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= <span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:&quot;EB Garamond&quot;;color:#252525;font-weight:700">Welcome to </span><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:&quot;EB Garamond&quot;;font-style:italic;color:#252525;font-weight:700">ecpclio'</span><span style="color:#252525;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:18pt;font-family:&quot;EB Garamond&quot;;font-style:normal">s Virtual Research Wiki</span> =
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''While in Gloucester, England, I had the good fortune to meet the County Archivist, [https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2019.1664440 Brian Smith (1932-2018)], later Secretary to the British Historical Records Commission.    At the [[wikipedia:Gloucester_Cathedral|Cathedral]] Brian introduced me to the only known monument of an Archivist, [[wikipedia:John_Jones_(MP_for_Gloucester)|John Jones]], who died in 1630, having been Sheriff and a member of Parliament, but who wanted to be remembered as a Keeper of the Records.   As you can see from Jones's monument, he was proud of the care with which he organized and preserved the records.  I was taken  by his bemused smile, but also the encircling quotation: “And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me write,” a challenge for all Archivists and Historians.''


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</blockquote><big>The purpose of this wiki is to provide a collaborative platform for the study of the history of Baltimore and Maryland through biography, topics, and layers of time and place including relating historical maps and plats to today's landscape. While the organizing framework consists of sources, biography, place, topic and time, pages are created randomly as new research progresses and as I add my writing and reference collection that is confined to paper and various impermanent forms of electronic storage. My goal is to share as much of the research and writing I have done over the past 50 years through this virtual archive. I suspect that given its volume, I will not finish what I have started here with regard to my own work, but hopefully I have created a virtual presence that will be carried on after me, and have provided a viable context for collaborators to add to and improve upon what I have begun that will be both useful and sustainable. If  you wish to contribute and edit existing entries, write to me at ''transcribedoc@gmail.com'' for a user name and password.  For essays derived from my research  see: http://virtualarchive.us or consult http://rememberingbaltimore.net.</big>  <big>I look forward to working with you on this site as I add notes, sources, and links to essays relating to Maryland and Baltimore history. If you have any questions regarding the site don't hesitate to write to transcribedoc@gmail.com.</big>
 
<span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:&quot;EB Garamond&quot;;color:#252525;font-weight:700">Welcome to </span><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:&quot;EB Garamond&quot;;font-style:italic;color:#252525;font-weight:700">ecpclio'</span><span style="color:#252525;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:18pt;font-family:&quot;EB Garamond&quot;;font-style:normal">s Virtual Archive Wiki</span>
 
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The purpose of this wiki is to provide a collaborative platform for the study of the history of Baltimore and Maryland through biography, topics, and layers of time and place including relating historical maps and plats to today's landscape. While the organizing framework consists of sources, biography, place, topic and time, pages are created randomly as new research progresses and as I add my writing and reference collection that at present (November 1, 2014- Emancipation Day) is confined to paper and various impermanent forms of electronic storage. My goal is to share as much of the research and writing I have done over the past 50 years through this virtual archive. I suspect that given its volume, I will not finish what I have started here with regard to my own work, but hopefully I have created a virtual presence that will be carried on after me, and have provided a viable context for collaborators to add to and improve upon what I have begun that will be both useful and sustainable. For additional information see: http://virtualarchive.us or consult http://rememberingbaltimore.net.
 
<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:&quot;EB Garamond&quot;;color:#252525;font-weight:400">I look forward to working with you on this site as I begin to add notes, sources, and essays relating to Maryland and Baltimore history. If you have any questions regarding the site don't hesitate to write to rememberingbaltimore@gmail.com or transcribedoc@gmail.com.
 
<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:&quot;EB Garamond&quot;;color:#252525;font-weight:400">There are some elementary rules for entry creation:
 
<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:&quot;EB Garamond&quot;;color:#252525;font-weight:400">1) for biographical entries use the full name and life span (in parentheses), e.g. ''John James Wilson (1839-1869)'', being certain to associate important timeline dates within the entry with place, giving Google Earth latitude and longitude wherever possible.
 
 
<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:&quot;EB Garamond&quot;;color:#252525;font-weight:400">2) for place entries use place name and Google Earth coordinates in parenthesis, or relevant dates, followed by coordinates, in parentheses, e.g. ''Robert Long House (39.282223 -76.591362)'' or ''Wilson Homestead (1840-1865, 44.333502, -76.666614)''; For most addresses latitude and longitude can be easily derived from: [http://LatLong.net Latlong.net]
 
 
<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:&quot;EB Garamond&quot;;color:#252525;font-weight:400">3) for topic entries, be as brief as possible and work within existing topics where they exist, such as Baltimore Privateers and Letters of Marque.
 
 
 
 
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Revision as of 15:41, 16 June 2021

Welcome to ecpclio's Virtual Research Wiki

While in Gloucester, England, I had the good fortune to meet the County Archivist, Brian Smith (1932-2018), later Secretary to the British Historical Records Commission.   At the Cathedral Brian introduced me to the only known monument of an Archivist, John Jones, who died in 1630, having been Sheriff and a member of Parliament, but who wanted to be remembered as a Keeper of the Records.   As you can see from Jones's monument, he was proud of the care with which he organized and preserved the records.  I was taken  by his bemused smile, but also the encircling quotation: “And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me write,” a challenge for all Archivists and Historians.

The purpose of this wiki is to provide a collaborative platform for the study of the history of Baltimore and Maryland through biography, topics, and layers of time and place including relating historical maps and plats to today's landscape. While the organizing framework consists of sources, biography, place, topic and time, pages are created randomly as new research progresses and as I add my writing and reference collection that is confined to paper and various impermanent forms of electronic storage. My goal is to share as much of the research and writing I have done over the past 50 years through this virtual archive. I suspect that given its volume, I will not finish what I have started here with regard to my own work, but hopefully I have created a virtual presence that will be carried on after me, and have provided a viable context for collaborators to add to and improve upon what I have begun that will be both useful and sustainable. If you wish to contribute and edit existing entries, write to me at transcribedoc@gmail.com for a user name and password. For essays derived from my research see: http://virtualarchive.us or consult http://rememberingbaltimore.net. I look forward to working with you on this site as I add notes, sources, and links to essays relating to Maryland and Baltimore history. If you have any questions regarding the site don't hesitate to write to transcribedoc@gmail.com.