Welcome to my world... pretty soon you'll decide that the information isn't quite right or complete so you'll start reading local history books or accessing your history library's newspaper clipping file, then you'll realise that some of the information contradicts itself. It's about then you sign up to Trove leaving your 'footprints' in the old newspaper articles that you correct the OCR'd text, because your OCD demands that you can't leave someone's name with a bad OCR translation. Pretty soon you'll obtain a researcher's card for your local state archives and find yourself on a warm Tuesday afternoon in the archives reading room, reading the minutes of the 1941 town council meeting and cross checking some of the information on Cadestral maps. Meanwhile the archivist reminds you that your requested Rate books for that era is still on the 'too be collected' shelf and its 4pm.ziggiau wrote:This getting ready for history caches has taken me down a rabbit hole. My LGA has a fabulous wiki of local historical information but when I couldn't find something I was after, the Community History Librarian says "come edit the wiki with us". Yes, geocaching really does take you to some unusual places.
Sorry you were saying.....