How we know, and what is missing

Part VII

Everything looked at, whether or not it found anything, because a search that returns nothing is a result. The sources and what each one gave, the search register, the open questions, the claims taken back, what the archive needs from a building and what it means to do next; then the investigations: the registers that exist, the maps of what has been read, and the reckonings with the old site and the live tree.

Start reading: Sources →

1. 1SourcesEverything this archive is built on, what each one gave, and where each one is weak.
2. 2The Search RegisterEverything looked at, whether or not it found anything.
3. 3Open QuestionsWhat this archive does not know, so that a gap is never mistaken for a fact.
4. 4CorrectionsEvery claim this archive has published and then had to take back.
5. 5What changedEvery search this archive has run and every claim it has taken back, newest first.
6. 6ErrandsEverything this archive now needs is in a building, written up so it can be sent.
7. 7The work listWhat we are going to do next, kept in one register.
8. 8The ArchiveRead directly from the State Archives in Pazin inventory: books that exist, with dates, custodians and digitisation status.
9. 9Parish BooksEvery register volume photographed for the places the family came from.
10. 10Antenati — the Carnia registersThe Napoleonic and Austrian civil registers for Mione and Ovaro, each line opening the book at its first image.
11. 11The MapOne map and four layers: where the record books are, how far we got, and where the family lies.
12. 12Every collection walkedEvery FamilySearch collection that could hold a record for this ground, including those that hold nothing.
13. 13Croatia filed abroadCroatian places filed inside Italian, Hungarian, Austrian and Slovenian collections, under names the map has never heard of.
14. 14The undigitisedEvery register Pazin lists as not digitised, and whether anybody else has filmed it.
15. 15Findmypast, sweptWhat a month's full subscription reaches that two expiring trials could not.
16. 16The live tree, reconciledWhat the family's own tree holds that this archive has never read, and the reverse.
17. 17defranceski.comThe old site captured and compared with this archive page by page, and what was written down as new.
18. 18The Plate RoomEvery image from the family's own papers or from an archive that sent them on request.

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