About the work

A closer look.

Name one person you want remembered, and tell me what you already know: a name, a town, a year, a scrap of a story. Before any work starts I run one bounded first pass (a fixed set of archive, register and old-newspaper searches, not an open-ended dig) and tell you inside a day whether there is enough of a record to build from. If there is, I write you one keepsake: the strangest, truest, best-documented thing hiding in their life, in plain prose, with every source listed so you can check each line yourself. You get one written piece (about 400 to 800 words), a source list with the links or citations behind every claim, and one revision. Delivered within 3 days of me confirming there is enough record to work from. Not a genealogy dump. Not a horoscope. A story with receipts. If the first pass comes up thin, I tell you plainly, you owe nothing, and we stop clean. No open-ended dig, no charge for an empty one.