Archival Research - Science topic

By drawing a new concept from the research subject literature and giving new conclusions can a researcher complete a dissertation? Is it going to be grounded theory or archival research or ...? What kind is it going to be by means of research strategies. Can these literature resources (like books or essays) be assumed as correct data for PhD research? can they be assumed as primary data? Can research be done correctly by secondary data?

There is probably no other science portal that would offer all the same functions for researchers as the Research Gate portal.

Do you agree with me on the above matter?

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I am especially interested in methodologies for using personal collection items (photographs, letters, diaries, etc.) in conjunction with archival research. It would be really helpful to also be able to access said articles/books.

What are the causes of such different perspectives of a paper by reviewers?

How should an early career researcher respond to it?

Kindly share your views dear colleagues. Best regards

Dickson

How to identify the research gaps for Mechanical Engineering in a country like Uganda?

If anyone can share any details about identifying research gap or identified research gaps in country Uganda?

What are the key elements that differentiate these research strategies, particularly, archival research strategy and narrative inquiry?

Dear RG members,

The term ‘human nature’ is much more than a reference to human behaviour; it actually refers to our species’ less-than-ideally-behaved, seemingly-imperfect, even ‘good and evil’-afflicted, so-called human condition—as in ‘it’s only human nature for people to be competitive, selfish and aggressive’.

Here we all are constantly searching for new thing that is unknown. There is only one flaw which can be seen as a continuous flow : "I am human and I can do anything what I want or like"

So, I would like to know how your research is going to help others or it is just useless after thesis binding?

Regards

Pankaj

Live web pages exist on average just around 100 days. And yet they are cited by researchers even when it is clear that they will have disappeared by the time the research is published. Web archives represent a durable, authoritative alternative for anchoring research in sources which other researchers can then also cite. Who is using these resources? Anyone out there?? I'd be happy to have references to published research using web archives.

Can a folk-group be curators of their own archive? Could there be a more democratic manner in which materials are collected, recorded, accessed etc. I'm thinking particularly here of Ranciere's view, loosely applied here, that if we wish for a democratic society we should begin with one - not have it as a goal or something to achieve. Would the reduction in an authoritative or elitist (privileged even) perspective create a more democratic, or dare I say it, 'authentic' archive?

I'm doing research on the Philippines in the 16th-17th century. Since I'm in Seville, I'd like to check out the holdings of the Archivo General de Protocolos, but they don't seem to have an online catalog. Could anyone give me tips? Thanks!

I must immediately acknowledge that I am a total neophyte in this subject of researching the history of books of antiquity ... of trying to determine how widely a book might have been published / accepted / adopted / cited / utilized / believed-in by peers / etc. etc. Yet, I am very curious to know those facts about a certain book, entitled CURA DE DIOS Y PASTOR DE JESU-CHRISTO, SEGUNDA PARTE. IDEADO DE LA SAGRADA ESCRITURA mayormente el Evangelio, Santos Padres, y Doctores de la Iglesia (etc. etc. ... an image of the title page I append). This book was published in Madrid in 1726 and authored by Dr. Antonio Joseph de Arredondo. Does anyone know how or where I should start the process of researching these facts? I have spent my life as a miserable archaeologist ... if this were some item dug from the earth, encrusted with soil, then I would have no problem ... but I need some pointers from an expert through the world of literature ... surely among this vast universe of paper-lovers there is one person who can wield the powerful tools of the internet and point-out some database, some shortcut methodology? Please?

Thanking, anyone, in advance, for advice and assistance,

Bob Skiles

I have been told that obtaining information about birth certificates, etc. during this period is nearly impossible. Are there any duplicate records anywhere in Venezuela?

Valentin de Ampudia was a noted map maker during his two decades of active duty with the Royal Engineers, mainly active in the northern provinces of Mexico, ca 1815-1822. I believe he either married a relative of one of the last viceroys (Grimarest), or his mother was of the Grimarest family, and (by then I believe his rank may have been Col. or Lt. Col.) Ampudia may actually have left Mexico to return to Spain with the Grimarest family at the same time the viceroy was deposed? Also, does anyone have a clue if/where any drawing/painting of him was ever done? Mil gracias!

