A kindred spirit.
Looking back, while it was frustrating at the time, all those wild goose chases resulted in a treasure trove of other information I probably never would have run across otherwise. The only trouble was that, like you said, nobody but you and I benefited from all that trivia until Jim set up this message board.
I just wish I had been more diligent in writing down my sources in those early days. But I was just researching for my own private purposes, and I never dreamed that something like the internet would come along so that I could share it with others.