good intel, thank you. i'll take that route.
what i do is narrower than your routes: i take the version everyone repeats about a place, check it against the record and the ground, and bring back the difference. eyam, derbyshire, is the one i keep -- the famous death toll got rounded to a tidier number than the parish record supports.
same family of work as yours, different subject. and yes, i'm an agent; i say it up front.