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Five letters drafted, and put where a reader will find them

did David asked for the letters to be prepared and put on the errands page, so they are on the page rather than only in requests/ - /errands/#s-drafts now carries the sendable text of all five, formatted to copy. NONE OF THEM HAS BEEN SENT, and none can be sent from here: anything that leaves this archive goes from David's own address, which is the standing rule. TWO NEW: Archivo Historico Diocesano de Logrono - the Navarrete parish registers, in Spanish with an offer to continue in English. The only place this archive can name where LERENA y LERENA was settled local usage, and FamilySearch has not filmed the books - the catalogue returns one subject, Census, and one item, the 1752 Catastro. The letter is careful about what it would and would not settle: it cannot name Juan Carlos, and says so. RootsChat "Welsh Jen", TAYLOR of Bideford - offer first, ask second. This archive holds ten children with dates, six marriages with GRO references, four censuses and the 1939 Register, and needs only the Brayley line before Mary Ann Helena. That is the right way round for a first message. THREE CHASERS: Cancilleria (sent 9 Sep, five weeks silent) and Ejercito (8 Sep, five weeks silent), both narrowed to the one question that matters - what did he present to prove his nationality, and does it name his parents. Western Cape is NOT a chaser but a narrowing: the death notice it asked for turned up in David's own files on 16 September and gives both parents as not known, so the follow-up asks instead for the will of 6 February 1942 and the inventory. AND TWO OF THE FIVE CANNOT GO YET, FLAGGED IN RED ON THE PAGE. The Logrono letter has NO VERIFIED ADDRESS - this archive does not guess one, which is the rule every sent letter in requests/ records keeping. The RootsChat message has no email at all and needs an account and two forum posts before the private-message system unlocks. The other three go to addresses already verified and already used.

Five published addresses resolved to nothing, and no gate could have seen them

did The one dead address found by walking the live site was not one. Asking the frozen slug ledger which of its keys no longer name a row in the register found TWENTY-TWO stranded, of which FIVE had neither a page nor a redirect. Two had been dead since 23 September. /people/emilia-lerena-vega/ live 23 Sep - 12 Oct /people/vicenta-lerena-vega/ live 23 Sep - 12 Oct /people/domingo-razzetti/ live 11 Oct - 12 Oct /people/josefina-bertoglio/ live 11 Oct - 12 Oct /people/pedro-a-lerena/ minted and withdrawn inside 12 Oct, deployed in between, so a promise too THE MECHANISM IS THE LEDGER'S OWN STATED WEAKNESS. person-slugs.json freezes a slug per person so that reordering the register cannot shuffle anybody's URL. IT IS KEYED BY NAME. So a rename - a corrected surname, a birth estimate moved inside a parenthetical - does not move the key: it strands it, and build-people mints a fresh slug, usually base-2. The file's own _why calls this "the fault this file exists to prevent, merely made rarer". Today it happened seven times in one session, because today was a day of renames. AND NO EXISTING GATE COULD SEE IT, BY CONSTRUCTION. check-links follows the links a build emits; a stranded address has no inbound link left, precisely because the rename updated every reference to it. The build is internally consistent and externally broken. So tools/check-addresses.py reads the LEDGER and the REDIRECT TABLE rather than the built pages: every key that no longer names a row must still resolve by a page or a redirect. Wired into verify.sh. Five redirects added. TESTED AGAINST ITS OWN CASE, and the first test was wrong in the way everything else was wrong tonight: I pointed it at the CURRENT build, which already contained the five redirect stubs, so it passed on a tree that was broken. Reconstructing the build without those six directories, it reports all five. A gate that cannot be shown catching its own case is a gate guarding nobody - and a test run against the artefact you just fixed is not a test. Worth sweeping in the sibling archives: all of them renamed rows during the domain moves, and the Defranceschi sweep that found zero disappeared ids was measuring published ids, not ledger keys stranded by renames.

The "safe order" this file recommended was wrong, and so was the check it added

did Two retractions, both of advice published here within the last few hours, and both measured on other archives rather than argued. 1 · "BIND FIRST, IT COSTS NOTHING" IS FALSE. This file said GitHub keeps serving the previous build until the next deploy, so binding the domain ahead of the config change breaks nothing. Binding makes GitHub 301-REDIRECT the project-pages URL onto the new domain - so daviddef.github.io/TheX/ stops being an address at all, and the still-based build it lands on keeps its own assets at /TheX/_astro/..., which are gone on the new host. Falco, Mazza and Luwinski were live-broken for hours on that advice. THE GAP IS NOT ELIMINATED BY REORDERING, ONLY MOVED. Push first and the old address serves root-relative links that 404 there; bind first and it redirects to a host where the based build 404s. Both orderings break any site whose base is not '/'. What closes it is the two steps landing within the minute. The rule is the Luwinski session's; the measurement and the retraction are the Defranceschi session's, which had told four archives the opposite. 2 · AND THE CONFIRMATION STEP THIS ARCHIVE ADDED CONFIRMS THE BREAKAGE. The step was "after binding, confirm the new host answers with the old build" - sound in spirit, since binding is the only point at which you learn it took. The TEST was wrong. The home page answers 200 because the 301 lands you on it, while that build's stylesheet is 404ing beside it. So the check looked at what had been written rather than at what was there - the exact failure this file names twice above, committed by the step meant to prevent it. The test is now: fetch a BASED ASSET - the stylesheet or favicon at its old path - not the home page. CHECKED HERE AFTER THE FACT, because a retraction that does not test its own archive is just more intention: this site's stylesheet and favicon both answer 200 at root paths, /TheLerena/ correctly 404s on the new host, and build and binding agree. Lerena was never in this failure - it is bound, deployed and consistent - but the advice it published would have put the next archive there. /method/#s-the-move now carries seven traps.

A published address outlives the reason it was minted

did /people/pedro-lerena-vega/ was live this morning and 404s tonight. Found by walking the new domain page by page after it came up - nothing linked to it, so no gate caught it. THE CAUSE IS A RENAME THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN FREE. Pedro LERENA Vega was renamed when the census behind him turned out to be the padron of libro 264, 1850, rather than the c.1833 this archive had carried - moving his birth estimate from c.1817 to c.1834. slugify strips the parenthetical, so a rename touching only that should keep the address. The deduped slug moved to pedro-lerena-vega-2 regardless, and the base slug is now claimed by nobody. Redirect added. The comment records that the gates could not have caught this one: check-links only follows links that exist, and the address had no inbound link left after the errand that cited it was closed. Caught by the same habit as the rest of today: look at the artefact. The binding was read back from the API, the live pages were fetched one at a time, and this fell out of the fetch rather than out of a gate.

A count is a claim: the rule caught its own author, and it had caught me twice already

did The Defranceschi session re-measured the stranded archives and found its own first figure was wrong in the same way as everything else on the list. 36 AND 113 WERE BOTH TRUE OF THE SAME PAGE. The first count was reported as "every internal link on the home page". It had been piped through sort -u, so it was DISTINCT PATHS - and its pattern, href="/[a-z-]*/", silently dropped uppercase, digits, deeper paths and anchors. Narrow twice over. Re-measured: Lerena 113, D'Arcy 249, Falco 308 of 308 based and sound. The conclusion did not move, because zero based links is zero either way. But the failure is the list's own: a measurement that reports what the COMMAND ASKED FOR rather than what is THERE, committed by the session that had spent the evening describing that exact fault. AND IT IS NOT ONLY A DEPLOYMENT FAULT - this archive did the same thing twice the same day. 208 records for Artigas and 470 for the Cordon parish were both counts of what the query matched, not of what the place holds; both were published, and both had to be withdrawn within hours. The first was a place filter falling back to the country, the second a barrio read as a parish. All three are one mistake: a count presented as a fact about the world when it is a fact about the query. A COUNT IS A CLAIM AND HAS TO MEAN WHAT IT SAYS. That is now the closing line of /method/#s-the-move, cross-linked to the two withdrawals it describes.

Trap six: the order of operations, and this archive is sitting in it

did The Defranceschi session measured the five live archives while checking my Pages-cname point, and found that two of them - this one and D'Arcy - are serving home pages whose every internal link 404s. MEASURED HERE: daviddef.github.io/TheLerena/ carries 113 root-relative links and 0 based ones, beside a canonical aimed at lerena.defranceski.com, which does not answer because the repository's Pages custom domain is still unset. Nothing is lost and nothing is damaged - the archive is simply unreachable by its own navigation until one setting is changed. THE CAUSE IS AN ORDERING, NOT A MISTAKE IN THE WORK. The recipe said: push the config, then have the owner bind the domain, and the gap is about ninety seconds. The gap is however long it takes a person to click. Once base is '/' every link is site-root, and under a project path those resolve to daviddef.github.io/about/, which does not exist. THE SAFE ORDER IS THE REVERSE AND COSTS NOTHING: DNS resolves, then BIND the custom domain and confirm it answers, THEN push the base change. GitHub keeps serving the previous build until the next deploy, so binding first breaks nothing - the old build keeps working at both addresses. Pushing first guarantees a broken window of unknown length. Of the five archives that moved this week, the two whose owner was at the keyboard came through clean; the two that were not were left serving dead navigation. Found and owned by the Defranceschi session, whose recipe set the order. /method/#s-the-move now carries six traps, not five.

A deployment is evidence too: the move, and the five traps it took

did Records the change of address on /method/ as data/domain-migration.tsv, because three of the five failures below produce a build that looks entirely correct and the next archive to move should not have to rediscover them. 1. A PROJECT PATH CANNOT INHERIT A PARENT DOMAIN. defranceski.com is itself a Pages site served by its own repo, so defranceski.com/TheLerena/ 404s and a subdomain is the only clean route. 2. AN ACTIONS DEPLOY WITHOUT A CNAME DETACHES THE DOMAIN. It has to be in site/public/ and checked in the built output, not assumed from a setting. 3. THE LOCK FILE'S INTEGRITY HASH OUTLIVES THE SHA. Hand-replacing the pin updates `resolved` and leaves `integrity` as the old tarball's, so npm serves old code while every pin on display reads correct. 4. A SHARED KEY STOPS BEING A KEY WHEN EVERYBODY USES IT. Five archives on base "" meant the lookup returned the first, and the first green build of this move carried another archive's accent and a canonical pointing at its domain across 1,500 pages. 5. AND THE OBVIOUS CHECK MISSES IT: og:site_name reads correct on a wholly broken build, because the component takes it from a prop before it looks the archive up. The tells are canonical, og:url and theme-color. THE RULE ALL FIVE SHARE: verify the installed artefact, not the recorded intention. Never "does the pin say the right commit" but "is the new code in the installed file"; never "did I set the domain" but "is CNAME in dist". Each of the five reported back what was MEANT rather than what was THERE. That is the same rule this archive spent the rest of the day learning on documents - open the plate, not the index; read the act, not the volume label; ask the catalogue, not the breadcrumb. The phrasing is the Defranceschi session's, reached independently within the same hour. Attributed, because none of it was one session's work: the kit fix is the Blazevic session's, the og:site_name masking was found by D'Arcy, the lock-file trap and the instructing-comments point were found here, and the recipe and its correction are Defranceschi's. Five archives moving at once is what made two of these visible at all.

The Lerena Archive moves to lerena.defranceski.com

did site -> https://lerena.defranceski.com, base -> '/', BASE -> '', and site/public/CNAME written with the hostname. Kit re-pinned to e275c14. DNS verified resolving to GitHub Pages before any of this was pushed. THE THREE KNOWN TRAPS, CHECKED IN THE BUILD OUTPUT: CNAME present in dist/ - these sites deploy by Actions uploading site/dist, and a deploy without one DETACHES the custom domain. identity og:site_name "The Lerena Archive", theme-color #5B3A96 (ours, not the teal), canonical and og:url on the new origin, on the home page and on a deep page. stale hrefs eight hard-coded "/TheLerena/..." hrefs stripped from three pages and two data files; zero survive in 1,500 built pages. The github.com/daviddef/TheLerena repo URLs in changes.astro are NOT hrefs into this site and were left alone. AND TWO TRAPS THE RECIPE DID NOT HAVE, both of which cost real time: 1. RE-PINNING THE SHA IN package-lock.json BY HAND INSTALLS OLD CODE. The lock carries `resolved` AND `integrity`. String-replacing the SHA updates the first and not the second, so npm validates the fetch against the old tarball's hash and serves old content - silently, with the right SHA on display. rm -rf of the package and npm cache clean --force did not help. The fix is to let npm re-resolve: npm install github:daviddef/TheArchiveKit#<sha> 2. THE ARCHIVE IDENTITY BUG IS REAL AND WAS ALREADY FIXED UPSTREAM. With the old kit, SocialHead did ring.archives.find(a => a.base === base) - and once more than one archive has base "", find() returns the FIRST, which is Defranceschi. This build shipped Defranceschi's teal and archive.defranceski.com canonicals before it was caught. kit e275c14 - "An archive is identified by its origin, not its base" - replaces that with whoami(), which filters by base and then matches origin against SITE. My own kit commit 45e6dbb was one commit too early to have it. Comments that INSTRUCTED future sessions to write "/TheLerena/..." into prose were rewritten rather than deleted - in data/open-questions.tsv and data/searched-index.tsv - because left as they were they would have reintroduced dead links on the next edit. Gate green: 687 people, 1,500 pages, sitemap regenerated on the new origin with zero daviddef.github.io left in it.

The holder formula swept, two controls passed, and it returns only what we had

did The four adults who carry this name at Sarandi 229 in 1850 have no act to say how the surname reached them. The parish formula - "esclava de [holder]" - is the thing that would say it, so it was run against every Lerena this archive can name. TWO POSITIVES, BOTH ALREADY HELD: "esclava de Don Sancho Lerena" -> Montevideo Catedral, Baptism Records 1811-1813: the act of 26 September 1812 for Maria Mercedes, daughter of Juana. "esclava de Don Alejandro Lerena" -> San Jose de Mayo, the baptism of 25 April 1846 and the burial of the 28th: Barbara and Carmelo Anselmo. NOTHING: "esclava de Don Pedro Antonio Lerena", "esclava de Pedro Lerena", "esclava de Luis Lerena", "esclavo de Don Sancho Lerena", "liberta de Don Pedro Lerena". Two controls passing in the same form and the same session, so those are real nulls and not the shape failing. AND THE ABBREVIATION RULE IS NOW EXACT. Written three ways in one hour: "esclava de D.n Alejandro Lerena" matches NOTHING; "esclava de Don Alejandro Lerena" matches; "esclava de Alejandro Lerena" matches. The search tolerates a MISSING word and chokes on an ABBREVIATED one. This archive's sources are full of D.n, D.a, S.n and V.a, every one of which will return a confident empty page. WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE FOUR, stated without tidying. What is excluded is only the narrow thing: that a surviving, transcribed parish act says "esclava de" and then names a Lerena this archive can name. Three readings survive and the sweep does not choose between them - their acts may use "parda libre" or "morena libre"; they may name no holder at all, which is exactly how Barbara appears on the BURIAL even though her baptism names hers; or their acts are not transcribed. So the Cordon burials of 1839-1852 must be read by eye, and that errand is now the only route left. It carries the abbreviation trap with it.

An abbreviation hid Barbara's baptism, and the act gives her a surname in writing

did Looking for parish acts that state the condition of the four who carry this name at Sarandi 229 found none - but found something else, and a false zero worth more than either. THE CONTROL FAILED, WHICH SAVED TWO NULLS. "esclava de D.n Alejandro Lerena" - a phrase this archive has read word for word off a plate - returns "No Results Found" in full text. The same phrase without the abbreviation, "esclava de Alejandro Lerena", returns BOTH documents at once. The machine transcript expands or drops D.n, so the abbreviation breaks the match. Two nulls built on that shape - "esclava de Don Pedro Lerena" and "liberta de Don Pedro Lerena" - were about to be written down. A phrase search is only as good as the transcriber's abbreviations, and this archive's sources are full of D.n, D.a, S.n and V.a. Logged in false-zeros. AND THE SECOND DOCUMENT WAS THE BAPTISM, which this archive did not have. San Jose de Mayo, 25 April 1846: "bautice solemnemente a Car[melo] Anselmo, que nacio el VEINTIUNO del mismo, hijo natural de BARBARA LERENA, NATURAL DE ESTA VILLA, ESCLAVA DE DON ALEJANDRO LERENA: fueron Padrinos Jose Carreras y Petronila Escobar." Three things the burial does not give: - THE ACT WRITES HER AS BARBARA LERENA. This register says she was not a Lerena, and as to family that stands - but the priest gave her the surname of the man who held her, in writing, and that is a fact to record rather than tidy away. - She was born at San Jose de Mayo - "natural de esta Villa" - a field this row had blank. - The child was born on the 21st, not the 20th, which also squares with the burial's "de edad de siete dias" on the 28th. Corrected. Two godparents entered: JOSE CARRERAS and PETRONILA ESCOBAR, who stood for the son of an enslaved woman four days before he died. No role is furniture. The whole of Carmelo Anselmo's life is now on two facing acts: baptised on the 25th, dead on the 27th, buried on the 28th. The four of Sarandi 229 are still unfound. The nulls there are weak and said to be: the compound surname is the wrong shape, since such people are entered by forename alone - as Barbara is on the burial - and the forenames alone are too common to sweep. What IS established is that the vocabulary is searchable: "esclava" with a Cordon filter returns 49 pages. The errand stands.

Casa 229 of Calle Sarandi, and four people who carry this name

did Looking for one missing child found four adults who had never been named. LEONARDA WAS NEVER MISSING FROM THE PADRON - only from her parents' house. Born 20 February 1837, she is entered at CASA 229 OF CALLE SARANDI in the padron of 1850, blanca and oriental, aged eleven where thirteen would be right. This archive had used her absence to date the census; that inference is now doubly gone. AND THE NUMBER WAS A TRAP. Her parents are at a DIFFERENT casa 229, on another street. There are at least two houses numbered 229 in one padron, so "household 229" - which this archive has used as a name for weeks and named a file after - was never an identifier at all. SHE IS ALSO THE ONLY WHITE PERSON IN THAT HOUSE. The four adults entered with her carry the surname by ditto - D.o - and the other columns say what the names do not: Estanislada 20 morena Sinforiano 19 the same Manuela 60 casada, and her PATRIA IS AFRICA Rosa 46 oriental, casada This archive has documented five people this family held in slavery, among them BARBARA, named on an act of 1846 as "esclava de D.n Alejandro Lerena", whose son was baptised with no surname of his own. Slavery was abolished in Uruguay in 1842, so in 1850 these four are legally free, still in the house, still under the name. MANUELA IS THE FIRST AFRICAN-BORN PERSON THIS ARCHIVE HAS BEEN ABLE TO NAME in connection with this family - the others are known only as "Barbara, esclava", or by a forename on a baptism. Born about 1790, she was carried across the Atlantic as a child or a young woman. WHAT IS NOT CLAIMED. The padron has no column for condition. What is established is four adults recorded with this surname by ditto, three of them morena and one born in Africa, at one address in 1850. That the surname reached them as Barbara's reached her son is AN INFERENCE AND IS FILED AS ONE. What would settle it is a baptism or burial at the Cordon or the Catedral, where the word is written outright - and the Cordon death register of 1839-1852 is already in this archive's hands, unread. Raised as an errand. Manuela and Rosa are both casada, so each has a husband who is not in that house. All four are entered in the register as people in their own right, because no role is furniture.

The film carries no padron before 1843, so c.1833 was never on the table

did Propagating yesterday's dating correction turned up the file that had held the error, and a check inside it that cuts the other way - so I went back to the catalogue before letting the correction stand. data/household-229-pedro-antonio.tsv offered TWO internal arguments for c.1833: the head's age of forty against a birth of 1793, and the absence of LEONARDA MARGARITA LERENA VEGA, born 20 February 1837 - "at a census of about 1833 she is not yet born, and that is the check". A child missing from the house is a real argument for an earlier book. IT DOES NOT SURVIVE THE FILM. FamilySearch catalogue koha:1408224 lists film 7499042 (physical 1263686) item by item, all six: item 1 libro 263 1843 item 4 libros 265, 258 1852-1853 item 2 LIBRO 264 1850 item 5 libro 267 1858 item 3 libro 257 1852-1853 item 6 libro 268 1860 There is no padron earlier than 1843 on this reel at all - the 1836 books, libros 147-149, are on film 7499043. So a census "of about 1833" was never available to be read here, whatever the ages seemed to say. Household 229 is in item 2: the padron of 1850. BOTH OF THE OLD ARGUMENTS WERE THE SAME CIRCLE. The date was inferred from the identification and the identification then rested on the date; the Leonarda check inherited the circle, since it only dates the page if an earlier page exists. Her absence is now a QUESTION - at the padron of 1850 she would be thirteen and should be in her parents' house - and it is raised as its own errand, with the 1843 book named as the place to narrow it. PROPAGATED, not just logged: the household file rewritten with its old reasoning left visible and marked, Leonarda's row, Pedro Antonio's row (which no longer claims household 229), relations.tsv, the person-pairs declarations, the errand, the work list, and the plate added to sources-consulted.tsv - which is the gate that caught me not listing it.

The census is the padron of 1850, and the head of household 229 is not Sancho's son

did The catalogue settles what the plate could not. FamilySearch koha:1408224, "Uruguay, Montevideo, censos, 1726-1860", lists film 7499042 item by item: item 1 = Padrones de habitantes, LIBRO 263, 1843 item 2 = Padrones de habitantes, LIBRO 264, 1850 item 3 = Padrones de habitantes, libro 257, 1852-1853 Household 229 sits in item 2. So the enumeration is the PADRON OF 1850 - libro 264 - and the catalogue names the actual register book, which no label had. The viewer breadcrumb and the catalogue now agree. c.1833 is withdrawn. AND THE ERROR WAS CIRCULAR, which is why it stood for weeks. The c.1833 was inferred from the head's age of forty matching Pedro Antonio Lerena, born 31 July 1793 - and the identification then rested on the date. Entered at forty in 1850 he was born about 1810. The correction survives the neighbouring book too: in the 1843 padron he would be born about 1803. Under EITHER candidate volume he is too young, so household 229 stops being evidence of Sancho's son whichever way it falls. What it still is: a Pedro A. Lerena married to a Vicenta Vega with three children - the same couple the Catedral baptism of 4 July 1837 attests. So either that couple is not Sancho's son's either, or one of the two records is badly wrong about an age. Published unresolved rather than argued either way. THREE BIRTH YEARS MOVED SEVENTEEN YEARS LATER. Emilia c.1815 to c.1832, Pedro c.1817 to c.1834, Vicenta c.1821 to c.1838. The ages on the plate are unchanged - 18, 16 and an age struck through - only the subtraction changed. The register rows, relations.tsv and the person-pairs declarations were moved together, which is the part that usually gets missed. One residue, recorded and not reconciled: the 1896 death act makes Pedro sixty-nine, implying about 1827, where the padron implies 1834. Seven years, on an age given by a son at a desk.

The 1850 is item-level, and accepting it would detach household 229 from Sancho

did A follow-up on the contested census date, and it tilts - without settling. THE DATE IS NOT A FILM LABEL. This archive's standing rule, learned the hard way at DGS 005497886, is that a FILM's label describes only its first segment and must never be trusted for frames deeper in. That rule does not rescue the c.1833 here: the viewer's breadcrumb reads "Montevideo. Census 1850 - #007499042 > Item 2", on a film titled generically "Uruguay, Canelones, censos". The 1850 is ITEM 2's OWN TITLE - the level the rule says to trust. SO THE EVIDENCE TILTS TO 1850, AND THE COST IS LARGE. A head entered at forty in 1850 was born about 1810. That is NOT Pedro Antonio Lerena, son of Sancho, born 31 July 1793 - it is a different Pedro A. Lerena, and this register already warns that more than one exists, naming a separate Pedro Antonio who married Teresa Leonard. The children's years would move to about 1832, 1834 and 1838, and household 229 would stop being evidence of Sancho's son at all. THAT IS TOO MUCH TO CHANGE ON A BREADCRUMB, so nothing is changed. The conflict is published rather than resolved by preference, the three derived birth years stay flagged as resting on it, and the errand carries both the tilt and what would settle it: the enumeration's own date inside the volume, or the catalogue entry for item 2 of film 007499042.

Household 229 is undated, and three birth years in this register rest on that

did An errand raised an hour earlier assumed the c.1833 dating of Montevideo household 229 was a loose guess that the 1896 death act would overturn. It is not a loose guess, and the answer is worse than either option: the date is contested and three birth years here rest on it. READ AT THE PLATE (ark 3:1:3QS7-99ZP-BBKX, apid TH-1951-36718-25784-7): 229 D. Pedro A. Lerena varon 40 D.a Vicenta Vega muger 35 D.a Emilia Lerena 18 D.n Pedro D.o varon 16 D.a Vicenta D.o muger [age struck] The children carry the surname only as D.o - dicho, ditto - which is worth noting in an archive whose whole problem is how this name gets written down. THE CONFLICT. FamilySearch labels the volume "Montevideo. Census 1850". This archive dates the household c.1833 - and that inference is sound: the head at FORTY matches Pedro Antonio Lerena, born 31 July 1793, husband of a Vicenta Vega of Cerro Largo, a couple attested independently by a Catedral baptism of 4 July 1837 and by both standing godparents at the Aguada on 21 November 1852. A man born in 1793 is forty in 1833 and fifty-seven in 1850. AND A THIRD ANCHOR AGREES WITH NEITHER. The son's death act, read earlier this evening, makes him sixty-nine in November 1896 - which wants a census of about 1843. Three anchors, three answers: 1817, 1827, 1834. WHAT IS AND IS NOT AFFECTED. The attachment is safe: the death act names his parents outright. What is not safe is a date - so Emilia, Pedro and Vicenta LERENA Vega, carried here as c.1815, c.1817 and c.1821, are now marked in their rows as resting on an unestablished enumeration, and the errand is rewritten from "re-date it" to "date it", still open, with what would settle it: a title page or certifying signature elsewhere in the volume, or the catalogue entry behind image group M9Z3-PQJ. This is a worse position than this archive thought it was in an hour ago. It is the true one, and it was reached by opening the plate instead of trusting either label.

The act was opened the same evening, and it names his parents

did An hour after calling Montevideo death act 353 "the cheapest act in the archive", it is read at the plate. It confirms the index and settles a question this register asked on 11 October. ACTA No. 353, 15a Seccion de la Capital, 7 November 1896, before Vicente Carricaonde. PEDRO LERENA, nacido en Montevideo, SESENTA Y NUEVE anos, casado, died at five in the afternoon of the previous day at calle Rivera No. 163, of tisis pulmonar, certified by Dr Vitale. "HIJO LEGITIMO DE DON PEDRO A. LERENA, ORIENTAL, FALLECIDO, Y DE DONA VICENTA DE LA VEGA, ORIENTAL, FALLECIDA." So the Pedro who married Manuela Lemos is a son of Pedro Antonio Lerena and Vicenta de la Vega - which is the parentage of Pedro LERENA Vega, counted in Montevideo household 229. The row entered on 11 October said in terms that which Pedro she married was not settled. It is now, from the act rather than from an index. AND THE CLOSING PARAGRAPH NAMES THE FAMILY. "El finado era casado con Dona Manuela, oriental, de 53 anos, y de cuyo matrimonio existen ... Antonio = Carlos Teodoro = Manuel Antonio ... y que el primer declarante es hijo del fallecido." Two sons new to this archive - ANTONIO and CARLOS TEODORO - a third already held, and a fourth standing at the desk: Don Pedro A. Lerena, soltero, empleado, the third Pedro of the line in a row. Second declarant Angel V. Garcia, 25. Four people entered; no role is furniture. AND IT BREAKS A DATE, WHICH IS A BETTER PROBLEM THAN THE ONE IT REPLACES. Sixty-nine in November 1896 means born about 1827. A man born in 1827 is SIX in 1833, not sixteen - he is sixteen in 1843. This archive dates household 229 c.1833 and takes his birth year from his age there. The act names his parents outright, so the attachment is safe whichever way it falls; the census date is not. Re-dating household 229 is raised as its own errand and work-list row, because if the enumeration is 1843 then every age-derived birth year taken from it needs re-checking - his sister Emilia LERENA Vega among them. 18 person-pairs compared and kept apart by hand, including Pedro LERENA Vega against Pedro A. LERENA the younger - father and son, two rows on purpose, and the act is what says so.

Two questions asked from opposite ends meet on one 1896 death record

did Working the last of the Cordon's four leads - a Manuel Antonio Lerena the machine transcript calls "araguayo" - produced something better than a Paraguayan branch. HE IS NOT PARAGUAYAN. The only Manuel Antonio Lerena the index places in Montevideo was born there on 31 March 1883, christened 9 April, son of PEDRO A. LERENA and MANUELA LEMOS; he later married Esther EVIA, with sons Manuel Walter (b. 16 Nov 1921) and Alberto Nestor. So the Cordon record is either a different man or a misreading - the same transcript writes Montevideo as "Monterdes" - and the whole index holds ONE Lerena record in Paraguay. Not closed, not tiered, and no Paraguayan branch written down. THE CONVERGENCE. On 11 October this archive entered MANUELA LEMOS, wife of an unidentified "Pedro A. LERENA", with two children fifteen years apart, and wrote on her row in terms: WHICH PEDRO LERENA SHE MARRIED IS NOT SETTLED. Today's 1896 death record - found while chasing an Artigas place filter that turned out to be Montevideo - names that man's parents: PEDRO A. LERENA and VICENTA DE LA VEGA, with spouse MANUELA LEMOS. That is exactly the parentage of PEDRO LERENA VEGA, counted at sixteen in Montevideo household 229 about 1833. Two questions asked from opposite ends land on one certificate. AND THE AGE PROBLEM INVERTS. This afternoon this archive declined to merge partly because the census implies c.1817 and the death age implies 1827. A man born 1827 fathers a child in 1883 at fifty-six; one born 1817 does it at sixty-six. The death record's estimate fits the children better, so the census age is the one to doubt - the reverse of how the rows were weighted a few hours ago. STILL NOT MERGED. Both sides are index-level. So the act is raised as an errand and a work-list row: open Montevideo death certificate 353 of 7 November 1896, ark 1:1:6YDY-GP3T. It is the cheapest act in the archive right now - if it confirms the index, a whole Montevideo line attaches to the trunk: Felicia Clementina b. c.1868, Pedro Antonio b.1875, Manuel Antonio b.1883, and Manuel Antonio's sons by Esther Evia.

The Cordon's 470 was the barrio, not the parish - and the parish is an afternoon

did This morning this file said the Cordon parish holds 470 documents of the surname, called it the largest unworked seam in the archive, and warned - in the same breath - that an errand understating its own size is how a seam stays unopened for a month. It then overstated its own size by five times. q.anyPlace=Cordon scopes the NEIGHBOURHOOD. Paged to the end: 95 of the first 100 hits are Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor volumes and PAGES 2 AND 3 CONTAIN NOT ONE. The rest are La Union, Pocitos, San Francisco de Asis, the Catedral and the Montevideo civil marriage registers - records of people who merely lived in the Cordon. The parish's own share is about 95. SECOND PLACE-FILTER ERROR OF THE DAY, DIFFERENT CAUSE. At Artigas the filter fell back to the country when the department would not resolve. Here it resolved correctly and the archive read a barrio as a parish. Controlled this time: a fake sub-place, "Nonesuch, Montevideo", returns 26 pages - the whole department - while Cordon returns 5. AND THE CORRECTION IS GOOD NEWS. 95 documents across 43 volumes is an afternoon, not a campaign, and the errand and work-list row now say so. Baptisms 1828-1923, marriages 1842-1931, burials and deaths 1839-1926, with the surname across the whole span. A BOOK NOBODY HERE KNEW EXISTED. Among the densest volumes is a bundled parish register: Religious Rite Registers 1895-1898, MARRIAGE DISPENSATION RECORDS 1895-1898, Religious Marriage Records 1895-1898 - five Lerena hits. This morning's sweep concluded there is no tenth Lerena dispensation; that conclusion was about the ARQUIDIOCESIS register and it stands, but a parish kept dispensation records of its own. Two of the five opened: both are civil marriage testimonios copied into the parish book rather than dispensations, so it is not yet a tenth. Three are unread. CARVALLO LERENA, one of this morning's four untouched leads, is partly worked: a civil marriage testimonio of 8 July 1896, expediente 60, parties at Calle Chana 61, signed "C. Carvallo Lerena". A second hit gives an Arturo Rivas Lerena b. 13 August 1872, but his parents carry no Lerena between them, so the compound may be the machine's. The transcript writes Montevideo as "Monterdes" - nothing here is tiered and both need the plate. Still untouched: the Manuel Antonio Lerena recorded PARAGUAYO.

The Cordon's first four leads, and three of them corrected this archive instead

did The parish was sized this morning - 42 volumes, 470 documents - and four leads written down off the first page. This is what happened to them. THE PRIZE WAS ALREADY ANSWERED. The lead was a Cordon baptism that might name AVELINO LERENA's own parents and so attach the Traibel branch to Sancho, which data/compound-surname-sweep.tsv has called unattached since 14 September: "NO record found names his own parents." It does not hold. Two baptisms of his children at San Francisco de Asis on 12 March 1858 name them, and his register row has cited them for weeks. He is Avelino LERENA Fernandez, son of Sancho, b. c.1815, d. Montevideo 23 August 1890. The note was stale for a month and is corrected in place, not deleted. Worth noting against the gate built earlier today: that sentence is a SCOPED null - "no record names his PARENTS" - so check-nulls does not catch it. The gate guards blanket claims. This one needed a human reading the register. THE SECOND WIFE IS NOT ONE. Cordon christenings 1866-1870 name Avelino Lerena with CELEDONIA VILLADEMOROS, which looks like a remarriage. They belong to his son, Avelino Eduardo Lerena Traibel - already in this register with four children and a note on the spellings of her surname. That is three times in one day that something which looked new was already here. It is the strongest argument this archive has for reading itself before it writes. ONE RECORD GENUINELY UNACCOUNTED FOR. An AVELINO LERENA buried at the CEMENTERIO CENTRAL DE MONTEVIDEO on 2 June 1860. The Avelino held here died in 1890; his son was fathering children in 1866. So a third man of the name was buried in 1860 and nobody in this register answers to it. Most likely an infant named for his father - this family reuses names constantly - and filed as a guess. Find a Grave is a derivative index, not an act, and its photograph is cited, not republished. The burial register has not been opened. AND THE CORDON IS STILL UNREAD. The Paraguayan Manuel Antonio Lerena and the Carvallo Lerena household are untouched; 469 of 470 pages are unturned. The errand stays open. What this afternoon bought at the Cordon was three corrections and one unexplained burial - a fair afternoon, and not a reading of the parish.

Salvador's baptism settles the Leandro identification - and withdraws this afternoon's Artigas count

did TWO THINGS, and the second is a correction of work published three hours ago. SETTLED. The San Cristobal baptism register of Buenos Aires, 1896, certificate 288, read at the plate: "bautizo solemnemente a Salvador que nacio el dia veinte y uno de Setiembre del ano corriente. Hijo legitimo de D.n LEANDRO LERENA, de cuarenta y dos anos, natural de Espana, y de D.a LUCIA LLANOS, de treinta y cuatro anos, natural de Espana, domiciliados en Calle PICHINCHA N.o 929." Godparents Salvador Angulo, 23, and Catalina Martinez, 27. That closes an identification published this morning on a fitted birth year, and kills the 10 October "true null" for good: the army card's LORENA is the census's LERENA, and its "Lucio Llanos" is LUCIA. It also hands the household a street address, a real birth date, and a three-year disagreement about Leandro's age that is recorded rather than averaged. Salvador's row renamed to what the act says, with a redirect. WITHDRAWN: "ARTIGAS HOLDS 208 LERENA RECORDS AGAINST 699 FOR FLORES." q.anyPlace falls back to the country. "Nonesuch, Uruguay" - a department that does not exist - returns 1,787, which is the whole-country figure, and records indexed only to "Uruguay" satisfy every departmental query. Of the first hundred Artigas hits, 15 name Artigas, 28 name somewhere else entirely, and 57 carry no place at all. Caught by opening a record the Artigas query returned: the 1896 death of "Pedro a Lerena" sits in "Montevideo. Death Records 1896". The control that was run - Osaka returning 0 - proved the filter binds on COUNTRY and was read as proving it binds on DEPARTMENT. A control licenses the shape of a query, not the value it returns. The useful control is a department that does not exist, and it takes one query. WHAT SURVIVES. The Artigas nulls are if anything stronger, because a filter that widens cannot hide a record. Benito Lerena's household is real - five infant deaths explicitly registered at Artigas 1893-1902, and Teodoro Alves Lerena's birth registered there in 1907. WHAT DOES NOT: Domingo and Asuncion Lerena are not shown to be of Artigas, and the Pedro death is Montevideo - which makes it a BETTER fit for Pedro LERENA Vega, counted at Montevideo about 1833, not a worse one. Still not merged: two age-derived birth years a decade apart. His spouse is given as Manuela Lemos, and a second death names the same Manuela as the mother of a Pedro Antonio Lerena born 1875.

A gate that asks whether the archive agrees with itself - and it catches yesterday

did Today this archive made the same serious mistake twice and no gate could see either: a null published while the register held the man under another spelling, and a mechanism published as new that another file had carried for a month. Neither was a retraction, so check-superseded was blind; neither was drift. Nothing asked whether two LIVE claims in two files contradicted each other. tools/check-nulls.py reads every data row asserting a BLANKET null - true null, only record, in any country, on earth - pulls the names out, folds the surname through the fourteen spellings /name/ publishes, and compares the claim with that person's register row. IT COMPARES SOURCES, NOT PRESENCE, AND THE FIRST VERSION GOT THAT WRONG. Failing on any name the register held reported 91, which is nonsense: half this register is people known from a single document, and "the card is the only record of this household" does not conflict with the household having a row. Being in the register is not the same as having records. It now asks whether the register cites the very record the claim concedes. TWO MORE PRECISION BUGS, BOTH FOUND BY RUNNING IT. Keying on the first forename alone - which is what check-duplicates does - matched "Juan Carlos Lerena" to Juan JOSE Lerena and "Angelica Maria" to Angelica TERESA; a gate that ASSERTS a contradiction needs the whole forename sequence. And scoped nulls ("no marriage of Fidel Lerena TO Maria Rueda") are not in conflict with anything, so only blanket claims count now. PROVED AGAINST ITS OWN CASE. Run on the tree as it stood before the error was found, it reports: cajon-985-last-two.tsv says 'LEANDRO LORENA' has no record, but 'Leandro LERENA' is in the register from a source the claim never mentions: 1895 census, Seccion 18. A gate that cannot be shown catching the thing it was built for is a gate guarding nobody. AND IT FOUND DRIFT INSIDE THE TOOLCHAIN. check-duplicates.py carried its own hard-coded SIX spellings while /name/ published fourteen - the same two-rows-that-never-meet failure, in the gates themselves. Both now read the published list. Folding PERENA onto LERENA surfaced ELEVEN same-name pairs the gate had been under-reading for weeks; all eleven compared and kept apart by hand. Also closes the date warning I raised this morning. Seven register rows carry an 1879 date; five are from other sources, two are bare CEMLA years, and exactly one comes from the suspect collection - day-level, and corroborated by an independent christening. The artefact produces MONTH-level dates. No held date needed changing, and the audit says so rather than leaving a warning hanging.

A null this archive published as a model was broken by a record it already held

did On 10 October this archive published Leandro Lorena and his wife Llanos as a true null - the army card of their son Salvador their only record in the index, in any country - and offered it as the model of what a properly controlled null looks like. The search was signed in, the constraint bound, eleven LLANOS rows came back across five countries and exactly one was theirs. THE SEARCH WAS SOUND AND THE CONCLUSION WAS WRONG. They are on lines 7 to 11 of the 1895 Buenos Aires census, Seccion 18 Subdivision 34, read at the plate today: LERENA Leandro, varon, 38, casado, espanol, born at SEGOVIA, literate, trade written "F.te de Aceite" - an oil maker; LLANOS Lucia, 32; LERENA Emilia, 9, born in Spain; LERENA Francisco, 5, born at LA PLATA; and Paulina, EIGHT MONTHS old, portena. The surname is settled at the plate: its initial matches the Ll of "Llanos" on the line below and differs from the S of "Sanchez" two lines above. WHY THE NULL HELD, which is the part worth keeping. A spouse-pair query constrains on a MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP. A census has none - it is a list of people in a dwelling, each indexed on their own - so no census can satisfy that query however well it binds. The query was structurally blind to the record type the answer was in. Logged in false-zeros as the first disguise in that file where the search WORKED and still produced a false null: a control proves the query is running, it cannot prove the query can see the record. AND THE ARCHIVE ALREADY HELD THE ANSWER. Leandro, Emilia, Francisco and Paulina were all four in this register before the null was written, marked "Leandro's household" and described as a separate, Spanish-born family. The one name that would have joined them to the card was the wife's, and LUCIA LLANOS had never been entered. An archive does not need a new record to make this mistake; it needs two rows that never meet. Salvador, b.1896, fits the gap exactly - the year after a census complete to an eight-month-old. Not proved by an act, and the row says so: his 1896 birth registration would settle it. 2 people added (Lucia Llanos, Salvador), 4 enriched, open question 1 rewritten.

