March Seven. 8am. Plan B - Failed.

I'e called the Illawarra Family History Group and they directed me to the Wollongong Library, apparently there is a Manuscript containing letter, journals, birth certificates, marriage certificates etc - wow!

So incrediby lucky to have all of this great material right on my doorstep BUT the delightful lady on the phone, who was incredibly apologetic, couldn't help me to find his grave site.

So Plan B failed, but what if I missed something in Plan A.

I'm going to run another search. "Sutherland cemetry".

March Six 9pm. Plan A.

Ok so Michael doesn't know where he was buried. He insist I try the Illawarra Family History group... but really if a member of the University of Wollongong Library didn't find out... will I?

March Six. 5pm. The non-existent cemetery.

After running a search for a "Sutherland cemetry" I've found it doesn't exist.

Right.

Well then back to the drawing board? Find another subject? I think not!

The website was so detailed, so much research had already been done, who would have created such a fantastic thing and why? Because they were fascinated. They obviously found some fanastic material, I wonder if they knew where Carl was buried? After all I can't use Carl as my subject without knowing where his grave is - very important part of the assignment.

So... back the the website I go trying to find the creator. Lo and behold his contact details lie at the bottom of the page and he's a member of the UOW Library. Fantastic! How lucky I feeling to have him so easily accessible. Carl is looking more handsome by the second.

March Six. Heavenly tutorial.

Well thank goodness I went to the tutorial because if I hadn't, I wouldn't have found Carl. We were assigned an in class research task and I did a quick google search on the computer, I believe it was "significant people nsw died". It was an early morning, late in the week and even so those few vague words led to a mountain of brilliance.

Up popped Carl. A striking lad with a beard a foot long. "Pioneering surveyor and engineer".

I ran search after search after search before it was made clear there was no other webpage dedicated to him. I figured it as due to the lack of information and primary material. So I wondered - did I want to risk the long hours of tedious fishing for primary research - journals, letters etc. Of course I did! UNTIL I realised amongst the wonderful array of secondary information on the page, it indicated his remains were buried in Sutherland cemetry.

The journey began...

"Owe you one mate!"

I realise I should have begun my blog before I began to reseach, the only explaination I have is that it's an ideosyncracy of myself. If I'd have begun in the correct order, I can assure you it frankly would not be me. It would not be Emma's work and these hands typing away at the key board would not be mine.

All in all, I plan on back-tracking. Why? Because I like blogs and I think it's the most interesting way to submit this assignment. Also, I feel I've intruded on Carl so much in the past week, so much I feel like we're mates - as odd as that sounds - so I'm doing him a favour and perhaps someone will find this blog, read it, absorb it, tell someone else about it and then two more people will know how much the people of the Illawarra owe to the man named Carl Ludwig Adalbert Weber. If he hadn't have lived, I know I wouldn't be here.