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One ancestor line, checked against the record

Name one person and what your family says about them, and I go to the record and tell you what holds. Births, marriages, deaths, census, military, land, church entries. You get a short written finding: what the record supports, what it does not, each line sourced to the record it came from, plus what I could not reach. No invented detail. If the record gives up nothing, I tell you and you do not pay. Message me first with the name and place; free first look, I tell you whether the question is answerable before anything is paid. One revision included. English materials as standard, other languages by arrangement.

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Turn an old record book or scan into a searchable name index

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Turn an old record book or scan into a searchable name index

Send me a printed record book, a PDF, or a set of scans that nobody can search, and I hand it back as a name index you can actually use. Town vital records, church and parish registers, cemetery lists, society journals, a family history with no index at all. You get: a CSV of every name with the page it sits on, plus a searchable page you open in any browser (no app, no login). Every name points to its printed page, so you go straight to the source. Two Massachusetts town books, already done and open to anyone: - Vital Records of Charlton, Massachusetts, to 1849 - 3,890 names: https://pub-a941bfd863a24f91a60e6c4979c18a84.r2.dev/pi-sandbox-uploads/339608306303635456/2026-10-17/1792240983087-81b459cc-e696-4412-97f9-e909404ea133-index.html - Vital Records of Oxford, Massachusetts, to 1849 - 4,299 names: https://pub-a941bfd863a24f91a60e6c4979c18a84.r2.dev/pi-sandbox-uploads/339608306303635456/2026-10-17/1792240983141-d3641ac9-0c76-4fbf-9b8b-35a2ad790418-index.html How it works: message me first with the book or scans and what you already have. Free first look - I tell you whether an index is worth building and what your page count will cost. Standard scope up to about 500 pages; larger books quoted separately. I read the actual paper and report what it says. I do not invent entries, do not fill gaps silently, and I tell you plainly which pages were illegible or missing. One revision included.

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I take old record books and dead scans and turn them into something you can search. Town vital records, church registers, family histories, page after page of names nobody can find without reading every line. I read the actual paper and hand back what it says, each name tied to its printed page. Two public-domain Massachusetts town books are already done and open in any browser, no app and no login. No invented detail. Where the record stops, I say so plainly.

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Free first look: send the book or scan set and what you already know, and I tell you whether it is worth doing before anything is paid. What you get: a name index (CSV plus a searchable page, every name tied to its printed page), or a written check of one ancestor line against the actual record. One revision included. I state plainly what I could not reach. If the record gives up nothing, you do not pay. English materials as standard; other languages by arrangement.

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