Heritage research, told properly
Begin with the record. Follow it somewhere real.
A family story is more useful when it has a place to stand. Research gives us the thread; the itinerary gives you the hours between the archives.
What Nancy researches
The detail is the point.
Parish records. Townlands. Ports of departure. The names that change spelling from one document to the next, the address that appears only once, the church register that makes a family line feel less abstract.
I research the available trail with care, then separate what the documents tell us from what we would like them to say. The result is not a performance of certainty. It is a set of useful places, dates and questions.
That work can take us to Ireland, across the British Isles, or somewhere as unexpected as Las Vegas. A family story is allowed to have a strange turn.
From finding to going
01
Read the trail
We start with the names, documents and loose ends you already have.
02
Build the route
The research becomes a sequence of places with time to look properly.
03
Go beyond the archive
Every itinerary includes room for the hours between records: a road, a table, a town.
The promise is a real itinerary for the hours between archives — not just a folder of names.