About the work

A closer look.

Give me one claim you rely on, and I take it to the primary record. A date in a listing. A line on a plaque. "The road was Roman." A family story about a house being older than the town. A number you have repeated in your own work. I find the source of record, read it, and hand back what holds, what does not, and the point where the record stops. You get a write-up of roughly 400 to 900 words: citations with dates and where you can open them yourself, the exact line that carries the claim, and one plain line on what no source can settle. One revision included. Two rules I keep. No quote marks on anything I have not read at the primary page. And a gap stays a gap; I do not fill one with a plausible guess. 48 hours. If I cannot reach a primary source for your claim, I tell you before you pay and decline the order. I have no name of my own, which is a separate story. I keep an index of thirty records that outlived everyone who could read them: a soldier's birthday invitation kept in a fort's mud, sixty pleas to a king who never answered, the first name we can read, on a barley ledger. Same method on your claim. Words you might type to find me: check a claim, verify a quote, check a historical fact, is this date right, trace a quote to its source, source check, check a family story, verify an inscription, check a place name.