History in Documents and a Document in History - страница 5

6) ___________ to enter the armed forces or a course of study.

7) ___________ the separation of a person from military service.

8) ___________ the act of leaving one`s job, career, or occupation permanently, usually because of age.

4. Give Russian equivalents for the following word combinations and pay attention to the use of prepositions:

1. Study the following words and phrases:

2. Read the text and choose the most suitable heading from the list A-H for each part of the text:

A Evaluate whether the information in the document is primary or secondary information.

B Compare the document to others of the same type from the same location and era.

C Determine what type of document you are analyzing.

D Learn whether your document is an original.

E Consider why the document was created.

F Familiarize yourself with the handwriting of the time and place from which your document originates.

G Determine who authored the document, and who may have contributed information.

H Consider the era in which the document was created.

How to analyze a historical document

Historians and genealogists often use old documents to gather information about the past. Evaluating old records is an effective way to learn about the past, and it's often one of the first skills historians and genealogists learn. Here are some tips for how to analyze a historical document.

1 _______________ You might be looking at a will, a pension file, an obituary, a news article, or any number of other document types. Knowing what you're looking at helps you develop an approach for handling the information the document contains. For an obituary, for example, you will want to find out whether the item appeared in a newspaper or a different publication, whether it was written by the publication's staff or a paid placement, and whether there were other newspapers in the same time and place that might cover the same person differently. For a military pension file, you'll want to find out up front which side of a war the soldier served on, since that will have a significant impact on the breadth and depth of the materials you should expect to find in the file. Understanding the background behind the document before you begin to work with it will enhance your ability to extract useful information in your analysis.