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| Posted: Sat Oct 9th, 2010 04:28 am |
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One Fan Gang
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Claw- Maybe this is a thread you'd stick to the top of the page. In the last week when I've concentrated on researching, I have used this page to quickly switch between calendars for a certain year to verify vague "Last Saturday night" references and the like in the news archives: http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?year=1986&country=1 That's a direct link to open the 1986 calendar but then you can switch to any year. Are there any other tried-and-true research aids that anyone would recommend?
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| Posted: Sat Oct 9th, 2010 05:05 am |
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clawmaster Hall Of Famer
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I stickied it. I'm glad I remember how and didn't have to ask Beej. 
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| Posted: Sat Oct 9th, 2010 05:13 am |
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Hisa
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I also use TimeAndDate.com quite often. NewspaperArchive.com shows the day of the week in the search results, but Google News and many individual newspaper archive sites don't. http://boxrec.com/media/ helped me several times in the past with the info on boxing/wrestling venues. Not many are listed, though. Jahno.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 9th, 2010 05:16 am |
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clawmaster Hall Of Famer
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I usually just google "1967 calendar" for instance.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 3rd, 2011 01:19 am |
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Hammer to Fall
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Possibly of use for Australia http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/search?adv=y
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| Posted: Thu Jan 6th, 2011 04:46 am |
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carpetbeggar The Ayatollah Of Rock And Rolla 
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Thanks for that link One Fan Gang. Sites like that are really helpful the few times I've researched the few cards I did.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30th, 2011 04:18 pm |
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One Fan Gang
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Just throwing another testimonial for the calendar page as a good cross-check, which was especially helpful in verifying a Google news archive page. A Lexington, NC result and a related article link were billed as being from September 1953. When I tried to match the dates up via the calendar, the day of the week was wrong. Upon closer examination of the headers, I discovered that the papers were actually from September 1958. Just saying that the date the archive gives you may in fact be incorrect, and you should investigate the dates as they are printed in the paper's original typeface. Hopefully it can lessen inaccuracy in some career records which may have been researched already and where discrepancies have creeped in.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30th, 2011 07:22 pm |
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clawmaster Hall Of Famer
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One Fan Gang wrote:
Yep that happens once in a while. That's why I always scroll up and check the date of the paper.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 2nd, 2011 06:01 pm |
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Kriss Citizen of nowhere 
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Whilst it does happen, it's uncommon for the newspaper to be listed under the wrong year. What is much more common, is two or more (I've seen more than 10 before) being bunched together on the same day. If you are looking for a specific paper, and it looks like the one you want is missing, have a look at the first date before the date you need, and you might find it filed on that date. Sometimes they are just missing, though.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28th, 2011 10:14 pm |
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One Fan Gang
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Another parallel tool I have found helpful is boxrec.com. I figured that many buildings were used for boxing as well as wrestling, and a search engine can find the city if it's difficult to discern from publicity by typing the venue name and "boxrec" with it. Not 100% accurate but at least boxing tried to organize its history at one time.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28th, 2011 10:37 pm |
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FWIW, when looking up dates, I use my calendar on my computer clock, takes 3 seconds to access and goes back to 1900.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 9th, 2011 03:11 pm |
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Hisa
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Current address of the CWF Archives: http://square.phpwebhosting.com/~man1000/
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| Posted: Mon May 14th, 2012 05:33 am |
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CanadianHorseman
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Here's a cool site where you can quickly find out if Wrestler A ever wrestled or teamed with Wrestler B. http://wrestlingdata.com/index.php?befehl=konst
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14th, 2012 05:39 pm |
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LarrySC
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Google News Archive Search For the past couple of years, I have been using this tool to search for wrestling clips, results, etc. Everything was working fine until last night. No matter what phrase I typed in, it always came back telling me there were no matches made for my search. I would usually type in "wrestling" and then a wrestler's name, a venue, state, or whatever I was searching for with that particular phrase. Do you or someone else you know been experiencing the same thing? Thanks for any help.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14th, 2012 05:58 pm |
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CW Hall
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I used it some this morning Larry. It was working okay then.
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