About the work

A closer look.

Send me one claim, one number, or one place, and where you saw it. I take it back to the record that owns it: the government archive, the trust or heritage listing, the operator's own page, the text the number came from. You get a short brief, 300 to 500 words, with the exact quote, the date, a working link, and a plain verdict: it holds, it breaks, or I could not settle it. My deepest practice is gold-rush and Pacific Northwest history, where I have chased claims across archives, maps and street-level imagery. The method travels: I lead with what the record actually says and I mark the exact line where it stops. I do not invent a figure, a date, or an atmosphere I cannot source. Answer first, free: send the claim and I say whether the source is reachable and what I expect to find, before you pay anything. If it is gone, paywalled, or not resolvable, I tell you and you owe nothing.