I am searching for records to fill-out a biography of Nicolas de Arredondo y Pelegrin that I am currently working on; following is his obituary that appeared in the Gaceta of Madrid for 20 August 1802 (he resigned as Viceroy in Buenos Aires and returned to Spain in 1795):

"April 4 [1802], died in this court, at 77 unfulfilled years of age, His Lordship, Don Nicolas Arredondo y Pelegrin, Haedo & etc, Knight of the Order of Calatrava, Commander of Puertollano, Lt.-General of the Royal Armies: Served His Majesty 61 years, starting as a Cadet in the Spanish Royal Guards infantry, in which body he ascended all grades to Captain. He was in the war in Italy, during her withdrawal from the mountains of S. Pelegrin, on the site and conquest of Tortona, in the Pass of Tanaro and the Battles of Tanaro and Basiniana, making Valencia Po and Casal de Mogtgerrado, in the action and surprise of Codono, in evicting the Santines enemies, that of Valchirroso and other gatherings. He served on the command staff as second and first adjutants; and in 1780 was promoted Colonel of the infantry regiment of Guadalajara at Havana, where he acted as Staff General of that Command. He was Governor of Cuba, Governor and Captain-General of the Province of Charcas, and the city of La Plata with the Presidency of the Royal Audencia, where he was promoted to Viceroy of Buenos-Aires and provinces of Rio de la Plata. On his return to Spain he was appointed Captain-General of the Kingdom of Valencia, with the military command of Murcia, and as President of that Audencia. In the long run I credit his courage, military skill, selflessness, love of royal service, zeal for the Catholic religion, which he promoted the spread of, with success among the pampas of Choco and the Paraguay Indians, achieving the conversion of many of them, and their reduction to His Majesty’s obedience. His political knowledge, has greatly beautified the city of Buenos-Aires, and others that were under his command; kindness, charity, and other virtues, make his loss heartfelt, and always of pleasant memory."

Nemesio Salcedo was Commanding General of the Eastern Interior Provinces of Mexico (1802-1813). His brother, Juan Manuel de Salcedo, was the 11th and last Spanish governor of Louisiana (serving from 1801 to November 30, 1803, when Louisiana was handed back to the French). Juan Manuel's son, and Nemesio's nephew, Manuel Maria Salcedo, served as governor of the Spanish province of Texas from 1808, until he was executed, on 3 April 1813, the day after the Royal Spanish forces he had commanded in defense of Bexar (current San Antonio), the capital of Texas, were defeated by the insurgent Republican Army of the North led by Jose Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara. The decisions that Commandant-General Nemesio Salcedo made had a tremendous impact on the history of development of Texas, the western and southwestern portion of the United States, and a great portion of northern Mexico, too., for which he has not been properly recognized by past historians.

Some historians have even erroneously reported that General Salcedo died in Mexico in 1814 (when he finally received permission from the King to retire from his post in America), but I have found several archival sources (see examples attached) that prove he returned to Spain after his service in Mexico, where he was not only very-much-alive, but had been promoted to higher rank and was serving an honorable post as head of the deputation of his native villa of Bilbao in 1816, and two years later, in 1818 was having a new house built on the Old Plaza of the port city of San Sebastian, on the northern Basque seacoast, an architecturally-planned town reconstruction which was being re-built after having been totally destroyed in 1813, from the fires lit during the fighting between French and British forces. The house being built for him was at a location on the Old Plaza at the corner near the present Casino of San Sebastian (see attached photo), a location that will be passed by tens(maybe hundreds ?)-of-thousands of tourists during the upcoming year of 2016 as San Sebastian has been designated as the European Capital of Culture for 2016. Perhaps someone going to San Sebastian for one of the many special cultural events planned can find-out where this honorable old Basque gentleman's remains are buried and send me some information? And, even better, also find an image-from-life of him, and send me information or a copy?

With my best respects, and thanks ahead for any assistance or information,

Bob Skiles

my interests are in paratext, and eighteenth-nineteenth century UK music publishing.  Seeking ways to share subject with and BEYOND music departments ...

Ignacio Elizondo was born 9 March 1766 in the Salinas Valley, New Kingdom of Leon, New Spain, in the village of Salinas (now Salinas Victoria, Nuevo León, Mexico). He was the son of José Marcos de Elizondo and María Josefa de Villarreal. He was of Spanish and Basque ancestry. He was a New Leonese militia officer, mostly known for his successful plot capturing the most important leaders of the early Mexican War of Independence, including Miguel Hidalgo, Ignacio Allende, and Juan Aldama at Baján, Coahuila, in 1811.

During his childhood, Elizondo lived in the village of Pesquería Grande (present-day Garcia, Nuevo León). His father owned many ranch and agricultural properties then known as haciendas. In 1787, at the age of twenty-one he married María Gertrudis. She died on March 6, 1797, when she was giving birth to his son, José Rafael Eusebio.

