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Tony_Muldoon

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Research resources available online? Update.
« on: July 11, 2024, 12:38:48 PM »
I've been asked to help my local Club Research an update to their history.


It's been some time since thing like this have been discussed on here so asking what resources are now out there.


Ideally we can search online through old magazinesa and newspapers. 


I'm looking at the USGA Golf Museum site and finding it hard to get it precise as the Golf club shares parts of its name with otheres...
https://heinonline.org/HOL/LuceneSearch?specialcollection=&typea=text&termsa=West+Essex+GC&operator=AND&typeb=title&termsb=&operatorb=AND&typec=creator&termsc=&operatorc=AND&typed=text&termsd=&operatord=AND&typee=text&termse=&operatore=AND&typef=text&termsf=&collection=golf&yearlo=&yearhi=&sortby=relevance&only_vol=&collection_true=&searchtype=field&submit=Search&face_quers=volshortname%3Agiwwig




Through the Green the British Golf Collectors Society magazine is searchaeable online
https://www.golfcollectors.co.uk/ttg-search



What other sites do we need to look at?  Thanks
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Niall C

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« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2024, 03:30:46 PM »
Tony


The britishnewspaperarchive is a good place to start. It is a subscription service but you can get a month to month fairly cheaply. Golf Monthly also now have an online archive of purportedly every issue from 1911 to 2016. I haven't tried it yet but got to think it must have some fairly exciting stuff. Again its a subscription service.


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Wayne_Kozun

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Re: Research resources available online? Update.
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2024, 06:35:17 PM »
Canadian Golf Hall of Fame has a searchable archive:  https://heritage.golfcanada.ca/library/

Jeff Schley

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« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2024, 04:46:16 AM »
Love to know where Sven, Cirba and others get their incredibly deep documentation.
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Colin Sheehan

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Re: Research resources available online? Update.
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2024, 07:31:57 AM »
Merion member and club archivist John Capers has created a 64-slide power point presentation "If you don't start collecting yesterday today, there is no tomorrow" that he has been sharing with other clubs for a while. He takes pride in the number of clubs it helped begin the process. In the club newsletter just yesterday it said: "It is the Archives Committee's desire to help other clubs get started on preserving their history, and it will gladly share this presentation as a guide."

Let me know if you would like a copy and I can message it to you.

-Colin
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Niall C

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Re: Research resources available online? Update.
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2024, 07:48:56 AM »
Tony


Re Golf Monthly - I signed up for a month last night and spent a few happy hours looking through the archive. Well worth a go although not sure it as a search engine. I think you might have to simply go through edition by edition which I suppose is OK if you have a rough idea what you are looking for and in what timeframe.


Which of your several clubs is this for ?


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Matt Schoolfield

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Re: Research resources available online? Update.
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2024, 08:01:56 AM »
Talk to a librarian in your city. They have access to massive searchable newspaper databases. That’s how I was pulling news articles about Inglewood GC a couple weeks ago.
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Charlie Goerges

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Re: Research resources available online? Update.
« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2024, 08:37:11 AM »
Tons of great content available from the Olmsted Bros archives. I use their flickr account to find stuff, including great numbers of Plans, Photos, and planning documents.


https://www.flickr.com/photos/olmsted_archives/


If the Olmsteds worked on the the land planning for a course, you can find it in here. Obviously even more non-golf stuff in there as well. They worked on ANGC, Fishers Island, Merion, Pasatiempo and many more.




It can be a little finicky to use, you have to use the proper specific search button to search only their account and a few other things like that, but what they have is pretty spectacular.
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Adam Lawrence

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Re: Research resources available online? Update.
« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2024, 10:11:17 AM »
The online newspaper archives are truly amazing resources. I could not have begun to research my Colt book without the British Newspaper Archive. For the US, newspapers.com (which currently claims almost a billion pages archived) and newspaperarchive.com seem to be the key sites.
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