Genealogy
evidence-first family research
family research · evidence-first

Triangulate the family. Keep the contradictions.

Genealogy is the hardest test of a claim substrate: contradictory sources, century-old records, identity that is itself a hypothesis. Every fact stays anchored to the snippet and the full resource behind it, and the contradictions are preserved, not resolved away.

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How to search, browse people, read the maturity badges, and weigh contradictory sources.

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The method

triangulate, don't trust
No authority is ground truth
Federal Court, parish registers, family memory: each is an interpretive witness, recorded as a source-attestation, never as settled fact.
Identity is a hypothesis
Is this Kitty the same as that one? donto holds the sameAs as a hypothesis you can support or refute; it never silently merges two people.
Contradictions are kept
When two sources disagree, both survive. The substrate is paraconsistent: a contradiction is evidence, not an error to delete.