And may I please quote from Terry's web page
Research
‘I KEEP six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.’
‘The Elephants Child’ Rudyard Kipling
The basic tenets in any research
Yes, I agree, Terry, to me, it doesn't matter whether you are armchair searching through online indexes, or lounging around e-reading on your tablets, or at a desk in a reading room with your PC and keyboard, busy transcribing early 19th century NSW parish registers into a spreadsheet, or wallowing deep into the depths of a hoard of paper mites while trying to rescue a poorly conserved primary resource, or walking through a museum looking at the exhibits, or reading through RChat's forum posts, .....
what and
why and
when and
how and
where and
who must forever continue to be the six focus words,
elsewise there's twaddle.
JM