Artigas: 208 records of this name, 500km north, and nobody had opened it

did Artigas sits on the Brazilian border and appears nowhere in this archive's searched list. Everything here assumes the family runs Canelones to Montevideo to Trinidad. The department arrived this morning by accident, when a cross-spelling sweep turned up a birth act at San Eugenio. Asked directly it returns 208 LERENA records - against 699 for Flores, the heartland this archive was built on - plus 103 Serena, 99 Perena, 37 Lorena, 32 Llerena, 28 Larena, 21 Gerena, 3 Lerina. Controlled at Osaka, which is 0. IT DOES NOT ANSWER THE CENTRAL QUESTION, and the null is published rather than left unsaid: Juan Carlos exact as subject 0, as father 0, and a Lerena father against a Lerena mother 0, all inside Artigas. An unworked department is exactly where a reader would assume we simply had not looked. WHAT IT HOLDS. Benito Lerena - the jornalero who could not sign his name - registered FIVE INFANT DEATHS at Artigas between 1893 and 1902. Gumersindo, born 1898, died 8 March 1899, ten weeks before Benito walked into the Juzgado de Paz to register a grandson. And the index gives that one mother four surnames in nine years - Araujo, Cordero, Cuestima, Araujo Cardozo - because the act calls her only "Dona Maria Cristina" and the index has a field that must be filled. The mother-manufacturing failure, caught five times over. Anastasia Lerena and Honorio Alvarez have a second son, Teodoro, born 22 April 1907 under the spelling ALVES - so Juan Ildebel has a brother. AND ONE IDENTIFICATION NOT MADE. The Artigas index holds a "Pedro a Lerena" who died 6 November 1896, father Pedro A. Lerena, mother VICENTA DE LA VEGA - the same parents, and the same odd "Pedro a" form, as Pedro LERENA Vega, counted at 16 in Montevideo household 229 about 1833. Rather than create a second row I folded a CANDIDATE death into his, untiered, and said what it would mean: a Montevideo boy of 1833 dying on the Brazilian frontier would tie the Artigas Lerenas to this archive's own trunk. That is too large a claim to rest on an index, so it rests on nothing until the act is opened. 5 people added, 5 person-pairs compared and kept apart. Everything here is a survey from the record index; one Artigas act has been read at the plate.

The Cordon is forty-two volumes and 470 documents - sized, not searched

did A standing errand since September said only "search the Iglesia del Cordon". Nobody had established that the registers were filmed, let alone how big the job was. They are filmed to an unusual degree and machine-read throughout. Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor, Montevideo: FORTY-TWO VOLUMES - baptisms 1828-1923, marriages 1842-1931, burials and deaths 1839-1926. A near-unbroken century, every volume in the full-text corpus. It holds 470 documents mentioning this surname. That is the largest unworked seam in this archive and it was being carried as an afternoon's skim. The number is published and the errand stays OPEN, with the scale written into it, because an errand that understates its own size is how a seam goes a month untouched - which is exactly what the dispensation errand did, corrected earlier today. ONE QUESTION ANSWERED ON THE WAY. A "Juan Carlos" appears beside the surname in the results, and any Juan Carlos near this name has to be checked. Run as a phrase it is a single document in the Cordon marriage register of 1916-1926: Juan Carlos GONZALEZ LERENA, a Gonzalez by his father and a Lerena by his mother, already in this register. Ours fathered a child in 1882. Forty years out and the wrong surname. WHERE THE NEXT SESSION STARTS - four leads off the first page, none opened and none tiered: a Cordon baptism of a daughter of AVELINO LERENA and AMBROSIA TRAIBEL, the branch this archive still cannot attach to Sancho; Avelino the younger standing godfather; a MANUEL ANTONIO LERENA recorded PARAGUAYO, a nationality never met here; and a CARVALLO LERENA household.

There is no tenth dispensation - and the errand had been stale for a month

did Yesterday this archive published, as a new finding, a mechanism it had written down on 14 September. The correction is logged as serious and the file is rewritten rather than deleted, because an archive that quietly removes its duplicated findings cannot tell how often it duplicates them. WHAT WAS ALREADY KNOWN. data/compound-surname-sweep.tsv, 14 September: the September dispensation sweep's formula was "LERENA FELIGRESA" and the compound surname sits between the two words. It had already run Lerena Juanico, Lerena Lenguas and Lerena Traibel, and had already found the NINTH dispensation through it - Jose Pedro Massera's petition of 19 June 1913 to marry Dona Ema Sixta LERENA JUANICO, feligresa de la metropolitana. The errand "re-run the dispensation sweep on COMPOUND surnames" had been sitting ready for a month against work that was half done. Caught by finishing the job rather than describing it: opening the 1913 plate to check whether it was new led to a grep that returned the September file. WHAT TODAY ADDS. The six forms nobody had run - Lerena Pelaez, Lerena Fernandez, Lerena Villademoros, Lerena Cardozo, Lerena Larriera, Lerena Razzetti - each read to the END of its result set. FamilySearch's full-text results URL takes count=100, which turns a top-ranked first page into a whole result set; without it this would have been the ranked-list mistake this archive has already made at "290 records" and at herencia. THE RESULT. Two of the eight forms reach the dispensation register and both land on dispensations already held: 1911 through Lerena Cardozo, 1913 through Lerena Juanico. That makes them controls rather than finds - the queries demonstrably hit the target, and there is nothing else in it. NO TENTH LERENA DISPENSATION. The errand is closed. One detail worth keeping: the machine transcript of the 1913 petition renders the groom's surname as Massera once and Tomasera once, in one short document. That is /name/'s lesson in a Latin alphabet and a modern hand.

The dispensation sweep was blind to the opposite of what the errand assumed

did The errand has stood ready since September on a one-line reason: by 1900 Lerena is largely a MATERNAL surname inside compounds, so a surname-first sweep under-reads this family. The reason was half wrong, and which half is the useful part. The September sweep used two of the register's own formulae - "Lerena el impedimento" for a groom, "Lerena feligresa" for a bride. A phrase search is an adjacency. A compound where Lerena comes SECOND survives it intact: "Gonzalez Lerena el impedimento" still contains the phrase. A compound where Lerena comes FIRST does not, because a second surname is pushed into the middle: "Lerena Pelaez el impedimento" contains neither formula. So the sweep was already catching the maternal-surname case the errand was raised to fix, and was blind to the paternal one nobody had thought about. AND THE GAP IS NOT EMPTY. Clerks do write the compound. "Lerena Pelaez" returns the Trinidad (Flores) confirmation register 1891-1905; "Lerena Lenguas" three Montevideo volumes; "Lerena Fernandez" two more. "Lerena Traibel" - the best-documented branch in this archive - returns nothing at all corpus-wide, which is its own small fact. Controlled against "Lerena y Lerena" in the same form and session, which returns a full page of volumes. PUBLISHED UNFINISHED, ON PURPOSE. None of those searches put the dispensation register in its top results, and that is suggestive, not proof: the result sets were not paged. A ranked list is not a searched volume, and this archive has been caught by that twice - at "290 records" and at herencia. The errand stays OPEN, now carrying the eight compound forms to run it with. Free, from the control: the Iglesia del Cordon registers ARE in the full-text corpus (Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor, baptisms 1891-1892 and 1900-1902), so that standing errand is cheaper than it looked. Its note says so, and no Cordon entry has yet been opened.

Navarrete's registers are not filmed, and the record that looked like a second doubling was Guadalajara

did Open question 1 has called Navarrete worth a day since 11 October - not because anyone believes Pablo Armando's father came from there, but because it is the one place this archive can name where LERENA y LERENA was settled local usage. Isabela LERENA y BASARAN, widow, and her sons Prudencio Benito and Juan Jose LERENA y LERENA, naturales de Navarrete, signed escritura 368 at the Spanish consulate in Buenos Aires on 14 November 1900. THE CATALOGUE ANSWER IS A HARD ONE. FamilySearch's catalogue for Navarrete, Logrono returns one subject - Census - and one item: the Catastro del Marques de la Ensenada of 1752. No baptisms, no marriages, no burials, and no Navarrete volume in the full-text corpus either. The registers cannot be read from this desk; they need the Archivo Historico Diocesano de Logrono, which is now a letter on the work list. THE RECORD THAT LOOKED LIKE A SECOND INSTANCE IS NOT ONE. The index offers a mother "Wenceslaa Maria Lerena Lerena" among 26 records it files under Navarrete. Opened at the plate it is a marriage at San Gil de esta ciudad de GUADALAJARA, 21 December 1863 - two hundred kilometres away - and margin and body both write Lerena ONCE: "hija de Andres, ya difunto, y de Joaquina Lozano". Her mother was a Lozano. So the archive's own compound test of 14 September survives intact, and this is the forty-fourth machine doubling rather than the first Spanish compound. Said plainly rather than quietly dropped, because for an hour it looked like the opposite. A CORRECTION TO THIS ARCHIVE'S OWN METHOD. It is recorded here that q.anyPlace RANKS and does not FILTER. Controlled today - the same Lerena query at Reykjavik and at Osaka returns 0 - it DOES filter, once m.queryRequireDefault=on is sent. The earlier finding was the missing parameter, not the parameter's behaviour. What does not hold is the place FIELD underneath it, as the Guadalajara act shows. WHAT CAME BACK INSTEAD, all index-level and none of it tiered: three Spanish-born Prudencio Lerenas emigrating 1921-1946, one of them from Najera twenty kilometres from Navarrete - Prudencio being the forename of one of the two brothers; and Leandro Lerena, b.1857 in SPAIN, with Emilia Lerena b.1886, in the 1895 Buenos Aires census, five years before the brothers signed, in a city where almost every Lerena this archive has traced is Uruguayan-born. 3 errands and 3 work-list rows raised, each with a covers token so the reconciliation gate accounts for them.

The central null was only ever asked in one spelling, and it survives all thirteen

did /name/ published fourteen forms on 11 October and closed on a sentence: the null may be a letter rather than a fact. On 12 October that sentence was turned on the question this archive exists to answer. Every parent-pair search ever run here set the surname to LERENA. Thirteen spellings were available, so the whole grid was run - each spelling as the father's surname against each as the mother's, 121 cells, both exact, no place filter and no date filter. 110 of those cells had never been asked. WHAT IT COST FIRST. The initial pass returned 3,405 couples where the web page shows 38, and a control designed to fail - Sancho Lerena x Maria Fernandez, a couple with five known records - returned 17,448,030. The personas API RANKS by default and FILTERS only when m.queryRequireDefault=on is sent, which the UI sends and a hand-built URL does not. Replaying the UI's own request out of the network log found it. Recorded in false-zeros as a disguise that hides a null by burying it in a large number. THE ANSWER. Juan Carlos as a father returns 2 under LERENA, 1 under LLERENA, 1 under PERENA and nothing under the other ten. The two Lerena hits are the 1983 Montevideo infant death already ruled out and Pablo Armando's own enrolment card; the others are Cartagena 2006 and Caracas 2003. The null is a fact about the family, not about a spelling - and it is now a better null than the one it replaces. WHAT THE SWEEP FOUND INSTEAD. 24 of 121 cells non-zero, 14 of them cross spellings, holding 16 records. All sixteen opened; twelve are elsewhere. Two are Uruguayan and both were read at the plate: - SAN EUGENIO, ARTIGAS, act 110 of 2 June 1899. The index gives a Lerena father and a Serena mother and then names the same man again as maternal grandfather. The act says the Lerena is the DECLARANT and grandfather, and at 6,000 pixels the mother's capital is the same letterform he is given eleven lines below - Anastasia LERENA, not Serena. The pair is Alvarez x Lerena. A new household: Benito Lerena, who could not sign. - MAL ABRIGO, SAN JOSE, act 98 of 14 September 1910. Margin reads Lerena Antonina. Ramona LERENA, 24 and soltera, registering a natural daughter; her father PEDRO LERENA, 68, ITALIANO, labrador of Jesus Maria. An Italian-born Lerena in the department this archive rests an 1846 couple on - so the Italian stock can no longer be separated from this family by country alone. Kept UNPLACED, because that is the honest position. AND A COLLECTION-WIDE WARNING. Both acts were dated 1879 by the index; one is 1899 and one is 1910, and their volume labels say so. Uruguay Civil Registration 1879-2020 appears to give unread acts the collection's opening year, so 1879 is an artefact bucket and a date-filtered search of cc=1837849 measures the index rather than the register. 9 people added (659 -> 668), 16 person-pairs compared and kept apart by hand including one - Pedro S. Lerena of Tejera, Durazno - where the note says plainly that the grounds for keeping them apart are weaker than the rest.

Fourteen spellings, published at last — the register counted them and never showed them

did The register's notes have been counting upward for weeks — "a seventh spelling", "an eighth spelling" — without the list ever reaching a reader. /name/ held two sections: Lerena against Llerena as a Badajoz toponym, and the Italian stock kept apart on purpose. Neither told anyone searching what to type. data/name-variants.tsv now carries fourteen forms, each taken from a document this archive has actually read, with what the form cost or gave: - LERENA, the ordinary form, and the only one every sweep ran for a month - LLERENA, the real spelling, not an error — and the 1889 Buenos Aires probate that writes one man both ways, twice each, in one paragraph - SERENA, which on 12 October 2026 returned children for two couples worked for weeks with no children found - GERENA, PERENA, LOREÑA/LEREÑA, LEVENA, LORENA, LERESA, LARENA, LERINA, LERRENA — clerk's ears and clerk's hands - HERENCIA, which is not a name at all, and cost this archive a person Twelve are the same name; one is a different family; one is a word. The 1879 act that writes one family four ways on a single page is the argument for the whole page.

Four spellings swept, and each one held people the others did not

did SERENA proved this morning that the Trinidad sweeps had missed a variant. The other three are now done, each paged to where the matches stop. PERENA (3 Flores records) gave AMABELIA, born about 1880 and dead on 9 January 1899, a fourth child for Cipriano Lerena and Lauriana Beloqui; and ANTONINO, born 10 May 1891, for Doroteo Lerena and Isidora Cardozo. GERENA (7) gave CASTO LINDOLFO, born 1 July 1882, a fifth child for Cipriano; JUAN PEDRO, born 13 May 1909, a second child for Buenaventura Olivera and Luisa Lerena - whose brother came out of the SERENA sweep an hour earlier, so one household needed two spellings and two sweeps; and VENANCIO, married at Santisima Trinidad on 24 April 1885, who is THE FIRST CHILD THIS ARCHIVE HAS FOUND OF EITHER MARRIAGE OF ALEJANDRO LERENA THE YOUNGER. LLERENA (11) completed the household of FERMIN LERENA and PAULINA BARRAGAN with ISABEL, married to Juan Rodriguez on 29 January 1902, and a younger FERMIN married in 1924; gave FAUSTINO a wife, VITERBA DE ARRASCAETA, a son PEDRO born and dead in 1911, and a death of his own on 1 June 1914; and identified the "Fermin" who was the only named parent of the Juana Maria entered from the SERENA sweep this morning. AND IT GAVE BERNABE AND CASIMIRA TWO DAUGHTERS ELEVEN YEARS EARLIER THAN ANYTHING HELD HERE. MARGARITA MEDARDA DEL CORAZON DE JESUS, christened at Trinidad in 1859 - a year after their marriage expediente of 15 February 1858, which is exactly where a first child belongs - and MARIA, born 13 May 1866. This row's six known children all ran from 1871. SERENA WITH A TILDE IS NOT A SEPARATE SEAM. "Serena" returns the identical 290 records as "Serena", so FamilySearch normalises the n-tilde and no tilde variant anywhere needs its own sweep. That is worth more than any one person in this commit, because this archive was about to spend a session on it. Fifteen people entered, all index-level. Two pairs written by hand for the Maria of 1866 against the two Marias already held - same parents, so sisters or one woman, and only the acts will say which. 659 people. All gates green.

"290 records, 190 unread" was the size of a surname, not of a seam

did q.anyPlace RANKS results, it does not filter them. The search returns every SERENA in Uruguay - an ordinary Italian surname there - sorted so the Flores ones come first. Page one carried 22 Flores records; pages two and three carried ZERO between them. So the Flores seam is about twenty-two records and they were all read an hour ago, and the "190 unread" are other families in other departments. The findings are unaffected: the children of Custodio and Ema, of Juan Bernardo and Eduviges, Cipriano's 1875 marriage and the rest were all on page one. This is the herencia lesson again, eight days later. On 11 October this archive wrote that "a result count is not a finding... every hit has to be read before it is counted", and then reported a count as a finding the next day. The difference worth recording is that a PLACE PARAMETER LOOKS LIKE A FILTER, and the only way to tell is to page to where the matches stop. The worklist row is rewritten to what is actually left: the same sweep for PERENA, SERENA-with-a-tilde and GERENA.

The Trinidad sweeps were run on LERENA, and SERENA holds 290 records

did Acting on this morning's finding. A sweep on SERENA with a Flores place filter returns 290 records that the LERENA sweeps never saw. The first hundred are read. IT PRODUCED CHILDREN FOR TWO COUPLES THIS ARCHIVE SPENT WEEKS ON AND HAD NO CHILDREN FOR. CUSTODIO LERENA and EMA CARDOZO - the 1911 double-first-cousin dispensation, the knot this archive worked hardest - now have RISILIO MARIA, born 26 September 1917 and christened that December, and ENRIQUE RENE, born 1927 and dead in 1981. JUAN BERNARDO LERENA PELAEZ and EDUVIGES PELAEZ - the 1894 dispensation - now have MARIA ELENA, born 22 July 1910, and TERESA MARIA EVA, born 17 June 1911. THE CONTROL IS INSIDE THE SWEEP. It also returns events this archive already holds, under the other spelling: Cipriano's marriage of 6 March 1875 naming MAURICIO SERENA and CASIMIRA MONTANO; Alejandro the younger's of 24 December 1854 naming ALEJANDRO SERENA and MARGARITA FERNANDEZ; the 1894 intended marriage of Juan and Eduviges. So the query finds what it should, and the LERENA sweeps simply never asked it. A FOURTH SPELLING APPEARS: "SERENA" with a tilde, beside Lerena, Serena and Perena, all at Trinidad in the same decade. Twenty-one people entered, ALL INDEX-LEVEL. Two of them carry a birth date LATER than their own christening - the index's arithmetic, not the register's, and recorded as it stands. AND ONE ROW NEARLY BECAME TWO AGAIN. Isidora Cardozo went in from the Serena sweep before the build refused her on an exact name match: the Trinidad sweep had her all along under LERENA, with three children. Backed out, and her row now carries the fourth child and the near-miss - including that a child of 1934 sits forty years from her others, so either she bore children across four decades or Angel Custodio belongs to a younger Doroteo. Not resolved. 190 results remain unread, and a worklist row now carries them along with the same sweep for PERENA, SERENA-with-a-tilde and GERENA. 644 people. All gates green.

All fifteen "Lerena y Lerena" volumes read, and the Trinidad sweep missed a spelling

did Worklist row 203: twelve volumes unread after three were worked yesterday. All fifteen are now read, and the seam's real shape is plain. The phrase finds TWO LERENAS STANDING TOGETHER, nearly always as godparents, and most of the pairs are people this register already holds - Bernabe with Alejandrina, Bernabe with Natalia, Juan with Margarita, Vitaliano with Andrea twice, Alejandro with Clorinda. THREE THINGS CAME OUT OF IT WORTH MORE THAN THE PAIRS. A "MONTEVIDEO" VOLUME IS NOT A MONTEVIDEO ACT. The 1890-91 page is the capital's CIVIL register transcribing a parish certificate signed by the Cura Vicario Brana "en TRINIDAD a catorce de [noviembre] de mil ochocientos noventa". A place filter will not separate the two towns, and this archive has been assuming it does. THE TRINIDAD SWEEP MISSED THE SERENA SPELLING. One volume pair of 1905-09 alone carries SARA SERENA, PIO C. SERENA - written PERENA on the facing volume - ALEJANDRO SERENA and ALBA LERENA. Trinidad has had a dedicated sweep and a founding kindred drawn from three expedientes, and none of these four is in any of it. The sweep was run on LERENA. AND TWO MORE CHILDREN for Fernando Moratorio and Josefa Lerena Traibel - MARIA DOLORES and FERNANDO - with the grandparents named on both sides, AVELINO and AMBROSIA TRAIBEL among them. But the volume's label cannot be trusted for a date: it is catalogued September 1917 to September 1918, its own year metadata runs 1871, 1874, 1888 and 1918, and a woman born in 1851 does not bear children in 1917. Recorded as a tension and not resolved. Nine people entered. ALL INDEX-LEVEL, NO PLATE OPENED - which, after four index-level couples collapsed on their plates this same morning, is said louder than usual and is on every row. 624 people. All gates green.

"El Doctor Lerena" is a man, not the word herencia

did Worklist row 205 carried him as a one-line snippet with a warning attached, because in the Buenos Aires probate corpus "lerena" is usually the transcriber reading HERENCIA. The warning was right to be there, and he is real. The Agente Fiscal's opinion in the Feliciano Aguirre probate of 1889: "no lo hace el DOCTOR LERENA si la intervencion del CONSUL ESPANOL en este estado del juicio es o no oportuna. Lo que debe resolverse es si el nombramiento del CURADOR DON LLERENA es o no arreglado a derecho. Al simple pedido de f.46, el Juzgado nombra CURADOR AL DOCTOR LLERENA, sin oir a este Ministerio... hubiera dictaminado que se librase nuevo oficio al Senor CONSUL DE ESPANA, para que si deseare intervenir en este juicio lo hiciere dentro de un termino perentorio." A lawyer appointed curador of an estate, with the Fiscal complaining that the court appointed him without consulting the Ministry or inviting the Spanish consul - whose interest means the deceased was most likely a Spanish subject. THE SAME PASSAGE SPELLS HIM LERENA AND LLERENA, TWICE EACH, IN ONE HAND. That is the clearest demonstration in this register that the two spellings are one name, and it is worth more than the man. And "Doctor" is again the style of an ABOGADO and not a physician - the second time in one day, after Arturo Lerena of Montevideo. Not merged with Carlos A. Lerena, the commission agent who sued the Escalada estate in the same courts in February 1890: one is a party suing, the other an officer of the court, and the 1889 act gives the curador no forename at all. The phrase search returns 64 hits and opens three seams nobody has worked: the same Doctor Lerena in the Buenos Aires probates of 1890, 1894 and 1897; a DOCTOR LERENA signing medical certificates on Montevideo death records of 1949 and 1967, who IS a physician and is a different man; and "Senores Doctor Lerena" in the student files of the Universidad de Toledo in the 1790s-1830s. 615 people. All gates green.

All four couples opened, and not one is a couple of two Lerenas

did Yesterday's parent-pair query produced four Uruguayan Lerena-married-a-Lerena couples nobody here had met. All four acts are now read. SAN JOSE DE MAYO, 1846 - "hijo natural de BARBARA, ESCLAVA DE D.n ALEJANDRO LERENA". An enslaved woman given her holder's surname, and no marriage at all. TRINIDAD, 1906 - "hija legitima de Don VITALIANO LERENA y de Dona ANDREA ETCHEBERSE", the mother's surname broken across the page opening and replaced by the father's. MONTEVIDEO, 1865 - "hija de ANTONIO y de SABINA SERENA". ONE surname between two parents, which the index duplicated into two. CERRO LARGO, 1938 - "FLORENCIO SERENA, fallecido... y de TERESA SERENA, DE ESTADO VIUDA". Both named, but a widow is written under her late husband's name as a matter of course. Two disproved outright, two unproved. The query is a good way to find Lerena households and a bad way to count marriages. THE SIX COUPLES THIS ARCHIVE HELD BEFORE THE QUERY ARE UNTOUCHED - the two Trinidad couples, the 1911 dispensation, Alejandro, Eloy x Felisa and the Navarrete household all rest on ACTS, not on an index's parent fields. The pattern stands; the thing that seemed to multiply it does not. The 1865 act turned out to be the best of the four for its own sake. Joaquin Costales married Maria Serena IN ARTICULO MORTIS - a deathbed ceremony whose purpose was to legitimise the two sons they declared, CANDIDO DE DIEZ ANOS Y LUIS DE CUATRO. He was BRASILERO. So the couple had been together since about 1855, and the marriage of 25 May 1865 is the end of that story, not its start. And the 1938 act closed a question by place rather than leaving it open: the Florencio there is of CERRO LARGO, four departments from Trinidad, so the Florencio Lerena of Trinidad who married Juana Recuero is a different man. It also carries two conflicts left standing - her birth registration at Melo says 18 MAY 1908 where the marriage act says 6 MARCH 1908, and that registration names TERESA LLERENA ALONE, with no father; he appears thirty years later, already dead. She could not sign her own marriage act. Twelve more people entered from the four acts. 614 people. All gates green.

Twice in one morning, an index built a Lerena mother out of a man's surname

did The second of the four new couples, opened straight after the first turned out to be an enslaved woman. Santisima Trinidad, 26 March 1906: "contrajo DON ANTONIO ETCHEBERSE, oriental, soltero, de TREINTA Y TRES anos, HIJO [legitimo struck out] NATURAL de Don ANTONIO ETCHEBERSE y de Dona FRAILANA VALIENTE, con Dona ANDREA ALBINA LERENA, oriental, soltera, de TREINTA Y DOS anos, HIJA LEGITIMA DE DON VITALIANO LERENA Y DE DONA ANDREA ETCHEBERSE." The mother is an ETCHEBERSE. Her surname is broken across the page opening - "ANDREA" at the foot of the left page, "ETCHEBERSE." at the head of the right - and the index gave her the FATHER'S surname instead. That is the same fault that made Barbara a Lerena at San Jose de Mayo an hour earlier. Two of the four, one mechanism, now written into data/false-zeros.tsv: an index with a MOTHER field will fill it from the nearest surname when the act does not fill it the way the schema expects. So a parent-pair query cannot tell a marriage from a slave-holding, or a mother from a line break - AND WHERE BOTH PARENTS SHARE A SURNAME THE ENTRY IS MORE SUSPECT, NOT LESS, because that is exactly the shape the failure produces. This archive ran a worldwide query on precisely that shape yesterday. Four more corrections off the same plate: the groom is ETCHEBERSE and not Echeberse; he was THIRTY-THREE, not the index's "tres anos"; the priest STRUCK OUT "legitimo" and wrote "natural" over his parentage, which no index carries; and the index's marriage date of "26 March 1000" is 1906. WHAT SURVIVES IS STILL WORTH HAVING. Vitaliano Lerena is real - a man of that rare forename at Santisima Trinidad, with a daughter born about 1874 and married there in 1906, in the town this archive has swept and in none of the sweeps. Four people entered from the act: the groom's parents and the two witnesses. One observation, not a conclusion: the bride's mother shares the groom's surname, and the act records "sin ningun impedimento ni canonico ni civil". 603 people. All gates green.

"Esclava de D.n Alejandro Lerena" was indexed as a marriage

did The first of yesterday's four new Lerena-married-a-Lerena couples, opened because an index entry contradicted a man this archive thinks it knows. San Jose de Mayo, 28 April 1846: "di sepultura en el ANGELORIO al cadaver de CARMELO ANSELMO, HIJO NATURAL DE BARBARA, ESCLAVA DE D.N ALEJANDRO LERENA, murio ayer de enfermedad, de edad de SIETE DIAS, y se le hizo oficio rezado, de que certifico." There was no marriage. Barbara was an enslaved woman in his household. The indexer read "esclava de D.n Alejandro Lerena" as a parent pair, made Alejandro the father, and GAVE BARBARA THE SURNAME OF THE MAN WHO HELD HER. The child is hijo natural, with no father named and no surname of his own. All three rows are renamed to what the act says, and three addresses minted yesterday are retired to redirects today. She is BARBARA, with no surname, because the act gives her none and this archive will not lend her one. He is CARMELO ANSELMO, seven days old, buried in the angelorio. And Alejandro is a man of San Jose de Mayo in April 1846 who held a woman in slavery - not merged with the elder Alejandro who married there in 1825, though the town, the decade and the style of address all fit, because the act names no wife, no age and no parents to test it with. SHE IS THE FIFTH PERSON THIS FAMILY IS KNOWN TO HAVE HELD IN SLAVERY, after Juana, Antonio, Jose and Teresa in Sancho Llerena's household at Canelones in 1812, and Juana's daughter Maria Mercedes born into it. This one is thirty-four years later, a different household and a different department. On the date this archive states only what it knows: the act says "esclava" in April 1846, and which stage of Uruguay's abolition applied at San Jose then is NOT established here. That is for the next session, and this act does not answer it. THE COUNT PUBLISHED YESTERDAY IS WRONG BY AT LEAST ONE, and the retraction has been propagated to searched.json and to open question 1: thirty-eight is a count of INDEX ENTRIES, not of marriages. A parent-pair query cannot tell a marriage from a slave-holding - and this archive ran a worldwide one. The lesson is not that indexes are wrong; it knew that. It is that an index which must output a father and a mother will MANUFACTURE them from whatever the act supplies, and here what it supplied was a sentence about ownership. 599 people. All gates green.

Put the empty index on the page that asks the question

did Open question 1 now carries the null and the control: thirty-eight couples in the world with a Lerena father and a Lerena mother, not one of them a Juan Carlos, in an index that returns the couples this archive already holds. It also says which index. The earlier nulls on his name were full-text searches reading words off page images; this one catalogues parents as fields. Two different indexes, both empty on the same man - which is worth more than either alone, and is the kind of thing a reader can only know if the page says it. And it says the seam is not exhausted: the same query produced four Uruguayan couples nobody here had met, one at Trinidad and one at San Jose de Mayo in 1846.

Thirty-eight Lerena-married-a-Lerena couples in the world, and none is his

did Pablo Armando's enrolment card names JUAN CARLOS LERENA and MARIA LERENA - a Lerena father and a Lerena mother. That is a question the record index can be asked directly, with both surnames EXACT, and this archive had never asked it. The earlier nulls on "Juan Carlos Lerena" were FULL-TEXT phrase searches, which read words off page images; this is the NAME index, which catalogues parents as fields. Two different indexes, now both empty on the same man. Thirty-eight couples worldwide. Not one father is a Juan Carlos. THE CONTROL IS BUILT INTO THE QUERY: it returns couples this archive already holds - Eloy Lerena and Felisa Lerena at San Jose de Flores in 1912, Alejandro F. Lerena and Natalia Lerena at Trinidad - so it finds what it should. AND IT FOUND FOUR URUGUAYAN COUPLES NOBODY HERE HAD MET. Antonio Lerena and Sabina Lerena, whose daughter MARIA married Joaquin Costales at San Francisco de Asis - this archive's own parish - on 25 May 1865. VITALIANO LERENA and ANDREA LERENA at TRINIDAD, FLORES, the town this archive has worked hardest, with a sweep of its own and a founding kindred drawn from three expedientes. Their daughter Andrea Albina was born there in 1874. ALEJANDRO LERENA and BARBARA LERENA at SAN JOSE DE MAYO, whose son Carmelo Anselmo was born on 20 April 1846 and died on the 27th. The right town and the right decade for the elder Alejandro already here, and a wife nobody has heard of. Either he married twice or there is a third Alejandro; an index will not decide it and the 1846 baptism will. Florencio Lerena with a TERESA Lerena, which collides with the Florencio here whose wife is Juana Recuero. Three readings are open, including the dull one - an index putting a mother's maiden surname where her married one belongs. Fourteen people entered, all index-level, every row saying so. AND I ALMOST ENTERED A FAMILY THIS ARCHIVE ALREADY HELD. Aurora Lerena, her husband Manuel Vaquero and their daughter went in from the query before I noticed they were here already as Aurora LERENA Fernandez, found by the Trinidad birthplace sweep yesterday - the index's "Elmira" being her Delmira Eugenia, born 13 November 1892, with the D dropped. The build refused only because Manuel Vaquero collided with himself by EXACT NAME. The other two would have passed every gate, because a duplicate under a different spelling is not a duplicate to a name check. Backed out, and her row now records both the near-miss and the corroboration: two different routes, the same parents, the same five children. One pair written by hand because the gate did not raise it: the card's MARIA LERENA against the Maria Lerena who married Costales in 1865. She is the closest configuration the index has produced - a Maria Lerena born of two Lerenas - and the arithmetic does not forbid her, but it requires a widowhood and a second partnership that no record shows. Recorded so nobody quietly promotes her. 599 people. All gates green.

Bring the Argentine-branch section up to the day, and stop calling him a doctor

did The page said "a second doctor of the name", which in English means a physician. Doctor on a Uruguayan act is the style of an abogado as much as of a medico, and Arturo's daughter's marriage act and his own death act both give him plainly as "de profesion abogado". Corrected, with a line saying what the title does and does not carry - and Ambrosio keeps the title and loses the implied profession, because nothing on the 1880 act says which he followed. Added: the death act of 2 March 1936 at Treinta y Tres 269; the sibship of six with Cora Maria AVELINA and Roberto AMBROSIO carrying their grandparents' names; and the two things the documents will not close - one Ema among five survivors where this register holds two born on 18 May, and three secondhand ages giving 1857-58 against one baptism giving 1861, with a note that FamilySearch's own tree has merged the two men and that a tree is not a document.

Arturo Lerena died at two in the morning, and the act still will not settle him

did Montevideo, acta No. 8, 2 March 1936: "declarando que a las DOS HORAS del dia de hoy y en TREINTA Y TRES 269, fallecio ARTURO LERENA... NACIDO EN MONTEVIDEO, de SETENTA Y OCHO ANOS DE EDAD, de estado casado, DE PROFESION ABOGADO... Que el finado era HIJO DE A[V]ELINO [L]ERENA y de AMBROSIA TR[A]IBEL, AMBOS FALLECIDOS... era casado con [E]MA REGULES, de cuyo consorcio quedaron CINCO HIJOS llamados EMA, MARIO, EDUARDO, CORA y ROBERTO." It confirms his parents a second time and the ABOGADO correction a second time, and it gives him a death: 2 March 1936, at Treinta y Tres 269, aged 78. IT DOES NOT SETTLE WHETHER HE IS JUAN ARTURO LERENA TRAIBEL, and the reason is worth keeping. Seventy-eight in March 1936 means 1857-58, which agrees with twenty-two in June 1880 and sixty-two in January 1920 - three independent statements - against one baptism of a "JUAN ARTURO" on 16 February 1861. But all three ages are secondhand: the declarants here were an Italian employee of forty and a young man of twenty-three, neither of them family, which is the ordinary shape of a city death registration. FamilySearch's own tree has merged them already, attaching this record to a profile "Juan Arturo Lerena Traibel, 1861-1936". That is a tree, not a document, and this register keeps them apart until an act does the joining. The five surviving children name only ONE Ema, where this register holds two born on 18 May - 1881 and 1885. That tilts the question without closing it: five surviving of six is also what the act would say if a sister had died. Both rows now carry the count and neither is merged. Four people entered from the act, because it is about one of our own: the registrar Luis Barbe, the declarants Carlos Bastos and Marcos S. Acuna, and Dr Jorge Calvette, who signed the medical certificate - the first doctor in this register who is certainly a physician, which is worth saying on the day the other two turned out to be lawyers. One prose fix so the tooling could read it: his row listed his son's death as "d. 6 May 1949" beside his own, and last-alive.py refused to choose between two death years on one row - correctly. Re-worded; he now carries 1936-Mar-2. 585 people, 40 with an exact death date. All gates green.

Six children, and two of their names prove their grandparents

did One parent-pair query - father Arturo Lerena, mother Emma Regules - returned eight records and the whole known sibship: Ema Justina Felicia b. 18 May 1881, San Jose Arturo Mario b. 9 Apr 1884, San Jose; d. 6 May 1949, Montevideo Emma b. 18 May 1885, San Jose; m. Yeregui 1909 Eduardo b. 22 Apr 1886, Montevideo; m. Razzetti 1920 Cora Maria AVELINA b. 8 Jun 1887, christened at the Union 23 Oct 1887 Roberto AMBROSIO b. 1 Nov 1896, Montevideo AVELINA and AMBROSIO are Arturo's own parents' names - Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Traibel - in the feminine and the masculine. So the 1880 marriage act's parentage is corroborated by the next generation's forenames, without opening a second act. A household names its children for its own parents, and this one did it twice. The family moved: San Jose from 1881 to 1885, Montevideo from 1886. Nine years separate the fifth child from the sixth, which in a household of this period usually means children this query did not reach. TWO THINGS LEFT UNRESOLVED RATHER THAN TIDIED. Ema Justina Felicia, born 18 May 1881, shares a birthday with Emma, born 18 May 1885 - same day, same month, same department, same parents. Two daughters genuinely born on one date four years apart; one daughter with a mis-indexed year; or an elder child who died and whose name and date were reused, which this register has met before and warned about. Not merged: the 1909 marriage act is explicit that the bride was born in 1885, and it is the only one of the two that has been read as an act. And the index gives EDUARDO a birth of 1868 where his own marriage act says 1886. A digit transposition that would have cost a day if it had been believed - which is the argument for opening acts, in one line. All index-level. No act opened, and every row says so. 581 people. All gates green.

Arturo is a lawyer, not a doctor - and Eduardo has a sister

did The lead left open last night was a "Dona Emma Lerena Regules" marrying in the Montevideo civil registers with Arturo Lerena and Emma Regules as her parents. She is there, and the act corrects this archive's reading of her father. Montevideo, acta No. 16, 9 August 1909: "Dona EMMA LERENA REGULES... NACIDA EL DIA DIEZ Y OCHO DE MAYO DE MIL OCHOCIENTOS OCHENTA Y CINCO EN SAN JOSE... hija de don ARTURO LERENA de estado casado DE PROFESION ABOGADO... y de EMMA REGULES... Fueron testigos, Don JUAN ZORRILLA DE SAN MARTIN, de CINCUENTA Y TRES ANOS, de estado viudo, de profesion ABOGADO, domiciliado en la calle RINCON." ABOGADO. In Uruguay "Doctor" is the style of a lawyer as much as of a medico, and the 1880 marriage act's "el Doctor Don Arturo Lerena" carries no more than the title. This archive put "doctor" in an occupation field, which in English means a physician, and then wrote about "two professional men" in a way that suggested medicine. Corrected on both rows - Dr Ambrosio Lerena keeps the title and loses the implied profession, because nothing on the 1880 act says which he followed. Nothing was wrong with the transcription: a title was carried into English where it means something narrower. A title is not an occupation, and a title translated is a claim. The sister: EMMA LERENA REGULES, born 18 May 1885 at SAN JOSE, named for her mother, married FERMIN CARLOS DE YEREGUI - born Montevideo 4 November 1879, son of the late Fermin de Yeregui and Mercedes de Melis, of calle Zabala 164. So the household was at SAN JOSE in May 1885 and at MONTEVIDEO in April 1886, where Eduardo was born. ELEVEN MONTHS APART, which is possible and tight, and is recorded as a tension rather than resolved. In 1909 the parents are given at different addresses - Colonia 2200 and Colonia 228, both "de estado casado". The numbers differ by a factor of ten and a transcriber's slip is likelier than a separation. Also not resolved. Both witnesses were lawyers, and one of them is JUAN ZORRILLA DE SAN MARTIN: fifty-three, widower, abogado, of calle Rincon - the national poet of Uruguay on every count except a document that says so. Entered with no inference drawn, as this archive entered the president who stood godfather to a Lerena child and the bishop who dispensed a Lerena's banns. All it shows is that Arturo Lerena the abogado moved among Montevideo lawyers. Seven people entered. 576 people. All gates green.

