historical records
Chronicled past events
Historical records are documents, data, or other preserved evidence from the past that provide information about events, people, or conditions of earlier times.
The term encompasses everything from birth certificates and court proceedings to photographs and financial ledgers: Researchers combed through historical records to trace the family's migration.
In legal and archival contexts, historical records often have specific retention requirements and access restrictions.
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- online databasesInternet-hosted searchable information systems
- paper trailDocumentary evidence chain
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- family treeChart of ancestors
manuscripts · chronicles · lineage · census data · public records · contracts · genealogy · birth certificates · journals · photographs · court records · land grants · diaries · archives · dusty archives · historical society · metadata · decrees
- ancient librariesscrolls, papyrus, clay tablets, scriptoriums, Serapeum
- literary formsnovel, novels, novella, poetry, poetry collections
- History Bookstextbook, biography, memoir, chronicle, anthology
- history resourceschronicles, archives, timelines, documentaries, narratives
- library servicesyouth services, bookmobiles, reference desk, reference librarian, mobile libraries
- Ancient ChinaShang dynasty, Han dynasty, Confucius, Warring States period, oracle bones
historical recordsoral tradition
Culture passed by speech
oral history · folk memory · word of mouth · folklore · verbal accounts
historical recordsmythology
Body of traditional tales
historical fiction · apocrypha · propaganda · disinformation · fiction