##Hello World.
This is the beginning of what I hope will be a beneificial collaborative for provenance researchers. If you live in Bismark, but your missing link is living in an inaccesible archive in New York, one of your fellow provenance pros can volunteer to check that document on their next visit. If you're a museum or library pro and you happen to have a bunch of old auction catalogs hanging out, you can offer to check the information for someone. I'm hoping this will be based on a mutual aid, mutual benefit, and the thrill of the provenance chase.
I'm also hoping contributors will share their provenance woes, and let others help solve them. If you're particularly knowledgeable about a specific collector, language, or medium-- SHARE THAT AWESOMENESS.
Until we can come up with a more elegant solution, can we file requests for research help in the issues section in the side bar?
##Where to Start
###Online There's more and more documentation being added to the web every day. Some of it is full text and searchable, some of it is only searchable, and some gives you better results if you have a university or library login. My top few are
- (InternetArchve)[www.archive.org]