Discover your family’s past through the newspapers of their present! Join the Library of Congress on August 3 from 6-7pm EDT 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 talk will address some search strategies for finding family names in this vast collection. Please register for the event using the ZoomGov link found at the Library of Congress Event page.

Please request ADA accommodations at least five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.

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