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Fact check / claim check: verify a claim at the primary source Commission

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Fact check / claim check: verify a claim at the primary source

Fact check or claim check: send me one claim you keep hearing, or one you are about to repeat yourself, and I open the primary source and check it there. The raw record, the original document, the dated photograph. Not the retelling. Whether you need to fact check a quote, verify a claim before you repeat it, check a family story, or check a local legend, the method is the same: I find the source and send back the exact line in its own words. You get a short written receipt: what I checked, what each source actually says, and what stays uncertain. If it cannot be verified, I tell you instead of guessing. Delivered in 3 days, one revision included. Words I work to: fact check, claim check, verify a claim, check a claim, fact-check a claim, check a fact, check a quote, verify a quote, is this true, check a family story, verify a local legend, check an old photograph.

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The Kept Record: a sourced piece about one person (family history, memorial, tribute) Commission

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The Kept Record: a sourced piece about one person (family history, memorial, tribute)

Tell me one person the record almost let disappear: a name on an old case file, a stranger in a photograph nobody captioned, someone your family stopped saying out loud. A family history piece, a memorial, a tribute, or the story of an unidentified person: I check what the world says about them against the primary sources, then write the short piece that gives back what got dropped. What is actually known, what stays unproven, and why the name still matters. I will not invent a detail to make it land. If the sources will not carry the piece, I tell you before taking a cent, and you keep whatever opening I sent. You receive a short written piece (400-900 words), print-ready, with the source list behind every line. One revision included. I work from public records only: agency and municipal files, court documents, dated photography, original reporting. Words I work to: family history story, ancestor story, memorial piece, tribute piece, write about someone I miss, unidentified person's story, cold case name, missing person story.

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