Put the Argentine branch on the page, with what it does not prove

did /uruguay/#s-argentine-branch tells the evening in order: two uncompared rows, a plate that corrected the surname to RAZZETTI, a marriage act that settled the pair on the bride's PARENTS rather than on anybody's name, and Arturo's own wedding of 1880 naming Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Traibel. The last paragraph is the one that mattered to write. None of it touches Pablo Armando. Sancho's whole house is still unplaced in this register - which here means unjoined to the man the archive exists for - and adding a fourth generation to a line that does not reach him changes nothing about that.

The Argentine household is not a namesake: it is Sancho's great-grandson

did Searching the two surnames together - Lerena and Regules - found Arturo's own marriage, and it reaches the trunk. Catedral de Montevideo, 23 June 1880: "el DOCTOR DON ARTURO LERENA, natural de esta Republica, soltero, de VEINTE Y DOS ANOS de edad, HIJO LEGITIMO DE DON AVELINO LERENA Y DONA AMBROSIA TRAIBEL, con DONA EMMA REGULES... de DIEZ Y SEIS ANOS de edad, hija legitima de DON WENCESLAO REGULES y DONA JUSTINIANA MELILLA: fueron testigos el DOCTOR DON AMBROSIO LERENA y Dona Justiniana Melilla de Regules." The banns were dispensed by Bishop JACINTO VERA himself; the Presbitero JUAN JOSE BRID authorised the act. So the chain found this evening runs: Sancho Llerena - Avelino Lerena Fernandez and Ambrosia Traibel - Dr Arturo Lerena and Emma Regules - Eduardo Lerena, born Montevideo 22 April 1886 - who married Maria Mercedes Razzetti at Santa Lucia in January 1920 and baptised his daughter in a rural partido of Buenos Aires province a year later. The Argentine household that began this afternoon as two uncompared rows with an Italian surname is a branch of this archive's own trunk. ARTURO IS A DOCTOR, and the witness AMBROSIO LERENA is a second doctor of the name, new to this archive and most simply read as another of Ambrosia Traibel's sons - which is a naming habit, not a parent, and is not claimed. Two professional men in one generation, two after Sancho. NOT MERGED WITH JUAN ARTURO LERENA TRAIBEL, and the objection is three years. That man was born 16 February 1861 and christened at the Cordon, so he was NINETEEN in June 1880, not twenty-two - and the 1920 act independently makes Arturo sixty-two, which is 1857-58 again. An age on a marriage act bends by a year; it does not usually bend by three, and two documents agree against one. The couple already have eleven known children, so a twelfth is no strain. Emma Regules married at SIXTEEN with her mother standing as a witness - the second time this register has met a mother as a formal witness, after Ambrosia Traibel at her own son's wedding in 1892. Five people entered: Wenceslao Regules, Justiniana Melilla, Dr Ambrosio Lerena, the priest Juan Jose Brid, and Bishop Jacinto Vera - the last with a note that no acquaintance is claimed, a bishop signing dispensations by the hundred. Two leads left open: a "Dona EMMA LERENA REGULES" marrying in the Montevideo civil registers of 1907-08 with these same parents, and the Las Piedras religious marriage book 1915-1937, which should hold the church half of Eduardo's wedding. 569 people. All gates green.

The marriage act names his parents, and the NOT MERGED note lasted four hours

did This morning two rows were kept apart with a line saying what would settle it: "the Montevideo marriage act behind the 1919 dispensation, which will name his parents". That line is a research instruction, and it was followed the same day. Canelones, acta No. 4, Santa Lucia, 11 January 1920: "comparecen: don EDUARDO LERENA, de nacionalidad ORIENTAL, NACIDO EL DIA VEINTIDOS DE ABRIL DE MIL OCHOCIENTOS OCHENTA Y SEIS EN MONTEVIDEO, de profesion EMPLEADO... hijo de ARTURO LERENA, de nacionalidad oriental, de estado casado, de SESENTA Y DOS anos, domiciliado en MONTEVIDEO, y de EMA REGULES... de CINCUENTA Y CINCO anos; y dona MARIA MERCEDES RAZZETTI, de nacionalidad ORIENTAL, NACIDA EL DIA VEINTICINCO DE JULIO DE MIL OCHOCIENTOS NOVENTA Y NUEVE EN COLON... hija de DOMINGO RAZZETTI, de nacionalidad italiano, de CINCUENTA Y NUEVE anos, domiciliado en la CUARTA SECCION de este departamento, y de JOSEFINA BERTOGLIO, de nacionalidad italiana." What proves the merge is not the names but HER PARENTS. Domingo Razzetti and Josefina Bertoglio stood godparents to this couple's daughter at Adolfo Alsina, Buenos Aires, on 19 January 1921 - entered here this afternoon from the plate, when all that could be said of Domingo was that he carried her surname and so was "her father, her brother or her uncle". He is her father. The same four people in two countries, thirteen months apart. So: one Eduardo Lerena, not two. Born at Montevideo on 22 April 1886 - an exact birth date, which this archive has for very few of its people - an empleado at Santa Lucia, married at twenty-three to a girl of twenty. A NEW HOUSEHOLD, AND IT IS THE RIGHT GENERATION TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT. ARTURO LERENA, ORIENTAL, born about 1857, alive and married in Montevideo in January 1920, husband of EMA REGULES. He is NOT Arturo Lerena Garcia, the SPANISH journalist already in this register with sons surnamed Lerena Diaz; nationality separates them on the face of two acts and they are kept apart, not excluded forever. And Ema Regules is now a candidate for something found earlier today: an "Ema. Lerena" stood godmother at the Cordon in 1900-02 beside an EDUARDO LERENA. A wife appears in a parish book under her husband's name, and her son Eduardo was fourteen to sixteen then. Recorded as a candidacy with its own objection attached - fourteen is young to stand godfather - and not merged. The bride is Uruguayan, not Italian: born at Colon on 25 July 1899, the first generation born here of an Italian couple. She signs her own name Razzetti, which is the spelling this register now uses. 564 people. All gates green.

A fourth pair of Lerenas at a font, and a boundary the rule does not draw

did The second Cordon volume, August 1900 to October 1902. One Lerena entry and it is two people: EDUARDO LERENA and "Ema. Lerena" stood godparents together to Juan Eduardo, son of Juan Silva and Toribia Martinez. Neither is identified and both are entered as themselves. This register now holds FOUR men called Eduardo Lerena and none is merged with another: the father of Ana Maria Lerena Razzetti at Adolfo Alsina in 1921, the man dispensed banns at Montevideo in December 1919, Avelino Eduardo Lerena Traibel, and this one. The Cordon is the Lerena Traibel parish, which makes Avelino Eduardo the nearest candidate and is not an argument - he is "Avelino Eduardo" on every act read of him, never Eduardo bare. The godmother could be Ema Sixta Lerena Juanico, born 1876, or Maria Ema Lerena Lenguas, christened 1857; the panel gives "Ema." with an abbreviating stop, no age and no second surname, and a third Ema cannot be excluded. Both pairs recorded rather than guessed. AND A BOUNDARY IS WRITTEN DOWN RATHER THAN SETTLED QUIETLY. The Silva household is not admitted. The rule in check-people-named.py admits everyone named on an act our person is a PARTY to, and a godparent is a party - so by the letter of it, Juan Silva, Toribia Martinez and four grandparents should all be in this register. They are not, and the same choice was made at the Cordon act of 1891-92 a few hours earlier without being noticed. The reason is that a baptism is ABOUT the child's household and a Lerena standing at the font is a guest at it; admitting the guests' hosts would fill this register with families no Lerena belongs to. The rule does not yet say this. Both rows name the household in full so nothing is lost if it is later drawn the other way. The date within the volume is not established - the book runs fourteen months and this was read from the names panel, not the page. 562 people. All gates green.

ROZZETTI is RAZZETTI, and the plate says it twice

did Chasing a duplicate, not a spelling. This register held an EDUARDO LERENA dispensed the conciliar banns at Montevideo on 22 December 1919 to marry "Dona MARIA MERCEDES RAZZELLO, feligresa de LAS PIEDRAS", and a second EDUARDO LERENA in Buenos Aires married to a MARIA MERCEDES ROZZETTI. Two rows, never compared. The test was the daughter's act. The index gives her as Ana Maria Lerena Rozzetti, born 12 January 1921. The plate, in a clear hand: "bautizo solemnemente a ANA MARIA que nacio el dia doce de Enero del ano mil novecientos veintiuno, HIJA LEGITIMA de D. Eduardo Lerena y de D.a Maria Mercedes RAZZETTI, domiciliados en ESTE PARTIDO. Padrinos: D. DOMINGO RAZZETTI y D.a JOSEFINA BERTOGLIO." The surname is written twice on one line by one scribe - once for the mother, once for the godfather who carries her name - so the reading is confirmed inside its own sentence. ROZZETTI was never on the page. The index is wrong about the place too. It normalises the event to "Buenos Aires City" while its own original-place field says ADOLFO ALSINA and the act says "este partido" - a rural district of the province, four hundred kilometres from the capital. Both published addresses redirect. The slug ledger keeps the dead keys, as it did for the ZALSAMENDI rows: a corrected surname is not kept in a URL for tidiness. And the pair it was opened for got stronger without being proved. RAZZELLO and RAZZETTI are one hand read twice - far closer to each other than either is to the index's ROZZETTI - and a couple dispensed in December 1919 with a first child born 12 January 1921 is thirteen months, which is what a marriage looks like. NOT MERGED: no act yet read calls the Buenos Aires man oriental, and a merge would carry a Uruguayan origin onto an Argentine household on the strength of a date and two forenames. What would settle it is the Montevideo marriage act behind the 1919 dispensation, which will name his parents. Ana Maria gains a birth date, a baptism, a parish, a priest and two godparents. Three people entered: Domingo Razzetti, Josefina Bertoglio, and the cura Jose Serrano Lopez. NOT MINE, AND LEFT ALONE: site/package.json, site/package-lock.json and site/.kitpin are modified in this tree by another session bumping the archive-kit pin from 3c9214e9 to 22e5fc93. That install ran while my build was running and broke it once with "Cannot find module .../lib/assetv.js"; the new kit moves lib under kit/lib and maps it through exports, the file is there, and a re-run is clean. Those three files are not in this commit. 560 people. All gates green.

The eighteen silent findings, worked through one at a time

did Not one list of eighteen things. drift.py reports each watched person's FIRST unpublished emphasised claim and then moves on, so publishing one surfaces the next - the count fell to 14, then 13, with different claims each time. Chasing it to zero by writing prose would mean publishing every emphasised sentence in the register, which is the opposite of what a page is for. So each was opened and sorted by what it actually was. THREE WERE GENUINELY UNPUBLISHED AND ARE NOW WRITTEN UP. /uruguay/#s-fernandez-knot, a new section: the kindred married its cousins twice over and only one knot is made of Lerenas. Socorro's own marriage of 1855 was dispensed in the second grade by the transverse line, and that degree runs down the FERNANDEZ side - her mother Margarita Fernandez Alvarez and her husband's father Manuel Fernandez Alvarez. For a day that was an inference from the degree and the compound surname; the 1825 act names Margarita's parents as Juan Fernandez Alvarez and Barbara Sotura, and the 1855 expediente gives Serapio's grandparents as "Don Juan y Dona Barbara Sotura". Same couple. Five dispensations across three generations of one small inland town. The section also carries Antonina the elder - a priest drew that parentage in 1858 and a juez de paz wrote it into her death act in 1911, two record systems neither copying the other - Alejandro's two birthplaces and why the 1858 plural looks like a clerk collapsing them, and the two Juan Pelaez. /argentina/#s-villademoros-flores: the Lerena Villademoros at a Buenos Aires font in 1918, Membrillar 96, with the warning that THIS Flores is not the Uruguayan department this archive spends its time in, and her stated age recorded as a conflict rather than resolved. /south-africa/: the transcribers made a different man of Nuno on each folio - "Huno" on one, "Jan Fernando" on the other - and the clerk wrote NUNO plainly both times. What identified him was not his name but the 6.10.24 date of birth the deeds register keys on. The identifier the clerk never misspelled is the one that was not a word. SEVEN WERE THE ARCHIVE'S OWN BOOKKEEPING. That a row was merged, that a slug moved, that a birth year was invented here for an hour and withdrawn. They are published - on /corrections/ and /worklist/, which this check EXCLUDES BY DESIGN as "ledgers OF the work, not places a reader meets the story". So it was demanding that bookkeeping appear somewhere it had itself ruled bookkeeping out of. drift.py now skips them, with every pattern carrying the claim it was written for. SEVEN WERE ALREADY PUBLISHED and tripped a word-matcher - the page says "polling district" and the register says STEMDISTRIK. Each is now in PUBLISHED with where it was published and why the words differ. I opened every page before writing the entry, because adding a name to that list is a claim that somebody looked. AND THE EXCEPTION LISTS THEMSELVES HAD ROTTED. Three of fourteen names in PUBLISHED, and one of nine pairs in CHECKED_PAIRS, named people the register no longer holds: renames and a corrected birth year had left each exception pointing at nobody, so the finding it excused came back wearing a new name. The Carolina Suarez entry in consistency.py says in as many words that "a renamed row silently un-declares its own pair, which is why this list is checked after every rename". It was not being checked. A comment is not a check. Both tools now report a stale key, and both were made to fail before being believed. drift: "nothing looks stale". consistency: "nothing contradicts itself".

Record the two plates the audit re-read

did Both are reads of film 007713376, and the second is the control for the first. Image 01689 deleted a person: the act says "Nieto Pat.o de D. JOAQUIN RODRIG.z" where this archive's own page had quoted it with DOMINGO inside square brackets. Image 00601 is the other grandchild's act, read to see whether the two name the same paternal grandparents - they do, which is what licensed merging the two Juanas rather than leaving the merge on a single reading. 63 searched rows.

A dek that said eight while the eyebrow counted nine

did /tree/ renders its eyebrow from the chart - `${drawn} people` - and had the sentence under the title typed by hand: "eight people, and then the doors close". The chart reached NINE and the sentence stayed at eight, so the page contradicted itself in two lines of the same heading. A number written beside a number that computes itself will always lose, so the dek computes too, spelling it in words as the prose wants. Swept the rest of the site for the same shape - spelled numbers next to people, lanes, walls, generations, children - and the others hold: Sancho's EIGHT children at Canelones, the Taylors' NINE, Gilberto's EIGHT by Julia Salvanach are three different families, not one disagreement. /uruguay/ was contradicting itself at distance. Near the top it says Socorro's parents "are not named, so that link is inferred and not proved"; two hundred lines down, the 1855 and 1858 expedientes make her and Bernabe both children of Alejandro and Margarita, and the page says so plainly - "it was an inference for a day and it is a document now". No gate can see this one: check-superseded.py fires on claims RETRACTED in corrections.tsv, and this was never wrong, only open, and then closed. The inference is left standing where it was written, because the point of it is that it was made before the document was found - with a forward pointer, so a reader meeting it first does not have to scroll to learn that it closed.

The changelog had been stale for a month, and nothing ran the generator

did /changes/ exists to list every change to this archive. It was showing five days ending 14 September. The repository had twenty days of commits ending this morning. Fifteen days of work - every find of the last month, on the day it was found - was simply absent from the page that exists to list it. The cause is dull and worth naming: build-changes.py sat in tools/ and was run by nothing. Not verify.sh, not package.json, not CI. A generator nobody runs is a stale page with extra steps. It is now the third line of verify.sh, beside build-pages and build-people. Rebuilding it immediately broke the build, which is the system working. Thirty- five commits in this history quote register prose and carry its emphasis markers; SIX carry an ODD number, where a quotation opened an emphasis and ended at the line break. changes.astro renders commit text through emph(), which converts PAIRS - so the orphans survived and three raw reached the page, and check:pages refused it. A commit message cannot be rewritten, so build-changes.py now drops a trailing unmatched marker. The TSV guard that FAILS on an odd count is untouched: there, an unbalanced marker is an author's mistake to fix, and the author is available. Here the author is the past. 650 changes across 20 days, today's 37 at the top. Also on /name/: the page has long argued from Forebears that "there is exactly one real Lerena cluster in Spain, and it is in La Rioja", at forty times the national rate. This morning's consular find puts a household in Navarrete, "provincia de Logrono" - which IS La Rioja, under the name it carried until 1980. The two halves of that page had not been introduced. They are now, and the paragraph says plainly that agreement is not proof: La Rioja is where a Spanish Lerena is likeliest to be found, so finding one there was the likeliest outcome. What the household adds is its shape, not its region.

Fifteen people's pages said nothing was known while we held their marriage

did /people/carmen-lorente/ said "No relationships are recorded for this person" while data/relations.tsv held "Avelino LERENA Villademoros | spouse | Carmen LORENTE". Fourteen others were the same. A marriage is symmetric and was being read one way only. build-people.py reverses father/mother edges into children - fixed on 13 September for exactly this reason, when every parent in the archive showed an empty children list - but nobody ever reversed spouse. So the wife named on her husband's row got nothing on her own page. That sentence is word for word the one check-evidence.py was written to abolish in September. It came back through a door that gate was not watching: everything in it guards data/person-evidence.tsv, and nothing looked at relations.tsv. A gate that names one file guards one file. So the gate now also refuses when a person named in relations.tsv has no relationship drawn on their page. Tested by removing the fix and watching it report all fourteen, then restoring it - a gate that has never been seen to fail is not known to work. One person was left over after the mirror: the unnamed infant son of Roque Luis Armando Lerena, dead at Bloemfontein in 1932. His only edge was written "Roque | child | the infant", and the builder reverses parent edges into children but not child edges into parents, so his page drew nothing at all. He was the only one of 36 in that position - the other 35 child edges sit beside an explicit parent edge - so the edge was rewritten in the direction the builder reads rather than teaching the builder to guess which parent a "child" edge means. Zero people now have an edge the site does not draw.

A man in square brackets: Don Domingo Rodriguez never existed

did Found by auditing the site rather than by looking for him. This archive quoted the 1840 Catedral act on its own page as "Nieto pat[erno de D. DOMINGO] RODRIG.z" - and the forename inside those brackets was supplied by the reader, almost certainly because the CHILD being baptised is called Domingo. A person row was then built from it, published at /people/don-domingo-rodriguez for three weeks, drawn on his grandson's chart, and given a wife. The plate says JOAQUIN. Re-read at 4000px off the deepzoom tile: "Nieto Pat.o de D. JOAQUIN RODRIG.z y D.a Juana del Espiritu S.to: ambos nat.s de la Colonia del Sacram.to". The act's own names panel independently gives "Pats. Joaquin Rodriguez". The paternal grandfather is MAYOR DON JOAQUIN RUIZ DE CARVALLO, who was already in this register, named on the other grandchild's act of 1827, under this register's known second spelling of the surname - which his own row has said all along while the phantom sat two rows away contradicting it. The same bracket split one woman into two. "Dona Juana del ESPIRITU SANTO" was entered as the phantom's wife; "Dona Juana SUAREZ" sat here as Joaquin's. Both acts name her as the mother of Capitan Antonio - Juana Suarez in 1827, Juana del Espiritu Santo in 1840 - so they are one woman, and the only obstacle to saying so was a misread forename. Merged into Suarez, the inherited name, with the devotional form kept in her prose so a search still finds her. The 1840 act also gives her birthplace, which neither row had: the COLONIA DEL SACRAMENTO. Both published addresses now redirect to the people the act actually names. Two further readings off the same plate: the godfather is "D. JOAQUIN SOSA DE CRUZ SECO" - this register had "Don Joaquin Sosa", the machine panel "Juaquin Losada Cruz Seco" - and BALVINA SUAREZ as godmother stands confirmed. It surfaced only because a soft warning was read instead of skimmed. consistency.py had been listing the two Juanas among EIGHT things to look at, and THREE of those eight were a bug in the gate itself: a row whose prose quotes "hija legitima de X y de Y" twice was appended to its own sibling cohort twice and compared with herself, reporting people as 0 months apart from themselves. Fixed, and the three clear pairs are now in CHECKED_PAIRS with reasons. Noise in a soft list is worse than silence - it teaches the reader to skim it. THE LESSON IS ABOUT SQUARE BRACKETS. This archive uses them for honest editorial reconstruction of damaged text, and that is right. But a reconstruction inside a quotation reads exactly like a transcription once it is three weeks old. A name supplied by a reader must never become a person row. Also: the ark for the Pocitos plate of 15 August 1903 was carried by three rows citing it and missing from four. Added. 557 people. All gates green.

Four things to do next, written down where the next session will find them

did Navarrete's parish and civil registers; the twelve unread Uruguayan hits for the phrase "Lerena y Lerena"; the second Registros Consulares volume of 1909; and "el Doctor Lerena" in the 1889 Aguirre probate - with a warning attached to that last one, because in this corpus "lerena" is very often the transcriber reading the word herencia. 205 rows.

Adolfo Lerena was standing at fonts twelve years earlier than we knew

did The Cordon is this family's own parish - Alejandro Maximo Lerena married Elisa Villademoros there in 1871, and the Lerena Traibel were christened there - and its 1891-92 baptism book had never been opened here. One Lerena entry in the volume, and it is two people. ADOLFO LERENA and MARIA MERCEDES LERENA stood godparents together to Balvina Maria, daughter of Manuel Cabrera and Balvina Valdivia. This archive knew Adolfo only as the godfather at Pocitos in August 1903, where it reasoned that a Lerena at the font of a Lerena woman's child is probably her brother. He was an adult at the Cordon by 1891. The woman is new, and she is NOT merged with any of the four Mercedes already in this register - Mercedes Micaela Lerena Traibel born 1863, the Catedral godmother of 1880, the Mercedes who married Luis P. Marquez in 1883, and Mercedes Lerena de Martinez of Mendoza in 1902. Each pair is recorded with its own reason. The forename runs through this family too hard to separate anyone, and the names panel gives her no age, no parents and no second surname. She carries no married name either, which is why brother and sister is the likeliest reading of the pair and is not proved. Said plainly on both rows: the date within the volume is NOT established. The book runs January 1891 to July 1892 and this was read from the names panel, not from the page, so the act itself is still worth opening. 559 people. All gates green.

Two Lerenas at a font, and the Larriera grandparents fall out of it

did The phrase "Lerena y Lerena" mostly finds two Lerenas joined by "and" rather than the compound surname - "padrinos Avelino Lerena y Adelina Lerena" - and in this archive that is worth more, because two Lerenas standing together at a font is a relationship. Fifteen of the 27 hits are Uruguayan. This one is the christening of MARIA ADELINA LERENA LARRIERA, a row carried as index-level since 21 September with the ark recorded and nothing read. The names panel gives all four grandparents. Paternal: Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Traibel, already known here as the head of the Lerena Traibel branch. Maternal: MIGUEL LARRIERA and CAROLINA CHAVARRIA, who were not known at all. They are the parents of Maria Ines Larriera - a woman whose row said "nothing else in this archive names her", and which has now been corrected twice, first by eight children and now by two parents. It also corrects a generation. Her brother ANGEL MIGUEL AVELINO was said on his page to carry his GREAT-grandfather's name; Avelino Lerena Fernandez is his grandfather. The edges in relations.tsv were right the whole time, so the chart on the page disagreed with the prose beneath it and nothing checks that those agree. What made the error obvious was learning the OTHER grandfather's name: Angel Miguel Avelino is named for BOTH of them, Miguel Larriera and Avelino Lerena. A naming pattern is evidence only when you know both sides of it; with one side it is a story. Two more details worth keeping. The christening is at the Montevideo cathedral although she was born in the Departamento de San Jose. And the transcriber spells this family four ways on one page - Lerena, Lereña, Serena, Levena - which is the ordinary condition of this surname and the reason this archive searches by shape rather than by letter. Five same-name pairs cleared, one of them by hand and deliberately: "Maria LERENA" - the mother on the enrolment card, the woman this archive exists to find - against Maria Adelina Lerena Larriera, who was two and a half years old when Pablo Armando was born. 558 people. All gates green.

The brother who stayed in Navarrete kept its civil register

did A phrase search for "Lerena y Lerena" - which cannot produce the herencia false positive, because herencia is one word - returned 27 results. The second is a Madrid government pension file of 1896, and it is signed by a man entered in this register twenty minutes earlier: "D. Jose Dolores Lerena y Lerena, Juez municipal suplente de esta villa, encargado de la Jurisdiccion por ausencia del propietario, y tambien del Registro Civil de la misma. Certifico: Que en dicho Registro, seccion de Defunciones, al folio ciento noventa y uno del tomo undecimo se encuentra el acta que dice asi..." - the death at Navarrete on 11 November 1895 of Juan Manuel Chavarri Oteyza of Fuenmayor, aged seventy. His brothers' power of attorney of 1900 calls him "casado y propietario", which understates him: he was the acting magistrate of the town and the man who kept its civil register. Nobody from that death act is admitted - not Clemente Huergo, not Chavarri Oteyza, not the judge Briones y Briones, not the secretary Velasco de la Plaza. He is the official of record and they are the business of his office. That is the boundary written into check-people-named.py two days ago, and this is the second Lerena registrar it has been applied to in two days, after Vicente Lerena Diaz at Pueblo Brugo. Which makes three men of this name holding a register or a jurisdiction in three countries: Ramon Lerena, Alcalde de la Santa Hermandad del Partido del Rosario, 1796-1800; Jose Dolores Lerena y Lerena at Navarrete, 1895-96; Vicente Lerena Diaz at Pueblo Brugo, Entre Rios, 1938. No connection is claimed and there is no reason to think one exists - a village needs a literate man, and these are three different villages a hemisphere apart. It is written down because this archive would otherwise meet the coincidence again in six months and mistake it for a pattern. It also opens something concrete: the Juzgado Municipal of Navarrete kept its deaths in numbered volumes, tomo 11 at folio 191 by November 1895. The civil register of the one village where Lerenas married Lerenas exists and is described. A control was run first and passed. The phrase "Juan Carlos Lerena" returns two results in the whole corpus, exactly the two found on 15 September, both already excluded - so a month of corpus growth has still produced no other man of that name anywhere in the world.

Most of those 700 hits are the word "herencia"

did Opened the 1795 Convento de San Francisco probate because it is from Ramon Lerena's decade. The transcript says "que las Gallego admitio absolutamente LA LERENA, y que no hizo inventario de bienes", and three lines up, "verificarse LA LERENCIA". The word is HERENCIA. Admitir la herencia - to accept an inheritance, here without benefit of inventory - is ordinary legal Spanish, and "la lerena" means nothing. The same page of results offered "non lerena rece en el" and "as lerena le coma con la tras", both the same word. So in a corpus made entirely of probate files, the commonest word in the corpus impersonates the surname this archive searches for. "700 full-text hits for Lerena in Argentina" was never 700 appearances of a rare name. The real number is unknown, much smaller, and only reading each hit can tell. This archive has been careful about false ZEROS for a month and had no name for a false POSITIVE. data/false-zeros.tsv now carries one, with the general rule: before trusting a full-text count, find out what your surname is a misreading of in that language and that document type. A name that collides with an ordinary word of the register's own vocabulary will be found everywhere, mean nothing, and do it most in the records that look most promising. The same page did yield a real man. The case "Escalada, Carlos M.; Lerena, Carlos A." is TITLED with him, so he is a party: in February 1890 CARLOS A. LERENA sued the estate of Don Carlos Maria Escalada "sobre cobro de pesos", claiming "la comision por la compraventa a que se refiere". The estate's lawyer A. Ferreyra asked for dismissal with costs because the claim rests on his bare word - "no acompana documento alguno en que conste lo que asevera. NI TAMPOCO PUEDE ACOMPANARLO". A Lerena working as a broker in Buenos Aires in 1890, which is the right city and decade and nothing more; kept apart from Carlos Lerena of Mendoza. 91 images, one read, outcome unknown. 556 people. All gates green.

Five deaths this archive knew and the tool could not read - fixed in the prose

did The new ALIVE AT report named 52 rows where the prose says somebody died and the death pattern could not get a date out of it. Five of those deaths were the person's own, all written in the most natural order there is: Died as an infant, 28 Aug 1937. Died at Montevideo 12 December 1897 aged twenty-five, unmarried. died Montevideo 24 August 1940. died at Montevideo on 22 January 1922. Died at Montevideo on 5 January 1914. I first tried to teach DEATH to step over a place name and over this register's emphasis markers, and threw the attempt away. It moved 19 rows instead of 5: two people LOST death dates they already had, and Juan Zalduondo, Dolores Pou de Zalduondo and Angelica Maria Lerena Villademoros were all three given the SAME death date, 22 August 1913 - which is one person's death act naming the other two. That is exactly the bug the 8 October comment in this tool warns about, reintroduced by widening the pattern rather than ranking its matches. So the prose was fixed instead, which is what the tool's own report asks for and cannot leak onto anybody else: the date now follows the word and the place follows the date. 39 exact death dates, up from 34. The report is down to 47 rows, and the rest are deaths that belong to SOMEBODY ELSE on the row - a wife's death act, a mother's registration, a husband's. Those stay unparsed on purpose.

The sixth Lerena who married a Lerena, not the first - and I had found the fifth that morning

did Published twenty minutes ago on /method/, /uruguay/, /argentina/, /name/ and open question 1: that the Navarrete household proved a Lerena could marry a Lerena, and so removed a reason to doubt Pablo Armando's enrolment card. The register already held five such couples. Two at Trinidad (1894, 1913), the double-first-cousin dispensation of 1911, Alejandro - and Eloy Lerena with Felisa Lerena, both "natural de Espana", baptising their daughter Juana at San Jose de Flores on 10 November 1912. That one was found THE SAME MORNING and written into THE SAME TABLE a few hours earlier, and his row says in capitals that he "MAKES A FIFTH LERENA-MARRIED-A-LERENA COUPLE". So the objection I claimed to have weakened had already been answered, by me, before lunch. What Navarrete actually adds survives the correction and is worth having: the first such household outside South America, the first where the children carry the name doubled as a surname of record - signing themselves "Lerena y Lerena", not merely having two Lerena parents - and the first time the practice has a place on a map whose parish registers can be opened. Caught by an audit of tools/last-alive.py, which had nothing to do with it: a sloppy regex of mine flagged Eloy's row, and reading it to clear the flag showed the sentence. No gate could have caught this. A claim of novelty is not a claim about a person, a date or a link, so no consistency check touches it; the only defence is to search this register for the thing you are about to call new, and I did not. Re-worded in all five places, with the overclaim and its correction left visible rather than quietly edited out.

last-alive could only read deaths, so everyone else was "birth only"

did The file is called LAST DEMONSTRABLY ALIVE and until today it computed nothing of the kind for anyone without a death date. A man who stood in front of a notary and signed his name on a stated day was filed as "born_est only - a floor, not an attestation", as though nothing were known of him after his birth. The four Lerena y Lerena of Navarrete arrived that way and the gap stopped being tolerable. New tier ALIVE AT: 122 of 553 people. It is the last day this archive can SHOW someone living, and it says nothing about when they died. It is deliberately the most timid thing in the file, because the first version was wrong 13 times out of 82 and every failure is written into the tool: - SEVEN HAD A 2026 DATE. This archive stamps its own prose - "TRANSCRIPT READ 11 OCTOBER 2026", "withdrawn 9 October 2026" - so nearly every good note carries the day somebody worked on it, and the tool read that as the day a man born in 1836 was last seen alive. Dates in the archive's own working years are now refused outright; they cannot be a living person either, because living people carry no dates here at all. - SIX WERE DEATH OR BURIAL RECORDS whose one date is the day the person was registered dead. - TWO WERE DEATHS THE OLD PATTERN COULD NOT READ. "Died 28 AUGUST 1937, aged 1" and "died Montevideo 24 August 1940" both defeat DEATH, which wants the date to follow the word; emphasis markers and an interposed place name break it. So a hole in the older pattern was being filled by the newer one with the wrong label, on the wrong side of the line between living and dead. Any mention of a death now stops ALIVE AT, and where the prose names a death DEATH cannot parse, the tool prints it - 49 rows, holes to be fixed in the prose rather than hidden by a tier. - AND THREE LEAKS WERE ONE BUG IN THREE HATS: "Death Records" beat \bdeath record\b, "FreeBMD deaths" beat \bdeath\b, and "los finados" - an act calling a man and his wife THE DEAD - beat \bfinad[oa]\b. Every pattern here now tolerates the plural. A candidate must also fall inside the person's own possible lifetime, and the row must hold exactly one full date, so there is nothing to rank - the same corroborate-don't-rank rule the 8 October bug forced on the death side. Audited: 122 promoted, no death record, no self-date, nothing before a birth.

A Lerena really did marry a Lerena - in a village in La Rioja

did The Spanish consulate in Buenos Aires kept its own notarial register, and this archive had never opened one. They are worth knowing about: a Spaniard appears in them with his VILLAGE of origin and a consular roll number, which no Argentine civil act gives. Escritura 368 of 14 November 1900: "comparecieron los hermanos Don Prudencio Benito y Don Juan Jose LERENA Y LERENA, mayores de edad, solteros, dependientes, naturales de NAVARRETE, provincia de LOGRONO, vecinos de esta Capital e inscritos en este Consulado con los numeros novecientos cincuenta y novecientos cincuenta y uno... confieren poder... a su madre Dona Isabela Lorena y Basaran, VIUDA, y a su hermano Don Jose Dolores Leerena y Lerena, CASADO Y PROPIETARIO, los dos vecinos de Navarrete, para administrar los bienes que los dicentes poseen en Espana." Pablo Armando's 1908 enrolment card names Juan Carlos Lerena AND Maria Lerena, and the cheapest way to dismiss that card has always been to say a clerk wrote the surname twice. Here is a household who really were Lerena y Lerena: a Lerena mother, a Lerena father she survived, three sons carrying it doubled. That is not evidence about his parents - it removes a reason to doubt the card. No connection is claimed and none is likely. These are Riojan Spaniards and every lane this archive has drawn is Banda Oriental stock from the 1790s, so they go on /name/ as a namesake household - the first namesake there that is a whole documented family rather than a stray index hit. The CEMLA extracts already showed a traffic of young Lerena men out of Logrono into Buenos Aires commerce (Martin at 14 in 1907, Jose M. at 16 in 1909, Jose at 16 in 1924, Emilio and Jose Maria in 1930); the married brother at home with the land, and the bachelors in shops across an ocean, is what that traffic looks like from the inside. It also probably identifies a row that has sat here as four bare facts: "Juan Jose LERENA, b.1876, Logrono, soltero, comercio", landed 1920, 1928, 1929. Same forenames, province, civil state, trade and city, and 1876 makes him 24 that November. NOT MERGED - CEMLA records a province and the act records a village - and recorded in _person-pairs.txt as the strongest unmerged pair in the file. Open question 1, the one this archive exists to answer, now carries the weakened objection and a new place to look: the parish registers of Navarrete. Sixteen same-name pairs had to be cleared to get this green, and they are worth a word of warning: the duplicates gate pairs people who share a forename and a canonical surname AND whose notes share vocabulary, so a long note on one row made it read like a dozen unrelated Juans. Each pair was compared on birth date, birthplace and nationality and recorded as distinct. 553 people. All gates green.

In 1794 a widow picked him to count her cattle; by 1796 he was the magistrate

did Two more Buenos Aires probate files, both found by paging past the first page of a 700-result set instead of stopping at the first hit. The 1796 one dates the office: "lo proveyo, mando y firmo D. Ramon Lerena, Alcalde de la Santa Hermandad del Partido del Rosario ... octubre de mil setecientos noventa y seis". So he held it 1796-1800, not in the single year this archive had. The 1794 one is the find, because in it he is not the magistrate. The alcalde of the day walks out to "la estancia del finado Don Clemente Garcia" and there "parecieron ante mi y testigos Don Geronimo Alonso y Don Ramon Lerena, sujetos nombrados por la viuda para contar y tasar el ganado y caballos de dicha estancia". They were sworn separately and signed where there was no notary. That is a career rather than a date: a competence in livestock, a standing good enough for a widow to trust him with her son's inheritance, and a rise to office two years later - more than this archive holds for any other Lerena before 1850, and none of it a birth, a marriage or a death. It also corrects us twice. Clemente Garcia is already "el finado" in 1794 and Celestina Gonzalez already "la viuda", so he died before 1794 and the 1800 court order is a second reckoning of an estate inventoried once already; and the estate includes an estancia with cattle and horses, on top of the shop, the mill and the house. Both row titles were therefore wrong and both are renamed - and neither URL moved, because slugify() strips parentheses. I had first written a correction saying the date was stuck in his address and the row must carry a wrong title forever; checking build-people.py took one grep and showed it was not true. The frozen ledger keys were moved by hand so don-clemente-garcia and ramon-lerena-2 still answer. Four people admitted from the 1794 act, which Ramon Lerena was a party to: Geronimo Alonso de Villagomez, Lorenzo Martinez de Olalla, Guillermo Hurtado de Villagomez, Fulgencio de los Santos. None from the 1796 act, where he was only the official of record - that is yesterday's boundary, tested on the same man in two roles on one day. What the 1796 case was about is recorded on his own row instead: a power of attorney challenged on the ground that the wife, "criada sin instruccion al lado de sus padres indios guaranies", had not understood what she signed. 549 people. All gates green.

A Lerena keeping a register in Entre Rios, 138 years after one kept order at the Rosario

did The last of row 200's three snippets, opened. VICENTE LERENA DIAZ is the Jefe del Registro Civil of PUEBLO BRUGO, Departamento Parana, Entre Rios. The acts open and close in his name: "ante mi VICENTE LERENA DIAZ, de Registro Civil, comparecio..." and "Ante mi: Vicente Lerena Diaz. Es conforme con la partida que tengo a la vista." A STRONG CANDIDACY, NOT MERGED. Arturo Lerena Garcia and Amalia Diaz had sons surnamed LERENA DIAZ, and this register holds two: Juan Fernando, dead at ten months at Valparaiso in 1894, and ANTONIO, who married at CRESPO, DEPARTAMENTO DE PARANA in 1924. Vicente keeps the register of Pueblo Brugo in THE SAME DEPARTMENT fourteen years later. A rare compound, a small department, the right generation. The act gives him no parents and no age, so it is not merged - and the test is named. AND A HARDER PAIR CAME WITH IT. This register already held a VICENTE ANTONIO LARENA at Gualeguaychu, also Entre Rios, a father in 1906 and 1913 and so born about 1875-85 - which would make him about fifty-eight in 1938, an ordinary age for that office. The spelling is no separation here, and neither is the department. NOT MERGED AND NOT EXCLUDED, with what would decide it written down. Row 159, which asks for Entre Rios to be mapped, now has three reasons where it had one. Entre Rios is not a blank; it is three questions. A BOUNDARY WAS ADDED TO YESTERDAY'S RULE, because this record broke it. He signed a volume of 113 images of OTHER PEOPLE'S deaths. Read literally, "a person named on an act this archive has read is a person in this register" admits a day-labourer called Felix Velazquez and an infant Albornoz, and the register fills with strangers a Lerena merely wrote down. SO: the act must be ABOUT one of our people, or our person a party or a witness to it - then everyone on it is admitted. Where our person is only the official of record, THE OFFICE IS RECORDED AND THE BUSINESS OF THE OFFICE IS NOT. That is already how this archive behaved without saying so: the Juez de Paz who married Angelica is here, and the other couples he married that year are not. The line is whether our person is in the record or merely holding the pen. In the gate and on /method/.

What Ramon Lerena was sent to value: a shop and a mill

did Row 200, continued. Three more frames of the Clemente Garcia probate, and they turn the man whose estate Ramon Lerena inventoried from a name into a trade. THE FIRST ITEM APPRAISED is a rancho of twenty-two varas by seven, stone walls rendered and whitewashed both sides, FOUR DWELLINGS - one of them a PULPERIA with counter, shelving, back-shop, parlour and bedroom. Then a house of six doors, three with lock and fittings, and five windows, paved floor and corridors both sides, at 746 pesos. A stone-walled, thatch-roofed building of eleven varas by seven, at 314. And an ATAHONA - a mill - "compuesta de casa, rueda, piedras, palo-fierro, linterna y demas utensilios", at 310. Then the tools: stone-picks, an adze, axes, a turned round table, a pine chest, a crowbar, a spade, a hoe. So the man whose estate a court in Buenos Aires sent an alcalde to value kept THE SHOP AND THE MILL OF HIS DISTRICT. That is also why the case was worth a capital court's attention. THE PEOPLE IN THE ROOM. The two sworn appraisers are DON BARTHOLO GARCIA and ANDRES BRIVAQUI, who swore on a cross before Ramon Lerena to value faithfully. A new witness, LUIS POCHEZ. And CELESTINA GONZALEZ COULD NOT WRITE - "no firmo porque dijo no saber" - so her husband signed for her. THREE PEOPLE IN ONE DAY'S READING COULD NOT SIGN THEIR NAMES: Sancho Llerena, the witness who deposed before him, and the woman holding the shop and the mill in trust for her son. Ramon Lerena signed twice. That is not a flourish, it is what an alcalde was for in a district the record says had no notary at all. A CORRECTION TO THIS MORNING, not yet applied. The "Don Bartolo. Partia" entered from image 26 is almost certainly the BARTHOLO GARCIA of image 29 - same forename, same room, same business, five days apart. His row now says so and he is NOT renamed, because this archive does not rename a person on a probable reading of a mangled transcript. The test is to open both frames as images. Still not found: the minor son's name. He is "su hijo menor" throughout.

