An Open Ledger

Add to the Record

This chronicle was gathered by one man over a lifetime, and it is not finished. If you know a date it has wrong, a person it has missed, or a story it never heard, set it down here. Every submission is read and checked against the sources before the record changes.

What have you brought?

A correctionA date, place, name, or relationship the chronicle has wrong.Someone missingA person who belongs in the family but has no entry.More of the storyDetail, recollection, or a story that fills out an entry.A photograph or documentAn obituary, a bible page, a headstone, a certificate, a portrait.A privacy requestAsk that your own entry be corrected, completed, or further restricted.

Whom does it concern?

Person

Choose from the index if you can. If the person is not in it, type the name as you know it.

What the chronicle says now

What it should say required

How you know

A source is worth more than a certainty. Where the documents disagree, the chronicle records the disagreement rather than choosing quietly — so tell it what you have.

And who is sending it?

Your name required

Your place in the family, if any

Email, if you would like a reply

What you send goes to a private docket, not onto the site. Nothing about a living person is ever published beyond a name, a year of birth, and a place in the family — see the privacy note. Give only what you are content to have kept in the family's records.