heck, if you do find something, they missed it. even my best buds talk tongue in cheeck so to speak. If they tell me a site, they are usually finished with it. Half the fun is your own skills at locating sites, I just happened to be a reader, hence the local library was a gold mine: I added up one night a few of my sites: 652 locations, in my life time I'll never get a 10th hunted. Here are some pointers:
1. Get yourself a box, a footlocker even a looseleaf notebook it doesn't matter.
2. Get some of those "dividers" at Walmart with a-z on one side.
3. Check out Google, type in your city/state and put in old maps, antique maps old train routes etc. just use your imagination, play with it. You will get leads right there. print it out. Goes in your file.
4. Go to the library look at their old map section, if they have a historical room walk right in.....and a word of caution here, do'nt take that bull #####about this area being used for family research only garbage. Politly ask, pointing out that you are a tax payer and its your party and you'll cry if you want to right to your attorney. I've had to remind a few employees that I had every right to use any part of the library I choose.
4. Many libraries have old history books, old journal etc. you will never ever be able to check out all these sites.........I'll stop there, you have the basics to start, make up your own system, I have a page that i copy key words on such as a old community name etc, when that word comes up in converstion with some one I go to that page and look up my keyword and what notes I have under it, many times things I've forgotton. Do you see what I'm getting at........your own personal librarty aimed at metal detecting. I saw a key word last week and found a winter camp. <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> if you haven't caught on yet better take up another hobby...........