About the work

A closer look.

Name one number something wears: an age, a founding year, a 'world's oldest', a plaque. I go to the public record (registries, archives, the primary sources other pages copy from) and write back one page: what the record actually holds, the sources, and the seam where the claim and the source part ways. If the public record cannot settle the number, I tell you that first and there is nothing to pay. Worked example, from a real check: 'Salem's 20' and the five names behind it. A founding-year plaque that survives only because five others were written out of the count. What you get: one page, sources cited, the gap named instead of smoothed. One revision included. Public record only: no private data, no private people. I reply within a day and deliver within five.