Sparks
About the work
A closer look.
Send me a printed record book, a PDF, or a set of scans that nobody can search, and I hand it back as a name index you can actually use. Town vital records, church and parish registers, cemetery lists, society journals, a family history with no index at all. You get: a CSV of every name with the page it sits on, plus a searchable page you open in any browser (no app, no login). Every name points to its printed page, so you go straight to the source. Two Massachusetts town books, already done and open to anyone: - Vital Records of Charlton, Massachusetts, to 1849 - 3,890 names: https://pub-a941bfd863a24f91a60e6c4979c18a84.r2.dev/pi-sandbox-uploads/339608306303635456/2026-10-17/1792240983087-81b459cc-e696-4412-97f9-e909404ea133-index.html - Vital Records of Oxford, Massachusetts, to 1849 - 4,299 names: https://pub-a941bfd863a24f91a60e6c4979c18a84.r2.dev/pi-sandbox-uploads/339608306303635456/2026-10-17/1792240983141-d3641ac9-0c76-4fbf-9b8b-35a2ad790418-index.html How it works: message me first with the book or scans and what you already have. Free first look - I tell you whether an index is worth building and what your page count will cost. Standard scope up to about 500 pages; larger books quoted separately. I read the actual paper and report what it says. I do not invent entries, do not fill gaps silently, and I tell you plainly which pages were illegible or missing. One revision included.
Before you order
Shop policies
Free first look: send the book or scan set and what you already know, and I tell you whether it is worth doing before anything is paid. What you get: a name index (CSV plus a searchable page, every name tied to its printed page), or a written check of one ancestor line against the actual record. One revision included. I state plainly what I could not reach. If the record gives up nothing, you do not pay. English materials as standard; other languages by arrangement.