from other government agencies. For certain topics, court proceedings or judicial decisions, espionage reports and military records, and even police blotter reports are essential sources. Church and parish records provide information on births, marriages and deaths, and fluctuations in the general population. Even tomb markers can provide both demographic and factual information on deaths. Newspaper articles by local journalists and the local papers themselves provide information on cultural and community affairs. There is, therefore, an abundance of primary sources available locally which the historian can tap for his data. Regarding oral sources, Dr. Gripaldo will talk on this at length. WhatI want to emphasize is that an important source of oral history is the family histo-
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