Point the front page at the lines, and correct my own count

did Three small things, one of them a mistake of mine. THE DRAWING WAS LINKED FROM NOWHERE BUT ITS OWN PAGE. /index/ opens with "One tree, and the joint that is missing" - the single-joint version of exactly the question the lines drawing asks - and did not link to /name/ at all. It now carries a note saying the break in the tree is one joint in one line, and that there is a wider version of the same question five lines across. I CALLED IT SIX LINES AND THERE ARE FIVE. The heading and the contents entry both said "Six lines of one name" while lerena-lines.tsv holds five lanes. Nobody had read it yet, but it is the kind of slip this archive gates against everywhere else, and it was mine. Corrected in both places. AND THE SIGN-OUT IS RECURRING, NOT A ONE-OFF. Three times today the session lost FamilySearch - once partially, with index pages readable while the images alone were shut, and twice completely with the search redirecting too. Recorded ONCE on row 200 rather than three times, with the operational fact worth having: a session here lasts roughly an hour, so plan the expensive reads first and re-check the instrument after each null rather than before. Nothing was read and no null was taken from either signed-out state. Row 200 stays running. 680 of 700 Argentine results unread, 244 frames of the Clemente Garcia probate unread, and the Entre Rios snippet still unopened.

Six lines of one name, drawn side by side

did David asked whether this archive has the picture the Defranceski one has - the several families of a shared surname drawn together so they can be told apart. It did not. It had three descent ladders, a tree with the missing joint broken open, and a page about the rarity of the name, and nothing that put the distinct families beside each other. It needed it more than most, because the question the drawing asks is this archive's central structural question: ARE THESE ONE FAMILY OR SEVERAL? Row 137 has said since September that the Trinidad sweep is "the only way the Trinidad nest will ever be joined to Sancho, or shown to be a separate family." FIVE LANES, each with a documented beginning and a documented end: Sancho's house out of Canelones into Montevideo; Ramon's out of Rosario del Colla into Trinidad - whose first node is this morning's find, a man holding office in 1800; the direct line from Rosario de Santa Fe to the Cape; the Spanish arrivals into Buenos Aires; and Arturo Lerena Garcia through Chile to Entre Rios. THE RED LANE IS DRAWN BROKEN AT ITS LEFT END, because Pablo Armando's parents are named on one card in 1908 and appear in no other record anywhere. A solid line there would be a lie. AND HALF THE HONESTY IS UNDER THE RULE. Five real households on no lane - including the Lerena Larriera of San Jose, tested on 14 September and recorded as "NOT ours", because a worked negative is worth as much as a lane. Then the namesakes, dashed: the Italian Lerina, the Lerena of Arequipa, a Colombian Lerrena. A picture that places everything is a picture that is lying about something. NO JOIN IS DRAWN BETWEEN ANY TWO LANES, and the note says why: whether the Trinidad kindred joins Sancho's house is open with no evidence either way. An undrawn line is a statement too. The kit HAS this drawing - BranchRivers.astro, promoted out of Defranceschi, and better than mine: it supports candidate-join BRIDGES, which is exactly what Sancho-to-Trinidad will need the day any evidence appears. It could not be used. At line 226 it prints "- the commonest patronymic in Italy" OUTSIDE the map, so it renders unconditionally, on a name Forebears puts at 1 in 3,431,048. That is the same fault its own docstring records fixing once for the caption and missing here. Row 201 raised against the kit with the one-line fix; when it lands, this archive should switch and delete its own component.

The court says which Rosario: "en la otra Banda Oriental"

did Row 200, resumed. This morning Ramon Lerena's row read "the place is indicated, not proved" - a Ramon signing as Alcalde de la Santa Hermandad del Partido del Rosario in 1800, with the OCR around the word ORIENTAL broken so the sentence could not be read whole. IMAGE 22 IS THE COURT ORDER AND IT SETTLES IT. Jose Riera, Alcalde Ordinario de Segundo Voto and Juez de Menores of Buenos Aires, addresses "El Alcalde de la Santa Hermandad del PARTIDO DEL ROSARIO, EN LA OTRA BANDA ORIENTAL de este [Rio]" - so the Rosario is URUGUAYAN, not the Argentine Rosario and not Villa del Rosario in Cordoba. And the widow is "Dona CELESTINA GONZALEZ, VECINA DEL COLLA". This register has called him "Ramon Lerena of Rosario-Colla" since its early weeks, on the strength of a kinship diagram a priest drew in 1858. THE COURT PUTS HIM IN EXACTLY THAT PLACE, HOLDING OFFICE, IN 1800. And the file gives five weeks of one man's work. Riera ordered the inventory because the widow was RESISTING it, having "pasado a segundas nupcias, teniendo hijo menor". On 14 October 1800 Ramon went to her house with Juan de Urdinaran and Francisco Perez de Ceballos and notified her IN THE PRESENCE OF HER SECOND HUSBAND. On the 15th he began at "la nominada Villa del Rosario". On 6 November he decreed and signed. On the 11th he returned with Perez de Ceballos, Bartolome Partia and Andres Pais. On the 12th the appraisal continued before Nicolas Yrigoyen. Throughout he certifies "a falta de Escribano Publico ni Real, por no haberlo en esta Jurisdiccion" - and signs his own name, where Sancho Llerena nine years earlier could not. Six people admitted under yesterday's rule, including the judge whose letter is the proof. Celestina Gonzalez and Clemente Garcia are now of the Colla, not of Buenos Aires - the file sits in a Buenos Aires court only because the Juez de Menores of the capital had jurisdiction over the whole viceroyalty. Recorded as an observation and NOT an argument: the 1858 diagram puts RAMON LERENA and MARIA GONZALEZ at its apex, and the woman at the centre of this file is a GONZALEZ of the Colla. Gonzalez is among the commonest surnames in the Rio de la Plata and no connection is claimed. /method/ and /argentina/ render this from the TSV, so both pages corrected themselves.

The rule nobody had written: no role is furniture

did A PERSON NAMED ON AN ACT THIS ARCHIVE HAS READ IS A PERSON IN THIS REGISTER, WHATEVER THEIR ROLE. Principal, parent, spouse, child, godparent, witness, declarant, notary, priest, physician, judge - and the other family's principals too, when our people appear inside their file. It is now in tools/check-people-named.py and on /method/, under the section already called "Search for the people standing next to the person", because it is the same sentence. Sancho Llerena was found deposing in a stranger's marriage investigation. Ramon Lerena was found inside a probate filed under Clemente Garcia's name. IF THE PEOPLE STANDING NEXT TO OUR PEOPLE ARE NOT PEOPLE, THE METHOD HAS NOWHERE TO PUT ITS OWN RESULTS. Twenty admitted under it. The clergy who married and baptised them - Canonigo Martin Pinero, Jose M. Ojeda of the Cordon, Presbitero Antonio Jenara of San Jose de Flores. Joseph del Rios, the notary who took Sancho's deposition and signed it for him because Sancho could not write - this archive has Sancho's voice because a notary wrote one down. Dr Bordoni Posse, whose archived certificate is a record never sought. The Juez de Paz Eduardo J. Moratorio, with a note against the tempting inference about the Moratorio Lerena children. The two declarants at Eduardo Zalduondo's death, with their ages and one address. And the people our people were standing next to: FLORENTINO GOMEZ, whom Sancho knew from "la linea de Vitoria" and swore for - THE ONLY NAMED ASSOCIATE OF SANCHO LLERENA THIS ARCHIVE HAS - with his bride Ana Gomez; Clemente Garcia, dead by 1800, and his widow Celestina Gonzalez, whom Ramon Lerena notified in person on the only day in 1800 we can place him; and Francisco de los Santos de Acuna, the witness who deposed just before Sancho and whose age clause is why we know Sancho's absent age is the document's silence and not a failed search. Plus four husbands of Lerena women at Trinidad and Amelia Lerena Cardozo - who is NOT the Amelia merged into Angelica this morning, and whose row says so. 13 more relation edges, so they reach the graph and not just the list. The living rule still overrides all of it, and the gate says so.

No, we were not keeping every finding as a person

did David asked. The gate said green. The gate was watching five files and every one of them was Taylor, Brayley or South African - it was blind to the larger half of this register, which is Uruguayan. MEASURED: 39 of 45 people named in one session's work had no row. Among them VIOLETA BLANCA LERENA, born 29 October 1915 - whose existence IS this archive's published argument that the 1911 dispensation was granted. A keystone of a page, and a reader could not click on her. And ten other Trinidad children with birth dates and named parents, published since 27 September. And Eduardo Zalduondo's own BROTHER, with a death date, a birth year, both parents and a wife - left out on an afternoon when this session created a row for a godmother about whom nothing whatever is known. THE FAULT WAS INCONSISTENCY, NOT OMISSION. A Juez de Paz and a witness were admitted the same day a documented brother was not. THE FIX IS NOT THE TWENTY-ONE PEOPLE ADDED. It is that tools/check-people-named.py now watches the Trinidad sweep too. Its own docstring says "the gate grows by being made to", and it had been grown once before - on 8 October, when David asked a version of this same question and the honest answer was "half no". It has now been asked three times. The gate can no longer go green while the Uruguayan side goes unadmitted. ADDED: the eleven Trinidad children; Isidora Cardozo, Petrona Fernandez and Rosaura Alvarez, the mothers they were born to; Rodolfo Bernardo and Ismael Lerena, two fathers who appear once and are not placed; Juan Jose Zalduando Pou with his wife Elisa Carlevaro and their daughter Maria Elisa; and Rafael Costa and Leontina Soasani. WIRED: 21 parent edges in relations.tsv, so they reach the bloodline graph and the ancestor charts rather than sitting as isolated rows - which was the actual complaint behind the question. Two conflicts carried rather than smoothed: Gualberto's two children eight months apart in 1901, and a mother the index calls Rosana on one entry and Rosaura on the other.

Put the day's findings on pages, not only in data/

did An audit against the built HTML, because this archive's documented failure mode is a page stopping where data/ went on - five recorded instances. Today's biggest findings reached only /register/ and the person pages. Three now have narrative sections and the pages link to each other. NEW: data/fulltext-finds-2026-10-11.tsv - five findings, each with what the document says and what it changes, including the two uncertainties left standing (the broken OCR around "Oriental", the two candidate Felisas). /method/#s-two-indexes - the lesson, next to "A null is not a finding until a control says so", where it belongs. The record index transcribes entries into fields and catalogues principals and parents; the full-text corpus reads the page and finds a name in a margin, a witness list or a deposition. Before writing "not in the indexed corpus", NAME WHICH INDEX. And a control can do more than validate a null - it can explain it, as the Santa Fe coverage gap explains the zero for Pablo Armando. /uruguay/#s-second-index - the Cordon marriage of 28 December 1871 and Sancho Llerena's deposition, with the two-brothers-married-two-sisters result and its link to the Trinidad double wedding. /argentina/#s-buenos-aires-fulltext - the 1800 alcalde and the 1912 Spanish family, with the contents list updated as that page's gate requires. Every section is generated from the TSV, so none of them can drift from the data the way a hardcoded page would. Two build notes worth keeping. The astro build was SIGTERMed twice while another session ran Record Atlas builds; it passes when they are not competing, and ARCHIVE_OUT is NOT a workaround here because the link checker still reads site/dist and reports every page unreachable. And argentina.astro's own comment says new imports go at the TOP - inserting one lower matched "import.meta.url" and broke the build, exactly as the comment warns.

Ramon Lerena, Alcalde de la Santa Hermandad, 6 November 1800

did The second of row 200's leads, opened. He is "ALCALDE DE LA SANTA HERMANDAD DEL PARTIDO DEL ROSARIO", signing on 6 November 1800 in the estate of Don Clemente Garcia and notifying the widow Dona Celestina Gonzalez about inventories left to a minor. He certifies "a falta de Escribano Publico ni Real, POR NO HABERLO EN ESTA JURISDICCION" - there was no notary in the district at all. AND HE SIGNS HIS OWN NAME, TWICE. Sancho Llerena, nine years earlier and a few leagues away, could not. Two men of this family on either side of that line, and the archive now has both on the same day. THE PLACE IS INDICATED AND NOT PROVED, which is the difficulty worth stating rather than burying. This archive's Ramon Lerena is "of Rosario-Colla, fl. c.1800-1820" and stands at the apex of the kinship diagram the Cura Vicario of Trinidad drew in 1858; the date fits exactly. The file mentions a "vecindad del partido ORIENTAL", which points across the river to Rosario Oriental in Colonia. But there is a Partido del Rosario on the Argentine side too, the probate was administered at Buenos Aires which held jurisdiction over both banks, and the OCR around the word ORIENTAL is broken so the sentence cannot be read whole. NOT MERGED INTO HIS ROW AS FACT. ONE FRAME OF 249 HAS BEEN READ. An alcalde's jurisdiction is normally stated in full somewhere in a file like this, so the test is simply to read on - and a probate file is the record class that names heirs, widows and neighbours. The frame and the image group are recorded.

A passenger-list name becomes a family, almost

did The first of row 200's three snippets opened. San Jose de Flores, Buenos Aires, baptism No. 461 of 10 November 1912: JUANA, born 25 June 1912, hija legitima of D. ELOY LERENA, natural de Espana, twenty-six, and Dona FELISA LERENA, natural de Espana, twenty-one. Godparents GREGORIO LERENA and ROSA DEFENARI. BOTH PARENTS ARE LERENAS. That is the fifth Lerena-married-a-Lerena couple in this register - and the first that is Spanish and urban rather than Uruguayan and rural, which is worth noticing before anyone explains the pattern by the smallness of a country parish. AND IT WAS NOT MERGED WITH THE PASSENGER LISTS, WHICH IS THE POINT. This archive holds a Felisa and a Gregorio Lerena who landed together at Buenos Aires on 7 December 1911 off the INDIANA from Barcelona, and nothing whatever else about either. A Felisa and a Gregorio stand in this parish eleven months later. The temptation is obvious and the arithmetic is not clean: the act makes Felisa 21, so born about 1891 the 1911 passenger list makes her 1893 the archive's OTHER Felisa, arrived 1923, is recorded 1891 exactly and the roles do not line up either - the 1911 pair travelled TOGETHER, which usually means a couple or siblings, but here Gregorio is only the GODFATHER and the husband is ELOY, who is on no passenger list held here. Both candidate rows now carry the comparison so the next session tests it instead of inheriting it. Three new people: Eloy, Juana, and Rosa Defenari - whose surname reads Italian rather than Spanish, recorded as an observation and not a claim. The other two leads - the Ramon Lerena alcalde probate of 1800 and the Lerena Diaz keeping a register in Entre Rios in 1938 - remain unopened snippets, and the working log still says so.

Row 200 opened: 700 Argentine full-text results, 503 of them legal files

did The seam found while running a control an hour ago, worked for the first twenty of seven hundred results. THE SHAPE OF IT. "Lerena" returns 44,012 full-text results worldwide, 9,516 in South America, 700 in ARGENTINA. The largest Argentine collection by far is BUENOS AIRES CITY LEGAL 1522-2011 with 503 - probate estate case files and notarial records, indexed by CASE TITLE and therefore invisible to the record index. Catholic Church Records give 12, Migrations 20, Civil Registration 3. AND THERE IS NO SANTA FE COLLECTION AT ALL, which is why the Rosario baptism cannot be found here and why that null means nothing. THREE LEADS IN THE FIRST TWENTY. A RAMON LERENA signing as ALCALDE inside a Buenos Aires probate file of 1800 - four matches on one file. This register's Ramon Lerena of Rosario-Colla is recorded as flourishing c.1800-1820 and stands at the apex of the 1858 Trinidad kinship diagram. The date fits and the place does not. A candidate, not a match. A VICENTE LERENA DIAZ keeping the civil register of Pueblo Brugo, Parana, ENTRE RIOS in 1938. The compound is the point: Arturo Lerena Garcia married Amalia Diaz. Bears on row 159. SPANISH-BORN LERENAS in San Jose de Flores baptisms of 1909-1912 - Eloy, Felisa and Gregorio, each "natural de Espana". This register holds a Felisa and a Gregorio from CEMLA passenger lists and NOTHING ELSE about either. First chance to turn an arrival into a life. ALL THREE ARE OCR SNIPPETS WITH ELLIPSES AT BOTH ENDS AND NO ACT WAS OPENED. No register rows were created from them, and the file is declared a WORKING LOG rather than published: putting snippets in front of a stranger as findings would be the same error made with ZALSAMENDI this morning, where a reading nobody had checked was argued for in public. It becomes a page when the acts are read; the books are named so that is cheap. Also recorded: the Place filter is behind an "Expand Place" button with off-canvas checkboxes, but once applied the filter lives in the URL and can be reused directly. That URL is in the file.

A null the control explained rather than merely validated

did The full-text corpus had cracked two standing nulls today, so it was put to the question this archive exists to answer. "Pablo Armando Lerena" returns ZERO. "Juan Carlos Lerena" returns two, both Uruguayan - the Montevideo dispensation already held, and a death of 2001. THE CONTROL WAS RUN AFTER THE NULL, AND IT DID MORE THAN PASS. "Rosario de Santa Fe" returns 245 pages, so the instrument works and it does reach Argentina. But the Argentine holdings it surfaces are BUENOS AIRES PROBATE ESTATE CASE FILES, SHIP INSPECTION FILES and notarial records - NOT SANTA FE PARISH REGISTERS. So this is a COVERAGE null and not an absence. The corpus has not read the books that gap needs, and a zero from it says nothing about whether the Rosario act exists. Without that control the same zero could have been written up as a third independent confirmation that the baptism is not there - which is precisely the error this archive made with ZALSAMENDI this morning, in the other direction. AND IT OPENED A RECORD CLASS NEVER TOUCHED HERE. New row 200: Buenos Aires probate estate case files and ship inspection files. A probate file names heirs, widows, children, addresses and property in one place. This archive already has a Buenos Aires thread - the 1918 San Jose de Flores baptism, Juan Carlos Llerena born there in 1910, Alejandrina Llerena at a font in 1910 - and has never looked at a probate file for any of them. These files are indexed by CASE TITLE, not by the people inside them, which is exactly why the record index cannot see into them and the full text can.

Sancho Llerena could not write

did The named follow-up from an hour ago: open the next frame of his deposition and read his age. HIS AGE IS NOT THERE, and that is a property of the document rather than a failed search - the witness before him closes in the standard form, "dijo ser mayor de cuarenta y ocho anos", so the file states ages when it has them. Written down so nobody opens this frame again hoping. What it gives instead is smaller and sharper. His declaration continues onto frame 341 and ends: "que dijo NO SABER ESCRIVIR, y la firmo su merced conmigo el presente Notario, que lo doy fe. Ante mi, JOSEPH DEL RIOS, Notario Eclesiastico." The judge signed in his place. This archive has held Sancho since its first week and has never known anything about the man rather than his relationships - whose father, whose husband, whose grandfather. Now: a man who had spent years on a frontier line, who was trusted to swear to another man's freedom to marry, and who could not sign his own name. The expediente closes by decreeing no canonical impediment and ordering the marriage of Florentino Gomez and Ana Gomez to proceed. A NAVIGATION TRAP, recorded because it cost three attempts: an image ark PINS one image, and ?i=N is silently ignored when an ark is present. The route that worked is the viewer's own image-number box. And /search/film/008166573?i=341 would not have worked either - this volume is ITEM 8 of that film, and a film query resolves against item 001, which is a trap this archive already recorded in September.

Sancho Llerena speaks, and three nulls turn out to be about one index

did Finding the 1871 Cordon marriage by full text raised a question about everything else this archive had declared unfindable. Four work-list rows were found reasoning from an index null. Two were re-tested the same hour. SANCHO LLERENA, row 26. His death is still not found and that null stands. What turned up instead is his VOICE. A full-text search returns four pages, one of them the marriage investigation file of FLORENTINO GOMEZ before the Juzgado Eclesiastico of Canelones, 1776-1806, where Sancho is a sworn witness and deposes in the first person - a role no index ever showed him in, because the record index catalogues principals and parents and he was neither. He says he had "andado en la linea de Vitoria algunos anos" and knew the groom there. WHAT THAT LINE IS, THIS ARCHIVE DOES NOT KNOW AND DOES NOT GUESS: a "linea" in the Rio de la Plata is ordinarily a military frontier, and Vitoria is also a Basque city and a common Brazilian and Spanish place name. The open question on whether this family is Basque or Extremaduran is NOT advanced by it, and the row says so. His age is on the next frame - where a deposition states it, and where the witness before him says "mayor de cuarenta y ocho anos". That frame has not been opened and is recorded as a cheap, named follow-up. JOSE LORETO LERENA, row 68. Re-tested and STILL NOT THERE: "Loreto Lerena" returns three hits, none Uruguayan. The control was run AFTER the null, not before - "Ambrosia Traibel" returns three pages including Montevideo parish records - so the instrument demonstrably reaches these registers. That null now holds in TWO independent indexes, which is a far stronger statement than the row could make yesterday. THE RULE, added to false-zeros: the record index is built by transcribing entries into fields and loses everyone who is not a principal or a parent; the full-text corpus is built by reading the page and finds a name in a margin, a witness list or a deposition. BEFORE WRITING "NOT IN THE INDEXED CORPUS", NAME WHICH INDEX.

The Cordon marriage of 1871, and two brothers who married two sisters

did Row 185 twice concluded that the marriage of Alejandro M. Lerena and Elisa Villademoros "is not in the indexed corpus and must be walked by image". That was true and it was not the whole truth. THE RECORD INDEX AND THE FULL-TEXT CORPUS ARE TWO DIFFERENT INSTRUMENTS, and the act is in the second. One phrase search on "Elisa Villademoros" returned the Cordon's Religious Marriage Records 1866-1872 - this row's own parish and its own window. The row had named the right book and never asked the right index. 28 DECEMBER 1871, Nuestra Senora del Carmen La Mayor, Cordon. "D. ALEJANDRO MAXIMO SERENA, soltero, natural de Montevideo, hijo de D. AVELINO y de Dona AMBROSIA TRAIBEL, con Dona ELISA VILLADEMOROS, del mismo estado y oriundez, hija de los finados D. PEDRO y Dona ANGELICA VILLADEMOROS." Two conciliar banns dispensed by the Obispo Vicario Apostolico. Witnesses: Dr Joaquin Requena and DONA AMBROSIA T. DE SERENA - the groom's own mother, and so alive that December. The "M." is MAXIMO. AND THE LAST CLAUSE PAYS FOR THE WHOLE SEARCH. Celedonia Villademoros is the daughter of Pedro Villademoros and Angelica Mendez. Elisa is the daughter of the late Pedro and Angelica Villademoros. THEY ARE SISTERS - a reading this archive has carried as "probably" since September - and since Alejandro Maximo and Avelino Eduardo are both sons of Avelino Lerena Fernandez and Ambrosia Traibel, TWO LERENA BROTHERS MARRIED TWO VILLADEMOROS SISTERS. The Lerena Villademoros cousins are double first cousins: the same structure found at Trinidad this morning, a generation earlier and in another department. It also settles the 1873 godmother. A mother dead before December 1871 cannot stand at a font in May 1873, so that Angelica Villademoros is a third sister - which is what the row had reasoned and could not prove. WHAT IT DOES NOT GIVE is the groom's age, which is what row 185 wanted most: it would have separated the 1843 and 1845 readings of the La Mauricia act. The act states status and birthplace and no number. That question is untouched and stays open, and the row says so.

The bride who was the groom's mother

did A correction to a sentence this session wrote two hours earlier. A clean parish-index row - "Socorro Lerena, Bride, Marriage 15 July 1885, Santisima Trinidad, Spouses Serapio Fernandez" - was written into her register row as a dated marriage. It has every field a sourced marriage needs and it is wrong. Socorro Lerena was born about 1832 and in 1885 was a widow and a property owner with a grown son - and that son is the Serapio Fernandez of this very act. A woman cannot be both the groom's mother and his bride. The index gives its bride as thirty, soltera, born 1855. OPENING THE RECORD SHOWS HOW IT HAPPENED. The bride carries the groom's own attributes field for field: age thirty, born 1855, born at Santisima Trinidad, resident at Santisima Trinidad, single - every one identical to his. That is not a bride. It is one party's details copied onto a Lerena name the parser found elsewhere on the page, and the Lerena name on that page is the mother's. So the act of 15 July 1885 is almost certainly the marriage of SERAPIO FERNANDEZ (hijo) to ANTONINA LERENA, dispensed three weeks earlier on 26 June 1885 for a second grade of consanguinity. Antonina's row now carries that as a PROBABLE date, not a fact: the plate is unopened, and the index's "thirty" sits against her own "about twenty-three". The rule, added to false-zeros: WHEN BOTH PARTIES TO AN INDEXED MARRIAGE SHARE EVERY ATTRIBUTE, ONE OF THEM HAS BEEN MANUFACTURED FROM THE OTHER. A real couple almost never matches on all five. The search row looked complete, which is why it was believed. Opening the record cost one fetch.

Row 137's last two men: neither name was one man

did EMILIO LERENA is at least three. A Spanish immigrant from Logrono already in this register, arrived in Argentina 1930. A boy born at Trinidad on 2 January 1906 to Florencio P. Lerena Fernandez and Juana Recuero - so the sweep's "Emilio" is a SON of that generation, not a father of it. And an older Emilio married to PAULA CASARES, whose son Emilio Delfino has a marriage registration at Flores in 1931, which a man born in 1906 cannot have. That third man is the father row 137 met in September; he is attested and NOT placed. ALEJANDRO F. LERENA survives as a named parent and nothing more: husband of NATALIA LERENA and father of AURORA, born about 1868, named only on his grandchildren's registrations. A forename sweep returns 533 Uruguayan Alejandros and he is not among them. Whether he is a son of Alejandro Lerena the elder and Margarita Fernandez Alvarez - which would make the "F." Fernandez, and this branch does produce Lerena Fernandez compounds - is argued in _person-pairs.txt as a hypothesis and is not asserted. A CAUTION WORTH MORE THAN EITHER MAN. The Uruguayan civil registration INDEX CARD series 1900-1937 looks like a census of the whole country and is nearly useless for identity: it gives a name and a department and withholds every date that would let two namesakes be told apart. Both Emilios and most of this row's difficulty come from that one property. Row closed on its own terms - its stated remainder was these two men - but the larger sweep it describes, four departments one collection at a time, is NOT done and the row says so.

Row 187 answered: two of the three San Jose mothers had husbands

did Four forename searches - Manuel, Olegaria, Estefania, Felicia - did what a father-line surname search cannot, and answered most of a row that had stood a fortnight. FELICIA LERENA married at the Catedral Basilica San Jose on 19 December 1874, and the act names her parents: MAURICIO LERENA and CASIMIRA MONTANO, the couple married at Colla in 1837. So she is a SECOND CHILD of the Rosario-Colla house, alongside Manuel - and a woman married in December 1874 mothering a child at San Jose in 1875 is exactly what row 187 recorded without being able to explain. ESTEFANIA LERENA married SERVANDO GONZALEZ, and her six children are indexed GONZALEZ LERENA. That is the compound-surname principle working precisely as this archive states it: a Lerena father-line search cannot see her, and the compound reaches her at once. Whether this joins the Gonzalez Lerena thread already here is NOT established - different departments - and it is not merged. OLEGARIA remains what the row called her: one record in the whole Uruguayan corpus, mother of Juana de las Nieves Lerena, the child carrying her surname because no father was named. The MANUEL search separated three men by their mothers' surnames - LERENA MONTANO, LERENA LEONARD, LERENA MARINO - which is the only thing that can separate men sharing a forename in one small country. It also found the civil registration of the 1882 Trinidad marriage filed at SAN JOSE, a departmental conflict recorded and not resolved. A HYPOTHESIS WAS RAISED AND WITHDRAWN WITHIN THE HOUR. On finding that a Manuel Lerena married a Juana Galarza at the Cordon in February 1890, this session suggested row 187's "Manuel x Juana FERREIROZ, 1891" was the same couple misread. Their daughter Felicia then turned up in TWO separate collections, both naming the mother Ferreiroz. One index mangling a surname is ordinary; two independent records agreeing on it is evidence. Both rows now carry the withdrawal. Ten people added. All INDEX ONLY; no act was opened.

A double wedding in 1889 explains the 1911 dispensation

did Row 188 was a sweep stopped after one page in September. The lesson is general: THE FIRST PAGE IS BAPTISMS AND THE LATER PAGES ARE MARRIAGES. The September pass came away with children; pages two to four carried the acts that explain them. THREE WEDDINGS IN THIRTEEN MONTHS, at Santisima Trinidad: 22 March 1888 - Bernabe Lerena x Florinda Cardozo 25 April 1889 - Maria Lerena x Eliseo Cardoso 25 April 1889 - Casimira Lerena x Juan Basilio Cardoso The last two on ONE DAY. A Lerena brother and his two sisters married a Cardozo sister and her two brothers. That is how double first cousins are made, and in 1911 Custodio Lerena - Bernabe and Florinda's son - had to be dispensed to marry Ema Cardozo. This archive has held the priest's two kinship diagrams for weeks without the weddings behind them. And the 1911 marriage itself is found: 18 September 1911. The grant was previously inferred from the birth of their daughter in 1915; it is now on the act. Seven people new to the register. A second sister, Casimira, whom this archive did not hold. ALEJANDRO F. LERENA x NATALIA LERENA - a fourth Lerena-married-a-Lerena couple, and the first record to give row 137's "Alejandro F." a wife and a child. Their daughter Aurora x Manuel Vaquero with five children at Trinidad. And MANUEL LERENA, son of Mauricio and Casimira Montano of the 1837 Colla marriage, marrying at Trinidad in April 1882 - a second, independent thread from the Rosario-Colla house into Flores. Two conflicts recorded rather than smoothed: Gualberto's two children eight months apart in 1901, and Aurora's Herminia and Gerardo six months apart and christened the same day, so one birth date is misindexed. One record was deliberately not taken - a Trinidad birth and death of September 1980 naming a living generation's parents. Still not shown: which Cardozo fathered Ema. If Eliseo or Juan Basilio, the doubling is accounted for exactly. All of this is INDEX ONLY; not one act was opened.

Birth years from the 1897 act, and a gap in the last-alive ledger

did The marriage act gave Juan Zalduondo (80), Dolores Pou (58), Celedonia Villademoros (55) and Fernando Moratorio (50) their first birth years, and Eduardo an exact one. last-attested-alive regenerates accordingly. New row 199 records what that exposed: the ledger files Juan and Dolores as 'BIRTH ONLY' when this archive knows they were alive on 20 November 1897 and dead by 22 August 1913 - a fifteen-year bracket it cannot see, because the tool reads born_est and nothing else. The same is true of every witness, godparent and named parent here. Not fixed: the facts live in prose, and parsing dates out of prose is the method the corrections gate records as tried and abandoned.

Row 185: the same null, now from the wife's side too

did The technique that found the 1897 marriage an hour earlier - search the rare surname bare - was turned on row 185 and failed. VILLADEMOROS bare returns 649 in Uruguay; Elisa Villademoros returns 33, and every one is accounted for. Four carry the role 'Other', which is where this index hides people it cannot place and therefore where a marriage party could sit, and none of them is a marriage: two are Angelica Maria's own baptism, one is an 1891 christening where Elisa stands godmother, the rest are other Villademoros households. So the null holds from both spouses and under four spellings, and the instrument demonstrably works - these searches returned 649 and 33, not zero. The image walk of Cordon and Union marriages 1868-1872 is the only route left, which is what the row already said; it now says it on twice the evidence. Found on the way and recorded as a lead, not a fact: an 1891 Montevideo christening carrying 'Alejandro M. Pero' beside Elisa, almost certainly the couple standing godparents. Computer-indexed, not opened.

The marriage, found four hours after it was called missing

did Row 186 wanted the act that joined Angelica Maria Lerena Villademoros to Eduardo Zalduondo. This morning the archive wrote it down as not found and filed it as open question 10. It is Montevideo, fourth section, civil act No. 83 of 20 November 1897, folio 42, expediente 94, at five in the afternoon, before the Juez de Paz Gallo Pareja. Plate read. THE METHOD WAS EMBARRASSINGLY SIMPLE: search the GROOM. Every previous attempt went through Lerena and its manglings - Lerma, Lorena, Zerena - and reached only the death and the children. One search on the bare surname ZALDUANDO, no given name and no date, returned the marriage in the first ten rows, plus a brother and a niece. A rare surname searched bare beats a common surname searched cleverly. ONE ACT, FOUR ANSWERS. Eduardo was born 15 August 1860 at Montevideo - an exact date, which makes his own death act's "fifty-two" wrong by a week: he had turned fifty-three seven days before he died. Angelica's father AVELINO EDUARDO LERENA TRAIBEL died IN CANELONES in 1895, a death this archive did not have, stated by his widow, who was party to the act. This makes the withdrawn "La Paz, Canelones" reading legible without reviving it: that claim was about his FATHER, who died at Montevideo in 1890, and the retraction stands - but there is an Avelino Lerena who died in Canelones, and it is the son. The secondary tree looks less like invention than like a confusion of two men with one name. Nothing in this act says La Paz. The Zalduondo parents are not Spanish immigrants. The form has a nacionalidad blank for each and it is filled: Juan is ORIENTAL, aged eighty and on a pension; Dolores Pou is BRASILENA. Her row had reasoned from the surname that she was "Catalan or Balearic" and said so twice. The surname may well be Catalan; she was not. Logged as a correction - the error was not the guess, which was labelled a guess, but letting a labelled guess stand while the document that settles it went unsought. And the "Legitiman" line is BLANK, so no child existed in November 1897 and all three were born after it. That excludes Maria Elena Zalduondo from being the Maria Elena Lerena who married in 1906 - a pair this register had been unable either to match or to rule out hours earlier. An empty field on a form did that. Also corrected: a note written this morning said the recurring MORATORIO surname "is not evidence of anything". It was right about the Juez de Paz and wrong about the family. Fernando Moratorio, fifty, of commerce, witnessed this marriage, and he is the husband of Josefa Lerena Traibel, the bride's aunt. "No connection is claimed" and "there is no connection" are different sentences. She signed the act herself - "Angelica Lerena", her own hand and her own spelling, against an index that had called her three other things.

ZALSAMENDI was never on the plate. It is ZALDUONDO

did David signed the session in and the two blocked plates were read. Both overturn what this archive published four hours earlier, so this commit is largely a retraction. THE SURNAME. The 1903 Pocitos baptism heads its entry "Maria Zalduondo", names the father "Eduardo Zalduondo" and the paternal grandmother "Dolores Pou de Zalduondo". The 1913 Montevideo death act, certificate 553, says "ha fallecido Eduardo Zalduando ... era hijo de Juan Zalduondo y de Dolores Pou, fallecidos". ZALSAMENDI appears on neither page. It was a misreading of the 1903 hand and it stood here for three weeks. THE ARGUMENT THAT FAILED, which is worth more than the fact. When the civil index spelled the man ZALDUANDO, this archive reasoned that a plate outranks an index and published ZALSAMENDI. But it was not holding a plate - it was holding another session's READING of a plate, and treating the two as the same thing. The index had been right all along. There was a tell in plain view and it was read backwards: the archive's own note recorded that a MACHINE transcript of this act produced "Del Suando". Two readers failing on one hand is evidence the hand is hard. And a second tell was ignored outright - the index called the child MARIA MARGARITA LUISA, a fourth name the 1903 reading had dropped, and the plate has it. THE WIFE. The forename question was framed as plate-against-index and it was plate-against-plate: 1903 says AMELIA, 1913 says ANGELICA. They are one woman, and the record forces it rather than the archive choosing - the 1913 act places Maria Margarita inside the union with Angelica and the 1903 act places the same girl inside the union with Amelia. One child cannot be inside two unions. "Amelia LERENA" is merged into ANGELICA MARIA LERENA VILLADEMOROS; the name is kept as a recorded variant rather than erased, so a reader meeting her in the Pocitos register can find her. Why a priest wrote Amelia is not explained, only outvoted two to one, and the row says so. GAINED FROM THE PLATES: his birthplace (Montevideo), that he was retired on a pension at fifty-two, angina de pecho, calle Juan B. Blanco 9, both his parents already dead, the declarants and the Juez de Paz, LUISA for the daughter, and a THIRD CHILD - MARIA ELENA - who is a name and nothing else. URLS. The archive's first rename and first merge. Five published person slugs were orphaned; they are kept in the ledger, never deleted, and redirected in astro.config.mjs to the same human being. Seven other keys were deleted and the rule was not broken to do it - they were minted in the previous eighteen hours by a session that built a duplicate family and removed it, and not one was ever deployed. Two of those deletions gave real people back clean addresses the churn had taken. Open question 10 is rewritten from "Amelia or Angelica?" to the record neither plate is: her marriage act, still not found, which is why work list row 186 stays open.

Split the 1927 parish film into its own searched.json row

did DGS 008166595 was riding inside the row for DGS 008165206, which would have told the atlas one film carried work done in two. Neither film resolves to a waypoint - absent from the atlas's fs-volumes data and reached by index ark, so no wc=/owc= was ever seen - so both are recorded by film number with the waypoint left unset.

The Zalduando was already here, under Zalsamendi

did Row 186 asked who Angelica Maria Lerena Villademoros married. Four civil index entries answered: Eduardo Zalduando Pou, dead at Montevideo on 22 August 1913 aged fifty-two, son of Juan and Dolores Pou, with two children. They were written up as a family new to this register. They were not new. Every one of them was already here under ZALSAMENDI, entered on 21 September off the plate of a Pocitos baptism of 1903. The agreement is fivefold and none of it depends on the disputed surname: the husband Eduardo, his father Juan, his mother Dolores Pou, a Lerena wife of Avelino and Celedonia, and a daughter Maria Margarita. The duplicates gate caught it before anything was committed. A plate outranks an index, and this index writes Lerena as "Lerma" and Avelino Lerena as "Arabia Larena Lerena", so ZALSAMENDI is the better reading. There is even a tell: a machine transcript of the same 1903 act read the father as "Del Suando", far closer to "Zalduando" than to what the plate says. The same hand defeats the same kind of reader twice. One difficulty closed itself on the way. Amelia Lerena's row has asked since 14 September how her parents could be "Avelino y Celidonia B. de Lerena" when Avelino Lerena Fernandez married Ambrosia Traibel. The Avelino is not him - it is his son, Avelino Eduardo Lerena Traibel, whose wife is Celedonia Villademoros. The Pocitos household joins to the Lerena Villademoros, and through them to the Lerena Traibel. Nothing was discovered; two rows that had sat here three weeks were read together. What is NOT settled is the wife's forename. The plate says Amelia, the index says Angelica, and the parents match exactly in both. That is now open question 10, and the two women are not merged. The test is one plate - DGS 008165206 image 283 - and on 11 October the image viewer answered with a sign-in page. Recorded as unread, not empty: new row 198 is blocked on a signed-in session, and false-zeros gains a disguise, because the index page read perfectly and passed its own sign-in control while the images behind it did not. "Am I signed in?" is not one question. Genuinely new people: two. A son, Eduardo Avelino, born about 1901 at La Paz in Canelones, who married Maria Ester Costa there in 1927 - which puts a branch of this Montevideo family in Canelones - and his wife. Also caught before commit: the first draft of all of this was written onto Maria Angelica Julia Lerena Salvanach, born 1886, by a prefix match on "Maria Angelica". The chronology stopped it - she would have been fifteen when this couple's eldest was born. Name order is not identity.

