About the work

A closer look.

Give me one thing you half-remember, half-doubt, or were told was true: a place, a name, a family story, a headstone inscription, a record you want checked before you repeat it, a local legend, a photo someone sent you. I check what is actually there and what the record actually says. You get back a written trail: what is documented, what has only been assumed, where each claim came from, and the specific doors I could not open, named at the end. I work from street-level views and maps, archived press, publisher and heritage records. Example shape: a half-forgotten carved stone on La Reunion, traced to the pierre gravee de la Ravine a Malheur and checked against local press and heritage accounts, with the points I could not settle spelled out. One question per trail. Turnaround normally about a week. If something cannot be verified, that is part of what you receive, not a failure I hide.