Archives

thumb|upright=1.3|Shelved record boxes of an archive

thumb|Norwegian Minister of Defense Anne-Grete Strøm-Erichsen signs a guestbook at the Pentagon in 2007 thumb|left|Hussein of Jordan signs the Golden Book of [[Hamburg.]] thumb|Armenian President Armen Sarkissian signs the guestbook at the [[Department of State.]] A guestbook (also guest book, visitor log, '''visitors' book, visitors' album''') is a paper or electronic means for a visitor to acknowledge a visit to a site, physical or web-based, and leave details such as their name, postal or electronic address and any comments. In contemporary contexts, electronic guestbooks are also used to c

type of research involving search for evidence from archival records