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How to Research Your Land's History
Working titles under consideration: How to Research Your Land's History, possibly subtitled Landscape History Research: Methods & Applications, or Reading Your Land's Past: A Practical Guide.
Written by AI A draft for Dr. Bob Zybach's review, written by AI from his four published documents (one of them, Coquelle Trails, written with Don Ivy). Words inside quotation marks are quoted from those documents, with the page. He has not reviewed this draft.
Free to read here. A first draft of all seven sections: where the evidence about a piece of land is kept, how to talk with the people who remember, and how to put the pieces together.
Contents
- Every piece of land has a history Draft
- Where the evidence lives Draft
- Talking with people: oral history basics Draft
- Putting the pieces together Draft
- Worked examples Draft
- Getting started Draft
- Further reading Draft
Read it all on one page Notes and open questions for Dave and Bob
About 5,000 words. 78 quotations and 65 paraphrases, each with its document and page: select one to open the document at that page. Eight photographs are still to be chosen.
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The method itself is also written up, with quotations from the same four documents: How we research.