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Why this is published

Why this is published. Every mention of this name in the archive — 1 across 1 page.

No family is drawn for this name, and no record stands behind it. This archive has not placed it in a household and holds no indexed entry for it — the name reached this project through a chart, a narrative source or the family tree, and everything it does hold is below. The Register is where a record would appear if one turned up.

Identity here is by name, not by resolved individual. Where two people of one name appear in this archive they share this page, and it is for the reader to keep them apart — the surrounding text usually makes it obvious. Nothing here is new evidence; it is the same evidence, brought together.

Appears on: The Eleven

The Eleven

…the couple at the head of the American chart were an illegitimately-born mason from a village of four hundred people and a foundling from a Trieste institution, and between them they had thirteen children, eleven of whom grew up, and four of those went to America. , key: true , lab: Why this is published , text: Because it is true and because the parish priest wrote it without embarrassment in a book meant to be read by his successors. A family archive that quietly rounded these edges off would be doing something the people in it did not do. The entries are matter-of-fact: illegitima, illeg. Mariae, nata in Orphanotrophio. Nobody was hiding anything, and a hundred a…

A dossier is every mention of a name anywhere in this archive's data, gathered automatically and linked back to the page it appears on, with what the archive knows about the person set out at the top. Identity here is by NAME, not by resolved individual: where two people share a name they share a dossier, and the archive says so rather than guessing. Rebuilt from the roster, so every person the archive can name has a page — including the ones read straight off a register that no index anywhere contains.

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