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Every investigation I take on gets a file: the question, the archives, the running log, and the proof. The public investigations live here for as long as the site does — starting with File 001. Client files are built the same way but stay private: yours belongs to you, and nobody else sees it. This is also where you'll find the answer to the question every client asks first: what do I actually get?

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File 001 · Opened Aug 2026 Active

The Padre Ballí Birthdate

Padre Island is named for a priest whose birth year nobody has ever documented — the statue at the causeway reads "177?". This file goes around the lost baptism record: burial books, his 1828 will, his own signature, and the ordination archive in Monterrey.

Archives: TX · Tamaulipas · Nuevo León Era: 1760s–1829 Log: 10 entries
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Your family's file

Every case starts with one question nobody in the family can answer. A missing great-grandfather. A legend that might be true. A line that dead-ends at the border. Bring me yours.

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What you actually receive

Not a PDF. A living case file.

Most genealogists hand you a report — a PDF, a printed chart, a binder. It's out of date the day it arrives, and nobody in the family opens it twice. I don't build reports. I build what you see below: a fully organized, cross-referenced case file for your family, and a website for it to live in.

Every case is delivered the way this one is being worked. The screenshots on this page are the actual working vault behind File 001 — not a mockup.

01 Your tree, rebuilt and corrected

Your full ancestry traced from primary records — not copied from other people's online trees. Errors found, documented, and fixed; every person tied to the record that proves them.

02 A living family graph

Your family as an interactive, color-coded, cross-referenced graph — people, places, documents, and open questions all linked together and organized like an investigation, not a chart.

03 A family website that's yours

Built for you and yours forever — a living site online that you share with the whole family with one link. Want it private? It can be password-protected, for family eyes only.

04 The full chain of proof

The records themselves — parish books, wills, census pages — embedded exactly where they're cited, so anyone in the family can follow the reasoning and check it.

The full working vault as a graph: File 001's notes, sources, and open questions at the center, linked to the surrounding production notes
The whole working vault at once. File 001 at the center — every note, source, and open question — and the production notes it connects to. Nothing in it is a loose end.
Close-up of the case core of the graph: the three research paths, known facts, evidence gallery, and open leads
Zoomed in: the case core. Three research paths, the verified facts, the evidence, the corrections filed, and the leads still open.
Close-up of how the case connects to the case log, filming plan, and publication notes
Zoomed in: how it ships. The same file drives the public case log, the filming plan, and every correction that goes out.
A single note from the file with the 1829 Matamoros burial register embedded directly below its citation
One note from the file. The primary record embedded where it's cited — Padre Ballí's 1829 burial entry, straight from the Matamoros parish register.

Your own file is built the same way, with the same rule: if it can't be tied to a document, it doesn't go in.

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