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Navigating Chronicling America: A free newspaper database

2025-07-12 11:00:00 2025-07-12 12:00:00 America/New_York Navigating Chronicling America: A free newspaper database A free historic newspaper database? What could be better. Learn how to use Chronicling America, which includes some Toledo papers, covering the period 1756-1963. See a demonstration and have a Q & A. Main Library - The Fred H. McDonald Community Room (Capacity : 30), Garage Level

Saturday, July 12
11:00am - 12:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-07-12 11:00:00 2025-07-12 12:00:00 America/New_York Navigating Chronicling America: A free newspaper database A free historic newspaper database? What could be better. Learn how to use Chronicling America, which includes some Toledo papers, covering the period 1756-1963. See a demonstration and have a Q & A. Main Library - The Fred H. McDonald Community Room (Capacity : 30), Garage Level

Main Library

The Fred H. McDonald Community Room (Capacity : 30), Garage Level

A free historic newspaper database? What could be better. Learn how to use Chronicling America, which includes some Toledo papers, covering the period 1756-1963. See a demonstration and have a Q & A.

Experts from the Ohio History Connection in Columbus will perform a demonstration of Chronicling America, the free newspaper database from the Library of Congress, how to use it, the best search techniques, and learn about the Toledo newspapers included in the database. A Q & A will follow.

AGE GROUP: | All Ages |

EVENT TYPE: | History/Travel/Genealogy |

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