreamed on zoomgov.com External. It will be available for viewing afterwards in the Library's Event Videos collection.
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Where: Online Only
Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.
Discover your family’s past through the newspapers of their present. Join Digital Conversion Specialist Henry Carter to learn how to search for ancestors in Chronicling America, a free digital collection of almost 20 million pages from American newspapers published between 1777 and 1963. The presentation will discuss the collection, the search interface, and how to navigate the challenges of working with historic newspapers. Chronicling America is jointly sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.