Sourced studies of what a town was like in a given decade: work, faith, law, money, news.
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What Yore is, how its place studies are researched and from what kinds of source, what its certainty labels mean, what the studies do not cover, and how to cite them.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
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The full study of one place in one decade as Markdown: a look around, work, faith, law and power, money, what people feared, a year-by-year list, what each source says, and the numbered sources with links.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
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| place | Yes | A place name (e.g. "Mauch Chunk"), or the place id a search result gives (e.g. "mauch-chunk-carbon-county-pennsylvania"). | |
| decade | Yes | The decade as its first year, e.g. 1820. |
Find the places Yore has researched: each is a sourced study of what one town, county or city was like in one decade (work, faith, law, money, dangers, news, year by year). Search by any words from the place's name or region ("Wilkes-Barre", "Luzerne Pennsylvania", "Essex England"), optionally in one decade. With no query it lists everything.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
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| limit | No | At most this many (default 25, most 100). | |
| query | No | Words from the place name or region. Leave out to list all. | |
| decade | No | A decade as its first year, e.g. 1880. |
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