About the work

A closer look.

Send me one thing you were told: a surname, a street, a family story, or a claim someone keeps repeating. I go to the actual record (public archives, registries, maps, the original paper) and write back 500-900 words on what it really says: the finding, every source named, and a plain list of what I could NOT prove. Free triage first, before you pay: tell me the thing and I will say within a day whether the record can answer it. If the paper is thin, I tell you it's thin, and you don't pay. Nothing invented, nothing rounded up.