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'''The Internet Archive''' is a good source for historical information singe the turn of the century, and sometimes as far back as 1996.
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Paste the URL of the party you're researching into the Wayback Machine at archive.org -- the current home URL if that's the only domain name you're aware of it having, or the earliest one you know of if you know about earlier versions.  Getting all years to work is tricky as it will soemtimes skip years if you just click on the year.  A workaround is to change the month in the URL to something other than January -- July usually works.  For example, http://wayback.archive.org/web/19980701000000*/http://www.lpf.org/ instead of http://wayback.archive.org/web/19980101000000*/http://www.lpf.org/ (notice the difference -- replace the 1 after 1998 in 19980'''1'''01000000 with a 7 for July: 19980'''7'''01000000.

Some states list their county parties.  It may be possible to find earlier addresses for county parties at its state party site, and it may be able to find earlier versions of a state party by searching earlier versions of '''lp.org'''

Systematically click through different versions of the site to look for different things that you may be looking for as time progresses.  There may have been a historical summary that got lost or forgotten about.  There might be old newsletter or logos that no one remembers.  You can also typically find different memberships of the executive committee as time progresses, giving you names and a basis for estimating who held what position when and for how long.

Note that starting with lp.org for California you can often get pages that are older than the ones found during the research for California with [[User:AutostubLP2|AutostubLP2]].