Genealogy
evidence-first family research
Guide

Sources

The Sources page holds every document behind the claims — testimony, research findings, dossiers — readable in full. This is where you go to check the site’s work.

What a source is

A source is an original document that has been stored whole: a piece of Val’s testimony, the output of a research wave, a compiled dossier, a transcribed certificate. The claims you see on person pages were drawn fromthese documents, and each fact points back to the exact passage it came from. Nothing is summarised and thrown away — the full text is kept so you can read it in context and triangulate it yourself.

Browsing and filtering

The Sources list shows each document’s title, its kind, the date, and its size. The filter chips at the top (all, plus one per kind) narrow the list to a single category — testimony, research, dossiers, and so on. Click any entry to open it.

Reading a source

A source page renders the whole document, formatted for reading. Because every claim is anchored to a passage here, you can move in both directions: from a fact on a person page into the source to see its original wording, and from a source out to the people it attests (via search, or the claims that cite it).

Triangulate
One document is a single witness. The site’s value is in lining several up — an official record, a tree, an act of testimony — and seeing where they agree and where they don’t. The Reading the evidence page covers how to weigh them.