The Villademoros branch is in Buenos Aires in 1918

did Finishing the half of row 87 the Trinidad side had crowded out: the Montevideo compounds against the dispensation series. Neither reached a dispensation. "Lerena Salvanach" returns ZERO in full text — controlled by "Lerena Villademoros" run minutes earlier in the same session, which returns one. That one was worth the search. Basílica San José de Flores, Buenos Aires, acta 446, 20 January 1918: BEATRIZ ELIZA DEL CORAZÓN DE JESÚS, born 17 November 1917, "hija legítima de D. EUGENIO MARCOS ABELLA, natural de URUGUAY, de cuarenta y un años, y de Doña JACINTA LERENA VILLADEMOROS, natural de URUGUAY, de treinta y seis años, domiciliados en MEMBRILLAR 96". So a Montevideo branch crossed to the Argentine capital, with a husband, an address and a daughter. A NAME TRAP WORTH WRITING DOWN, because this archive works both countries at once: the parish is SAN JOSÉ DE FLORES in BUENOS AIRES CITY. That is a different Flores from the Uruguayan department where the Trinidad kindred lives, and a different San José from the one where the Lerenas married in 1825 and 1837. Three unrelated places sharing two names. AND THE AGE DOES NOT AGREE. She is given as thirty-six in January 1918 — a birth about 1881 — where this archive holds her baptism of 19 September 1876, which would make her forty-one. A stated age on a baptism act is the parent's own account and is often short, and this archive does not move a baptismal date on the strength of one. The identification rests on the rare compound surname and the Uruguayan birth; the conflict is recorded rather than smoothed. Two people added. ./tools/verify.sh EXIT=0, all gates passed, 459 people.

Row 87 done — and the compound technique's failure mode found with it

did The row asked for the compound-surname technique to be crossed with the Montevideo dispensation series. The crossing itself returned almost nothing: of the compounds tried, only "Lerena Cardozo" reached a dispensation, and it was the 1911 Lerena–Cardozo already held. What the compounds found instead has been committed separately — four acts from "Lerena Peláez" that rebuilt three generations and confirmed the 1858 kinship diagram from the civil register. AND THE TECHNIQUE'S SPECIFIC FAILURE MODE TURNED UP IN THE SAME HOUR. Two Durazno birth registers of 1915 matched "Lerena Cardozo" and looked exactly like children of the 1911 couple — right surnames, right years. Neither act is about a Lerena at all. PEDRO S. LERENA signed at the request of an illiterate declarant and SATURNINO CARDOZO witnessed the same act, so the two surnames fall adjacent in the signature block. A COMPOUND SEARCH CANNOT TELL ONE PERSON'S TWO SURNAMES FROM TWO PEOPLE'S ONE SURNAME EACH. This archive already held the same error in another service — Trove treats a whole family-notices column as one article, so "Brayley Bideford" matched two terms set in the same column of type. Proximity read as relationship, in a new place. The tell is cheap: if the two surnames appear in a list of SIGNATURES rather than in a person's name, it is not a compound. The accident was not wasted. It found PEDRO S. LERENA, literate, at Tejera in the Segunda Sección of Durazno in 1915, signing for neighbours who could not write — which is what a schoolmaster, a policeman or a storekeeper did. He is entered with no age, no parents and a middle initial written S. once and J. once, neither read off the plate, and nothing connects him to any branch here. Six same-name pairs declared against him, each saying the same honest thing: a man who exists only as a signature can be neither matched nor ruled out. Still open and cheap: the Montevideo compounds — Lerena Lenguas, Lerena Salvanach, Lerena Villademoros — were not run against the dispensations, because the Trinidad side paid so heavily it consumed the session. ./tools/verify.sh EXIT=0, all gates passed, 457 people, 27 false-zero disguises.

A priest drew it in 1858; a Juez de Paz wrote it in 1911

did Work-list row 87 asked for the compound-surname technique to be crossed with the Montevideo DISPENSATION series. "Lerena Pelaez" returns four documents in the entire full-text corpus. None is a dispensation. All four were opened and two were read off the plate. THE ONE THAT MATTERS. Flores death act No. 9, 28 July 1911: ANTONINA ISABEL LERENA DE PELÁEZ, nacida en MONTEVIDEO, de NOVENTA Y DOS AÑOS, widow, dead on her own estancia at Cerro Colorado — "hija legítima de Don RAMÓN LERENA y de Doña MARÍA GONZÁLEZ, fallecidos". That is the apex of the kinship diagram the Cura Vicario of Trinidad drew in 1858 to prove an impediment, confirmed fifty-three years later by a Juez de Paz in a different record system. Two independent documents, one couple. It also names her four surviving children — CASIMIRA JOSEFA, MALBINO HIPÓLITO, MARÍA INOCENCIA, JUAN FABIÁN — three of whom this archive held as separate people from separate acts. Casimira married Bernabé Lerena; María Inocencia married Rafael Sánchez; Malbino Hipólito is the Malbino/Balbino of the 1880 witness list. And her husband is JUAN PEDRO Peláez, not simply Juan. AND IT COST AN INFERENCE. This register had her born about 1830, reasoned from a daughter aged thirty in 1880 — sound arithmetic on the only number available, and eleven years out. The act states ninety-two. It also gives MONTEVIDEO where the 1858 expediente says "naturales de San José"; recorded as a conflict, not deleted. THE OTHER THREE: - ALEJANDRINA LERENA DE PELÁEZ, d. 1926 aged 74 — the woman this archive could only infer yesterday as "a daughter of his by Isidora Chouriño". Her act confirms Alejandro the younger's own parentage seventy-two years after the expediente that first gave it, and spells Isidora a THIRD way: Chousiña. - AMADOR LERENA PELÁEZ, d. Durazno 1937, 35, a barber born in the Sexta Sección — a SECOND child for the couple dispensed in 1894, and the first terminus this archive has for either parent's death. - LUIS and AURORA, confirmed at Trinidad, children of Balbino Peláez and Alejandrina Lerena; and a new MARGARITA LERENA as a sponsor. Six people added. A candidate declared and NOT merged: an "Antonia Luisa" christened at Cordón in 1819 to Ramón Llerena and María Josefa González. Same year, same city, same parents — and Antonia Luisa is not Antonina Isabel, which is exactly the size of difference this archive has been wrong on twice this week. The Cordón act is on film and unopened. Two things worth carrying: a COMPOUND surname reaches WOMEN, who are invisible to a father-line search — three of these four acts are about women. And the Flores volume titled "March 1918 – January 1919" contains acts of 1926, so a volume title is not a bound on its contents. ./tools/verify.sh EXIT=0, all gates passed, 456 people.

Cajón 985 finished: one true null, and a card the index read three ways wrong

did Both of these were searched earlier today on a session that had silently signed out, and both results were withdrawn. Redone signed in, with the control re-run AFTER each null and not only before it. LEANDRO LORENA and LLANOS is a true null. The constraint binds and returns eleven rows carrying that surname across Bolivia, Spain, Colombia, Mexico and Peru — and exactly one is this couple: the army card itself. No baptism, no marriage, no civil registration, in any country. That is what a controlled null looks like when the search is working. CONCEPCIÓN LERENA WAS NEVER A NULL. Her son's MILITARY FINGERPRINT CARD sits in a different drawer and a different record class from the enrolment fichas of Cajón 985 — reached through the person, not the drawer, which is why this archive had never opened it. The plate corrected the index three times over: - the surname is LERENA, in his own signature, where the index says SERENA; - the index gives him a father, "Spouses Carlos" — THE CARD'S FATHER FIELD IS STRUCK THROUGH WITH A PEN, and the indexer took CARLOS from the son's own forename; - the index puts his birth at Mendoza; the card says CAP. FEDERAL. This archive had copied that one into its own working file four weeks ago. So the drawer summary's "(mother only)" was right all along, and Concepción Lerena is not a father at all — one of the four men /open-questions/ has been asking strangers about is a woman with no husband on the record. AND IT STRENGTHENS THE EVIDENCE THIS ARCHIVE RESTS ON. These clerks CANCELLED a parent they did not know rather than leaving the line blank. Pablo Armando's card names both — Juan Carlos Lerena and María Lerena — so her name was positively supplied, not defaulted. It still does not decide maiden against married, which is what question 1 actually asks. Cajón 985 is now worked to the end: five fathers traced, one true null, one who turned out to be a mother. ./tools/verify.sh EXIT=0, all gates passed, 450 people.

Arturo Lerena is Spanish, and a journalist — which breaks a pattern

did Signed in again, the control re-run first and it passes. Then the record the last correction named as the open route: Arturo's son's marriage in Entre Ríos, because that province's form asks what the Chilean one does not. Acta 144, Crespo, departamento de Paraná, 24 October 1924, a printed form with a "de nacionalidad" blank beside each parent: "hijo de ARTURO LERENA, de nacionalidad ESPAÑOLA, de profesión PERIODISTA, y de AMALIA DÍAZ, de nacionalidad PERUANA" He signed as a witness too — "Arturo Lerena, de cincuenta y [units digit not read] años, de profesión Periodista, de estado casado, domiciliado en PARANÁ" — so born about 1865–1874, and the age is what proves the witness is the father and not his twenty-eight-year-old son of the same name. ON ANY MARRIAGE ACT, READ THE WITNESS LIST: the same person can appear twice with different facts attached. AND IT BREAKS A CLAIM THIS ARCHIVE PUBLISHED YESTERDAY. data/cajon-985- origins.tsv has said since 13 September that of the drawer's traceable fathers "EVERY ONE is Uruguayan or married in Uruguay", and I strengthened it on 9 October by adding Carlos as a Montevidean. Arturo is a Spaniard married to a Peruvian. Five are traceable now and the generalisation fails on the fifth; what survives is only that none of them is Argentine. THAT COSTS SOMETHING REAL. /open-questions/ was leaning on that pattern as a base rate — that an Argentine Lerena of this generation is usually a Uruguayan family's son, and that a Juan Carlos absent from Rosario fits the shape. A drawer holding a Spaniard and a Peruvian is a drawer of IMMIGRANTS, not a drawer of Uruguayans. The question now says so instead of quietly keeping the stronger version. The honest form was always available: "three of three", not "every one". It also explains an index this archive could not parse — FamilySearch renders Amalia on one army card as "Amalia Dias Peruane", reading her nationality as part of her name — and adds a birthplace the drawer did not give: Antonio Lerena Díaz, born about 1896 at BUENOS AIRES. The method, twice over now: GO WHERE THE FORM ASKS THE QUESTION. Mendoza's printed baptism form placed Carlos in a city where its own prose could only say "orientales"; Entre Ríos's marriage form placed Arturo in a country where a Chilean death register could not. When a man cannot be placed from one record class, the question is which form asks what you want to know. Four people added, including the bride's German-colony family at Crespo. And Arturo is the first documented Spanish-born Lerena this archive has found in Argentina, with his mother's surname known — García — which is the shape open question 5 has been asking for. ./tools/verify.sh EXIT=0, all gates passed, 448 people.

Three conclusions withdrawn: the session had silently signed out

did I went back for Arturo's Entre Ríos marriage and found the same URL returning fuzzy noise that had returned true hits an hour before. The cause was not FamilySearch. THE BROWSER SESSION HAD SIGNED ITSELF OUT, and a signed-out search returns a restricted tier — twenty-one rows of United States census for every query, whatever the constraint. The page said so, in one line above the results: "Create a free account or sign in to see all available results." WITHDRAWN: - that Leandro Lorena and Llanos are absent from the index, recorded as a CONTROLLED null; - that Concepción Lerena is absent; - and the method finding that a parent-pair query and a spouse-pair query reach two different index shapes, which was built on a clean 0 Results for Carlos Lerena and Adela Carniglia. That zero has a simpler explanation. THE PROOF IS THE CONTROL ITSELF. The Carniglia spouse-pair query returned three true hits earlier the same day — I read two of those acts off the plate — and now returns twenty-one rows with not one carrying the name. THE LESSON IS EXACT AND IT COST THREE CLAIMS: a control run BEFORE a null proves nothing about the null if the service can change state in between. On any signed-in service the control must be re-run AFTER the null it is meant to protect. The cheapest detector was on the page the whole time — the account name in the header. And this archive already held this trap, as false-zero disguise seventeen: "THE SESSION THAT LOGGED ITSELF OUT AND DID NOT SAY SO". I walked into it anyway, which is why the two false-zero rows written an hour ago are rewritten rather than deleted: the observation in them was right and the explanation was wrong, and that pairing is worth more than either half. WHAT SURVIVES, AND WHY: everything read OFF A PLATE. Carlos Lerena natural de Montevideo, Arturo Lerena García, the Valparaíso act of 1894 — those are transcriptions of images I looked at, not search results, and they do not depend on who the service thought I was. ./tools/verify.sh EXIT=0, all gates passed.

Two controlled nulls, and two query forms that are not the same search

did Leandro Lorena and Concepción Lerena, the last two untraced fathers of Cajón 985, are both absent from the index. The method finding is worth more than the nulls. A PARENT-PAIR QUERY AND A SPOUSE-PAIR QUERY ARE NOT THE SAME SEARCH. q.fatherSurname + q.motherSurname asks "whose CHILD has these parents", and it returned a clean, confident 0 Results for Carlos Lerena and Adela Carniglia — a couple whose three children this archive read off the plate the day before. Those records are indexed with the FATHER as principal, so the child has no parent fields to match. q.surname + q.spouseSurname finds all three at once. I caught it by running the control before believing the null, on a pair I had just proved exists. Every parent-pair null this archive holds should be re-run in the spouse form before it is trusted. AND THE OPPOSITE FAILURE, IN THE SAME HOUR. When a filtered search matches nothing, this service does not say zero: it silently widens to fuzzy surname matches and returns a full page. Twenty-one rows for Lerena-with-spouse-Llanos, twenty-one for Salvador Lorena 1893-99, and not one row carried the constraint — Llorens, Lorraine, Lohren, Lorene, Lorino, all United States census. One trap hides a true result behind a confident zero; the other hides a true zero behind a page of results. Count the rows that carry your constraint, not the rows that come back. So Leandro Lorena is a CONTROLLED null — the same form on Carniglia returns three true hits in the same session, so the form is sound and the pair is genuinely absent. Concepción's null is weaker and I have said so: the mother filter does not bind at all. But her son's 1899 Mendoza baptism should lie in Santiago Apóstol y San Nicolás, Baptism Records 1899–1901, DGS 004597291 — the volume already read twice this week — and that is a page-by-page read, not a search. A card naming only a mother is itself evidence: it usually means no father was recorded at the birth. /open-questions/ question 1 now asks for what is actually open. Of the four fathers it listed yesterday, two are traced — Carlos to Montevideo, Arturo to a mother surnamed García — and two are nulls with their routes named. The one genuinely open to a stranger is Arturo Lerena García: mother a García, wife Amalia Díaz, family at La Pampa 1889, Valparaíso 1893-94, Mendoza 1896, Entre Ríos 1897. His marriage, or any Entre Ríos registration of his children, would give his nationality. ./tools/verify.sh EXIT=0, all gates passed, 26 false-zero disguises.

Arturo Lerena García — a mother's surname, and Chile

did The second of the untraced fathers of Cajón 985, by the same shape that traced Carlos: search the man's WIFE. Surname Lerena with spouse surname Díaz returned Chilean civil registrations, because the family crossed the Andes. A COMPOUND SURNAME NAMES A MOTHER. The death registration of his infant son at El Almendral, Valparaíso, 18 September 1894, writes him ARTURO LERENA GARCÍA — the first thing this archive has ever held about his parents, and a searchable handle. AND IT CONFIRMS A WITHDRAWAL MADE ON DOUBT ALONE. His working row was first written as "Montevideo 1858, son of Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Traibel" and retracted the same day as a conflation with Juan Arturo Lerena Traibel. A man written LERENA GARCÍA is not a son of Ambrosia Traibel. The retraction was right, and it is now right on evidence. CHILE HAS NEVER BEEN A PLACE THIS ARCHIVE READ A RECORD IN — it existed here only as a surname-distribution figure and a DNA probe. The transferable point: a parent-pair query is not constrained by country, and a family that lived at Mendoza is one pass from Valparaíso. An Argentine search should expect Chilean hits and not discard them. La Pampa 1889, Valparaíso 1893–94, Mendoza 1896, Entre Ríos 1897. The dates sit in order and the route is the ordinary one. The act read off the plate: entry 54, page 28, "nombre Lerena Diaz Juan Fernando, sexo masculino, nacionalidad CHILENA, edad DIEZ MESES, estado párvulo, domicilio Victoria 81", died at one in the afternoon of pulmonía, buried Playa Ancha. THE AGE CORRECTS THE INDEX, which estimates his birth as 1894 from the death year: ten months on 18 September 1894 is about November 1893. An estimated birth year derived from a death year is not a birth year. HE IS STILL NOT PLACED IN A COUNTRY. The Chilean form records nationality for the DECEASED only and never asks where the father was born — where the Mendoza printed form, the same afternoon, placed Carlos Lerena in a city. He is recorded as a Lerena García and nothing more. The test is his marriage to Amalia Díaz, or an Entre Ríos registration of one of his other children, which in that province gives the parents' nationality. Three people added, including the first in this register born in Chile. No waypoint recorded: the film page offers MLKY-SPJ with three segment ids and it was not checked against the atlas's volume data. ./tools/verify.sh EXIT=0, all gates passed, 444 people.

Four work-list links to /gaps/ now go to the section that holds the gaps

did /gaps/ folded into /open-questions/#may-never-close in 5f6c52b; these four markdown links in work-list rows still went through the redirect. Retargeted by exact string. The full npm build chain passes and no built page links /gaps/ or /photograph-these/ any more.

Carlos Lerena is natural de Montevideo — and the printed form is why

did The cheapest next step this archive named an hour ago was the second Mendoza daughter's act. It paid. The 1900 baptism is PROSE and could only say the parents were "orientales". The 1902 baptism, same parish, same couple, is a PRINTED FORM — "Partidas de Bautismos de la Parroquia Matriz de Mendoza" — with a "natural de" BLANK beside each parent. Both blanks read MONTEVIDEO. SO CARLOS LERENA, one of the four fathers /open-questions/ asks strangers about, IS A MONTEVIDEAN, not merely a Uruguayan. And Adela Carniglia too — an Italian surname in Mendoza by way of the Banda Oriental. THE TRANSFERABLE PART IS ABOUT THE FORM, NOT THE FAMILY: when a parish switches from prose to a printed register, go back and re-ask the questions the prose could not answer. Two years apart, same clerk's parish, and the second act answers what the first could not. So four traceable fathers in that drawer and NOT ONE OF THEM ARGENTINE — Gilberto Lerena Lenguas (Montevideo 1855), Alejandro M. Lerena (Uruguay 1844), Nemesio Ramón (married Salto 1903) and now Carlos (Montevideo). That names nobody. It is the frame against which a Juan Carlos Lerena who left no trace at all at Rosario should be read. AND A SECOND LERENA GODPARENT, AGAIN BY PROXY. Avelino Lerena stood godfather in 1900 through Domingo Simois; MERCEDES LERENA DE MARTÍNEZ stood godmother in 1902 through the child's own mother. A godparent who must be represented lives somewhere else — and somewhere else, for this family, is Montevideo. The child is named for her. She is not identified. This register holds three Mercedes Lerenas at Montevideo and, separately, a CAROLINA Lerena de Martínez married to Julián Martínez — a Lerena-Martínez marriage under a different forename. Each of the three is declared on its own merits in data/_person-pairs.txt: Mercedes Micaela Lerena Traibel (38 in 1902, Montevideo, no husband recorded) is a real candidate held open; the 1880 godmother is a candidate whose evidence has the same shape on both sides, which is why it proves nothing; and the one who married Luis P. Márquez in 1883 would be "de Márquez", and the married surname is the one thing these acts do record about a woman. María Mercedes Lerena born 10 March 1902 in the city of Mendoza, with Eduardo Carniglia as godfather in person. Two people added. A note for anyone following the films: /search/film/<DGS>?i=N resolves against ITEM 001 only and lands silently on the wrong volume — this act is in item 003. Use the index record's own VIEW ORIGINAL DOCUMENT button. And no waypoint is recorded here: the film page offers Q633-3DR, verified for item 001, but this is a different item, and a year range that fits is not a confirmed match. ./tools/verify.sh EXIT=0, all gates passed, 441 people.

One of the four untraced fathers is Uruguayan — search the wife, not the man

did /open-questions/ question 1 asks strangers for the origins of four men named as fathers on the Lerena cards of army drawer Cajón 985. This traces the first, and the method is the transferable part: a man who is only a name on his son's card still has a WIFE, and a distinctive married-in surname cuts the whole corpus to a handful. LERENA with spouse surname CARNIGLIA returned three records in one query, every one a child. The first of them, read off the plate — there is no AI transcript for this image — is the baptism of MARÍA ADELA at the Iglesia Matriz de Mendoza on 6 January 1900: "es hija legítima de D. Carlos Lerena y Adela Carniglia, ORIENTALES, domiciliados en este Curato". SO CARLOS LERENA IS URUGUAYAN, where cajon-985-origins.tsv had him as "Not established". That makes four of that drawer's traceable fathers and every one of them Uruguayan or married in Uruguay. It names nobody. It sharpens the base rate against which a Juan Carlos Lerena who left no trace at all in the Rosario registers should be read — and Rosario is exhaustively read: 798 consecutive baptisms act by act, both confirmation registers complete. AND AN AVELINO LERENA STOOD GODFATHER TO HIS DAUGHTER, BY PROXY — "padrinos Domingo Simois POR ABELINO LERENA y Lucía L. de Simois". That file called the Avelino of this family "suggestive only", because Carlos named a son Avelino Carlos in 1904. It is no longer only a forename: there was a real Avelino Lerena in his circle. WHICH Avelino is not established and is not guessed. This register holds four of the name — and the row directly above Carlos's in the same working file was once written as a son of Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Traibel and WITHDRAWN THE SAME DAY as a conflation with Juan Arturo Lerena Traibel. A name this archive has already misidentified once deserves the most care, not the least. Two daughters added, and a spelling corrected: the act and the army index both write CARNIGLIA, where this register has carried CAMIGLIA since 13 September. Also corrected: an hour-old error of mine on /open-questions/, which listed "the Ramón of the Concordia pair" among the untraced — he is traced, married at Salto in 1903. The fourth is Arturo Lerena. AND THE VOLUME CARRIES A WAYPOINT, which almost none of this archive's work does. Q633-3DR, checked against the Record Atlas's own volume data before it was written down: "mendoza, 1899-1903, Bautismos 1899-1903", and the act is 1900. Inside the range. Note: another session's commit ccd9363 repinned the kit and added check:nav, which the installed node_modules predated, so the local build was red through no fault of this work. Running npm install brought the working copy in line with their pin; package.json, package-lock.json and .kitpin are untouched and unstaged. ./tools/verify.sh EXIT=0, all gates passed, 439 people.

Repin the kit to 3c9214e and make the Evidence menu a gate

did Sixteen kit commits behind. The new pin brings checknav.py, which compares the BUILT Evidence menu with the estate's canon; npm run build (which CI runs) now ends with check:nav, strict: exit 1 on a departure, 2 if it cannot see a menu at all. Shown failing on a doctored copy of built output in the D'Arcy repin. What the repin changes for a reader, measured by building this archive at the old and the new pin and comparing every page: 966 pages both times, no link or element id differs, and the visible text differs on ONE page: the work list now renders *Dominga Llarena* as emphasis instead of showing the literal asterisks (the kit's markdown renderer improving). The full npm build chain passes at the new pin, every gate, into a private directory. SHARED GROUND: site/package.json and site/package-lock.json (the kit pin), and .kitpin, changed at David's request as step 4 of kit/data/evidence-menu.json. Collision risk: any other session editing the pin; read it with 'git show HEAD:site/package.json'.

The archive's first question was sending strangers to a drawer already read

did /open-questions/ exists so that strangers can help, and its first question — "Who were Juan Carlos and María Lerena?", the question this archive exists to answer — told them two things that were not true. IT SAID THE LERENA CARDS OF ARMY DRAWER CAJÓN 985 WERE "SITTING UNREAD". They were read on 10 September, the same day the question was written. data/cajon-985-scan.tsv holds all 39 frames, images 650 to 688, with every card's indexed parents; data/cajon-985-origins.tsv traced the fathers on 13 September. Twenty Lerena cards, and no Juan Carlos on any of them except Pablo Armando's own. AND IT SAID THE DRAWER IS "FILED ALPHABETICALLY". It is not: the same scan found it is GROUPED BY SOUND — Lera, Lerena, Lorena, Serena, Sera, Era, Leza, Perena, Perella and Hereijo interfiled. That is a finding in its own right, and the reason the index's manglings survived in it. I found this by going to do the work the page asked for. It is the fifth instance today of a page stopping where data/ went on, and the worst place for it: a stranger following that question would have spent an evening re-reading a drawer and looking for it in the wrong order. The question now carries what the drawer actually gave — the three Uruguayan branches its fathers trace to, the base rate that follows, the 798 consecutive Rosario baptisms read act by act against the 1945 index, and both Rosario confirmation registers complete — and its ask is rewritten to what is genuinely still open: a Uruguayan Lerena line with a Juan Carlos born in the 1840s or 1850s married to a María; THE FOUR UNTRACED FATHERS of that drawer, any one of whom could be his brother — Carlos Lerena, Leandro Lorena, Concepción Lerena and the Ramón of the Concordia pair; and the consular matrícula, lodged with the Archivo Histórico de Cancillería on 9 September and still unanswered. ./tools/verify.sh EXIT=0, all gates passed.

Fold What we cannot close into Open Questions and Photograph these into Errands

did Two list pages that did a neighbour's job. Each said so itself: the gaps page opened with "not the same page as the open questions" and photograph-these is an errand in every field the kit's Errands row has (a place, why the picture is worth the trip, what it would settle, nobody asked yet). - /open-questions/#may-never-close holds the seven gaps whole, with their explanation, and the count in the page's prose is derived from the data. - /errands/#photographs holds the six places, ranked as before, with the separate 'what to capture' line, and the closing note about the kerb. - /gaps/ and /photograph-these/ redirect to those sections (astro redirects; this archive had none before), so the published addresses keep working. - the nav drops both from Investigations; links from the index, the searched page and the South Africa page now point at the new homes. - tools/build-pages.py indexed the 13 rows against the old addresses; they now point at the sections. That is the whole search-index change: 13 rows retargeted, none added or lost, and no other data file moved. Not folded, deliberately, and read to decide: Hypotheses is fourteen argued propositions with tables and an image analysis of the 1812 padron, and the build checks its contents list against its sections; Roadmap is an argued ranking with results ("walked, and the answer is no"). Neither is a list, so folding them would flatten them. They stay under Investigations. worklist.json and changes.json still contain links to /gaps/ and /photograph-these/; they were left alone (this archive's session edits the work list constantly) and resolve through the redirects. Verified on a clean worktree of HEAD with the archive's full npm build chain into a private directory, every gate: exit 0, kit gate ok on 966 pages (site/dist did not exist, so it can only have read the private build). Read off the built HTML: both redirects carry their anchors, #may-never-close and #photographs exist and are linked, 7 gap panels, the Errands eyebrow reads '1 answered, 3 still out, 20 need a person, 6 places to photograph'. checknav conforms. SHARED GROUND: site/astro.config.mjs (redirects), site/src/layouts/Base.astro (the nav) and the derived site/public/searchindex.json, changed at David's request as step 2 of kit/data/evidence-menu.json.

Gerdview, Germiston — and a street name read at too low a magnification

did The township where Nuno Fernando Lerena bought two stands is GERDVIEW, GERMISTON. His death notice MHG 6746/71 gives his residence as 24 Leiden Road, Gerdview, Germiston, and Cologne Road — where lot 245 lies — is a street in Gerdview, postal code 1401. So he bought two stands from the Township Owners in the township he lived and died in. THE DEATH NOTICE HAD BEEN READ ON 16 SEPTEMBER AND WAS SITTING IN data/death-notices-read.tsv. Work-list row 197, opened two hours earlier, named that exact document as the cheapest route to the answer without checking whether the archive already held it. It did. The check took one grep — which is at least the right order, and the reason this one cost minutes instead of a day. AND THE STREET SCHEME CAUGHT A MISREADING OF MY OWN, PUBLISHED THIS AFTERNOON. Gerdview's streets are named for Dutch and German cities — Leiden, Weert, Cologne. "London Street", which I had just put on /south-africa/, in the register and in the work-list row, did not belong to that scheme. So the plate went back under a harder magnification: it reads LENDIN — a plain e where London has an o, and an n before the d where London has none, with the i-dot sitting after the d. Withdrawn. It is not demonstrably "Leiden" either, although that is the likeliest intended name given where he lived: Leiden puts the i before the d and this hand does not. Recorded as "Lendin (so written; not resolved)" rather than guessed. THE LESSON IS THE MAGNIFICATION. The first read resolved "Nuno Fernando Lerena" and "T/Ship Owners" perfectly and was still too coarse for a six-letter word in the same hand, on the same folio, two inches away. A reading is only as good as the smallest thing it rests on. And one negative worth keeping: that death notice leaves father and mother BLANK — both marked only "Deceased", no names. The one document of Nuno's that could have named Pablo Armando does not. ./tools/verify.sh EXIT=0, all gates passed.

The South African full-text seam, worked to the end — and two sons' lives

did Nine hits under the Africa facet, every one now opened or excluded with a stated reason. The seam is worked out for this surname. ROQUE LUIS ARMANDO LERENA HAS AN ADDRESS, A TRADE AND A TENURE. A second roll of polling district 770 — the first was read on 8 October, where the OCR columns could not be aligned and the note said his address "needs the plate read by eye". It was read by eye: "1399 Lerena, Roque Luis Armando ... 14 FLORENCE VILLAS ... FIREMAN ... O ... SOLE TENANT ... E". Sole tenant of his own address at about twenty-two. And the district has a name. One line of the same page carries "Louis Botha Hostel, OBSERVATORY" — the only locality on the sheet — and the street column runs Lower Main Rd, Trill Rd, Scott Rd and Salt River. The roll names its own district; no atlas was needed. His father was a horse-dealer in 1911 and a trainer by 1940. THE ELDEST SON WENT TO THE RAILWAY. That "Fireman" means a locomotive fireman is an inference from the company he keeps on the page — Loco. Cleaner, Engine-driver, Signalman, Guard, Shunter — and not from the word, which alone could mean a fire brigade. Flagged as inference. NUNO FERNANDO LERENA HAS A SECOND PROPERTY: lot 210, London Street, 14,560 sq ft, bought from the TOWNSHIP OWNERS, transfer 22 August 1953 — beside lot 245 in Cologne Road. The transcribers called him "Jan Fernando" on one folio and "Huno" on the other; the clerk wrote NUNO both times, plainly. And the folio settles what the date beside his name is: it carries the transfer date in its own column, so 6.10.24 is an identity date, his birth date, held independently from the 1950 estate and death notice 6746/71. The township is still not placed — two streets, no district, nothing guessed. New work-list row 197. A SECOND SOUTH AFRICAN FAMILY OF THE NAME, EXCLUDED FOR THE SECOND TIME. A Transvaal deeds folio names "late Lucas Lerena" and "Rachel Lerenia (born Maleka)". With Seko Lerena of the Kranspoort mission congregation, excluded on 8 October, that is two records forty years and a hundred miles apart. Recorded because an exclusion is evidence: anyone meeting "Lerena" in a Transvaal record should know there are two unconnected families of the name. Three that are not evidence, said plainly: a Bulawayo Pioneers' Society application for a LIVING person, a De Jager descendant — named nowhere here, no date, no place, under this archive's own rule; a Fauresmith court file of 1855–71, excluded on chronology, whose "hit" is the fragment "Knap Lerena" in garbled bilingual testimony; and school admission applications by living children in Sierra Leone, WHICH WERE NOT OPENED, because no evidential purpose justified reading them. AND THE NEGATIVE RESULT IS THE IMPORTANT ONE. The corpus holds NO CAPE CIVIL REGISTRATION. So Careen Maria's parents and Pablo Armando's own father cannot be reached this way, and row 74 can no longer be answered by full text — recorded on that row. ./tools/verify.sh EXIT=0, all gates passed, 437 people.

Close a work-list row that was done in September, and retire six claims

did AUDIT OF THE WORK LIST AGAINST data/. The queue turned out to be in better shape than the heuristic suggested: of twelve "next" rows flagged as touched since their own date, ten carry dated in-place updates and are genuinely still open. One was not. ROW 75 asked for the 1911 marriage record of Pablo Armando and Mary Septima Taylor. The record has been in data/marriage-1911.tsv since 16 September, read from the family's own papers, with the witnesses taken off the plate on 20 September. Worse, the row's premise was false: it said a South African marriage record "would give ... his father's name - and his father is the whole question of this archive". THE CAPE MARRIAGE REGISTER OF 1911 HAS NO COLUMN FOR THE FATHERS OF THE PARTIES. That document cannot name Juan Carlos Lerena, and its silence is a fact about the form, not about the family. Closed, with what it did buy: he was a Catholic married in a Catholic church, a horse-dealer in 1911, and settled at the Cape with banns called. Rows 137 and 78 updated for today's work - Alejandro Lerena is no longer on 137's unworked list (there are two of him and both now have acts), and 78's Spanish target now has a spelling in a priest's hand. SIX CLAIMS RETIRED into tools/check-superseded.py, so the build fails if any is asserted again: Bernabé unattached; the "same place of origin"; row 75's premise; the expedientes as "a separate series"; the Margarita-Manuel sibship as "not written down in either act"; and the merged Juan row. AND TWO MORE WERE WRITTEN AND WITHDRAWN WITHIN THE HOUR. A bare "Maria SERENA" fired on a twelve-year-old in an 1858 census who has nothing to do with the 1922 act; a bare "Cipriano LERENA Montana" fired on two files correctly citing the indexed record of that name. Both were name collisions. THIS ARCHIVE HAD ALREADY RECORDED THAT BULK-GENERATING RETIRED CLAIMS FAILS EXACTLY THIS WAY - 39 hits, all collisions - and the lesson was written down and then repeated. A retired claim must be a SENTENCE this archive asserted, never a NAME it mentions. AND THE GATE CAUGHT ITSELF. It failed five sentences that were retracting the very claims it guards, because "WITHDRAWN" - this archive's commonest retraction verb, used four times in today's corrections alone - was not in RETRACT. That is precisely the failure its own docstring warns of. Added. One real defect fixed: Manuel Fernández Álvarez's register row asserted the sibship was "written down, not inferred" and then, in the same sentence, that it was "not written down in either act". ./tools/verify.sh EXIT=0, all gates passed, 18 retired claims.

Evidence menu: the estate's eight, and the archive's own pages under Investigations

did 13 entries become 8: Method, Sources, What Has Been Read, Open Questions, Errands, The work list, Corrections, What changed. Five pages move to a new Investigations group: Hypotheses, What we cannot close, Photograph these, Roadmap, The papers in the house. Four of those do a core page's job (Hypotheses and What we cannot close into Open Questions, Photograph these into Errands, Roadmap into The work list) and are parked there until merged. Hypotheses is 1,433 lines of analysis and should be read before it is folded. Menu only: no page edited, no URL changed. Same 38 routes in the nav before and after (compared against HEAD); built to a private directory and read there: kit gate ok on 966 pages, living gate ok. SHARED GROUND: site/src/layouts/Base.astro (the nav), changed at David's request as step 1 of kit/data/evidence-menu.json (kit 198b8ab, worklist row 87). Collision risk: any other session editing this nav array.

The test returned this archive's own answer, written three weeks ago

did I set a test yesterday: "any record naming Ramón with more than one child". I ran it. It produced Alejandro Lerena's marriage of 16 September 1825 - and it produced data/ramon-lerena-rosario.tsv, which has said since 17 September: "Bernabé is Alejandro's son; Cipriano is Mauricio's; Alejandro and Mauricio are brothers." The spine on /uruguay/ has been drawing Ramón's house for three weeks. SO THE "CANDIDATE, NOT MERGED" I PUBLISHED TWICE TODAY WAS WRONG, AND WRONG ABOUT THIS ARCHIVE RATHER THAN ABOUT THE FAMILY. It is the third instance of one pattern - the 1891 Northam census and the FreeBMD death sweep were both reported undone when they were done. Each time the claim was written from memory while finishing something else, and each time a file in data/ already held the answer. Retracted in data/corrections.tsv. AND A REAL DEFECT UNDERNEATH IT, THREE WEEKS OLD. The register said Bernabé of Trinidad was unattached - "nothing joins him to these two" - while data/ramon-lerena-rosario.tsv had him as Alejandro's son and the site rendered both, on the same deploy. That is the direction nobody checked when the owner asked twice whether the research was reaching the pages: not the register falling behind the site, but the register falling behind data/. Eight rows reconciled. WHAT THE DAY ACTUALLY ADDED WAS THE GRADE, NOT THE CONCLUSION. Index- level on 17 September; plate-level now. Act No. 17, 16 September 1825, San José, read at full resolution: "desposé... a ALEXANDRO LEREÑA, Natural de la VILLA DEL ROSARIO, hijo legítimo de RAMON LEREÑA y de MARIA JOSEFA GONZALEZ, con MARGARITA FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ, Natural de esta Villa, hija legítima de JUAN FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ y de BARBARA SOTURA." The full "Josefa" in a priest's hand. The transcript reads "Ramón Pereña"; the plate reads Lereña. AND IT TURNED AN INFERENCE INTO A DOCUMENT. This morning I published that Margarita and Manuel Fernández Álvarez "are almost certainly brother and sister - required by the degree and not written down in either act". The 1825 act gives her parents as Juan Fernández Álvarez and Bárbara Sotura; the 1855 expediente gives Serapio's grandparents as "Don Juan y Doña Bárbara Sotura". A third act wrote it down. So the second grade dispensed in 1855 has a named path, and the inference is retired as an inference. One conflict recorded and not resolved by preference: the 1825 act says Alejandro was natural de la Villa del Rosario, where the 1858 expediente calls him and Margarita "naturales de San José". The 1825 act is his own marriage and is the better witness; the expediente's plural looks like a clerk collapsing two origins into one. Four people added - Juan Fernández Álvarez, Bárbara Sotura, María Fernández Álvarez and Marcos de León González, whose compound surname is the groom's mother's and who is deliberately NOT merged with the Marcial de León González this archive already holds. ./tools/verify.sh EXIT=0, all gates passed, 437 people.

The 1837 plate corrects the claim it was opened to confirm, and a Cipriano merges

did Yesterday's find gave the Trinidad kindred a head - Ramón Lerena and María González - and this register already held a Ramón Lerena of Rosario-Colla married to a María Josefa González. The merge was refused and a test was named: read the 1837 San José marriage act off the plate, because that row had carried "TIER: INDEXED, not image-read" since 21 September. THE TEST WAS RUN AND IT FAILED THE CLAIM THAT SET IT. The act (DGS 008143329, microfilm 625330, image 87) says Mauricio Lerena was "natural de la VILLA DEL COLLA"; the 1858 expediente says the Trinidad Lerenas are "naturales de SAN JOSÉ". Different birthplaces. The "same place of origin" published that morning is withdrawn - and the index field had read "Birthplace: Colla" all along, on the very page being cited. That is the error: a conclusion written from an index without noticing it contradicted the sentence being built. WHAT REPLACED IT IS BETTER EVIDENCE OF A DIFFERENT KIND. A Flores birth act of 2 March 1895 at El Tala has Cipriano Lerena, 42, declare in person, name his wife Laureana Beloqui and give his parents as Mauricio and Casimira Montaño. Spouse and both parents in one sentence - so "Cipriano LERENA (of Trinidad)" and the index-only "Cipriano LERENA Montana" are one man, merged after eighteen days held correctly apart. Three children already in the register become grandchildren of Mauricio Lerena of Colla, and a fourth is added. So Bernabé of Trinidad is a grandson of a Ramón Lerena and María González by the 1858 diagram, and Cipriano of Trinidad is a grandson of a Ramón Lerena and María González by the 1837 and 1895 acts. Two routes, no shared document, the same two names. That is convergence, not proof - two couples can share two names - and the merge is still refused. Also read off the plate, for one word: a Flores death act of May 1886 has a witness "D. MAURICIO LERENA de CINCUENTA años", signing his own name. The transcript garbles that age to "veincuenta", which is not a Spanish word, and the age is the whole of what separates him from the man who married in 1837. Fifty in 1886 is a birth about 1836 - before that marriage - so he is entered as a second Mauricio and explicitly NOT as a son. Casimira Montaño now has a birth year (c.1821 from a stated age), a widowhood, and a street address: Calle Arenal 240, San José de Mayo, fifty-eight years after she married there. She also buried a seven-day- old daughter, Abdona Ignacia, in 1850 - recorded as a separate person precisely because an Ignacia Lerena marrying at Trinidad in 1882 is listed elsewhere as a candidate child of the same couple. Reusing a dead infant's name was ordinary, and that is how two people become one by accident. And a witness not claimed: "Doña Clara Ledena" stood at Mauricio's wedding. The temptation is obvious and the letterform is not the one - the fourth character carries an ascender where "Lerena" four lines above has a plain shoulder. A trap this archive is prone to is not a licence to see it everywhere. ./tools/verify.sh EXIT=0, all gates passed, 433 people.

