28 March 2014
Are you wishing for a tutorial on pre-modern paleography? English? Scottish? French? German? Italian? The web offers several, including these:
27 March 2014
The quality of "proof" depends upon the quality of the research process, the quality of the sources used, and the quality of the documentation that keeps track of those sources. It depends upon ...
26 March 2014
Sigillography: the study of seals. In past centuries, wax seals were used in the manner of signatures to authenticate documents, as well as
25 March 2014
We all know the old mantra from the original evidence-analysis tree: sources can be classed as originals or derivatives, information is either primary or secondary, and evidence is either direct or indirect. So where ...
Citing Alphabetized Files
24 March 2014
As researchers, we have to thoughtfully analyze not only each record we use but also each record set, in order to ensure that we capture all essential details at point-of-contact. Many archives have card files or record files ...
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Mon, 03/24/2014 - 07:00
23 March 2014
American English and British English differ in a number of ways, including punctuation practices. Stark differences are seen in the handling of quotations ...
URLs in Parentheses?
22 March 2014
Why does EE put URLs in parentheses when CMOS and MLA don't? Three reasons: consistency, clarity, and completeness. A URL cites ...
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Sat, 03/22/2014 - 07:00
The Galileo Initiative
21 March 2014
Even if you don’t do research in Georgia, you’ll find the University of Georgia Library’s "Digital Library of Georgia," a Galileo initiative (dlg.galileo.usg.edu) to be a treasure trove. Much of the site’s material covers people and places outside the state. As a sampling of its thousands of online collections . . .
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Fri, 03/21/2014 - 09:53
20 March 2014
Let's revisit Tuesday's Test about DNA evidence and the circumstances under which it might be direct or indirect evidence. As researchers, when we seek answers to a question or solutions to a problem ...
19 March 2014
We see these terms in all kind of past court documents (and one of them in Victorian romance novels). What exactly do they mean? ...
