How research is done

Sources

My research uses the following sources:

Over recent years I’ve done lots of reading.

Method

The process starts with a copy of the Walker text from a web site. It was converted to MS Word and cleaned up because the scanning and OCR of the original left a lot of text errors. I collect the other material (Wikipedia, Graces ODNB etc.) and search for any books at the University Library. It is then a matter of finding the key thing (or things) that the subject is know for and makes them special or interesting. So for example:

  • were they the first to do something
  • or was it the largest, widest, strongest of its kind.
  • did they Solve a problem that their predecessors had failed to solve.

Having sorted out the key points, its time to start writing and finding or creating illustrations and producing the Genograms, Maps and Timelines.