I have been a long time user of Trove. As Archie mentioned, I do track who has
made text edits, & I do add edits to assist others searching wherever I see any
name mis-spelled, particularly in BDM lists.
I use tags to mark articles of relevance, but I also use a free download ap.
If you are eventually publishing your research, have a lot of research, or are
using an academic approach, I would recommend using Trove with Zotero (
https://www.zotero.org/download/ ;). It can collect, store & search your Trove
findings, as well as being able to export your reference pre-formatted as
needed. I use Firefox & find it integrates superbly. Other browsers use a stand
alone version that works equally well.
I have used Trove for personal, and generic historical WA research, and to
find a lot of historical recipes ! If you don’t have a lot of articles, use
lists instead of Zotero to group them into collections.
As Rob mentioned, thinking laterally for search terms is sometimes needed, and
I find searching for a “surname , suburb or town” can narrow down the results
for common term surnames ( e.g. "POPE, Geraldton" )
Adding comments to articles is also helpful where the newspaper article
publishes an incorrect spelling, or adding a clarification of how a particular
“john Smith” can be identified.
Lyn
