Learning to Mine the Internet for Treasure Leads

The Internet is a massive information source. However there is a huge amount of garbage that does not apply to what you might want.

Unfortunately you will have to sort through the unnecessary stuff to find what you want. Kind of like removing the overburden and getting down to the pay dirt of the bedrock. But if you can sort through the worthless stuff there are gems of information that you can find.

The two sources of Internet information I am going to give you will require massive searching and sorting. About 97% of the information will be useless for your treasure hunting. But that 3% you find will be priceless. It will be overwhelming at first, but after you get the hang of it you will wounder why you did not try it before.

The First tool is Google Alerts. To learn about this go to: http://www.google.com/alerts/faq.html?hl=en

Read the FAQ and sign up. Then key in search terms that you want to be emailed to you. Since you are looking for caches and treasure in your area, you need to choose the right search term.
Some examples might be:

Lost treasure in (your state)
Arrow heads in (your state)
Found treasure in (your state)

For type of search put News and Web, as this will give you more results.

The search terms are only limited by your imagination. You can also put your city and state in your search term. But be as specific as you can and include whatever you are looking for in the search term. Be it history, civil war,bottles,Indian mounds or whatever you wish.

At first you will be flooded with all the emails and most will not apply to what you want. But keep searching and refining your search information. You might be surprised at what information you might find.

Email me your search term suggestions and I will pass them along to others.

The second tool is U.S. Library of Congress' Living Memory web site at:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html

Unlike google alerts your email will not get packed with useless links and story's. But you will still have to use search terms and learn how to use the site.

But once you have learned the site there are hundreds if not thousands of old historical books that you can search through. These have been scanned and can be viewed at your leisure.

Some of these books are not for sale anywhere at any price. This is a trove of history information. Again email me and let me know your successful searches.

These are but two tools you can use on the Internet. There are many more that I will go into later on as I get time.

ericwt