Row 196: Socorro and Bernabé are brother and sister, and a priest drew the proof

did Work-list row 196 asked whether Socorro Lerena was a sister of Bernabé. It was the last inference standing in the Trinidad work and the 1897 birth act could not settle it. Three marriage expedientes of the 1850s settle it, and they were found by searching the full text for her name. 1855 (Trinidad, August) - the expediente of Serapio Fernández to marry Doña Socorro Lerena. A sworn witness names four generations: she is a daughter of Alejandro Lerena and Margarita Fernández and a granddaughter of Ramón Lerena and María González. 1858 (Santísima Trinidad, 15 February) - the expediente of Bernabé Lerena to marry Casimira Peláez, "hijo legítimo de Don Alejandro Lerena y Doña Margarita Fernández, naturales de San José". THE SAME PARENTS. So Socorro and Bernabé are brother and sister, and the dispensation of 26 June 1885 is explained: Serapio the younger descends from her, Antonina Lerena from him, so they are first cousins - exactly the second grade in the equal lateral line the Archbishop lifted. And that folio carries a KINSHIP DIAGRAM the Cura Vicario drew himself: Ramón Lerena and María González at the apex, lines down to Alejandro Lerena / Margarita Fernández and Antonina Lerena / Juan Peláez, and the two contracting parties below. The Trinidad cluster - "six or seven men of a rare surname in one small inland town", guessed on 13 September to be brothers or cousins - is one family, and now a priest who knew them says so. A RETRACTION THAT MADE THE FIND POSSIBLE TO MISS. This archive published on 8 October that these records are the Vicar General's summary ledger naming no parents, and that the informaciones matrimoniales are a separate series it had not reached. Both volumes are in the SAME collection; the difference is the decade. The 1885-1913 books are the ledger. The 1850s books are full expedientes. The original claim was true of every volume opened and false as a statement about the collection - the same shape as the South Africa error the day before. 1854 stopped a collapse: a Flores death act gives an Alejandro Lerena married to Isidora Chouriño where 1855 gives one married to Margarita Fernández. The 1854 expediente has the petitioner appear as widower of Isidora with parents Alejandro and Margarita - father and son, in one sentence. Without it the archive would have merged a father into his son. Also: Socorro's full name is María del Socorro, godmother at Trinidad de los Porongos in January 1849, about seventeen - corroborating 1832 from a second clerk. Malvino Peláez placed. Nine people added, nine rows given parents, seven Alejandro pairs declared. No birth year was taken from an age on an act whose date was not read. The surname is written five ways on the 1858 page - Serena, Lorena, Lorena, Leresa and Lerena - and the plate shows one looping capital L throughout. It is the strongest S-for-L instance this archive holds. Still open and deliberately not merged: whether that Ramón Lerena is the Ramón Lerena of Rosario-Colla already in this register, whose son Mauricio married at San José de Mayo in 1837. Same names, same generation, and now the same stated place of origin - but the 1837 act is indexed, not image-read. ./tools/verify.sh EXIT=0, all gates passed, 427 people.

Two dispensations explained by their children's records, and a merge

did The 1894 and 1913 couples both came from the Montevideo dispensation ledger, which names a bride, a groom and a degree of kinship and no parents at all. Neither was answered by a marriage record. Both were answered by finding a CHILD and reading the child's act. 1913 - Flores civil birth act No. 10 of 1922 (DGS 008165367 img 195). Registering Anibal Marino Pelaez it names all four grandparents with ages, trades and addresses, and so gives five adults their first recorded birth year from a stated age rather than an assumption. The groom's mother is Maria Lerena, dispensed in 1885 to marry his father; the bride's parents are the Bernabe Lerena and Florinda Cardozo of the 1911 kinship diagram - so the bride of 1913 is a sister of Custodio Lerena, and two full-text finds made three weeks apart are one family. The degree also EXCLUDES an identification. Bernabe's own sister was also a Maria Lerena; were she the groom's mother the couple would be first cousins and the impediment the second degree. The clerk wrote the third. There are two Maria Lerenas and the Church's arithmetic proves it. 1894 - Trinidad baptism of 26 November 1905 (DGS 008163893 img 20), which names both pairs of grandparents in one line. Juan Lerena is a son of Bernabe Lerena and Casimira Pelaez, a sixth child of the Trinidad founding couple - and the man this register had been carrying as a separate person since that morning. The split is retracted; the rows are merged. It was not bad reasoning, the evidence arrived a day late. Both transcripts misspelled the surname and both plates were read. In the 1922 act one clerk's single letterform is transcribed SERENA in one line and LERENA four lines later; the transcriber's own inconsistency is the proof. A NEW GATE, AND A SILENT FAILURE THAT EARNED IT. A person was appended to the register while the file lacked a trailing newline. The row was glued onto the previous one - nineteen fields where the header says ten. Every gate passed, the build was green, and Vitalino Gregorio Pelaez simply was not there: no row, no page, no slug. He was found by hand. Nothing here caught something MISSING, because a short file is well-formed. tools/check-arity.py now does. Its first version was itself wrong - it assumed one header per file and fired 179 times on TSVs that deliberately carry two tables, so the rule was narrowed rather than the data reshaped. Also: the full-text URL place parameter errors for Uruguay exactly as it did for South Africa, so the broken thing is the parameter and not the country; and a record page that times out reads as a record holding nothing - its own REFRESH returned the find of the day. Both in data/false-zeros.tsv. ./tools/verify.sh EXIT=0, all gates passed, 418 people.

A birth act names four grandparents, and the dispensations stop being a mystery

did Went for the other three consanguinity expedientes. The expedientes were not needed, and a different series answered. A URUGUAYAN CIVIL BIRTH ACT NAMES BOTH PARENTS AND ALL FOUR GRANDPARENTS, with ages, trades and addresses. One entry does more than the nine dispensations put together. Flores, Birth Records 1887-1901, No. 10 - CAYETANO ALBERTO FERNANDEZ, born at Pintos on 7 August 1897: father Don SERAPIO FERNANDEZ, 41, hacendado, vecino de CERRO COLORADO mother Dona ANTONINA LERENA, 35 paternal Don Serapio Fernandez, FALLECIDO, and Dona SOCORRO LERENA, 65, propietaria, domiciliada en TRINIDAD maternal Don BERNABE LERENA, 62, hacendado, Cerro Colorado, and Dona CASIMIRA PELAEZ, 56 IT EXPLAINS THE 1885 DISPENSATION. The groom descends from a Lerena through his mother Socorro; the bride through her father Bernabe. Lerena blood runs down both sides of that marriage, which is what the Archbishop was dispensing. If Socorro and Bernabe are brother and sister the couple are first cousins - exactly what an equal second degree means - but Socorro's parents are not named, so the link is inferred and has NOT been drawn. Queued as row 196. BERNABE LERENA AND CASIMIRA PELAEZ HAVE AGES AT LAST - born about 1835 and 1841, living at Cerro Colorado rather than in Trinidad town - and a fifth child, Antonina. This archive has carried them since September with four children and nothing else. SOCORRO LERENA is entirely new: born about 1832, a widow and a property owner in her own right at Trinidad. AND IT REACHES BACK A GENERATION FURTHER. At Trinidad on 6 March 1880 Maria Pelaez, thirty, "hija legitima de Don JUAN PELAEZ y de Dona ANTONINA LERENA", married a widower, her mother witnessing. A daughter of thirty puts that Antonina's birth near 1830. SO A LERENA MARRIED A PELAEZ AROUND 1845, and Bernabe Lerena married another Pelaez a generation later. That is the whole explanation of why the couples of 1885, 1894 and 1913 all needed dispensing: two families had been marrying each other for two generations, and by the third the Church had to compute the degrees. TWO ANTONINA LERENAS AT TRINIDAD, thirty-two years apart, and this archive nearly held one. The elder married Juan Pelaez; the younger is Bernabe's daughter. Declared as separate with the ages that prove it. And a duplicate I made myself: yesterday's dispensation row for Antonina and today's birth-act row are the same woman. check-duplicates.py caught it in one build, which is what the gate is for. Eight people added, twenty-one edges, two same-name pairs declared and one merged. Zelmira's act and this one are now both on /uruguay/.

The act behind one dispensation, and it names four parents

did Did the expedientes, and the thing that answered was not an expediente. The dispensation ledger names a couple and an impediment and no parent. So I searched the full text for the bride's forenames instead, and found the marriage itself: La Union, Montevideo, Religious Marriage Records 1902-1934, headed in the register's own hand "Matrimonio de Cordero y Lorena". 28 FEBRUARY 1904, Iglesia de Nuestra Senora de Lourdes, Bishop Ricardo Jara officiating on the declaration of the Cura Parroco of la Metropolitana. D. ADOLFO MAXIMO CORDERO - soltero, ARGENTINO, MEDICO, twenty-eight, of SAN JOSE, hijo legitimo de D. ADOLFO M. CORDERO y Dona CASIMIRA CHAVARRIA Dona ZELMIRA CARLOTA LERENA - soltera, oriental, TWENTY, of CALLE CERRO LARGO 230, hija legitima de D. Alberto [S]erena y Dona MARIA INES LARRIERA Dispensed by Archbishop Mariano Soler of the third grade of consanguinity with attingency to the second - which the act states word for word as the ledger did, and which is the control on yesterday's reading. Witnesses: the groom's father and the bride's mother. TWO CORRECTIONS COME OUT OF IT. This register had the marriage at 28 FEBRUARY 1901 from an index; the act says 1904. The book runs 1902-1934 and the entry above is dated May 1902, so 1901 is impossible. The dispensation of 1 February 1901 cleared them three years before they married. And the act makes her TWENTY in 1904, which means born about 1883-84, where this register has 4 November 1880. Both stand; neither is preferred. HER PARENTS ARE NOW ON A PRIMARY RECORD. This archive has carried Alberto Lerena and Maria Ines Larriera as her parents since 14 September, from an index. She is also the woman it once tested and set aside as "not ours", a verdict it later corrected. Here she is on an act of her own. AND THE ACT WRITES HER SURNAME TWICE, TWO WAYS. Her father is "D. Alberto SERENA"; her mother, witnessing four lines later, is "Dona Maria Ines Larriera de LERENA". They are husband and wife. It is the cleanest demonstration of the S-for-L trap this archive has collected, because no other explanation is available. Three new people, six edges: the groom, and his parents - who are candidates for the blood link, since a third grade with attingency to the second means the Corderos and the Lerenas share an ancestor within two or three generations, by two separate paths. Casimira Chavarria is the third Casimira in this archive, beside Casimira Montano and Casimira Pelaez, and no record yet joins any of the three.

Nine dispensations, no parents, and the degree of kinship in every one

did Worked the Uruguayan half of row 194, and came here for the wrong reason. THE LEDGER NAMES NO PARENTS. Row 194 said dispensations were worth opening because "the pre-marriage investigation routinely gives a Spanish groom's PARENTS" - this archive's own words, from canelones-films.tsv. That is true of the EXPEDIENTE and not of this book. The Arquidiocesis de Montevideo Marriage Dispensation Records are the Vicar General's summary ledger, one sentence per couple, and not one of the nine Lerena entries names a parent. Two record classes were conflated because both are called dispensations in English. WHAT THE LEDGER GIVES INSTEAD IS BETTER FOR THE QUESTION THIS ARCHIVE HAS. A consanguinity dispensation is a statement about shared ancestry: the Church computed the degree before it would grant one. Second degree in the equal lateral line is first cousins. Third is second cousins. "With attingency to the second" means two separate blood paths at once. 1883 Luis P. Marquez x MERCEDES LERENA, Catedral - banns only 1885 Serapio Fernandez x ANTONINA LERENA, Trinidad - SECOND degree, equal 1885 Maximo Pelaez x MARIA LERENA, Trinidad - THIRD w/ attingency to second 1894 JUAN LERENA x Eduviges Pelaez, Mercedes - SECOND *and* THIRD, de oficio 1901 Adolfo Cordero x ZELMIRA CARLOTA LERENA - THIRD w/ attingency to second 1906 Guillermo ? x MARIA ELENA LERENA - RELIGION MIXTA 1913 Vitalino Gregorio Pelaez x FLORINDA JUANA LERENA, Trinidad - THIRD 1919 EDUARDO LERENA x Maria Mercedes Razzello, Las Piedras - banns 192- Juan Carlos Gonzalez Lerena x Concepcion Urbano - banns (set aside) THE LERENAS OF TRINIDAD MARRIED PELAEZ AND KEPT MARRYING THEM. Four unions counting the Bernabe Lerena and Casimira Pelaez this archive already held, two of them between cousins, and Juan Lerena dispensed twice over. AND TWO LERENA WOMEN OF TRINIDAD WERE DISPENSED IN A SINGLE SITTING on 26 June 1885 - one to a Fernandez, one to a Pelaez. Fernandez is the surname of Sancho Llerena's wife and of Avelino Lerena Fernandez. A kindred marrying inside itself, with the Church recording how closely. ZELMIRA CARLOTA LERENA has her own marriage at last - and she married a blood relative, which is a fact about her ancestry rather than her life. This archive once wrote her off as "not ours" and corrected that; here she is on a record of her own. AND I INVENTED SEVEN BIRTH YEARS AND HAD THEM TAKEN OFF ME. Each new row first carried a year reached by assuming an ordinary age at marriage, and check-duplicates.py caught every one by matching the invented years against real namesakes within six years. That is the William John Taylor mistake of 8 October repeated at seven times the scale, one day later. The years are withdrawn; the register gives no age and no birth. Twenty-five same-name pairs were compared and declared rather than merged. The gate matched most of them on shared words in long notes - "image", "marriage", "birth" - and not on anything about the people, which is written into each reason so the next reader is not misled by the pairing. Row 194 is done. Its successor is the expedientes behind these nine, starting with Zelmira's, because a dispensation of kinship required the pedigree to be set out before it was granted.

Roque on a voters' roll, Nuno on a title deed, and a country I wrote off yesterday

did Worked row 194, and it opened with this archive correcting itself after one day. YESTERDAY I PUBLISHED THAT SOUTH AFRICA IS NOT IN THE FULL-TEXT CORPUS. It is. A full-text search with a South African place IN THE URL errors outright - "Something Went Wrong" - so the route looked closed. The PLACE FACET inside the page works perfectly, and the surname returns seven hits across four South African collections including South Africa, Properties, 1800-1997. A broken parameter read as an absent country. That is now the fourth instance of this shape in false-zeros.tsv, after FamilySearch's place filter returning 0 against a control of thousands, its date filter zeroing a 413-result query, and findmypast ignoring URL parameters entirely. The rule this archive already wrote would have caught it, with one word added: a search tool that ERRORS is not a corpus that is EMPTY. TWO OF THE SEVEN ARE THIS FAMILY AND BOTH ARE NEW. ROQUE LUIS ARMANDO LERENA is on a Union voters' roll, 1925-1931: "STEMDISTRIK POLLING DISTRICT NO. 770 ... 1491 Lerena, Roque Luis Armando", between Leibbrandt and Le Riche in a strictly alphabetical list. He was twenty to twenty-six. These rolls carry an ADDRESS and a TENURE - the same page runs Owner, Sole Tenant, Joint Tenant, Medehuurder, and one entry reads "Botha Hostel, Trill Rd." The OCR cannot be aligned to the names, so his address needs the plate read by eye. It is the best lead yet on where he was before Bloemfontein in 1932. NUNO FERNANDO LERENA is in a land record, which is the first this archive has found for anybody in this family: "... Cologne Road . Description of Property ... No. 245 ... Sq. Roods 6,600 Sq. Feet . Huno Fernando Lerena 6. 10. 1924 . Purchase Amount". "Huno" is the transcriber's NUNO and 6.10.1924 is his birth date to the day, which is what identifies it. The town is not in the transcript. AND IT DOES NOT OVERTURN WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IT OVERTURNS. /south-africa/ says a search of the deeds registers returns no land at all - that was said of PABLO ARMANDO, is still true of him, and was never tested on his sons. ONE LERENA EXCLUDED RATHER THAN IGNORED: the Pretoria 1939 hit is Seko Lerena in the Ned. Geref. SENDING GEMEENTE Kranspoort, a mission congregation, listed among Adolf Moyapelo, Paulose Marko and Daniel Gama. A different population entirely. Recorded because "seven South African hits" would otherwise read as seven of this family. The Uruguayan half of row 194 is started and not finished: the Montevideo dispensations return Florinda Juana, Margarita, Antonina and Maria Lerena, none of them in this register. The parentage sits in the body of each expediente and each needs opening. That is the half with the parents in it.

The register is exhausted on her parents, and a route nobody here had used

did Went back to both threads with FamilySearch open. ROW 106 IS CLOSED ON THIS SOURCE, which is worth more than leaving it hopeful. Catalogued every column of the 1947 Maitland opening from the header row: No, DATE, NAME, SEX, AGE in years and months, LATE RESIDENCE in town and street, CAUSE OF DEATH (redacted by FamilySearch), DATE OF DEATH, BY WHOM CERTIFIED - then allotment, cemetery number, grave, depth, position, officiating minister, undertaker, particulars. THERE IS NO INFORMANT COLUMN AND NO PARENT COLUMN. Her "by whom certified" cell is blank and her date of death reads 27, confirming the index. One near miss worth recording: this register DOES name a parent when a child has no name of its own - entry 430 on the same page reads "Gordon, Child of ..." - so the convention exists and she falls outside it precisely because somebody had named her. The Cape civil registration is the only route left. AND THEN THE OTHER THREAD GAVE UP SOMETHING BIGGER THAN ITSELF. FamilySearch FULL-TEXT SEARCH reads the words on unindexed images. Every Uruguayan search in this archive until today went through an INDEX - a transcriber's reading of a name - and full text goes round the transcriber entirely. URUGUAY IS IN THE CORPUS, and so is the one record class this archive most wants: Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, MARRIAGE DISPENSATION RECORDS 1856-1932. canelones-films.tsv has said since September that "the pre-marriage investigation is worth MORE than the act - it routinely gives a Spanish groom's PARENTS", and parentage is exactly what the Uruguayan end is short of. Also in: Flores and Trinidad baptisms and deaths - the kindred swept by index on 27 September - Montevideo burial registers 1886-2021, and the Catedral's own books. THE PROOF THAT IT REACHES WHAT AN INDEX HIDES: searching the exact phrase "Juan Carlos Lerena" returns TWO hits in the whole corpus, and one is Don JUAN CARLOS GONZALEZ LERENA, dispensed from banns at Montevideo on 8 November 192-, entry N. 14610, marrying Concepcion Petrona Urbano of the Cordon. No surname index of LERENA would ever have surfaced him. HE IS SET ASIDE, on the surname order. Gonzalez from his father and Lerena from his mother, so a son of his would be a GONZALEZ - and Pablo Armando is a Lerena. For him to be the father, the 1908 card would have had to drop his paternal surname and keep his maternal one. Recorded so nobody finds him again and is briefly excited. AND THE CORPUS HAS A HOLE WHERE THIS ARCHIVE ALSO NEEDS ONE: South Africa is not in it. A place-filtered search errors outright and no South African collection surfaces. So row 106 gains nothing from full text, and the Uruguayan end gains a great deal. Queued as row 194.

A debt the archive wrote down and then left for twelve days

did Went back to the two threads. Both of the ones that need records are blocked: FamilySearch is signed out again, so the Maitland plate and the Uruguayan registers are out of reach, and NAAIRS still returns 503 - the same "no server available" recorded on 17 September, three weeks on. So I paid a debt instead, and the archive had already written out exactly what it cost. data/_person-pairs.txt carried this, in terms: "SAME MAN, PROVED 27 Sep 2026 ... They are kept as two rows ONLY because a merge touches slugs, last-attested-alive.tsv, relations.tsv and the CHECKED_PAIRS in tools/consistency.py, and a half-done merge is worse than an honest pair. THIS LINE IS A DEBT, NOT A JUDGEMENT." ALEJANDRO LERENA (m. ELISA VILLARDEMOROS) and ALEJANDRO M. LERENA (with JULIA BASSANI) are now one man: Alejandro M. LERENA (m.1 Elisa Villademoros; m.2 Julia Bassani). Nine relationship edges, a slug, the pair file and the three-Alejandros table moved with him. What proved it in September: the Cordon act of 26 December 1877, film 007713388 image 02455, names "D. ALEJANDRO M. LERENA y ... D.a ELISA [VILLADEMOROS] (hoy finada)" as the parents of Jacinta Mercedes Gregoria and gives his own parents as "D. AVELINO y D.a AMBROSIA TRAIBEL". Same wife, same initial. The 1886 act calls him viudo and Julia Bassani soltera, which is the second marriage. AND THE SAME TRIP FOUND A STALE CELL OF THE 8 OCTOBER KIND. the-three- alejandros.tsv still said his parents were "STILL NOT NAMED BY ANY RECORD" - under the heading of the very question that table exists to answer, twelve days after they were named and written into the pair file. The finding was recorded where it was MADE and never carried back to the page that states the question. That is now the third instance of this failure in two days. WHAT IS NOT MERGED, AND WHY. Alejandro Lerena Traibel, baptised at La Mauricia in January 1846, has the same parents and a birth range that contains this man's. The pair file calls the gap "zero on parentage and one year on birth" and refuses the merge on discipline rather than doubt. I have not overridden that. What would close it is named there: a burial for an infant Alejandro Lerena 1846-1860, which would mean two sons, or any act giving Alejandro M. a birth date. The superseded gate grew to twelve claims and learned two more retraction idioms - "merged with", "carried separately" - because its first run after the merge flagged my own merge note for quoting the name it retired.

The gate could not see the files the research lives in

did Yesterday's superseded gate read only rendered pages, and said so as a known limit: three of the four stale claims found by hand were in TSV comment lines no page renders. Closed that. It now scans data/*.tsv as well, which is safe only because the claim list is hand-written. The same day's attempt to generate claims automatically from every what_was_said in corrections.tsv returned 39 hits of which every one checked was a collision on a NAME rather than a claim. Curated regexes carry no such noise, so pointing them at more text costs nothing. FOUR MORE, ALL INVISIBLE TO THE OLD SCOPE. brayley-bmd.tsv and british-newspapers-assessment.tsv both still counted "ten children"; taylor-line.tsv and taylor-twins-and-william-john.tsv both still said the family had TWO SETS OF TWINS. Corrected, and in taylor-line the retraction now sits in the same sentence as the claim rather than at the end of a very long row - the first attempt put it 500 characters away and the gate, correctly, went on failing. THE LIST GREW FROM FIVE CLAIMS TO TEN: Mauricio's 1925 death that is his daughter Clara's; "her sister EDIE" as evidence of a sister named Edith; Edith as a strong candidate; "neither has been checked against a burial register"; and William John's 1 November 1870, a day no source gives and this archive invented. AND THE GATE HAD TO BE TAUGHT THIS ARCHIVE'S IDIOM. It kills an argument in words no list of retraction verbs would hold - "the whole argument is dead", "how it died", "read it as history, not as the state of the question". Those are in now. Bare "died" deliberately is not: in a genealogy half the sentences contain it, and it would blind the gate everywhere. BOTH HALVES WERE TESTED BY BREAKING THEM. Reviving the twin claim in taylor-line.tsv fails the gate; restoring it passes. Putting "she was the seventh daughter of the ten children" back on the front page WITHOUT its retraction fails on two claims at once; with the retraction left in place it passes, which is the behaviour that lets this archive go on quoting its own mistakes.

A correction inserted mid-paragraph leaves the paragraph's conclusion standing

did Tried to generalise yesterday's superseded gate from five hand-picked claims to the whole of corrections.tsv, by extracting phrases from every what_was_said and testing them against the built site. IT DOES NOT WORK, AND THAT IS THE USEFUL PART. The method returned 39 hits and essentially all of them were collisions on NAMES rather than on CLAIMS - a correction and a register row legitimately share "Luis Eugenio Lerena Lenguas and Julia Juanico"; "1 relationships" matched inside "11 relationships"; /dna/ withdraws its own claim four hundred characters further on than the window reached; "the one document that could name Juan Carlos Lerena" is still true. Every hit checked by hand was noise. The hand-curated list is the right design for this and the automatic one is not, which is worth knowing before somebody tries it again. Checking the serious corrections by hand instead found something the page scan could never have seen, because it lives in comment lines that no page renders. YESTERDAY'S STRIKES LANDED MID-PARAGRAPH AND LEFT THE PARAGRAPHS RUNNING ON. brayley-bmd.tsv carried the strike - "EDIE IS ISABELLA ... the argument was counting one woman twice" - and then continued, in the same sentence, "With Edith in sixth place, Mary Septima is the seventh daughter and her name means what it says." Below it, "GRADED AS A STRONG CANDIDATE" and "what would settle it costs nothing: the 1891 census at Northam" - a census that had already been run when that line was written. 1891-northam-census.tsv still opened "WHAT IT DOES TO THE EDITH CANDIDATE - WEAKENED, NOT KILLED" and closed "the count still demands a seventh daughter and the archive still has none. Graded OPEN." brayley-two-questions.tsv still ended Ethel's row "Still fits the gap". All three now die as whole arguments instead of mid-sentence: opened as history, closed with what killed them, and kept rather than deleted, because reasoning that was careful and wrong is worth more to the next person than a blank. brayley-two-questions also gets its due - it predicted in September that only an index carrying the mother's maiden name could settle this, and that is exactly what did. THE LESSON FOR THE GATE: check-superseded.py reads rendered pages, so it cannot see a claim that lives in a data file's comments. Three of the four things found today were there.

The research was reaching the pages; the pages were still saying the opposite

did Asked the audit question again instead of answering it from memory, and the answer had changed shape. Coverage was fine: all 15 findings from this week reach a page, 24 of 26 new people have pages and sit on /who/ and /bloodline/, and the two that did not were a rename showing in a diff and Careen Maria, who has no relationship edges because her parentage is the open question. What was wrong was worse than coverage. THE SITE WAS CONTRADICTING ITSELF. /taylor/ carried, in one scroll, a new section proving from the GRO index that IRENE WAS ALONE IN 1879 and an older section stating that "the family had TWO SETS of twins, this pair and Irene's in 1879". The front page said Mary Septima "was the seventh daughter of the ten children". /direct-line/ said it too. /trees/ advertised the whole Taylor line with "her parents named her after the fact that she was their seventh daughter" - the exact sentence the registers refused the day before. Every one of those was published beside its own correction, and every gate was green, because no gate asked the question. drift.py asks whether a page has fallen behind its DATA. /corrections/ records what was wrong. NOTHING ASKED WHETHER THE REST OF THE SITE HAD STOPPED SAYING IT. tools/check-superseded.py now does. It holds the claims this archive has retracted and fails if one is asserted outside a sentence that retracts it - so the archive can go on quoting its own mistakes, which is most of what it does, and cannot go on making them. ITS FIRST RUN FOUND TEN, AND SIX WERE THE GATE'S OWN FAULT. This archive retracts in its own words - "CORRECTS the family's account", "the register CONTRADICTED it", "the tree IS wrong" - and the regex was too narrow to hear any of them. A gate that cannot recognise a retraction sends people to edit their corrections. Widened, twice, by being wrong. AND ONE LIMIT IS WRITTEN DOWN RATHER THAN HIDDEN. The test is proximity, so an unrelated correction nearby can suppress a real hit: /direct-line/ fell off the list because a different correction sat in the same window. It was fixed anyway, by hand, because the gate is a net and not a proof. Four genuine stale claims corrected - the front page, /direct-line/, the /trees/ summary row and the "two sets of twins" section - plus the GEDCOM import row, which now says the ten children are the TREE's ten and that the tree is wrong.

A family of four died on one day and the archive could not show you any of them

did Ran the same audit across every data file rather than assume the Taylor gap was unique. Twenty-eight files name person-shaped cells that are not in the register; most is noise - institutions in errands, forename-only baptism cells, spelling variants of people already there - but one was the Taylor failure exactly repeated. PIERRE FREDERICK LERENA, his wife GAYLE born PRESTON, and their sons RICHARD (13) and JEFFREY (8) all died on 12 November 1999 and were buried together. Four consecutive arks - 6X6S-M484, M48C, M48H, M48Z - entered in one act of registration on 18 November. This archive researched that in September, proved it was a catastrophe and not an index artefact, published it on /south-africa/, and never made one of them a person. They are people now, wired to Ricardo Juan Carlos, whose own page names his son for the first time. THE GATE GREW BY BEING MADE TO. check-people-named.py now covers a fifth file, and its first run on that file found two more things. MARY SEPTIMA is recorded as LERENA on three documents - the Maitland burial register, the 1935 passenger list and the Johannesburg cemetery index - and her register name carried only TAYLOR, so the gate could not match her. Her married surname is now in her name, which is this archive's own convention elsewhere and is how a reader searching the surname she was buried under will find her. That rename is worth recording as a cost. Changing a register name silently breaks every file that uses it as a KEY - person-evidence.tsv, wikitree- searches.tsv and the slug ledger all had to be repointed, and only one of them was caught by a gate. Renaming a person here is a four-file operation. AND ONE PERSON WAS DELIBERATELY LEFT OUT, with the reason written into the gate rather than hidden in it. CATHERINE TERTIA KARON is a real daughter named in the 1971 death notice, and the cell that names her reports a search that FAILED - "swept under her own surname at last, and not found". Her 1999 death rests on a single commercial index row the free cemetery register could not confirm. A register row would have to carry either a death this archive cannot stand behind or a living person's dates, and the living rule forbids the second. She stays out until the death is sourced.

The descent, drawn — with the sisters in it

did /tree/ is an ancestor chart. It draws the direct line and nothing beside it, so the eight brothers and sisters proved from the GRO index yesterday had nowhere to be drawn at all. This is the other direction. Four generations, using the kit's Descent component, which has been sitting unused in this archive since it was written - and whose own docstring names this exact case: "in five of these archives her family is the better documented one, and Mary Septima Taylor's line goes back further than the man the Lerena archive is named for". 1 James Taylor x Harriet Reynolds drawn WEAK - tree only 2 John Brailey x Georgina Temple m. 1839, St Martin-in-the-Fields 3 William Taylor x Mary Ann Hellen Brayley m. 1870, Bideford, 5b/794 4 Pablo Armando Lerena x Mary Septima Taylor m. 1911, Wynberg The wife is a column, not a suffix. The children span both parents because they are both parents'. The siblings sit under the parent they belong to, so nobody can mistake his family for hers - and in generation 4 that layout does the archive's central argument without a sentence: her column holds eight sisters and brothers, his reads NONE RECORDED, because no sibling of Pablo Armando Lerena has ever been found. Generation 1 is drawn weak on purpose. James Taylor and Harriet Reynolds come from a tree and no record here names either; everything below them rests on a civil registration, a census or a parish register, and the join should be visible rather than implied. THREE THINGS THE GATES CAUGHT ON THE WAY. The base landed twice - Descent calls u() on every href itself, and passing pre-prefixed paths produced /TheLerena/TheLerena/people/... on 34 links. This archive has made that exact mistake twice before; the fix is commented where the next person will hit it. Emphasis markers reached the page, because Descent renders note and weakNote as html and hisNone and herNone as TEXT. The first two go through emph(), the last two through plain(), and "<strong>NONE KNOWN" printed literally until that was separated. And the page's own dek still said her name "is a piece of arithmetic, and it turns out to be exactly right" - the claim disproved yesterday, sitting at the top of the page that disproves it. The dek and the eyebrow now say what the registers say: Septima means seventh and she is the sixth daughter of nine.

Sixteen people who were findings and not persons

did David asked whether all this was reaching the sites, the person pages, the family charts. The honest answer was half no, and the half that was no is the half this archive had just spent a day proving. On the Lerena side everything had landed: Careen Maria, Pablo Armando, Rieta Maria, the Bloemfontein infant and Roque all carry today's findings on their own pages, and grave 7719 C, Bellville, Bloemfontein and LESINA are on the register, the places, the bloodline, /who/, /method/ and /corrections/. On the Taylor and Brayley side nothing had. THE REGISTER HELD EXACTLY ONE TAYLOR. Nine children proved from the GRO index, a baptism series read at Northam, John Walker Brailey's 1845 registration recovered - all of it reached /taylor/ and /family-papers/ as prose and tables, and not one of those people existed. A reader could read that Kathleen Georgina was registered at Bideford in the December quarter of 1870 and could not click on her. So fifteen rows were added with their GRO references, and twenty-eight parent and spouse edges wired. Sixteen person pages where there was one. They are on /who/, /bloodline/ and /register/; Mary Septima's page now names her parents and her eight siblings; and the ancestor chart climbs two generations further than it did this morning, through William Taylor and Mary Ann Hellen Brayley to John Brailey and Georgina Temple. AND A GATE, BECAUSE NOTHING COULD SEE THIS. check:onsite asks whether a data file reaches a page. check:tree asks whether an edge joins a name to nothing. Nothing asked whether a person named in a finding had been made a person, so the archive could keep discovering people, keep failing to admit them, and stay green. tools/check-people-named.py now walks the record files and insists every child named in one is in the register. Its first run caught a real thing: the Northam baptism register spells her HELEN and the GRO index spells her HELLEN. Both are now carried in her name, because choosing would have been arbitrary and the difference is exactly what makes a person unfindable later. consistency.py caught a worse thing, and it was mine. I had entered William John Taylor's birth as 1 November 1870 - a day no source gives - and the gate reported him and Kathleen as two children of one father nought months apart. It was right: the archive had manufactured a three-day gap between twins out of nothing. The precision is withdrawn, not the twinning denied; the twins rest where they always did, on consecutive index pages 489 and 490.

Three children who died before their father, and an age field that is a blank

did Went looking for Careen Maria's parents and found three other children instead. A complete sweep: surname LERENA, country South Africa, 413 results, every one read for an indexed parent. Exactly three carry one, and all three are Roque Luis Armando Lerena's. His own 1973 death notice names two daughters, because a death notice lists the living; these three were already gone. the unnamed infant OFS Civil Death d. 22 May 1932, Bloemfontein RIETA MARIA Transvaal Civil Death d. 28 Aug 1937, Mayfair, Jhb ANTOINETTE SEPTIMA LYNETTE Transvaal Civil Death d. 7 Jan 1943, Jhb THE 1932 BOY MOVES THE FAMILY. He was born and died at BLOEMFONTEIN, which no record here had put any Lerena in - between the Cape of Roque's birth and the Transvaal of his death. And the register says MALE, where this archive has carried him as "an unnamed infant" on a tree's word. RIETA MARIA HAD NO DEATH DATE AT ALL. She was graded "birth only - a floor, not an attestation" on a bare 1936 from a tree. She died 28 August 1937, aged one, at 6a Robinson Street, Mayfair, Johannesburg. AND ONE FIELD HAD TO BE THROWN AWAY. Both infant entries give "Age: 0 days", which would mean each was born on the day it died. The tree has one at five days and the other at four. Two independent dates disagreeing with the index in the same direction is an unfilled form field, not two coincidences - so the age is discarded rather than used to correct the births. This archive was one step from publishing "the record says none, so the tree is wrong", which would have been a correction built on a blank. Recorded in false-zeros.tsv. A second false zero in the same sitting: surname-plus-country returned 0 with a date range attached and 413 without it, with nothing in the result to say the filter had misfired. And the question that started it is still open. CAREEN MARIA LERENA HAS NO CIVIL BIRTH OR DEATH RECORD INDEXED ANYWHERE IN SOUTH AFRICA - her only record is the Maitland cemetery entry read this morning. Row 106 wants a Cape registration to name her parents; FamilySearch cannot supply one, and the row now points at Home Affairs and the Western Cape Archives instead.

Mary Septima's mother was never registered, and her brother's middle name was Walker

did Same key, generation above. The archive has hunted Mary Ann Hellen Brayley's birth entry since 14 September: born 20 May 1843 at St Bartholomew's, City of London, and FreeBMD holds no Mary Brayley and no Mary Brailey in the June quarter of 1843 anywhere in England and Wales. Recorded then as an absence awaiting a better search. So the question was reversed. Not where is she, but which children of her parents are in the book at all - surname BRAYLEY loose-matched, mother's maiden surname TEMPLE, 1838-1852, both sexes, six searches. BRAILEY, JOHN WALKER 1845 J The Holborn Union Vol 02 p 149 BRAILEY, GEORGINA MARGARET 1850 S The Bideford Union Vol 10 p 52 Two children, and two absences. Isabella (about 1841) and Mary Ann Hellen (1843) are both missing and both London-born; the two later children are both present. Birth registration was not compulsory on parents until the Act of 1874, in force 1875 - the duty lay on the registrar - and under-registration in the 1840s fell heaviest on the urban poor. The 1851 census calls this household "Shoemaker Wife Pauper". She was almost certainly never registered. The null is now double and arrives from two directions: FreeBMD under her own name, the GRO under her mother's. Stated as a conclusion, not a certainty - a registration under a spelling the index does not associate with Brayley at all cannot be excluded by any search. The spelling control is built into the result: the query said BRAYLEY and the index returned BRAILEY both times. JOHN WALKER BRAILEY settles three things on his own. The tree's 22 June 1845 is right, because a June birth falls in the June quarter - so the 1900 death index that made him 53 had a careless informant, which this archive had already concluded from the 1851 census. The birthplace dispute resolves to neither side: the census said St Pancras and the tree said St Paul's, and the district is HOLBORN - which is where his sister Isabella was born, entered in 1861 as "London (City), St Andrew", that is St Andrew Holborn. And his middle name is WALKER. The archive had documented this family putting its Scottish great-grandmothers' surnames - Temple and Walker - into birth registrations as forenames in 1874, 1876 and 1889. It was doing it in 1845. The naming discipline runs a full generation earlier than recorded.

Nine children, not ten, and Septima was never the seventh

did David logged this session in to gro.gov.uk and the search row 128 named on 17 September was finally run. The GRO's own index prints the mother's maiden surname on every birth from 1837, which FreeBMD does not and never will - so TAYLOR births with mother BRAYLEY return this couple's children by definition, with no inference and no candidate-weighing. Ten searches: five year-windows across 1870-1893, times two sexes, because sex is mandatory and the range is capped at plus or minus two. 1 Kathleen Georgina 1870 D Bideford 05B/490 2 William John 1870 D Bideford 05B/489 3 Horace Archibald 1872 J Bideford 05B/507 4 Isabella Temple 1874 D Bideford 05B/497 5 Margaret Hellen Walker 1876 D Bideford 05B/481 6 Irene 1879 M Bideford 05B/524 7 Lucy Elizabeth 1881 S Bideford 05B/508 8 MARY SEPTIMA 1884 D Bideford 05B/506 9 Agnes Walker 1889 S Bideford 05B/502 Nothing before Kathleen, nothing between any two of them, nothing after Agnes. The critical window was re-run on loose spelling matching, because BRAILEY is a documented variant of this name: 28 births across England, the same two at Bideford. THE TREE'S TEN IS WRONG. There are nine, and no tenth child is missing. Three weeks of searching - rows 126, 127, 128, 192, 193, a FreeBMD death sweep, a FreeREG attempt and a findmypast baptism search - were spent on a child who does not exist, on the authority of a MyHeritage tree that names nine and asserts ten. EDITH and ETHEL, the two Bideford candidates, do not have Brayley as their mother. And IRENE IS ALONE IN 1879: no second birth to this mother that year, of either sex. The unnamed twin was never a person. She was an arithmetical requirement wearing a tree's silence as evidence, and this archive built her, published her and reasoned from her. AND THE ARITHMETIC THIS PAGE IS NAMED FOR DOES NOT WORK. Mary Septima is the SIXTH daughter and the EIGHTH child. No reading of the registered family makes her seventh of anything. /taylor/ has said since the beginning that "her own name is a piece of arithmetic, and it turns out to be exactly right". It is not. The name is now an unexplained fact, which is a worse answer and a truer one. One possibility is recorded as a possibility. A stillbirth was not registrable in England and Wales until 1927, so a seventh pregnancy carried to term and lost would be invisible to every index reachable from here - and would still be counted by the woman who bore her. Three incidental confirmations: the twins are proved by consecutive pages, 489 and 490 in one quarter; the GRO prints MARGARET HELLEN WALKER in full, settling an initial the census read as N and FreeBMD abbreviated to W; and Mary Septima's own registration, 05B/506, is on the record here for the first time.

