Method
The registry publishes only records that its owner has reviewed and approved, revision by revision. Every published claim points to the source it comes from, the place in that source and the date it was checked.
How to read a claim
- Established result
- Backed by an official or institutional source that was read.
- Attributed claim
- “X said Y”: who, where and when. Records that the statement was made, not that it is true.
- Research hypothesis
- A proposed explanation, always with who proposed it.
- Not established
- No value. The basis and the date of the check are shown instead.
An attributed statement records that someone said something, not that it is true. When sources disagree, each version is listed with its source and none is chosen for convenience. A value that the reviewed sources do not establish is shown as “not established”, with the scope of the check and its date.
What the registry does not do
- It does not infer a cause of death, a crime or a connection from age, profession, research topic or timing.
- It does not treat a criminal charge as a finding: charges are listed as legal proceedings and the accused is presumed innocent.
- It does not publish unverified material, private contact details or photographs whose source, rights and identity are not confirmed.
How a record is published
Research is prepared as a structured draft, validated, imported as an immutable revision, reviewed and approved by the owner (sensitive revisions are reconfirmed separately), exported into a deterministic snapshot and checked by an independent verifier before the site is built from it. The snapshot files are available on the data page.