FINDING ORIGINS, FINDING TRENDS

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FINDING ORIGINS, FINDING TRENDS
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Todays questions

• What type of information is available?
• Where is it located?
• How do you determine whether or not it is
  reliable?

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Types of historical records

• Basic terminology
• Primary sources
• Secondary sources
• Types of historical records
• Recorded documents
• Oral history
• physical evidence

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Major sources of historical records

• Government records
• Institutional records
• Communications media
• Personal documents

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Provincial locations of records

• Public Archives
• Public Archives of Nova Scotia, Halifax
• Dalhousie University Public Archives, Halifax
• Beaton Institute, Sydney
• Libraries

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Assessing the reliability of a record

• Who
• What
• When
• Where
• Why
• How

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• No records are unbiased and no records are
  completely accurate. The researcher must
  carefully assess each record to see how it can
  contribute to telling an accurate story.