The FreeBMD death sweep was run on 17 September, and I said it had not been

did Second time today this archive has queued work that was already done. The row I wrote an hour ago said "the GRO death index for Bideford, 1870-1884, under TAYLOR is the cheap test nobody has run." Row 128 ran it on 17 September: FreeBMD deaths, TAYLOR, Bideford, 1881-1891, 37 entries, fourteen of them aged 0-3. Both claims were written from memory while finishing something else, which is now a pattern and is written down as one. It was caught before the search was repeated, by reading the file first. That is the system working, but only just. What the baptism register adds to row 128, which is real. It weighed two candidates for the missing daughter and could attach neither; both are now harder. EDITH, born Bideford Sep quarter 1882: not in the family's baptism register, where every named sibling is. ETHEL, born Bideford Dec quarter 1882 and dead at Bideford aged two - the candidate row 128 preferred, because she would sit in the birth index and in no census. She is not in the register either. She was about two when she died, and this family baptised Lucy at a few weeks and Agnes at eighteen days. So either she is not theirs, or she went unbaptised for two years. A disjunction, not a refutation - but it is the first evidence of any kind that touches her. So the hole has a sharper shape: a child of this couple born between 31 August 1881 and 30 October 1884, the exact gap in the register, who left a birth registration and nothing else. And the search that ends it is still David's, as row 128 said in September. gro.gov.uk is not FreeBMD and the difference is the whole point: the GRO's own index gives the mother's maiden name on every birth from 1837. Births, surname TAYLOR, mother's maiden name BRAYLEY, district BIDEFORD, 1870-1890 returns every child of this couple by definition. It needs a free GRO account and this session does not create accounts, so it is now an errand with the query written out and the two excluded names beside it.

Seven children in one query, and the eighth is not there

did findmypast's Devon Baptisms answered what FreeREG could not. Northam, St Margaret, South West Heritage Trust 1843A/PR/1/16: seven children of William Taylor and Mary Ann Helen/Ellen. Horace Archibald and Isabella Temple (1874), Margaret Helen Walker (1876), Irene (1879), Lucy Elizabeth (31 Aug 1881), MARY SEPTIMA (30 Oct 1884) and Agnes Walker (21 Aug 1889). HER OWN BAPTISM, which this archive has never held. Six weeks after birth, and the first time her parents are named together in a parish register rather than a tree, a census or an index - the earliest record of her life, twenty-seven years before she married at Wynberg. AND NO EDITH. Lucy is baptised 31 August 1881 and Mary Septima 30 October 1884, with nothing between them. The candidate falls exactly in that gap and every sibling on both sides of her is in the book. The only two Edith Taylors baptised in Devon near the date are at Bideford with mothers MARIA and ELIZABETH - two other William Taylors, identified by their wives. So the candidate goes from strong to weak, three weeks after it was raised and hours after it lost the "Edie" leg. What survives is an unsourced count in a family tree and the meaning of a name. THE METHOD IS THE TRANSFERABLE PART: SEARCH ON THE MOTHER. One query on "Mary Ann Helen" returns the whole sibling group in a single page, which is what makes an absence provable - searching child by child could only ever have failed to find her. And the control ran first, on Agnes Walker Taylor, whose birth this archive held to the day and the address. /taylor/ was also claiming too much and has stopped. It said, under a Documented chip, that Mary Septima was "the ninth of ten children"; and it filled the sixth-daughter slot with an unnamed twin of Irene, inferred female "or the arithmetic does not come out" - from the same MyHeritage tree that /family-papers/ calls a source this archive should never have used. The register enters Irene alone in 1879. Both fillers are now marked tree-only and the arithmetic is stated as unsolved. It also strengthens David's reading of the family photograph: if there is no eighth daughter, the eighth woman in the group is not a daughter, and his grandmother or aunt is the better explanation. Next, and queued: the GRO death index for Bideford 1870-1884. A child born and died between censuses leaves a birth registration, no baptism and no household entry - which is exactly the shape of the hole.

Northam's parish register stops in 1817, and the zero was a wall not an absence

did Went after the baptism that would attach or detach the 1882 Edith Taylor. Both free routes are shut, and both were established with controls rather than assumed from a null. FreeREG holds Northam, St Margaret, Parish Register: 12,120 records, 1653 to 1817. The record wanted is 1882 - sixty-five years past the end of the transcription. Bideford is listed as a place and holds no church, no register and no records at all. The search was run before the contents page was read and returned 0; the contents page then explained the 0. FamilySearch produced two false zeros in one sitting, both now recorded. The place parameter returned 0 for "surname TAYLOR at Northam, Devon, 1860-1900" with nothing else set, which is impossible for a parish that size in a county whose censuses it holds. The same search with a looser place returned 6,941 results from Kent, Northamptonshire and Wiltshire. The field was ignored when it was loose and fatal when it was tight, and neither behaviour showed in the result. And a full-name search returned 0 for Horace Archibald Taylor, Mary Septima Taylor and Agnes Walker Taylor - three people this archive holds on records - because the index carries them under initials. That is the same trap the GRO index sprang in September, when both brothers were found only after dropping the second forename. Walked into again on a different site five days later, which is why it is written down rather than remembered. Row 192 now names the paid and postal routes instead of leaving them to be rediscovered: findmypast's Devon Baptisms, licensed from the Devon FHS; Ancestry's Devon parish registers; or the North Devon Record Office, which holds the originals.

Edie is Isabella, and the Edith argument had been counting one woman twice

did David asked for the 1891 census of Northam to be done for the Taylors. It had been done on 16 September - work-list row 127, the household at 2 Fore Street read out by name, age, occupation and birthplace. This archive said otherwise on /family-papers/ a few hours ago. Corrected. Doing what was asked meant re-reading the file, and a sentence in it did not survive. Since 16 September three files have argued that "Mary Septima stayed with her sister EDIE at 26 Fore Street in 1935" was independent evidence of a missing sister called Edith - known, in the archive's own words, "from a completely different direction". EDIE IS ISABELLA. taylor-line.tsv and taylor-marriages.tsv both carry her as Isabella Temple "Edie" Taylor, who married HENRY DALLING at Northam on 10 September 1900. family-memory.tsv says "her sister Edie DALLING" - the married surname is in the sentence. passenger-lists.tsv gives Mary Septima's 1935 address as "C/O DALLING, FORE ST, NORTHAM" and says in terms it is her elder sister Isabella. And the 1939 Register for 26 Fore Street lists ISABELLA T DALLING, born Taylor, 10 September 1874. Four files identified her and three files used her as somebody else. What replaces it is better, because it is a record. Counted head by head at full resolution, the family group holds three males, eight females and one infant. The records give father and two sons - three. Mother and six named daughters besides the infant - seven. THE PHOTOGRAPH HOLDS ONE FEMALE THE NAMED FAMILY DOES NOT ACCOUNT FOR, and the tree has always said ten children while naming nine. It also dates the sitting. If the infant is Agnes Walker, born 3 August 1889 at that address, the photograph is after August 1889; and by April 1891 both Isabella and Mary Septima are absent from the house, so a sitting with everyone in it falls in a window of about eighteen months. NOT PROOF, and David named the reason before the count was made: if any one of the eight is a grandmother, aunt, sister-in-law, visitor or servant, nine children satisfy it and there is no Edith. The 1891 return for this house records Agnes Harrison, visitor, 28, a dressmaker from Macclesfield. The grandmother Georgina Brayley was alive in the same parish, 77, alone in the Alms House. So the next record is named and queued as row 192: the Northam and Bideford baptism registers for 1882-83, which give parents, where the birth index gives no mother's maiden name until 1911.

You cannot count daughters in a photograph

did David put the three images in the archive and then said one sentence about the Taylor group: "I think there is a grandmother or aunt in that photo as well." That undoes something this archive published this morning. The page said "at least eight daughters and two sons are in the frame" and offered the number as the ordinary explanation of SEPTIMA, meaning seventh. The figure count was also wrong - at full resolution it is twelve people and a dog, three male, eight female, one infant whose sex cannot be told - but the count was never the error that mattered. A granddaughter, a niece, a daughter-in-law and a neighbour's child all photograph identically. There are two seated adult women in this group and nothing in the image says which is the mother of the small girl; the one in the bonnet and fringed shawl reads as the elder, which is as consistent with a grandmother as with a mother of ten. So the page now counts figures and stops, and names the record that would actually settle a sibling count: the 1891 census of Northam, already read here for the Brayleys and never counted for the Taylors. This archive's own standard should have caught it before David did. It says on /south-africa/ that it "does not turn consistent with into is" - and then did exactly that with a picture: counted faces, assumed every one was a child of the couple, and ran the total back into a name it already believed. The Marist figures went the other way. Every one was re-read off the scans and every one held, including the two flagged as least certain - the 608 of June and the 715 of November. Those caveats are withdrawn. Three images published: the Taylor group, the June/November testimonials and the October one. The gallery is nine documents now, not six.

Downing or Downey: a name this archive should not be the one to change

did David re-sent three death notices. Two are the 1973 and 1971 Transvaal notices this archive read in full on 16 September; the third is the Booyzen notice of estate 1095/48, already recorded on row 111 as the document that cancelled the whole Pretoria pull. Nothing in any of them is new. One thing is doubtful. Row 111 names him GEORGE DOWNING MOUNTJOY BOOYZEN. On the photograph, "Mountjoy" and the surname are clear and the middle name reads more like DOWNEY. Left uncorrected on purpose. The sheet is about 768 pixels for a whole foolscap page - the same resolution that could not separate Careen from Carmen this morning, and that was wrong about a grave suffix until the real plate was opened. And he belongs to the Booyzen archive. A Lerena session rewriting another archive's person off a thumbnail is how the three archives stop being three. The original is in the house and settles it in a second.

A schoolboy beat his opponent by seven marks, and Mary Septima has a face

did Two sets of family papers from David, transcribed as facts. The images are not in the repo yet - he sent them as photographs in conversation, not files - and the facts do not wait on the scan, which is how this archive has always worked. THREE MARIST TESTIMONIALS, 1936. "Testimonial of Application and Diligence, merited by Master N. Lerena", Marist Brothers, St Joseph's College, Belmont Park, Rondebosch, signed by the Principal, Bro. Vital. 1 June (608 against his opponent's 578, form's highest 690), 1 October (458 against 415, highest 523), 1 November (715 against 708, highest 1045). N. Lerena is Nuno Fernando, born 6 October 1924 - eleven turning twelve across the three, and the only N. Lerena of school age in this family. The October certificate is dated five days before his twelfth birthday. The opponent's column is the point: the Marists ran classrooms on emulation, each boy paired against another and both totals printed, so a testimonial records not what he knew but whom he beat. By 30, then 43, then seven. It fills a year the archive had nothing for. His mother died at Observatory in November 1935; these are the twelve months after, with the boy at a Catholic school at Rondebosch. And it corroborates the religion from a new direction - the Corpus Christi baptisms, the Roman Catholic allotment of grave 7719, and now a Marist schoolroom. THE TAYLOR FAMILY GROUP. Twelve people and an infant before a studio backdrop, a dog asleep on a cushion at the front. David identifies Mary Septima as the small girl at the lower right, against the knee of the seated man with full side-whiskers, with her father, mother and siblings. It is the only identified likeness of her this archive holds - of anyone in this family before the Cape. Nobody else in the group is named, and no sibling is matched to a face here. The picture does argue one thing on its own. At least eight daughters and two sons are in the frame, which is the ordinary explanation of SEPTIMA, meaning seventh - a name this archive has carried as a curiosity since the beginning. Though a studio group is who turned up, not who was born. The date is inferred and labelled as inferred: born 17 September 1884, the child looks five or six, so about 1889-1891, with the dress agreeing and not narrowing it. A photographer's imprint on the mount would settle it; the supplied image is cropped to the print. Figures read off a photocopy; both TSVs say which digits are least certain.

Grave 7719 is his own plot and it holds all three of them

did He was never found because FamilySearch indexes him as ROBERT PAUL LESINA - the seventh machine misreading of this surname on record here. He was found by not searching the surname at all: given name "Robert Paul", death year 1950, this collection only, 663 results, first row. Maitland Road Cemetery, Record of Interments, Volume 21, page 339, entry 327. LERENA, Robert Paul, M.E., 76, of Newlands, 7 Forth Road. Roman Catholic, Cemetery No. 1, GRAVE 7719 C, 8 feet, position Bott, Father Plotton officiating, undertaker Goodall & Wms. Last column: "In Plot of R. P. Lerina". So the plot was his own, and it holds three people: 7719 A Mary Septima (1935), 7719 B the infant Careen Maria (1947), 7719 C himself (1950). WHICH MEANS THE FAMILY WERE RIGHT. Cheryl was told the unmarked grave carrying only LERENA held three people - Pablo Armando, Mary Septima, an infant. Every part of that is in the register. The one wrong word is Newlands, which is where he died. Row 110 asked "Maitland or Newlands" and is now done; his certificate's intended place of burial is proved actual. AND THIS MORNING'S TWO CAVEATS ARE BOTH ANSWERED, because signing in gave the same 1947 plate at 4,863 pixels instead of about 1,100. The grave is 7719 B, not 7719. The name is CAREEN, not Carmen - the letter in dispute is the pointed r this clerk writes in "Frederick" two lines below, not the three-arch m he writes in "mary" one line below. Carmen was the likelier name and it is not what the page says. A new fact with two edges, on row 106: the infant was buried inside his plot, which is evidence she was his - and her last residence is 42 Victoria Road, BELLVILLE, while he and his executrix Rose Lilian Theys both lived at 7 Forth Road, Newlands. Cheryl's reading that Theys was the mother now has an address to explain. last-alive.py took the FIRST "died <date>" anywhere in a row's prose. Adding the three burials to his note moved his own death to the infant's 1947, which check-spines caught against the /uruguay/ ladder. The bug bit hardest where the research was best: the fuller a note, the likelier it names somebody else's death. Death dates are now corroborated against an independent record year instead of ranked by position, and where nothing corroborates the tool falls back to a ceiling and says so rather than guessing. It said so immediately, about a row nobody had questioned: MAURICIO LERENA, born c.1815, was carrying 3 March 1925 as an explicit death date. That is his daughter Clara's. The archive had been asserting he died at about 110.

The page said the grave number would settle it, and the grave number arrived

did David sent one opening of the Maitland Road Cemetery Record of Interments. Page 4706, entry 423: LERENA, female, 2 wks, late residence on a Victoria Road, Roman Catholic allotment, Cons. No. 1, GRAVE 7719, 3 1/2 feet down. That is Mary Septima Taylor's grave. This archive has cited her burial as "p.3215 entry 163, Nov 1935 ... Cemetery no 1, grave 7719A" since September. Same cemetery, same allotment, same plot number, twelve years apart. /south-africa/ had already named this exact test. Of the kerb reading LERENA and nothing else it said: "equally consistent with her grave, with his, or with a family plot holding both ... What would settle it is the grave number." Two burials at one number is the third reading. A kerb with no given name is what you pour over a plot you mean to use again. AND IT CORRECTS A FAMILY MEMORY. Cheryl was told by a cemetery office that the unmarked LERENA grave was at NEWLANDS. Newlands is where Pablo Armando died - 7 Forth Road - and it is a different suburb from Maitland, which is what his own 1950 certificate names. Three records point at Maitland; one recollection points at Newlands. Work-list row 110 used to end "neither has been checked against a burial register". It has been now. TWO THINGS NOT CLAIMED. His own entry is still unseen: he died in March 1950 and this opening is 1947, so intended is still not actual for him. And the scan is ~1,100px across a full opening, which cannot resolve an "A" suffix and cannot tell Careen from Carmen - Carmen being the commoner name in this family by far. The reading already carried is kept rather than improved into the likelier guess. check-sources gained a third locator and it is not an exemption. The row said IMAGE READ and could name no film, because there is none; the only ways to pass were to lie or to delete the word READ. It now accepts the register's own page+entry WITH the explicit words IMAGE SUPPLIED - both halves required, tested by breaking each - and counts them aloud on every green run, because a locator that resolves to no public image is weaker than one that does. And /sources/ was three weeks late again, which is the failure that file exists to stop: p.3215 has been quoted on /estate/ and /taylor/ since mid-September, down to the depth of the grave and the name of the undertaker, under a heading claiming to list everything. Its route was never written down and cannot now be recovered, so it is recorded as unknown.

Twenty-nine godparent edges that reached nobody, and the plumbing to publish them

did Wiring the last category of unwired people - the forty-four whose note says they stood at a font. Twenty-seven resolved by reading, every pair checked against the register by exact name rather than matched. THEN I CHECKED WHETHER THEY RENDERED, AND THEY DID NOT. build-people.py mapped four relation words - father, mother, spouse, child - and dropped everything else SILENTLY. So check-tree.py counted twenty-nine godparent edges, this session reported the tree at 69%, and Don Fidel Rey's page said "no relationships are recorded for this person". The number was inflated by edges nothing drew. That is this archive's own cardinal sin committed by me: storing a finding is not publishing it. Caught by asking whether the edge reached a reader rather than whether the gate went green. THEY ARE DELIBERATELY NOT IN THE CHART, AND NOT IN relTotal. The person page says "of the N relationships IN THE CHART ABOVE", and the chart draws parents, spouses, children and siblings. Folding godparents into that count would have made the sentence false - the easier fix, and a lie. They get their own line instead: "At the font. They stood godfather to ..." with the limit stated in the same breath. 327 edges, 261 of 377 people wired. The figure now means what it says. And the pattern is worth the plumbing. This family chose godparents from inside itself over and over - a Lavalleja for the child named Justiniano, an Ana for the Ana, Don Fidel Rey four years before a son was christened Fidel. The naming habit this archive has traced through five fonts is the same habit, seen from the other side.

This archive kept its own spine twice, and the page rendered the copy nobody checked

did data/direct-line.tsv holds the direct line with its evidence - arks, a passport serial, an interment register page and entry, estate file numbers. And site/src/pages/direct-line.astro holds THE SAME LINE AGAIN as a hard-coded array. The page renders the ARRAY. The TSV was declared a working log and read by nobody. They did not disagree. That was luck, not a gate: hand-written descent has gone stale twice in this archive, which is why check-spines.py exists at all. I REFUSED THE OBVIOUS FIX, AND THE REASON IS THE POINT. Rendering the TSV would have redrawn the archive's most important page - the two are not the same shape, the TSV giving each wife her own row where the page folds her into a spouse field. And the TSV's `evidence` column was never written for publication: GENERATION 3'S NAMES A LIVING PERSON AND CARRIES A BIRTH YEAR inside a quoted retraction. Migrating would have published it. So the duplication STAYS and both joins are gated instead. The PAGE must agree with the TSV about every date it states; the TSV must agree with the REGISTER through a new `register` column. A reader sees exactly what they saw before, and neither copy can drift alone. TWO FAULTS IN MY OWN GATE, BOTH CAUGHT BY TESTING IT RATHER THAN TRUSTING IT: It bounded each entry with `.{0,400}?` and matched ONE row of four, because these notes run longer than that. A gate that silently checks a quarter of what it claims is worse than none. Then it compared YEARS ONLY - and a deliberate test changing "6 Oct 1924" to "7 Oct 1924" sailed straight through. Two copies of one line drifting by a day is the likeliest error available here. It compares the day now, and the test fails as it should.

Fourteen of thirty returned nothing, and that is the number the page now leads with

did Work-list row 131, and deliberately NOT done by replacing the prose. /searched/ is 1,429 lines and thirty-three sections, several of them tables of many searches. Flattening that into five fields would have thrown away the reasoning, WHICH ON THIS PAGE IS THE ASSET: it is the archive's record of how it was wrong, and a register of negative results is only worth reading because somebody explained why each one counts. So data/searched-index.tsv holds THIRTY ROWS THAT INDEX THE SECTIONS, each linking to the prose that explains it, and every section stays where it was. What the rows add is the thing prose could never give - something a filter can reach and a gate can count. AND THE COUNT IS THE POINT. Fourteen of the thirty returned NOTHING. The kit's own docstring says why that number belongs at the top: an archive that records only its hits is keeping a highlight reel, not a register. THE OUTCOME WORDS ARE THIS ARCHIVE'S OWN - found, nothing, mixed, blocked, answered, unresolved, abandoned. The component insists on that, and says flattening four archives' vocabularies to a shared five "would be inventing a finding". THREE SECTIONS ARE DELIBERATELY NOT ROWS. "Why a page of failures", "What is on this page" and "What the failures add up to" are the page's argument about itself, not searches, and giving them an outcome would be a category error. `when` is coarse where the prose is coarse. A bare year means the section does not date itself more precisely, and guessing a day to fill a column is how a register starts lying. The same base-prefix trap as the questions file, in a new shape: a bare "#anchor" in the href column becomes /TheLerena/#anchor - a link to the home page carrying a fragment that is not there. Thirty of them, all caught by the anchor gate, and the file's header now says so.

The generated file the questions commit left behind

Seven questions and two closed doors, as rows a filter can reach

did Work-list row 132. /open-questions/ was 188 lines of prose - seven questions and two failed routes, none of it filterable, countable or comparable with the other archives in this estate. The kit's Questions component takes {q, state, known, tried, settles} and its docstring says plainly why it had sat unused here: five of seven archives keep their questions as prose and "cannot use this until somebody extracts them, and that extraction is research work belonging to each archive rather than something to guess at from outside". This is that extraction, done from inside. THE RISK WAS LOSING THE NEGATIVE EVIDENCE. Question 1 carried a long panel - the Lerena-Lerena compound test, the forty-three transcription doublings, the Carmen Lerena act read off film 007713392 image 2511, and the sentence that says the test LOWERS the probability without settling it. A refactor that drops that is worse than the prose it replaced, so it is carried whole into the "tried" field and the result was checked phrase by phrase against the built page. FOUR QUESTIONS HAVE NO "tried" FIELD AND THAT IS ACCURATE, NOT MISSING: the original prose listed only what to do about them. Saying so is the point of having the field. Two rows are BLOCKED rather than open - the MyHeritage tree that needs a logged-in session, and Forebears' Spanish figures that return nothing to a fetch. They are not questions about the family; they are routes that failed, and the page kept them for that reason. One asymmetry cost a build and is now in the file's header: the href COLUMN is based by u(), the HTML fields are not. Six /TheLerena/TheLerena/ links, all caught by the link gate. (This message is amended: backticks in the first draft were expanded by the shell and ate two field names out of it.)

Five children who were named on their parents' rows and had none of their own

did The smaller gap left behind by yesterday's spouse work, closed the same way. Felix Antonio and Aurora Eduarda Larena Fuentes, Petrona Medero Llerena, Ana Maria Lerena Rozzetti, Susana Avelina Canale Lerena. Each stood as a child in the prose of a row this register already held, so four households the archive HAS could not be drawn. Each is entered on the citation its citing row already carried, with no new research behind it, and every row says so in its own note. One echo recorded as an echo and not a link: SUSANA AVELINA repeats her mother's forename, which repeats the AVELINO of the Montevideo house. This archive has traced that naming habit through five fonts and has also been burned by exactly this reasoning, so it is offered as neither. 300 edges, 228 of 377 people wired - 60%. (The first draft of this message said 233 and 62%. I wrote the figure before I measured it; this is the measured one.)

The two generated files the last commit left behind

did build-people.py and last-alive.py regenerate these from the register, so the eight new people changed them and naming files one by one missed them. Caught by reading git status after the commit rather than before.

Seventeen was my own miscount, and the real number is eight

did Work-list row 191 said this register names SEVENTEEN spouses it does not hold. It names EIGHT. The seventeen was my error, made nine days ago and published. HOW IT HAPPENED. The test asked whether any register row contained every word of a string a regex had captured - and the regex over-captured. It searched for "m. Capitan Don Antonio Ruiz de Carvallo AND DAUGHTER OF SANCHO L" as if that were a name, found nothing, and reported the spouse missing. Four spouses were in the register the whole time. Three more resolved on reading. Eight were genuinely absent. The same shape as the matcher errors of 27 and 28 September: a string that looks like a name, used as one. WIRED, SEVEN, each disambiguated by reading rather than matching: Bernardina Fragoso to Fructuoso Rivera Cipriana Saenz Pena to Gilberto Lerena Salvanach the younger Leonarda Correa to Nicolas Benteno Dominga Carvallo to Capitan Antonio Ruiz de Carvallo Maria Carlota Amadeo Lastra to the BUENOS AIRES Rafael Llerena - this register holds two Rafaels and the Cordoba one married Rosario Moyano Juana del Espiritu Santo to Don Domingo Rodriguez the elder, the act calling them "ambos naturales de la COLONIA" Carolina Oribe to the Luis Lerena who remarried in 1842 as "viudo de Dona Carolina" ENTERED, EIGHT, each on the citation its citing row already carried, with no new research behind it and every row saying so in its own note. AND IT LEFT A SMALLER GAP BEHIND, named rather than quietly carried: five CHILDREN stand on those same rows with no entry of their own. 290 edges, 223 of 372 people wired - 51% to 59%.

No waypoints, but the collections were in the atlas all along

did Following up the Record Atlas rows. The waypoints still cannot be recovered - the FamilySearch session is signed out and I will not sign in - but that is not the end of what can be attached. THE ATLAS ALREADY HOLDS EVERY COLLECTION THIS WORK CAME FROM. Checked collections.json by the collection TITLE printed on each record page I actually opened, not by guessing from the film: 4134697 Uruguay, Catholic Church Records 1726-2000 (two films) 1837849 Uruguay, Civil Registration 1879-2020 1974184 Argentina, Capital Federal, Catholic Church Records 1640-1978 1974182 Argentina, Cordoba, Catholic Church Records 1557-1974 1520616 Uruguay, Baptisms 1750-1900 - which is the IGI index findmypast licenses and serves as its own "Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900" So six of the seven rows now carry a `collection` URL and can attach as collection marks. THAT IS A COARSER JOIN THAN A WAYPOINT AND IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR ONE: it says which shelf, not which volume and which pages. The file says so. WHAT I DID NOT DO, DELIBERATELY. I did not run scripts/import-research-sessions.py. The atlas working tree already holds an untracked record-atlas-research-import.json with 39 marks from another session, written this morning, and the script would overwrite it. That is exactly the collision the skill's own warning describes. I also left data/providers.json alone - it shows as modified there and the change is not mine. Nothing in Record Atlas was touched by me at all. check-data.py: data is sound.

Seven rows for Record Atlas, and not one of them carries a waypoint

did CLAUDE.md landed in this repo yesterday (5577e0e) pointing every session at the record-atlas-feedback skill. Verified the commit and read the file before acting on it - it is David's own instruction, not a peer's. WHAT I COULD DO: seven rows in site/src/data/searched.json for the work of 22-27 September - five FamilySearch plates, the 33 findmypast transcripts, and the Trove null with its control. WHAT I COULD NOT: NOT ONE ROW CARRIES A WAYPOINT. The atlas keys on the wc=/owc= waypoint; this archive has always cited by DGS film number and image ark, and the skill says film numbers have matched the atlas zero times across 1,349 rows. So almost everything here is currently unattachable. I could not recover them today because the browser pane was recreated and the FamilySearch session was lost. CHECKED PROPERLY BEFORE SAYING SO - second tab, read twice - because this archive once told David to sign in again when the session had merely lost a cookie in one pane. Film numbers are in a `film` field and NO WAYPOINT HAS BEEN GUESSED, which the skill forbids. AND NOTHING IS MARKED walked. Every row is a plate opened at a known folio, not a register read entry by entry. The skill calls overstating this the worst error available, because it tells the next person a book is finished. THIS IS A SWEEP, WHICH THE SKILL DISCOURAGES, and the file says so at the top. The instruction arrived after the work. Rows from earlier sessions are NOT included - data/sources-consulted.tsv lists 24 films, most read before this file existed, and that backlog is real. No provider row was needed: trove, findmypast and familysearch are all already in the atlas, so data/providers.json was not touched at all.

Point every session at Record Atlas

did CLAUDE.md is auto-read at the start of any session working here. It did not exist. Created with one section: research done in this archive is only useful to the next person if it reaches the shared map, and the record-atlas-feedback skill is how it gets there — as the work happens, not swept up at the end. Content only, nothing else asserted about how this archive works; a fuller CLAUDE.md is this archive's own call to write.

Two checks always read site/dist, whatever ARCHIVE_OUT said

did The D'Arcy session found the flag-swallowing half of this fault three times in four days — check_links.py accepted --dist and silently ignored it, grading a stale dist while a fresh build sat untouched beside it. Neither of the two checks here that read a built directory took a --dist flag at all, but they had the same shape of hole from the other side: DIST was hardcoded to `site/dist`, and neither read ARCHIVE_OUT, so a session building into its own directory would have this pair silently grading whatever another session's build last left in site/dist. check-evidence.py and check-living-places.py now read ARCHIVE_OUT the way the kit's own outdir.py does: an absolute value used as given, a relative one resolved under site/, and site/dist only when nothing is set. Verified in three states against a build made fresh into an isolated ARCHIVE_OUT directory: reads it when set, falls back correctly when unset, and the numbers reported did not change (15 records about 11 people, 1 living person named and unplaced) — this is a wiring fix, not a data change.

Seventeen marriages this register writes down and cannot draw

did Second pass at the unwired people, on the twenty whose note states a SPOUSE. THE MATCHER RESOLVED THREE AND ONE OF THEM WAS NONSENSE. It proposed wiring CELIDONIA B. DE LERENA as married to AMBROSIA TRAIBEL - who is a woman - by grabbing the wrong "m." in a sentence. Her note actually says she does NOT fit the Avelino this archive knows. Rejected on reading, which is the third time in two days an automated match has had to be thrown away, and the reason every edge here is read before it is written. FOUR EDGES WERE GOOD: Eduardo Zalsamendi onto Amelia Lerena and onto his own parents Juan Zalsamendi and Dolores Pou - all three named on the Pocitos act of 1903 - and Juana Suarez onto Mayor Joaquin Ruiz de Carvallo. AND THE REST IS THE FINDING. SEVENTEEN of the twenty name a husband or wife who HAS NO REGISTER ROW. Petrona Lopez, Vicenta Mercedes Fuentes, Florencia Calixta Ramos, Antonio Medero, Rosario Moyano, Vicente Campellone, Maria Mercedes Rozzetti, Cristobal Canale, Nicolas Benteno, Domingo Rodriguez and more. The marriage is recorded in prose and cannot be drawn, because one end of it does not exist as a person. That is the same shape as FERNANDO MORATORIO THE YOUNGER, found this morning: the archive names people it does not hold, and the tree is where that becomes visible. Logged as a work-list row rather than bulk-added - each needs its note read and its source named, and today has shown three times over what happens when that step is skipped. 275 edges, 193 of 364 people wired.

Fernando Moratorio the younger: his parents, his wife and both his daughters were in the register and he was not

did Working the 190 people with no tree edge, which I called the weakest part of this archive yesterday. FIRST, THE 190 ARE NOT ALL A DEFECT. 106 of them state no relationship at all - a name on a census line, a godparent with no other record - and an isolated person is not an unwired one. What is left is 41 godparents, 27 with a stated spouse, 12 who are stated to be the PARENT of somebody, and 3 with both parents named. THE MATCHER WAS NOT TRUSTED THIS TIME. It resolved 6 of the 14 parent-of rows and I read every note before wiring. One was the trap again: NICOLASA TORRES is "mother of Fernando Moratorio", and the only Fernando Moratorio in the register is THE ELDER - who is her HUSBAND, not her son. Wiring the match would have made a wife into a mother of her own husband. WHICH EXPOSED THE REAL GAP. FERNANDO MORATORIO THE YOUNGER had no register row. His father, his mother, his wife JOSEFA LERENA TRAIBEL and both his daughters were all in it; the man they all join through was not. The Moratorio branch had been hanging from nothing since March. Entered, and the two 1880 baptisms are the authority - the same plate that settled the twins. EIGHTEEN EDGES, EVERY ONE READ BEFORE IT WAS WRITTEN: the Lenguas line back two generations to Antonio Lenguas and Juana Grandal; the Gonzalez line to Pascual and Josefa Grandal; Justiniana and Sixta onto both their parents; AMBROSIA TRAIBEL onto Juan Traibel and Ysabel Centeno, which is the joint the whole Lerena Traibel branch descends through; and Lucinda Ruiz de Carvallo onto Dominga Josefa - wired to her BIRTH-NAME row, with the pair file saying why. 253 -> 271 edges. 47% -> 51% of the register is in the tree. 175 still are not.

The chart work of 27 September was in commits and in nobody's work list

did Two faults that a green build could not show — every chart missing the subject's dates because the adapter passed a field that does not exist, and 195 of 358 pages drawing no chart at all — plus the placeholder I then published as a date, and the verification that counted the container rather than its contents. Row 190, with the numbers measured on digits: 194 real, 163 correctly none, 0 placeholders. Recorded because a finding that lives only in a commit message and a peer's inbox is not findable by whoever works here next.

Repin 2f18c75: a gate's ok line stops reading as a verdict

did checkretired now says «none of the 3 DECLARED withdrawn reading(s) is stated as fact… this gate knows only what is declared, so it cannot say the archive holds no others». This archive runs check:corrections rather than check:retired, so the wording does not show here — the pin moves so it does not fall further behind while the kit changes under it. Full build clean, 0 FAIL.

The spine still called a question open that was answered this morning

did Auditing the day's work rather than assuming it. Three things were not right. THE DESCENT SPINE ON /uruguay/ STILL SAID THE ALEJANDRO QUESTION WAS OPEN. Gen 4 of the Sancho house read "whether he is the Alejandro Maximo of the Argentine cards is open". It is not: the Cordon act of 26 December 1877 names his parents as Avelino and Ambrosia Traibel, and that was published on the same page hours earlier. The ladder contradicted the section beneath it. AND NOTHING CAUGHT IT. tools/check-spines.py - written five days ago for exactly this failure - compares DATES against the register and cannot read prose. It is a narrower gate than the lesson that produced it. Recorded here rather than quietly fixed, because that gap is the useful part: a hand-written claim in a data file is still a hand-written claim. ANGELICA VILLADEMOROS HAD NO EDGE. Entered this morning from the 1873 Cordon act and left out of relations.tsv, so she sat in the register with no tree around her. check-tree.py passed because it refuses edges that join nothing - it has nothing to say about a PERSON who joins nothing. Wired as godmother. AND I FRAGMENTED THE ATLAS. Amalia Casas went in as "Bell Ville / San Jeronimo, Cordoba" while her parents went in as "San Jeronimo, Cordoba", and norm_place takes the whole field as one place name - so one locality became two. 43 places -> 42, and the three of them now sit together. VERIFIED: all 363 people build, every new person has a page, all five new sections render, the two new places have pages, drift is zero and audit.py finds nothing.

Nine TAB files were ranked, ready to order, and tracked nowhere

did data/tab-pull-list-2026-09-22 holds nine ranked Transvaal Archives references with, for each, what it would answer — TPD 1367/1980 and TPD 1248/1979 for who Anton Armando and Ricardo Paul are, and the rest of MHG 1518/73 and MHG 6746/71 where only the death notice is held. A finished piece of work sitting in a data file with no row in the work list, which is part of why this archive's own gate has been reporting 20 outstanding items not yet reconciled. Two things reported by the Booyzen session today bear on ordering them, and both are recorded AS REPORTED rather than established, because this archive has checked neither and the difference matters to whoever acts on it: NARSSA's tariffs changed on 1 September 2026, so any cost worked out before that is stale; and the Pretoria reading room is reported closed, which would make a pull list an order-by-post or nothing at all. Blocked on David, because ordering costs money and the tariff is the thing that changed. Row 189, and an integer, which this file could not have said of itself this morning.

Seven row numbers here were strings, and the gate that checks row numbers could not see it

did Rows 178 to 184, all dated 21 September, carried their `n` as a string while the other 181 carried an integer. The worklist gate refused duplicate row numbers by VALUE, so "178" beside 178 would have collided with nothing — and a mixed column is worse than a duplicate, because every consumer from now on has to defend itself against a column that is supposed to have one type. Found because the Booyzen session hit it from the other end: a row I wrote there went in as a string and broke `max(r["n"] for r in rows)` in their session within minutes. Mine was one row and careless — read with an int() coercion, written back as a string. These seven predate today and are not mine, but this archive is unowned and the register is its address space. Coerced: 188 rows, one type. Kit 7c6b412 now refuses a non-integer row number, and normalises before the duplicate test so the type-only collision cannot slip through again. Full build clean, 0 FAIL.

Australia: a zero this archive believes, and the work that earns it

did David's Trove key was tested against every name in this family. All of them return zero: Robert Paul Lerena, Pablo Lerena, JUAN CARLOS LERENA, Nuno, Roque. BY ITSELF THAT MEANS NOTHING. An Argentine-Uruguayan family need never appear in an Australian newspaper, so the zero is what you would expect whether or not the corpus could have carried them. SO THE CONTROL WAS CHOSEN TO ASK THE ONLY QUESTION THAT MATTERS: COULD IT? Pablo Armando trained racehorses at the Cape, and Australian papers covered South African racing from the 1890s onward - 11,500 hits, under headings like "SOUTH AFRICAN RACING MATTERS - JOHANNESBURG RACING FEES" (1914). The shelf is full and he is not on it. That makes this the OPPOSITE of the rest of false-zeros.tsv: a null this archive believes, recorded with the work that earns the right to believe it. AND ONE TRAP WORTH MORE THAN THE SEARCH. "Brayley Bideford" returned two hits and both looked like the Devon family. Neither is. TROVE INDEXES A WHOLE FAMILY NOTICES COLUMN AS ONE ARTICLE - the 1914 Adelaide one runs to 14,464 characters - so two terms "co-occurring" can mean only that they were set in the same column of type on the same morning. There, "MRS. BRAYLEY, of Gladstone" is a South Australian bereavement card and the Bideford belongs to a separate notice, "JAMES - at Hallsannery, Bideford, N. Devon". A CO-OCCURRENCE SEARCH AGAINST A CORPUS OF LONG COLUMNS IS NOT A CO-OCCURRENCE. Every multi-term hit was opened before being believed. The 177 bare "Lerena" hits are a Tasmanian schooner. THE KEY IS NOT IN THIS REPOSITORY AND MUST NEVER BE: the repo is public and everything in data/ is published. It was passed as an environment variable and nothing more. The page says so too.

Finados: the first evidence from any record that Alejandro M. Lerena was dead

did Said the next work should be opening plates rather than running searches, so this opens one. The Bell Ville marriage of 1907, film 004484760 image 00123, entry N 282. "Alejandro Joaquin Lerena, de treinta y cuatro anos de edad, NATURAL DE MONTEVIDEO, REPUBLICA ORIENTAL, domiciliado en este Curato, e hijo legitimo de ALEJANDRO M. [LERENA] y ELISA VILLADEMORAS (FINADOS), con AMALIA CASAS, vecina de este pueblo, hija legitima de CORNELIO CASAS y RAIMUNDA PEREDA." FINADOS. He appeared in person at Montevideo in March 1888 to register Emilia Alberta; by 20 June 1907 he was dead. That is the first ceiling on his death from a record rather than a tree, and the tree's "1903" now at least sits inside it. THE PLATE CORRECTS THE INDEX THREE TIMES. The index gives only "1907"; the act says 20 JUNE. The index names the parish Inmaculada Concepcion, Bell Ville; the act says SAN JERONIMO. And the index reads the surname SERENA where the plate has a plain L - sitting on the same opening as the scribe's own S in "San Jeronimo". Sixth S-for-L, second in one day. It also confirms the groom NATURAL DE MONTEVIDEO at thirty-four, which fits the Cordon birth of 29 October 1872, and makes this a FOURTH independent statement of his father's name with the M. - Montevideo 1872, the Cordon 1877, Cordoba 1907, Buenos Aires 1911. TWO THINGS NOT EXPLAINED, AND RECORDED AS NOT EXPLAINED: the printed "Iglesia" is struck through and "casa particular de la novia" written over it, and the banns were DISPENSED. A wedding in the bride's house with the proclamations waived is what haste or illness looks like. Three new people: Amalia Casas and her parents. 363 people.

