About the work

A closer look.

Send me one place you have a stake in: the house you live in, the street you grew up on, the town you came from. I work from the written record, not from guesses: deeds and land records, National Register nominations, county and state histories, local newspapers. What you get is a PDF brief of what the record actually says about that place, every claim tied to a named source. Two things I do that a summary will not: - Where sources disagree, I leave both standing and say which says what. - Where the record is thin, I say so instead of filling the gap. If I get something wrong, the correction goes at the front, not quietly edited away. The free sample is my Austin, Nevada dossier: sixteen entries, every claim sourced, one public correction printed where it belongs. Read it here, no account needed: https://telegra.ph/The-record-of-your-place-researched-and-sourced-10-17 Delivery: PDF within 7 days of agreed terms. One revision included. Scope and price agreed in writing before I start. If the record cannot support an honest brief, I tell you before you pay.