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Chronicling America: "Turning Points in History"

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Picture courtesy Freepix and Vecteezy This month SKCGS celebrates FIVE years of blogging! We've covered many topics from basic techniques to more involved methodology.  Members have contributed marvelous family stories and pictures.  You have truly made this your blog! Several of our blogs have featured online resources, either as a topic or as a source of information.  One of our more frequent of these is "Chronicling America", the free  online digital newspaper collection site at the Library of Congress .  The Library of Congress has programs aimed at middle and high school students as part of their National History Day competition.  One of the resources for research is, of course, Chronicling America and LOC is presenting: Chronicling America: "Turning Points in History" Wednesday, September 6, 2023 1 - 2 pm EDT Explore Turning Points in History and learn to use Chronicling America, a freely-available collection of historic American newspapers at the Library