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12-14-2012, 06:56 PM
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 My Rank: LANCE CORPORAL Poster Rank:1878 Female Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 274 274Posts 211Thanked 2Quoted 0Mentioned 0Contrib. |
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Finding Historical Records
Anybody any good at it? I have been researching an old workhouse, then it was an institution for females with mental problems. It's in somerset, uk. It was the frome workhouse then called Weymouth house, then selwood hospital. What I am really interested In are medical records of the hospital. I found loads about the workhouse, even newspapers from the 1800's including suicides there. Any help really appreciated  |
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12-17-2012, 03:39 AM
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 King of East Texas Poster Rank:361 3 legs Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 3,434
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Re: Finding Historical Records
med records i'm not sure, but i am a historian and LOVE to archive dig. Go check online, many sources are digitized these days, other than that read every footnote/endnote and bibliography then follow names mentioned. I had to learn spanish for my topic, and most of what i need is in Mexico or Spain, it's all about data mining and following who was looking at the same things before you so look for those specific in your field. If your in college take advantage of your advisers, my adviser was amazing. good luck, and aren't old news papers amazing, they way people wrote back in the 1800's one has to have actual control of the language they speak to read them. Best part is that there were no PC police back then and people were far more honest in their approach to topics. I had to change lots of things i wrote about in college, you know how many times i was told not to use the word '*****'   . Does the UK have some kind of state or royal archives? check there most sources of official contents usually end up there, the ones that i need are at big name colleges, like the UNAM, or the national archives in Mexico city and Madrid |
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01-19-2013, 10:15 AM
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Re: Finding Historical Records
hiya, I managed to find the cencus records of when it was a victorian workhouse. They called inmates things like imbocile, idiot etc lol! I have found out a fair bit now, would anybody like to see the info I found? My house was an asylum after the workhouse and my neighbour used to work here, our two houses and the one on the end housed the extremely violent patients. She said they were really nasty. I also discovered they found big cages when they renovated it all and my other neighbour said some builders refused to work here! There was also a priest called out about 20 years ago to clear the place  |
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01-19-2013, 10:41 PM
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 My Rank: STAFF SERGEANT Poster Rank:581 Male Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 1,682 1,682Posts 1,143Thanked 9Quoted 0Mentioned 0Contrib. |
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Re: Finding Historical Records
My grandparents own a property that was a civil war hospital here in the States. I was able to to a thorough historical work up for my family.. If you can give me an address I can try to look up what I can or point you in some directions that could help you learn more.
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