Description of an historical event and were produced

description of an historical event and were produced shortly after
the event happened. They have a direct physical relationship to the
event being studied examples of primary sources include new
paper report, letters, public document, court decisions, personal
diaries, autobiographies, artifacts and e ye witness‟s verba
accounts. The primary sources of data can be divided into two
broad categories as follows.
i) The remains or relics of given historical period. These could
include photographs, corves skeletons, fossils tools, weopens,
utensils furniture, buildings and pieces of out & culture object d‟ out.
Though these were not originally meant for transmitting information
to future generations. They would prove very useful sources in
providing reliable and sound evidence about the past, a last of
these relics provide non-verbal information.
ii) Those objects that have a direct physical relationship with the
events being reconstructed. This includes documents such as laws,
files, letters, manuscripts, government resolutions, characters,
memoranda, wills, news papers, magazines, journals, files,
government or other official publications, maps, charts, loy-books,
catalogues, research reports, record of minutes of meetings
recording inscription, transcriptions and so on.
b) Secondary Sources: A secondary source is one in which the
eyewitness or the participant i.e. the person describing the event
was not actually present but who obtained his/her descriptions or
narrations fromarushes person or source. This another person may
or may not be a primary source. Secondary sources, thus, do not
have a direct physical relationship with the event being studies.
They include data which are not original example of secondary
sources include text books, biographies, encydopedias, reference
books, replicas of out objects and paintarings and so on. It is
possible that secondary sources contain eroes due to passing of
information from one source to another. These enous could get
multiplied when the information passes through many sources there
by resulting in an euor of great magnitude in the final data. Thus,
wherever possible, the researcher should try to use primary
sources of data. however, that does not reduce the value of
secondary sources.
In conclusion, the various sources of historical information
both primary and secondary con be summarized as follows:

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Sources of Historical Information
Documents Quantitative Oral Records Relics
(Written/Printed) Records (Spoken words) (Physical or
visual objects)
-diaries -School budget -Ballads -School buildings
-memories -Student attendance -Tales -School furniture
-notebooks -Records -Saga -Textbooks
-yearbooks -Staff attendance -Oral interviews -Pictures
-Manos -records of eyewitnesses -Drawings
-lag books - Student‟s marks and participants -Auto tactual
-laws -School results plans
-count testimony -Financial statements -Instructional
-committee reports -Census records Aids
-government
It must be mentioned here that the branch of historical
research using all or some types of our records is known as oral
history.