Research Process

This page is part of an on-going research project on the history of Belchamp Walter and the manor of Belchamp Walter. If you have found it making a web search looking for geneological or other information on the village then please bookmark this page and return often as I am likely to make regular updates. If you delve deeper into this website you will find many other pages similar to this one.

When asked where I get all my information on the Village and Church I find that the answer is rather complex.

I use a number of sources and ALL of these are freely available on the Internet. As a simple answer I quote Thomas Wright and the Duchess of Cleveland. This avoids just saying "the Internet", while geneology websites and Wikipedia are also good sources. Many historic texts have been scanned (digitized) and have been uploaded. Some of these can be found on Google Play and The Internet Archive.

I could also say "from Inquistions Post Mortem" of Medievil Kings or The Foundation for Medievil Geneology, but that would be a little too pretenious.

I have stated that my primary source of information was Thomas Wright's account of the history of Essex, 1831/36 for at least the Pre-Tudor History of Belchamp Walter, however, this is only one part of the research process. Wright's account does extend into the Tudor period and to the Raymond's but is more of a recitation of names and only a little background.

Formatting of pages

I have been working on this for a while. Quoted text is formatted:

The quoted text is contained in a box. The font is italic and green. I have also developed formatted links to designate different types of links.
These links are:
Time
Links to other pages with information on people and places
and Special - More on how I do this.

I can also link the whole block of quoted text back to its source or another page. If this is the case then I will change the cursor to an approporiate format. In the case above I demomstrate a link to another page, this is to prevent slow Internet connections disrupting the flow. In the case above I link to an example to a couple of sources, the cursor is an "alias" cursor and is this behaviour is NOT supported on a mobile device.

I do not do this on all quotes as it adds complexity to the page. The other aspect of this is that the URL of the source seems to be hidden unless it is wanted to be displayed.

Clickable Descriptions/Links

On pages where I have added links to a photograph from another site I may have added an event handler. When this is the case I have changed the cursor to indicate this.

The cursor is an "alias" cursor, hover over the italic green text to see this - I would like to use a custom SVG cursor but there is a law of diminising returns here as the technique will not work on a mobile touch screen.

An SVG cursor:

Links

External Sources

Research Process