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Refining the Research Process

Taking the approach that someone finding one of my pages after making an Internet search I decided to look at the pages in the context of what whould I make of the page if I did not know anything about my history project.

As I progress with the research process I find more and more sources of information. I started mainly using the text from Thomas Wright but I am finding more and more from geneolgy websites and links from there. Wikitree has given me a lot of links to Visitations of Heralds to counties such as Essex.

An example of the refinement:

Taking the text from Wright, formatting it and adding links to other pages on this website is proving to work quite well.

John Helion, Esq. was their son and heir, who, dying in 1450, left, by his wife Editha, daughter and co heiress of Thomas Rolfe, Esq. of Gosfield, Philippa, married to Sir Thomas Montgomery, Esq. of Faulkbourne Hall; and Isabel, the wife of Humphrey Tyrell, Esq. of Little Warley, to whom she bore an only daughter, named Anne, who, by marriage, conveyed this and other great estates to Sir Roger Wentworth, of Codham Hall, in Wethersfield.

I even created a couple of new pages for the quote above. The new pages, and they are pretty empty at the time of writing this, are for Thomas Rolfe and Humphrey Tyrrell. The quote-box is from my page on Sir Thomas Montgomery, so I added that to the quote above.

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Having seen some of my history pages being found by those making an Internet search I have decided to add a bit more context on how the pages came about.

The research process and the formatting of pages takes a lot of time. The attention to making a page interesting (a relative term!) to the "chance" visitor is not easy. Having notes to myself, like this one, above the crease (fold) is not helpfull.

More refinements:

When pages receive clicks, such as the page on Rippingales

Refining the Research Process

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