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The historian should recover all the historical information possible
with regard to the issue that he wants to treat
within the framework of Historical Memory.
Throughout the years of the Spanish civil war,
of Francoism, which is considered its time.
Thus, he has to go to archives,
looking for information on this particular subject.
If possible, he can recover oral memory,
depending on the issue.
That is to say, he has to open all of his fields
and possibilities to compile the maximum amount of information
from a past that we can now gain access
to just from the documents which have survived until now.
He basically works alone,
the historian usually does his work alone,
working individually with files.
But it is very important to work with the people
who were or who are close to the period,
because they can give him many ways to find this documentation,
in a solitary manner, because it is a quite solitary task
to gather the means where all of this data is preserved.
The historian´s task neither starts nor finishes in the files.
One thing is that our main job can be working in the files
and also in speaking to people, but especially in the files.
Either way, the historian cannot deliver a report regarding a grave
before it is opened and forget it afterwards.
Historian should live the history a little bit and go to the grave.
It serves to finally create an understanding of all the work
of previous documentation he has made regarding that grave.
So, the historian has to go to the grave,
look at how the exhumation is being carried out
and he may have even more work,
because then the historian can also help to document things
that are found in the grave,
from materials and objects to new questions that surface,
and the historian can help to say:
"look at this, here is information about this,
here, here, there, in these files or in this bibliography, etc., etc.”,
because he knows the historical period
of the grave where they are working.