Blacksmith Researching

Researching blacksmiths, a task that I knew would be difficult from the start. What I have done for the research in regards to the process has been very random. For the most part, I am simply going through all of the sources that I find when I search a term related to blacksmithing. What I have noticed that I do is piggyback my research to other things. What I mean by this is that on each site I will follow one term to another site, and by the end of it I will be on YouTube, watching videos about the universe. I am sure that as I get farther into the work for the project, an actual process may appear, but for now, I am just going with the flow of things. It could also be looked at that for now, the way I research is my process, but that is a little silly.
Compared to other research projects I have done in my entire school career, I am fairing well. I have started researching much farther in advance than I have for another recent paper. Don't worry, Prof., that paper was not for your class. But the topic that I have chosen is not very realistic. For this project I need to research a topic that is slightly similar to blacksmithing because of how unrealistic actually smithing will be. As much as I can remember, I have not had to do this for other projects that I have done for my schooling. For the most part I have always been able to somehow get what I wanted from my projects, but that is not the case for this one. Maybe things will come together later into the project, and I will actually get to try my hand at smithing.

So I'm not sure what I could put here that has to do with a process, and I don't wanna put another thing about smithing on here, so here's the universe:

(so that's not the whole universe. Too bad)
http://www.the-universe.ie/html/multimedia/Grand_Universe.jpg