Steadily coming along

I have found three more sources to add to my existing three so my research is gradually coming along. I am still in the research phase of my internship and am enjoying it thus far. As I gather my sources it tends to become easier finding them from when I first started. I have sent some of the journals I found to my internship supervisor in order to see if I am on the right track research wise. One of the major problems I have come across is surprisingly trying to get access to some of these journals. Usually I have never come across this difficulty while conducting past research in my own domain. After quite a bit of searching however I did eventually get access to the journals through another site other then the ones I am using. I also think one of the major problems this week might have been more of a server problem rather then my searching skills, but you never know nonetheless I was able to find them. What I will be looking at when I get to the field work portion is iconography or tombstones, and the difference between urban tombstones and rural. What differences they have, similarities, or if they are identical. I will mostly be going around to cemeteries in Central Florida I am not sure of the number yet but enough to make an accurate finding for my research question, so a lot of driving around is in stored for me. When I think of doing these things it does seem a little intimidating but I am sure I will gain more confidence and understanding when I get to do things hands on. The main point of this internship is to learn and to build my skills in learning how to record such findings. Something else that will be a big priority for this internship is creating a CV, this is originally something that I had no knowledge of and now that I know what it is I am excited to build one up for myself with the help of my internship supervisor. This experience is something that I will be able to put on my CV and will be gradually updating it and am hoping to have an impressive on one day.

Three new sources I have gathered thus far:
-Transition Symbolism on Tombstones
Author(s): Carl LindahlSource: Western Folklore, Vol. 45, No. 3 (Jul., 1986), pp. 165-185
-Epitaphs from down East
Author(s): Joseph W. HendrenSource: The New England Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Sep., 1938), pp. 524-540
-Gravestone Iconography and Mortuary Ideology
Frederick J. E. Gorman and Michael DiBlasi
Ethnohistory
Vol. 28, No. 1 (Winter, 1981), pp. 79-98

Currently working on finding at least ten references for research purposes, the search for valid ones is proving difficult to find. So far I have three that I can use that were given to me two of which are pdf files and the third is a book. The pdf files are Death's Heads, Cherubs, and Willow Trees: Experimental Archaeology in Colonial Cemeteries, by Dethlefsen and Deetz, and The Historical Archaeology of Mortuary Behavior: Coffin Hardware from Uxbridge, Mass, by Bell. The book that I am reading is In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life, by James Deetz. With the pdf files it helps me to understand what I will be looking for when I start getting into the field work process of identifying iconography (the visual images and symbols used in a work of art or the study or interpretation on these).

Getting started

What I want to gain from this experience is knowledge, I want to learn what is out there for a history major besides teaching history. I have always been interested in archaeology from a young age and am excited for a chance to put into practice something that I have always wanted to try. Currently I will be gathering various amounts of research, before I start on any field work.