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36440
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The author discusses how to find information by using primary sources like newspaper articles and letters. He talks about looking in secondary sources to look at their footnotes and bibliography to find more primary sources. The researcher must go to the State Archives or manuscript collections to find primary sources.
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36460
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The author discusses using maps to find information on a place. He uses several maps of New Bern as an example to show how a certain place changes over time.
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36461
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The author uses the incident of the great Durham fire of 1914 to compare before and after photographs of the event.
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36462
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The author uses an old basket as an object to discuss the process of describing, documenting, classifying, cataloging, preserving and interpreting an item.
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36463
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The author uses an old basket as an object to discuss the process of describing, documenting, classifying, cataloging, preserving and interpreting an item.
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36464
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The author talks about how oral histories are richer in context than written records. She gives pointers on how to interview people using her interview of Nevada Jane Hall, age 98, of Stokes County, NC as an example.
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36465
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The author discusses how the folklorist goes about collecting history. He uses the making of bedspreads in Wautaga County, NC as an example of passing information down generations.
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36467
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The author discusses the many records that help the genealogist collect evidence of their ancestry. She talks about getting started on your own genealogy.
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36469
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The author discusses what an archaeologist does. He uses the example of a group of eighth graders from Pender County who went to the abandoned L. H. Skinner shipyard on the Cape Fear River, collected artifacts, measured, examined maps and photographs, read books and newspapers, interviewed old people, inspected a modern shipyard to come up with a history of the abandoned shipyard.
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36470
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The author discusses what a preservationist does and how and what information they gather. They develop contexts of what structures should or could be saved. The National Register of Historic Places is a tool to help preserve buildings, sites and neighborhoods.
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