Oh, he's always been the numbers sort. Not so much counting, but always keeping records. At least one ancestor - a Richter - survived a fight with him because he'd written the name as 'Richard' and needed to correct it immediately.

[ And he nods. He'll offer to go through the nastier records - the executions and such - himself. But later. ]

Any mention of Carmilla, any mention of trouble in Canada's vampire communities, any mention of shit started down here with no known culprit, any mention of unidentified old world vampires- and that's just the archives of vampire newspapers. Then it's the human ones. Obituaries for times when Carmilla's been suspected to be in the city, to check for anyone who might have been sired by her, any disappearances- anything that matches up with those times.