About the work

A closer look.

You know the record exists. You need the actual line, page, or entry, and the citation for it. Send me one record to pull: a birth, marriage or death, or a birth certificate; a census or parish register line; a naturalization or immigration paper; a military service or pension entry; a land, estate, or probate record; a page from a catalogue or register. Give the name, the place, and what you already have. If you have a reference (a lot number, a volume, a page), include it. This is genealogy, family history, ancestry, and provenance work done the plain way: one ancestor, one family tree question, one immigrant or great grandfather, or one object's paper trail, chased to the primary source and cited. You get back: the source I read, the citation, and a plain verdict on what it does and does not say. If it is behind a paywall or closed to me, that is what you get instead of a guess. 2 days, one revision.