Can you advise me how to go about getting the files for a particular divorce and attendant custody battle in CT in the 1970s?
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posted by annabellee
on Mar 8, 2013 -
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I have a seemingly never satiated appetite for new, interesting, original music. In the past when I've felt starved for something new, I've looked at the latest releases from record labels I trust that consistently put out exciting albums - think
Thrill Jockey,
Warp,
Ipecac. What other labels should I be monitoring?
posted by mannequito
on Feb 20, 2013 -
19 answers
Having spent years spent listening primarily to MP3s and Internet radio, we've been thinking about taking the big, clunky, 90s-era stereo components off of our living room shelves. However, one of those components is a turntable, and we'd like to have the option of occasionally playing our vinyl. We were thinking of a retro-styled portable turntable
like this Crosley, but it looks like the non-weighted tonearm and styli aren't so hot. Are there any portable, suitcase-style turntables out there with decent tonearms that we can fit with a good cartridge? Our primary concern is that our records stay in good condition.
posted by eschatfische
on Feb 15, 2013 -
6 answers
I'm trying to find the name of a dinosaur record that I listened to endlessly as a kid in 1980 or so. It was a 2-record set, I recall the covers (or the records?) being one red and one green. Songs and maybe some narrated info on various dinosaurs. I'm nearly certain it wasn't
The Dinosaur Record.
Anyone here happen to remember it? And if not, anyone with a tip on a shop that specializes in long-ago children's music that might be able to help me identify it?
posted by genug
on Feb 7, 2013 -
5 answers
I collect Superman memorabilia and recently bought a Japanese Superman children's story record, but I can't actually read Japanese beyond vague recognition of the characters that make up the name Superman. What is the title of
this record?
posted by MegoSteve
on Feb 2, 2013 -
4 answers
I am trying to find a vinyl LP 33rpm record I owned second hand in the UK in the late 1980s. I remember it being called something like "Ellington in England" or "The English Ellington", but I might be wrong! at any rate, it featured tracks from Duke Ellington's 1930s tour of England, and one of the tracks was "Ain't Misbehavin'" - a vocal, not an instrumental, version. The record I remember was most probably released in the 1970s, but could conceivably have been 1960s.
Various extensive web searches and some decent Ellington discographies have come up blank. I'm not wrong am I? I'm not remembering something that never existed? Help me, Mefite Ellingtonians!
posted by pyotrstolypin
on Jan 26, 2013 -
6 answers
I'll be in Dallas in a few weeks for a conference and I'd like to go record shopping. Specifically, I'd like to buy 60s garage records from the Dallas/Fort Worth scene. Where should I go?
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posted by kendrak
on Jan 24, 2013 -
4 answers
Offline Personal Medical Records (desktop version of patientslikeme.com)
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posted by zaxour
on Oct 26, 2012 -
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How can I get a copy of my divorce record? I'm in Georgia but don't know the exact year or county of my divorce - just know it was in the mid-90s.
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posted by hazyjane
on Sep 12, 2012 -
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I have 100s of old vinyl records left by my wife's grandparents. Where can I get them appraised (hopefully for free or a nominal fee)?
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posted by schleppo
on Aug 3, 2012 -
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Does the Netherlands keep any records of the foreigners who have previously lived in the country?
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posted by Omon Ra
on Jul 3, 2012 -
2 answers
Best practices for burning vinyl to digital on an Ion Turntable?
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posted by Miko
on Apr 23, 2012 -
2 answers
Did telephone companies routinely keep records of *incoming* calls in the pre cellphone days?
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posted by xetere
on Apr 13, 2012 -
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I want to hang some LP covers on a wall, and remember years ago seeing a cheap little kit that was something like four pieces of clear plastic for the corners, connected by an elastic string X-shape in the back that could hang on a nail. The result was a neat frameless effect that I liked, but I can't find it again. Does anyone know what that kit was and where I can buy it?
