Places Search Subject Subdivisions: Difference between revisions

*'''Names, Personal '''(1)<br>For discussions of origin, history, validity, etc., of individual proper names, including names of persons or dieties.  

*'''Native races''' (1) <br>For works dealing with the aboriginal inhabitants of regions, countries, cities, etc.  

*'''Naturalization and citizenship '''(1)<br>For records, laws, and discussions of citizenship, and for works dealing with qualifications, processes, etc. of becoming a citizen of a country and records resulting from such processes.  

*'''Newspapers''' (2) Used under names of regions, countries, cities, etc. and also under topical subdivisions. See also ''Obituaries''.  

*'''Nobility''' (1)<br>For lists of peers, nobility, royal families, etc., with their genealogy, history, titles, etc.  

*'''Notarial records''' (1)<br>For records handled by a notary or for discussions of such.  

*'''Obituaries''' (1)<br>For notices of deaths, especially in newspapers, with biographical sketches, and for necrologies.  

*'''Occupations''' (1)<br>For works pertaining to jobs or career possibilities occurring in particular places. Also for records of discussions of guilds, unions, apprenticeship, etc.  

*'''Officials and employees '''(1)<br>For the public employe<span id="fck_dom_range_temp_1238268160767_530" /><span id="fck_dom_range_temp_1238268160767_822" />es of individual governments, international agencies, or government administered institutions.&nbsp;  

*'''Orphans and orphanages '''(1)<br>For works dealing with orphans (foundlings), institutions for the care, etc. See also ''Court records'', ''Guradanship'', and ''Probate records''.  

*'''Pensions''' (2)<br>For compensations to employees, workers, tradesmen, etc., for retirement, disabilities, reparation, etc. For compensations made to veterans of the armed services see ''Military Records - Pensions''.  

*'''Periodicals '''(2) For serials issued indefinitely at regular intervals, generally more frequently than annually, each issue of which normally contains separate articles or other writings.  

*'''Politics and government '''(1)<br>For works on political or governmental matters relating to the jurisdictions or people in question.

*'''Poor houses, poor law, etc.''' (1)<br>For works pertaining to those institutions whose function it is to care for the poor. Includes lists of inmates, poor law records, removal and settlement papers, etc. See also ''Medical records''.

*'''Population '''(1)<br>For statistical studies of the characteristics of human population of particular places, especially with reference to the size and density, growth, distribution, migration, and vital statistics and the effect of all these on social and economic conditions.

*'''Postal and shipping guides''' (1)<br>For lists of post offices, railroad stateions, ports, terminals, etc. See also ''Gazatteers''.

*'''Probate records '''(1)<br>For wills, settlements, court proceedings, laws, etc., dealing with the estates of the deceased. See also ''Guardianship''.

*'''Public records '''(1)<br>For records created by civil authorities&nbsp;that are&nbsp;not specifically designated&nbsp;to be&nbsp;cataloged&nbsp;under other subject subdivisions.

*'''Religion and religious life''' (1)<br>For general works on religion and religious practices and costoms of regions, countries, cieties, etc. For works about specific reigious subdivisions see the name of the religion, e.g. ''Buddhism'', ''Christianity'', ''Judaism'', ''Shintoism'', etc.

*'''Schools''' (1)<br>For works dealing with educational institutions or their records.

*'''Shinto history''' (1)<br>For the history of the Shinto religion in particular places or among particular peoples.

*'''Shinto records''' (1)<br>For records, documents, registers, etc., created by Shinto sects.

*'''Slavery and bondage''' (1)<br>For works dealing with slaves, serfdom, manumissions, etc.

*'''Social life and customs '''(1)<br>For works discussing the folways, manners, customs, ceremonies, popular traditions, etc., in regions, countries, cities, etc. See also ''Religion and religious life''.