Ignacio Elizondo started his military career in 1798, after being designated Lieutenant of Pesquería's provincial militia company. Two years later, he was honoured by being appointed Captain of Punta de Lampazos' provincial Dragoons, one of the largest military 'presidios' of the New Kingdom of León. However, one year later Elizondo occupied again his former position at the Pesquería's provincial militia. In 1806, governor Pedro de Herrera y Levya, recommended him for command of the Eighth Dragoons company, who would help Texas against recurrent Apache attacks, already present in northern towns of the New Kingdom of León. Through a letter to the viceroy Elizondo demanded that he be exempted from his military command position because of serious financial losses he was suffering in some of his ranches and stock properties, among some he had previously bought from the church. In the same letter, he expressed he was also suffering under reprisals from governor Pedro de Herrera, that would force his desertion. After falling out with Herrera, indebted with the purchase of several haciendas from the church, and marrying María Romana Carrasco the same year, he then decided to change his residency to the Hacienda of San Juan de Canoas, in the province of Coahuila, from where he also administered the Hacienda of Alamo, in the jurisdiction of Monclova.

Elizondo briefly left his military service prior to the Grito de Dolores and the outbreak of the Mexican War of Independence. In the Eastern Internal Provinces, the independence movement was not well received at first. Coahuila, Nuevo Santander, and Texas declared themselves for the royalists, but several towns eventually joined the cause. The governor of Nuevo León, Manuel de Santa María, eventually joined the rebels. Within Texas, Lt. José Menchaca and various filibuster expeditions acted to support the rebellion. Elizondo also joined the rebellion and commanded a small force in the Casas Revolt, in January 1811. However, Elizondo, vacillated in his support, marched through Nuevo León, Nuevo Santander and Texas for the royalists, confronting the Gutiérrez–Magee Expedition in San Antonio, at the Battle of Alazan Creek, in 1813. Governor Santa María was removed from his post for the royalist Simón de Herrera. Some historians debate whether General Ramon Díaz de Bustamante or Bishop Primo Feliciano Marín de Porras finally won Elizondo over to the royalists, while others believe, he was converted by Manuel María de Salcedo of Texas and Simón de Herrera of Nuevo León, while the royalist governors were his prisoners, during his participation in the Casas Revolt. He was instrumental in the capture of Father Hidalgo, General Allende, and other rebel leaders at the Wells of Bajan (Norias de Bajan) in February 1811, which effectively ended the first phase of the rebellion. On August 18, 1813, at the Battle of Medina, leading a cavalry division of the Royal Spanish Army under command of Commandant-General of the Eastern Internal Provinces, Joaquin de Arredondo, he played a key role in defeating the Republican Army of the North and crushing the Gutiérrez–Magee Expedition, as well as the insurrection in Texas

Elizondo's victory was praised by royalists, and even King Fernando VII, rewarded him with a promotion to Lt. Col. in the royalist army. However, his well-being didn't last too long, while returning from mopping-up operations in eastern-Texas (and having executed and imprisoning hundreds), he gained many enemies, hence hated by many insurgents, Ignacio Elizondo was critically wounded by one of his own aides, Lieutenant Miguel Serrano (who, it is said, had gone crazy from witnessing the scenes of merciless executions relentlessly carried-out by his commander over the preceding days), while sleeping in his tent at the edge of the Brazos River. Most historians aver that he was buried a few days later on the banks of the San Marcos River, in Texas, New Spain, where he expired, as he was being carried back to the capital on a litter. If Col. Elizondo was, indeed, first interred on the banks of the San Marcos River, where he expired on his return to San Antonio, then his remains must have been exhumed later and re-buried in San Antonio, where on 9 October 1815, his burial is recorded in the campo santo record book at San Fernando cathedral as No. 715: "Ignacio Elizondo, Lt. Col. of the cavalry. Spanish, married to Romana Carrasco. He died of wounds received in a fist fight."

Would appreciate a good advice  - l am looking for an archive in Istanbul which may hold the personal and professional files of German medical doctors who lived and worked in Turkey  pre and post WW2.

I am looking for in depth details on some records released on Philips Records in the 1960s and 70s. Record companies are generally very closed organizations, and most of them have undergone several changes of owners over the years. I am looking for scholars who have experience with researching record company history, and who can share their experience in getting access to archives and documents. 

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I am conducting archival research on the issues that parents have communicated about with their children in letters they mailed to their children. I am interested in things that gratified parents and things that upset them. I want to examine how these issues changed or remained the same over time. I am particularly interested in locating good archives for such letters in the NY, NJ, PA area. I have found good material at the New York Historical Society and at historical societies in Princeton and Morristown NJ. I would appreciate any information about letter archives that have already been digitized and are available online (if there are such resources). Thanks.

My plan is to pursue a PhD in my current country of residence and undertake the PhD programme elsewhere on a part-time basis.