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posted by mediareport
on Jan 29, 2012 -
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How can I get a copy of my South Korean birth certificate? I was born in Seoul, became a naturalized US citizen as a child. My parents never had a copy (it was apparently lost). I don't even know what hospital I was born in, and have no easy way to find out. I tried contacting the Korean embassy but received no response. I live in New Mexico and don't believe there is any Korean embassy near here. What can I do?
posted by El Sabor Asiatico
on Nov 9, 2011 -
6 answers
Librarians, Record Keepers, Microfilm Users: I have a big digitization project coming up and I'm wondering if you have a preferred microfilm scanning machine.
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posted by sleepy pete
on Oct 7, 2011 -
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I would like to know how tall my dad's uncles and mom were, and ideally go up the family tree to chart the outliers to identify the tall and short adults. Where might I find height data for ancestors who lived in the US?
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posted by zippy
on Aug 20, 2011 -
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Looking for good record stores in chicago: my buddy is coming this weekend for Lollapalooza, and to make up for the fact that we didn't get tickets for all three days, I want to take him around to some record stores. I know about Reckless and Dusty Groove in Wicker Park, but what else is out there? I'm in Andersonville, and we'll be in Logan Square tomorrow for Kuma's, so anywhere in between is highly welcome.
posted by Oktober
on Aug 3, 2011 -
10 answers
What is the source of
this image, of a woman with a wrench, that was used as the cover for the first
Nation of Ulysses 7"? It might be from some Soviet art, it might not. Ian Sevonius says he doesn't remember where he got it, so I hope someone else will recognize it.
posted by OmieWise
on Jun 30, 2011 -
4 answers
I'm going to be requesting my psychiatric records; what should I know beforehand?
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posted by reren
on Jan 31, 2011 -
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I'm scanning my financial records to PDF with my new Fujitsu ScanSnap. (So wonderful.) Are there things I should keep in paper form, other than, say, my car title and social security card? What about my past tax returns?
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posted by raf
on Jan 15, 2011 -
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I don't understand it - - the whole of the internet is abuzz about the new Die Antwoord song "
Evil Boy" but when I try and find a copy of it on 12", I come up empty. Where the hell can I find it? Can I find it?
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posted by orville sash
on Oct 13, 2010 -
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Last-minute day off filter: Can anyone recommend a neat-o spot to spend the afternoon/evening within a couple hours of NYC? I'm looking for shopping, good places to eat, nifty scenery...and will award huge bonus points if there's a great record store involved.
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posted by mintcake!
on Aug 11, 2010 -
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Where would one get copies of evidence presented in a U.S. congressional hearing? Difficulty: 1940s.
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posted by AzraelBrown
on Jul 1, 2010 -
10 answers
I found
this record at a thrift store yesterday, and I'd like to sell it on eBay. What's a reasonable minimum (i.e. reserve) price?
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posted by The Card Cheat
on Apr 13, 2010 -
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I'll be in Chattanooga for a few days soon with daytime hours to kill... Can anyone recommend local-ish (I'll have my car) record stores, especially ones with lots of old/cheap vinyl? How about vegetarian or highly veg-friendly places to eat?
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posted by mintcake!
on Feb 16, 2010 -
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I'm looking for great bookstores, thriftshops, funky restaurants/coffeshops, places to buy old records cheap, and other cool places like that in Washington
outside Seattle.
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posted by lunasol
on Feb 10, 2010 -
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How do I sell a large record collection of classic 1970-80s vinyl Reggae and African LPs and singles? I can't use online auctions like Ebay, since I'm only in the US for a few weeks. I'm near New York.
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posted by zaelic
on Jan 11, 2010 -
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Can I remove a college from my record which I attended for a semester and then failed out of? I didn't earn any transferable credits, and I don't want it to follow me through graduate school and beyond.
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posted by anonymous
on Jan 5, 2010 -
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Looking for information about a murder committed in 1935 in New York City. Where to begin, and how to proceed?
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posted by hermitosis
on Dec 29, 2009 -
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