Sites to Visit

Reliable records: What makes a record trustworthy?

• Visit The Preservation of Electronic Records Research Project at http://www.interpares.org/book/index.htm.

• Eye witnesses not best evidence in trials, memory researcher says by Gene Charlton at http://www.tamu.edu/univrel/aggiedaily/news/stories/archive/050896-4.html

• Technical Working Group for Eyewitness Evidence, Eyewitness Evidence: A Guide for Law Enforcement. Research Report. National Institute of Justice, October 1999 at http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles1/nij/178240.txt

Records as proof: Establishing facts and truth through the ages

• Read about Lancelot or, The Knight of the Cart: Part III: Vv. 3685 - Vv. 5594 in the Online Medieval and Classica Library on Berkley University's pages at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Lancelot/lancelot3.html

• Explore pages from the Internet Medieval Source Book - a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts related to medieval and Byzantine history.

• Visit the Carey Document: Salem Death Warrant - The Early America Review, Summer 1997 at http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/summer97/carey.html

• Assize of Clarendon 1166 at http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/maxpages/classes/his381/AssizeClarendon.html

• Medieval Sourcebook: Why Study History through Primary Sources at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/robinson-sources.html

• Electronic Imaging & Evidence - Today many offices create and copy records using computers and scanners. How are these electronic records viewed when they are presented as evidence of transactions? Fiona McGregor of the National Archives of NZ explains. Available at http://www.archives.govt.nz/archivesnz/staff/papers/imaging_systems_frame.html

Forgeries and Hoaxes

• Learn more about the profession of Questioned Documents Examination[QDE] in the course materials for Forensic Law JUS 425 on the website of North Carolina Wesleyan College at http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/425/425lect05.htm

• Explore some of famous forgeries and forgers' pitfalls in The Ink that Cracked on the website of the Utah Lighthouse Ministry at http://www.utlm.org/onlinebooks/trackingch5.htm

• David Dickerson's web site on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion at http://ddickerson.igc.org/protocols.html

• Court TV's Crime Library - Criminal Minds & Methods The Hitler Diaries by Katherine Ramsland at http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/forensics/literary/6.html?sect=21

• View the Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace on Bill Holmes' US Political Resources website at http://political-resources.com/misc/rimpdp/default.htm

• Find out more about Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace on Alex Boese's Museum of Hoaxes site at http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/iron.html and in Jon Elliston's article Report from Iron Mountain: Highbrow Hoax Mocks National Security Speak on the Paracope website at http://www.parascope.com/articles/1296/iron.htm

• View a beautiful image of the Donation of Constantine on Syracuse University's Religion in Medieval and Reformation Europe: The History of Christianity to 1600 online course materials at http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/gaddis/HST212/Feb28/Sylvester.jpg

• Find out more about the Donation of Constantine on Alex Boese's Museum of Hoaxes site at http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/donation.html
and by reading Roger Pearce's article on The Donation of Constantine and the critique of Lorenzo Valla at http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/donation/donation_of_constantine.htm

• For all things relating to Jack the Ripper visit Steven Ryder's and Johnno's Casebook: Jack the Ripper website at http://www.casebook.org/index.html including a segment on the Maybrick Diary at
http://casebook.org/suspects/james_maybrick/may.html

• Court TV's Crime Library - Criminal Minds & Methods The Maybrick Diaries by Marilyn Bardsley at http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/ripper/diaries_13.html?sect=1

• Court TV's Crime Library - Criminal Minds & Methods - A Wild Idea by Rachael Bell, dealing with the Howard Hughes letters and autobiography hoax at http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/clifford_irving/?sect=27

• Read Obvious flaws: Forged documents detailing Uranium sale were full of errors by Brian Ross on the website of ABC News online at http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/US/uranium030716flaweddocs.html

• Check out Niger-Iraq nuclear connection forgery on the Disinfopedia website (an encyclopedia of people, issues and groups shaping the public agenda - produced by the Center for Media & Democracy) at http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Niger-Iraq_nuclear_connection_forgery

Records, records, all day, everyday

• Find out more about the Vindolanda Tablets Online at http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk:8080

• Fascinating insights into aspects of medieval life illustrated with images of beautiful items from the period can be found at Dress, Jewels, Arms and Coat of Arms: Material Culture and Self-Representation in the Late Middle Ages at http://www.ceu.hu/medstud/manual/SRM/index.htm

Records at work: Society's documentary glue

• Learn more about how to explore the history of your region, family and home and get expert tips on the BBC history site at http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/your_history/

• The largest assemblage of personal history information is maintained by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, popularly known as the Mormans, at http://www.familysearch.org

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