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Field notes from the world's archives.

Soon, this is where our researchers write up how a record was actually found: the dead-end emails, the reading-room credential, the script that needed transcribing. One monthly long read, plus shorter case notes in between.

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Case notes
How a single request was traced and retrieved, archive by archive.
Methodology
Reading Kurrent, Latin hands, and Ottoman script. The craft of retrieval.
Newly opened
Collections that just became reachable through Source researchers.
From the field
Researchers on the cities and records they know first-hand.
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