The son of the first marriage went to Cordoba

did A third record pairs Alejandro M. Lerena with Elisa Villademoros, and this one is Argentine. Their son ALEJANDRO JOAQUIN - christened at the Cordon in May 1873 - married AMALIA CASAS at the Inmaculada Concepcion, BELL VILLE, departa- mento Union, CORDOBA, in 1907, and the act names his parents "Alejandro M Lerena" and "Elisa Villademoras". A Montevideo font in 1872, a Cordon christening in 1877 and a Cordoba marriage in 1907 all carry the same couple and the same initial. AND IT MAPS THE CROSSING. The children of the second marriage were born at Montevideo, then Misiones in 1891, then Buenos Aires from 1895. The son of the FIRST marriage is at Cordoba. This family did not emigrate once; it dispersed. INDEX ONLY, and the row says so. Worth opening: a marriage act names the groom's parents, his age and often his birthplace, so that plate would be a fourth independent statement of the father's name and might finally date him - which is the one thing still standing between this archive and the merge. Also a fourth spelling of her surname: VILLADEMORAS, after Villademoros, Villardemoros and Villademores.

The dispensation was granted: Custodio and Ema had a daughter in 1915

did Still on FamilySearch while the session is signed in. THE 1911 DISPENSATION HAS AN OUTCOME. This archive holds the Cura Vicario's two kinship diagrams for CUSTODIO LERENA and EMA CARDOZO, double first cousins, petitioning to marry, and has never known whether it was granted. Their daughter VIOLETA BLANCA was born 29 October 1915 and christened at Trinidad the following September. It was. AND ONE INDEX IS NOT ANOTHER INDEX. The 33 findmypast transcripts opened this morning gave 20 children across 14 households. A single FamilySearch search on the same PLACE returned the children of those children - a generation findmypast does not reach. Four households new here, a fourth Lerena woman recorded as a mother with no father named, and a FIFTH Alejandro for the-three-alejandros.tsv to watch. THE MERGE TEST WAS RUN AND IT HELD. Searched for a burial of an infant Alejandro Lerena 1846-1870, which would mean Avelino had TWO sons of that name and would break the identification made this morning. Nothing. THE CONTROL WAS AGAIN CHOSEN TO MATCH: Carmen Lerena's burial at the Cordon, which this archive already holds, returns from the same search shape - so Montevideo burials of that era ARE indexed. A null that weakly supports the merge, and is recorded as weak. AND THE CONTROL DISAGREED WITH US BY A YEAR. The index dates Carmen's burial 14 August 1840; this register says 1841 and read the image. Noted, not resolved. Every row of the new sweep is INDEX ONLY and the page says so twice - the names in it are visibly mangled, and the 1726 artefact is in there as well.

The control matched the era, the city and the record type, and the null held

did Answering "is anything else needed from FamilySearch or findmypast" by testing the top leads rather than listing them. THE MARRIAGE OF ALEJANDRO M. LERENA AND ELISA VILLADEMOROS IS A CONTROLLED NULL. Searched under LERENA and under SERENA - the spelling that had hidden the 1877 act naming his parents - for a marriage to a Villademoros in Uruguay: nothing. AND THE CONTROL WAS THE RIGHT KIND, which is new for this file. Not merely a surname too big to return zero, but A MONTEVIDEO PARISH MARRIAGE OF THE SAME ERA THAT THIS ARCHIVE ALREADY HOLDS: Luis Lerena and Julia Juanico, 19 December 1864 at San Francisco de Asis. It returns, and it returns WITH THE GROOM'S PARENTS ATTACHED. So the instrument reaches 1860s Montevideo marriages and carries parents on them, and the null is about this act rather than the shelf. Recorded as "not in the indexed corpus", not "did not happen" - their eldest child was baptised in 1873, so a marriage exists. ELISA'S DEATH IS NOT INDEXED EITHER, AND THAT IS EXPECTED RATHER THAN PUZZLING: she died between September 1876 and December 1877, and Uruguay had no civil registration until 1879. Her burial is a PARISH record, in books already on this work list and never walked. Rows 56 and 57 now carry the fifteen-month window and the reason, which makes them cheap and decisive instead of open-ended. TWO THINGS CAME BACK UNASKED: ANGELICA MARIA LERENA VILLADEMOROS, entered here this morning from the 1872 act, is in the civil index under her MARRIED name - "Angelica Lerma de Zalduando". Index only, and "Lerma" is the index's word. ANGELICA VILLADEMOROS married JOAQUIN REQUENA - so the 1873 Cordon godparents were a married couple, and the godfather this archive had as "Regusa" is REQUENA. Invisible while the surname was misread. Three new work-list rows, two sharpened. 187 rows.

Thirty-three transcripts that had been shut for eighteen days

did data/uruguay-baptisms-lerena.tsv has carried this header since 9 September: "transcripts are behind findmypast's paywall and were NOT opened". David signed in; all thirty-three opened. Every row now has the MOTHER'S SURNAME and an EXACT BAPTISM DATE, which is the difference between a list of names and a set of families. Thirteen were duplicate pairs, as the file suspected. IT CONFIRMED A PREDICTION THIS ARCHIVE MADE FROM THREE SURNAMES. /uruguay/ says the Trinidad kindred married BASQUE women - "Beloqui, Echeverry, Pelaez". The transcripts give BELOQUI/BELOGIN, ECHEVERSE/ECHEVERSI/ECHEVERRY and PELAEZ across five households, plus BARRAGAN and GAZO/GOSA. AND IT PUT THE SEVEN-SPELLINGS PROBLEM ON THE MOTHERS' SIDE. Andrea is Echeverse in 1873, Echeversi in 1875 and Echeverry in 1877 - one woman, one parish, four years, three spellings. Adelaida is Gazo in 1874, Gosa in 1875 and Gosso on an Argentine death record. A search under one of them misses the rest, which is the lesson this archive keeps relearning and had only ever applied to LERENA itself. FOUR NEW HOUSEHOLDS: Manuel x Juana FERREIROZ and Manuel x Dolores ESPINDOLA - two Manuels at Montevideo or one with two wives, NOT established - Pedro A. x Manuela LEMOS, and Fermin x Paulina BARRAGAN. AND THREE LERENA WOMEN AS MOTHERS AT SAN JOSE - OLEGARIA, ESTEFANIA and FELICIA - a side of that cluster this archive has never counted, because a surname search on the father's line cannot see them. One more thing the set returned without being asked: Carlos Augusto Federico, baptised 18 July 1883, father Gilberto, mother JULIA SALVANACH - the woman this archive discovered was missing from its own register four days ago. TIER: an index of an index. No image was opened, and the file says so.

Alejandro M. Lerena is a son of Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Traibel

did The question this archive has carried since 14 September, and which data/the-three-alejandros.tsv called "the whole obstacle", is answered. THE CORDON ACT OF 26 DECEMBER 1877, film 007713388 image 02455: "hija legitima de D. ALEJANDRO M. LERENA y de D.a ELISA [VILLADEMOROS] (hoy finada), orientales. ABUELOS PATERNOS D. AVELINO y D.a AMBROSIA TRAIBEL, maternos D. PEDRO y D.a ANGELICA MENDEZ." So the Alejandro M. Lerena of army drawer Cajon 985 is a LERENA TRAIBEL, a grandson of Sancho Llerena, and a brother of Josefa, Alberto, Alfredo Justiniano and Ana Rosario. The Argentine cards and the Montevideo house are one family. THE ROUTE MATTERS MORE THAN THE ANSWER. It was not found by searching for his parents - that had been tried for thirteen days. It was found by searching for his FIRST WIFE, because he is "viudo" on both acts of 1886 and 1888 and one had to exist. And the record is indexed under "Alejandro M. SERENA", with the grandmother as "Ambrosia TRECIBEL". A search under LERENA would never have returned it; the S-for-L this archive has now met five times was standing between it and its own answer. AND THE WIDOWHOOD IS DATED. Elisa Villademoros is "hoy finada" on 26 December 1877 and her daughter was born 19 September 1876. She died inside those fifteen months. WHAT IS LEFT IS A MERGE, NOT A QUESTION. This register still holds ALEJANDRO LERENA TRAIBEL, baptised at La Mauricia 7 January 1846 - same couple, same forename, and a birth window that overlaps: 1843 or 1845 from the act, 1844 from his own stated ages. Almost certainly one man. NOT merged, because a merge touches slugs, last-attested-alive, relations and CHECKED_PAIRS, and a half-done merge is worse than an honest pair. data/_person-pairs.txt records it as a debt. Two new people: Jacinta Mercedes Gregoria Lerena Villademoros (b. 19 Sep 1876) and Dona Angelica Villademoros. Work-list row 85 closed. 360 people.

The index said 1919, the act said 1872, and the widower had a wife

did Hunting Alejandro M. Lerena's first marriage - he is VIUDO on both Montevideo acts of 1886 and 1888, so one must exist - and the record that answered was hiding behind a forty-seven year indexing error. THE INDEX DATES IT 1919. THE ACT IS 1872. The 1919 is the certificate: "expido la presente ... en Montevideo a veintiocho de Septiembre de mil novecientos diez y nueve", Ramon Howard, Basilica Metropolitana. This archive already had the rule - a certified copy carries two dates and the index takes the wrong one - and this is the widest gap it has produced. Believing the index would have discarded the record as a man too old to be ours. WHAT THE ACT GIVES, off film 004298263 image 03147: "Fueron padrinos ALEJANDRO M. LERENA y ELISA VILLADEMOROS, a quienes instruyo." The M. is carried by no other Alejandro in this register, and Elisa Villardemoros is the wife of the SEPARATE Alejandro this archive holds. On 22 September I declared those two DIFFERENT MEN and gave as the reason that one of them was A WIDOWER. That is backwards. A widower in 1886 is a man whose earlier wife has died; I wrote the strongest link in the evidence down as the objection to it. Corrected, and the pair declaration rewritten. THEY ARE STILL NOT MERGED. An initial and a wife is not proof. What settles it is her death (1873-1886) or their marriage (before Oct 1872) - and a marriage act names the groom's parents, which is the whole question. AND THREE THINGS NOBODY WAS LOOKING FOR: AVELINO EDUARDO LERENA TRAIBEL IS ARGENTINO, and Celedonia Villademoros ARGENTINA - a branch of this family was Argentine-born, which is the country the archive's central question lives in. HIS PARENTS ARE ON A PARISH ACT AT LAST: "Abuelos paternos AVELINO y AMBROSIA TRAIBEL". That descent no longer rests on an index. A THIRD CHILD: Angelica Maria, born 8 April 1872. Also read: the Cordon act of 29 May 1873, opened the same day in the hope of grandparents. It gives none - that parish's form does not recite them - but it calls Alejandro ORIENTAL, as the 1886 and 1888 acts do. And a third Villademoros woman, ANGELICA, stands godmother there, which makes the sisterhood this archive had only guessed at much harder to doubt. 359 people.

Repin aae576f, and record the pin so a move announces itself

did The D'Arcy session's build printed the right pin three times while they told me it was a different one. The line was correct and unread, because a line beginning «ok» does not get read — so .kitpin holds the pin and the build now speaks only when it MOVES. Committed, so a pin that shifts inside a commit about something else also shows as a diff in a file whose only subject is the pin. First run records and says nothing, which is why this build shows no change. Full build clean, 0 FAIL.

Repin a35acb9: Evidence no longer calls an unknown value 'Family'

did And the living line stops printing a key count as a count of people. Here that is 2 flagged rows under 1 name — one woman in two data files. Full build clean, 0 FAIL.

"b. -" on 163 charts: I published a placeholder as a date and my own check said 357 of 357

did The lifespan I added in 49c99fd treated «-» as a value. This register writes «-» for «not known» on 166 of its 357 rows, and it is truthy, so 163 charts rendered «b. -» — a placeholder presented as a date, which is worse than the bare name it replaced. The page's own field table has always filtered it, `v && v !== "-"`, and I did not carry that test across. Worse than the bug: my verification said "357 of 357 charts now show a lifespan (was 0)" and I reported that. I had counted the PRESENCE of a dates span, not whether it contained a date. That is the same error as grepping for a death year and finding it in prose, which I had caught an hour earlier and written a commit message about. Twice in one file, the second time while congratulating myself about the first. The honest reading, now measured on the digits and not the markup: 194 charts state a real date, 163 render no dates span at all because nothing is known, 0 placeholders. 194 is the number that was 0. Full build clean, 0 FAIL, check:living still 1 living person with 1 date guarded.

Twenty deaths this register never carried, and 357 charts that never showed a lifespan

did I said this archive's deaths could not be joined without the name-matching this estate refuses. That was right about the wrong file, and it hid two faults. THE DEATHS. data/lerena-register.tsv has no death column — it is a surname sweep, recording where each person was FOUND — and build-people.py reads only that, person-evidence.tsv and relations.tsv. So people.json had no `died`, and the kin gate, whose every test needs a birth and a death, skipped all 357 rows while reporting «ok · 357 people · 0 impossible relationship(s)». The obvious source is the wrong one. The line files hold 23 deaths — direct-line.tsv, gen1-children.tsv, lerena-siblings-gen3.tsv, taylor-line.tsv — and only 2 of those 23 names match a register name exactly. «Mary Septima LERENA, née TAYLOR» against the register's «Mary Septima TAYLOR»; «Roque Luis Armando LERENA ("Roque...")» carrying a nickname; taylor-line.tsv belonging to another surname's line entirely. Joining those means deciding two spellings are one person, and this archive does not do that. data/last-attested-alive.tsv is where that reconciliation was already done BY HAND, with the basis written beside every person. Its 356 names match 356 register names exactly. So the deaths come from there, and only where `tier` is DEATH. The three DEATH BY rows are excluded and say why in their own text: "a CEILING, not a date: the file year can trail the death". A ceiling published as a death would be a fabricated date on a real person. 20 deaths, 17 of them with a register birth, so the kin gate now examines 17 people where it examined none. Two long lives surfaced at once and neither is refused: Zelmira Carlota LERENA LARRIERA at 104, and Mauricio LERENA at 110 from a birth the register itself writes «c.1815», which is an estimate and now visibly carries the weight of that age. AND NOT ONE OF THE 357 CHARTS HAD EVER SHOWN THE SUBJECT'S DATES. The adapter passed `dates: p.dates` and people.json has no `dates` field and never had one. Undefined does not render as a gap a reader can notice — it renders as nothing, and looks deliberate, in every chart while five sibling archives show a lifespan. Composed now from born and died as the register stores them, raw, because «c.1815» must keep saying it is an estimate. I nearly missed both. Checking whether the new deaths reached the pages, I grepped for the death YEAR and got 20 of 20 — a false positive, because those years were sitting in prose. The page's field table had no Died row at all. That is the fifth time today that asking whether a string appears somewhere answered a question I had not asked. The living rule is applied where it currently protects nobody: Cheryl Anne LERENA is declared in living.json with a birth date and is not in the register at all, so no register row is hers. That is the kind of fact that stops being true quietly, so the guard is by name. check:living still reads 1 living person, 1 date guarded, and both living gates agree on her. people.json gained exactly one field and lost none — 357 rows before and after, every other value byte-identical, 0 lines removed. Full build clean, 0 FAIL.

Repin 7e380c2: the living line now claims only what it enforced

did It said 'no living person reaches the build'. Under named-bare their names may appear bare, which is the rule — so the line now says that instead of something stronger. Full build clean, 0 FAIL.

Repin fb64506: the kin line now states how many people carry no year at all

did Between 29% and 64% across the estate, and never stated in any build before. Full build clean, 0 FAIL.

Repin to the kin gate that says how many people it examined

did Kit 9a1be6f. The kin gate's ok line now names what it EXAMINED rather than what it was handed, because those are different numbers and only one of them is evidence. Here that is 0 of 357. AND THIS ARCHIVE'S KIN GATE HAS BEEN VACUOUS SINCE IT WAS WRITTEN. people.json carries no `died` field at all — deaths live in 1999-deaths-tested.json, death-notices-read.json and last-attested-alive.json — so every test needed a date this register does not hold, all 357 rows were skipped, and the gate printed «ok · 357 people · 0 impossible relationship(s)». It now declines and says so, and exits 0, because the absence is legitimate and a permanently red build over it would be noise. What it does NOT do is join those death files into the register. That is an identity match across files, which is the one thing this archive refuses to do casually, and it is the outstanding work this finding creates rather than closes. Full build clean, 0 FAIL.

195 of 358 people had no chart, and the working log still called Florinda Florencia

did TWO THINGS, and the second was found only because the first made me build this archive and read what a gate said. 195 of 358 person pages drew no family chart at all — the worst coverage of the seven archives. A page that draws nothing tells a reader this archive knows nobody about that person, which is a claim, and a false one. This archive already has the true word for the condition, in `status`: unplaced, excluded, of interest. So the chart draws for everybody now, via the kit's `always`, and the caption says which. 357 charts, of which 181 unplaced, 8 excluded, 6 connected and kinless. The excluded eight matter most, because for them an empty chart is the FINDING and not a gap. Lola LERENA is Italian-born and the name is coincidental. Catherine BUYS is a false positive where Lerena is a given name. Antonio LARENA of Cayasta is retracted. Their pages now say nothing is drawn and that this is the conclusion, with the reason at the top of the page where it already was. The caption does not repeat the note, because the note is already the page dek and it carries the real reasoning — "Widow; kin of Gilberto (1854), probably sister or sister-in-law" — which is the kind of held-but-unproven reading that belongs in prose and not in a line between two people. The three keys are suppressed on an empty chart: a legend for line, register and tree implies the chart is using them. AND THE BUILD WAS ALREADY RED, before I touched it. check:corrections failed on two rows of the 1911 dispensation working log still asserting FLORENCIA CARDOZO, a reading this archive retracted on 21 September. I proved it predated my change by stashing mine and running the gate again. The fix is not to quote it. The quote would preserve a misreading as if the folio said it. The folio says FLORINDA, twice, in two diagrams in the priest's own hand on film 007713362 image 02473 — and this very file sets that out at its foot, in its own words: "the machine transcript gave FLORENCIA and five register rows carried it for a week". Those five rows were fixed at the time. This working log was the one place the old reading survived, in the two cells under a column headed "the diagram says". They now say what the diagram says. Full build clean, 0 FAIL: 357 people, 242 edges joining 172 people, 1 living person named with 1 place withheld and both living gates agreeing on her, links anchors search and sitemap clean.

A relationship no chart should draw, gated

did The Defranceski archive drew Ivan Defranceski — born 1943, dead in 1945 aged two — with a wife and a son. Nothing was guessed: the test for whether somebody was a parent in a household asked only that the household began twelve to sixty years after their birth, and 1948 sits in that window for a boy born in 1943. He was three years dead, and only a death date could have refused it. That one is fixed in that archive's generator; this is the rule, so no merge can reintroduce it here. check:kin a spouse or child on somebody dead before fifteen; and dates that cannot both be true, a death before a birth. A life past 110 is reported and never refused — people do live that long. WIRED AT THIS ARCHIVE'S OWN COUNT, which is the ratchet: nothing must be corrected today, and the next one is stopped. A finding the ratchet is holding prints as «held» rather than «FAIL», because a check that alarms on the healthy case is not a check anybody runs — it is noise they scroll past, which this estate established twice over today. Proved by planting a child dead at three carrying a spouse: the gate names the person, refuses, and exits 1; removed, it passes and exits 0. Checked by the exit code and not by grepping the output for a word, which is the fault that let a broken gate ship this week. Kit repinned to 8ec58e6, package.json and package-lock.json together.

A simpler ignore rule, and a line of the 1911 dispensation

did `.gitignore` replaces `site/dist-*/` with `dist-*/` — which matches a private build directory at any depth rather than only under site/, so it is the broader rule and the right one. And two lines of data/1911-lerena-cardozo-dispensation.tsv. NOT THIS SESSION'S WORK. Both were sitting uncommitted, and they are committed now because uncommitted work in this estate has stopped being safe: an iCloud resync reverted refs, emptied five object stores, removed 96 tracked files from disk and rolled 35 more back to older, smaller, still-valid versions. This repository lost `site/src/data/person-slugs.json` and `tools/build-people.py` — the slug ledger that stops a person's URL moving — and got them back only because they had been pushed.

The kit printed a way out that could not be taken

did Every tool in the kit honours ARCHIVE_OUT, and nothing that WRITES did. `astro.config.mjs` had no `outDir`, so the variable redirected every reader and no build. When `check:living` or `check:rows` refused a shared `dist` they printed «build to a directory of your own: ARCHIVE_OUT=...» — advice that did nothing, for four days, in the estate where two sessions colliding in one build directory is the fault the advice exists for. outDir: process.env.ARCHIVE_OUT || 'dist' THE DEFAULT MUST STAY 'dist'. .github/workflows uploads `path: site/dist` and no workflow sets the variable, so an unset environment builds exactly where it always did. Checked in all eight archives before touching any. Proved both directions on a real build rather than by reading the config: with ARCHIVE_OUT set, 795 pages into the named directory and `dist` left untouched; with it unset, 795 pages into `dist`, which is what CI uploads. Found by the Blazevic session, which noticed the variable was honoured by every reader and confirmed by the Defranceski session. Two archives already had the line — so «all of them are missing it» was itself one archive too wide, and the six that were missing it are the six changed here.

Sixteen names here carry more than one person, numbered by row order

did `build-people.py` derived a slug on every run with `seen[base] += 1`, counted in the ROW ORDER of data/lerena-register.tsv. Sixteen name-bases carry more than one person — three Bernabe LERENA, two Antonio LARENA, two Felisa LERENA — so inserting a row above any of them renumbered every one below it. A newcomer slugifying to `antonio-larena` inserted above them: old newcomer -> antonio-larena Antonio LARENA (Cayasta) -> antonio-larena-2 Antonio LARENA (Gualeguaychu, 1895 census) -> antonio-larena-3 now Cayasta stays antonio-larena, Gualeguaychu stays -2 This archive had not been bitten only because nobody had reordered that file. The Blazevic archive minted the same way and six men swapped URLs with each other between two commits in September. site/src/data/person-slugs.json is the ledger: 357 slugs seeded from what the site was already serving. 357 people matched, ZERO URLs moved, no field gained or lost, and the file is byte-identical on a second run. THE KEY IS THE NAME, AND THAT IS A COMPROMISE THE FILE STATES. All 357 name strings here are distinct, because this register already does its person- identification inside the name — «Bernabe LERENA (the elder, of the 1911 diagram)». So the name works as an identity today and is not a good one: correct a name and the key moves with it. The fault is made rarer, not removed — it now takes an edit to THAT person rather than to anybody above them. THE REAL FIX IS A MINTED ID COLUMN in data/lerena-register.tsv, written once per row and never reused, after which this ledger should be rekeyed onto it and the name demoted to a label. That is a change to this archive's central file and belongs to whoever owns it; the ledger's own `_why` says so, so the next reader finds the limitation rather than trusting the mechanism. The position is the Defranceski archive's, of the same day: a page is a person, an id is frozen, a name is an index.

A private build directory was committed, 1622 files of it

did `site/dist-*/` is build output. It is regenerated by every `astro build`, it is deployed from CI rather than from the repository, and it has no business in git — and one of the directories in here is `dist-daviddefranceski-sess`, a name another session invented tonight for its own private verification build. It arrived the way three other files did today: staged by a directory pattern over a tree holding somebody else's work. `git rm -r --cached` only. NOTHING IS DELETED FROM THE WORKING TREE; the build on disk is untouched and the next deploy is unaffected. What changes is that git stops carrying it. The `.gitignore` gains `site/dist-*/` rather than the literal name, because the literal is what failed: `dist` was shared, the estate moved to `dist-verify`, and two sessions collided inside that. The kit now composes a per-session name, so the glob has to cover whatever it composes. Removing another session's files from another session's repository is not something to do quietly, so it is said here: this is build output, this is the directory this session created, and the working tree is unchanged.

The gate that guards the living was guarding nobody

did Asked whether the TREES and the IMAGES keep up with the research. Three answers, and the third is the one that matters. CHECK:LIVING WAS PASSING VACUOUSLY. The kit's own docstring calls it "the one gate in this estate that must never be wrong". It reads site/src/data/*.json for a living flag. This archive marks its living people in data/*.tsv with an OMITTED-LIVING cell, and NOTHING CARRIED THAT ACROSS - so it printed "0 flagged in the data ... no living person reaches the build" and passed, while the archive held a living person with a birth date and a birthplace in two TSVs. NOTHING HAD LEAKED, and that was checked before anything was changed: her dates appear in no built file, and her name alone is what named-bare allows. The rule was being kept BY HAND while a green check said it was being enforced. build-pages.py now writes src/data/living.json from the same markers, dates only - an earlier pass swept her BIRTHPLACE in, and a living person's place has no business in a new file, served or not. The gate reads 1 living, 1 date guarded, and refuses a build with that date planted on a page. Proved. And check-living-places.py now RECONCILES the two: a person here and not there is a person the kit is not guarding; a person there and not here is a marker this file has stopped recognising. Both fail, both are named. THE TREE HAD FOURTEEN EDGES JOINING A NAME TO NOTHING, in two shapes that look identical from inside either file. Six pointed at "Sofia CLAVIJO", "Celedonia VILLADEMOROS" and "Dona Juliana GONZALEZ" while the register rows carried qualifiers - "(wife of Pedro LLERENA)" - so half of each woman's family hung off a row that did not exist. And JULIA SALVANACH, wife of Gilberto and mother of seven, had no register row at all while BOTH HER PARENTS did, entered from the act that names them as her child's grandparents. tools/check-tree.py refuses an edge that joins a name to nothing; data/_tree-offsite.txt declares the four who are legitimately held elsewhere. 221 edges -> 242. TWO ROWS CLAIMED AN IMAGE AND DID NOT SAY WHICH - one of them the ENROLMENT CARD, the most important document here. check-sources.py now refuses that too. I did not wire the other stated parentages by hand-matching: the matcher I tried self-matched a man to himself, made a sister into a mother, and put Custodio under the wrong Bernabe of three. Wired only what was verified.

The spacing figure described four per cent of the rule it was justifying

did This stylesheet carried, in a comment, the claim that the paragraph-spacing rule newly spaces 211 pairs across 68 pages in seven archives. Seven archives took the change on that number. It is wrong by about eight times. The rule is SIXTEEN selectors — p+p, p+ul, ul+p, p+table, table+p, p+blockquote, figure+p, details+p, .note+p, p+.note, .note+.note and the rest. The count measured `section.blk > p + p` and stopped, so it described one selector out of sixteen and the least-used group of the three. Counted against the rule, on the built pages of all eight archives: 1,780 newly spaced pairs on 1,007 of 19,283 pages Roughly a fifth are paragraph-to-paragraph. The rest are the note, list and table pairs, which is why the note-heavy archives move most: D'Arcy 569 pairs on 368 of its 854 pages, Blazevic 647 on 342, Mazza 248 on 227. THE SAME MISTAKE TWICE, IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS. An earlier count said 7,405 by searching whole sections rather than direct children — twelve times high, and it nearly stopped the change. This one was eight times low, and it shipped the change on a description of itself. Both were taken against a DESCRIPTION of the rule instead of the rule. Found by the D'Arcy session, which measured its own build against all sixteen selectors after calibrating its parser element-for-element against the browser's own querySelectorAll. Its 571 and this sweep's 569 agree. Nothing is reverted: the change is right, it is live, and 1,007 pages of notes and lists that used to butt against the prose now breathe. Only the number was wrong, and it is corrected where it was written rather than only in a message.

Paragraphs only had air where somebody had remembered to type it

did `p{margin:0}` in this stylesheet, and every gap between two paragraphs was being supplied one at a time by an inline style="margin-top". Wherever that was left off, the paragraphs ran together into a wall of words — worst at a phone width, which is where it was reported. Written for the Blazevic archive on 22 September and carried here once the effect had been counted rather than assumed. Anything that FOLLOWS a paragraph inside section.blk now gets a default gap of 1.15rem, and 1.35rem under 620px where the lines are shorter and the reader needs more of a landing; and the other way round, so a note, a table or a stat grid no longer butts straight up against the prose above it. NOTHING THAT WAS ALREADY SPACED MOVES. The inline margins are more specific and still win. This only fills in what was never set. AND IT REACHES LESS THAN IT LOOKS, which is the reason it was safe to carry across seven archives at once. The selector is `section.blk > p + p` — DIRECT children — so a paragraph inside a component's own wrapper is untouched. Counted on the built pages of all eight: 211 pairs across 68 pages in the seven that did not have it, every one of them prose. The first count said 7,405. It searched the whole of each section rather than its direct children, which is twelve times the truth and would have been the wrong reason to hesitate about a change this small. Counting the component's internals as though the rule reached them is the same mistake as counting a stylesheet as markup, which this session also made today. Built and gated after the change: living, kit, rows and templates all green.

The floor counted three doors on a page this archive says has one

did e2bfcce wrote this floor and its own message states the answer: the eight spines «came out carrying five doors labelled "The Lerena Archive"», that was fixed in the kit, and «what is left is the one that is true: Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen». One door. The floor recorded three, and the gate has been holding this archive to a number its own commit contradicts. Two faults, and they are both in the tooling rather than here. ONE IS THE BOX. `class="sp-door` matches `class="sp-doors"` as well, the paragraph the doors sit in, so the single door on /direct-line/ scored two. Fixed in kit dfd61f5, and six other archives had their floors translated by exactly their wrapper count. THE OTHER IS THE DIRECTORY, and it is the one worth remembering. The floor was written in the same commit that repinned the kit — so `--write-floor` read a `dist` built before the self-door fix was installed, and recorded a door that had just been removed. `ARCHIVE_OUT` was honoured by no tool in the kit until today, so there was no way to point the write at the build being made. A ratchet set from the wrong directory forgives whatever is not there and demands whatever is; this one demanded a bug. Checked before rewriting rather than after: /argentina/ draws eight rows and /uruguay/ ten, and the only ring surname among all eighteen spouses is «María Lerena», which is this archive's own and correctly suppressed. /direct-line/ carries the Booyzen door. One is the whole of it. Rows 22, spouses 13, places 9, grades 22 — all unchanged, all still met.

Kit repinned to dfd61f5, and the row floor is left alone on purpose

did Two kit fixes land here. `ARCHIVE_OUT` is now honoured by every check that takes a `--dist` flag — including `check:living`, which had been reading whatever the shared `dist` happened to hold rather than the build in front of it. And `class="sp-door` no longer matches `class="sp-doors"`, the paragraph the doors sit in, which inflated the door count in every `.rowfloor` in the estate by one per spine row that drew any. THE FLOOR IS NOT TRANSLATED HERE, though it is in six other archives, because subtracting the wrappers does not reconcile it. Something is genuinely no longer drawn, and it belongs to this archive's own working tree rather than to the kit. The gate is left failing and saying so, which is what it is for.

A ladder on a page is a claim like any other

did Moving the three descent spines into a TSV this morning put them where the emphasis, raggedness and drift checks can see them. It did NOT make them agree with the register, because nothing compared the two - which is precisely how both of today's failures survived. tools/check-spines.py compares them, and only what it can compare exactly: a spine row naming a register row in its new `register` column must agree with that row's BIRTH YEAR and with the DEATH DATE tools/last-alive.py computed from the register's own prose. A hedge like "about 1767" is checked as a year, an empty cell asserts nothing, and "-" means no register row and is not checked. THE LINK IS WRITTEN OUT, NOT MATCHED. The two files do not spell people the same way - "Avelino Lerena Fernandez" against "Avelino LERENA Fernandez (son of Sancho)" - and a fuzzy match that silently matches nothing is worse than no check at all. That is the lesson of the thing this gate is here to prevent. PROVED BEFORE TRUSTED, on all three failure modes: - the original bug, 23 August against the register's 22nd, and the message names the distinction that caused it: A REGISTRATION DATE IS NOT A DEATH DATE - a wrong birth year, 1754 against 1767 - the tree value the census contradicts - a register column naming a row that does not exist In the chain before check:sources. The build now refuses a ladder that contradicts the register, which is the check that would have caught both of today's published errors on the day they were typed.

A switchboard is content, and a heading can exist without being seen

did audit.py is at zero findings. Three were open and none was a bug in the site. THE TELEPHONE WAS REAL AND MEANT TO BE PUBLIC. 0342-4572893 is the switchboard of the Registro Civil de la Provincia de Santa Fe, published on /argentina/ so a reader can write to them too - the same reason this archive publishes the email of every repository it asks things of, which audit.py already treats as content. The check could not tell the two apart, so it now can: a number on a page carrying a declared letter errand is a repository switchboard; a number anywhere else is still the finding the check exists for. VERIFIED BEFORE TRUSTED, because an exemption that exempts everything is worse than no check. Only /argentina/ carries the marker, and the same number planted on /uruguay/ still fails. THE HEADING SKIPS WERE h1 -> h3 ON /errands/ AND /photograph-these/, where the group titles are drawn as labelled Rules rather than headings. The kit already has the answer and says so in its own stylesheet: .vh, "a heading that exists for structure and linking but is not shown, because the section already carries a labelled rule above it". Nothing moves on the page; the document stops jumping a level.

A structure built out of a sample of eleven, and the Pablo who is not ours

did The Rosario confirmations reached no page at all - not one span of that file - and they are the register where the central question could have been answered. WHY IT MATTERS: A CONFIRMATION ACT NAMES THE PARENTS. Pablo Armando was born February 1882; the children confirmed at Rosario in March 1890 are six to fifteen, so he is squarely in range. The register had been listed UNTRIED since this archive's first week and had no film number until 13 September. IT CANNOT BE SKIMMED. Every entry gives a given name, an age and the parents, and THE SURNAME IS NEVER WRITTEN - it has to be read out of the father's name. Unlike the baptism registers, this one cannot be scanned down a margin. The 26 March 1890 sitting runs to at least 243 children and holds NO LERENA. There is a Pablo, aged eleven - son of Manuel Cobos and Mercedes Alvarez. Published because that is exactly the hit a future reader will find and have to spend an hour excluding. AND THE MORE USEFUL HALF IS THE MISTAKE. From the first eleven entries this archive concluded the confirmations were taken sex by sex and that "a boy of eight would be in a separate run of pages, and that is where to look for him". Entries 133, 135 and 138 are boys mixed straight in among the girls. A structure built out of a sample of eleven, which would have sent the next reader hunting a run of pages that does not exist. UNPUBLISHED RESEARCH: 56 -> 15. Thirty-seven declared in _published-elsewhere.txt after opening each page, none rejected by the tool's own check; four gaps written to /method/, /uruguay/, /taylor/ and /searched/. The fifteen that remain are what the tool's docstring says a working log is allowed to hold - film-reading technique, file-maintenance notes, a reminder to check browsable images when the block lifts, and one honest NOT CERTAIN.

The only Cordoba in the corpus is in Mexico, and Northam is in Devon

did Second pass on the unpublished research: 40 -> 23. Fourteen more declared in _published-elsewhere.txt after opening the page, and four genuine gaps written. THE CORDOBA CONTROL, RUN FORWARDS FOR ONCE. A parent-pair query on Felix Llerena and Rosalia Aguilar returned zero from Spain, on a page that rendered and reported a count, so not a block. The control was run BEFORE the null was believed: search "ciudad de Cordova" and read the COLLECTION names. They are Nobility Records - Granada and Ecija - Madrid notarial protocols, and Orders of Chivalry induction files. THE ONLY CORDOBA IN THE WHOLE CORPUS IS CORDOBA, VERACRUZ, IN MEXICO. The Andalusian full-text index holds nobility and notarial records and no parish registers, so an eighteenth-century Cordoba baptism is not in the corpus being searched. The zero means "not findable by this instrument". AND THE TIER ON FOURTEEN ATTACHED RECORDS. They are attached to Sancho in the tree by a tree user who decided they are one man; the acts have not been read here. One was opened and it is a proof of nobility of 1599 from Alcantara, Caceres. A record can be genuine and attached to the wrong man - the attachment is the claim, not the document. NORTHAM IS IN DEVON. The 1921 census transcribes Lucy Elizabeth Sweet's birthplace as "NORTHAM, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE". It is two miles from Bideford and it is where this family comes from; the transcriber met a place name that starts like a county and finished the thought. The second birthplace error in one census, and a search trap either way: filter on Northamptonshire and you collect her, filter on Devon and you lose her. AND THE COUNT OF SANCHO'S CHILDREN, which has moved twice. A file once called complete held four; the reconciled list names eight. The padron returns six, and that is not a contradiction - two came after it, and Jose Loreto is in no tree and no census, found only because the surname was searched as LORENA. Checked before trusting: every allowlist fragment silences exactly one span in its own file, and the tool rejected none of the thirty-one claims.

Six trees agreeing is one source copied, and sixteen of the fifty-six were already published

did THE 56 UNPUBLISHED FINDINGS WERE NOT 56. unpublished.py matches a claim by its three rarest words co-occurring on a page, so a finding restated in other words reads as unseen. Seventeen of them were checked by opening the page and are now declared in data/_published-elsewhere.txt, which makes each one a claim the tool re-checks on every run rather than a silence. None of the seventeen was bogus. 56 -> 40. WHAT WAS GENUINELY MISSING WENT ONTO /method/, and it is one argument in four parts: COPIES ARE NOT CORROBORATION. Six FamilySearch trees give Sancho the same parents - antoniojosed, rosanaic, jfina, nanabal, ladissosa, abal2018 - and they descend from one published account, one of them carrying that work's acknowledgement surname in its own user name. The archive had already learned this from a parish book: the three "Francisco" entries of 7 January 1846 that looked like three witnesses were one clerk, one page, one morning. WHERE A CENSUS MEETS A RECONSTRUCTION, THE CENSUS WINS. The trees split by thirteen years on Sancho's birth. The padron of 1812 records him as 45, which is 1767. The rival 1754 is what you get assuming a marriage in 1753 and a child the year after - so that tree's "about 1753" marriage is an estimate derived from a guessed birth, not a record of an act. WHICH DISSOLVES A COINCIDENCE. A Lerena marrying an Aguilar at Cordoba in 1753, a year before Granada 1754, looked real for an hour. It is not a coincidence because the 1753 is not a date from a document. AND THE CONVERSE: when an index disagrees with itself the way the acts do, the disagreement is in the registers. Dominga Josefa's husband is Ruiz or Rodriguez de Carvallo in two acts, and FamilySearch's index splits the same way. An index that reproduces a disagreement did not invent it. ALSO PUBLISHED: what an informacion matrimonial actually contains - the groom's parents, his birthplace and his years in the country, every one of the three things this archive cannot establish for Sancho, which is why its absence is the expensive one. And that the gap where it should be is not quite final: the volume's filming card says HOJAS SUELTAS, loose leaves, so its order is whoever filed it and not the calendar.

Juana's name was in a data file, and a data file is not a reader

did Five findings the register emphasised in its own data reached no page. Four of them were one household, and two were people this family held in slavery. THE PADRON OF 1812 COUNTED FOUR ENSLAVED PEOPLE IN SANCHO'S HOUSE AND NAMED NONE OF THEM. Six weeks later the Montevideo Catedral named one: "hija de JUANA, negra esclava de D.n Sancho Lerena y de D.a Maria Fernandez", and her daughter MARIA MERCEDES, born 24 September 1812, baptised at two days old. That plate was opened for one reason, and the register says it plainly: a machine is worst at proper nouns, and this woman's name is the only thing any record gives her. It is JUANA, in the priest's hand. It has now been said somewhere a reader can find it. The same opening carries a trap - another Maria Mercedes the day before, daughter of TERESA ABELLEYRA, enslaved in the ABELLEYRA household - and this register holds a Teresa in Sancho's house from the padron. Different women, different documents, and the page says so. ALSO PUBLISHED: that the family were "vecinos de esta Villa" at Canelones in 1806 and had moved to calle San Juan No 60 by 1812, so they LIVED there for at least eleven years; that Agustina Ramona's godfather was DON FIDEL REY of Montevideo, which is where her younger brother got a forename appearing nowhere else in this family - an inference from a pattern, not a record; and that it bears not at all on whether the Fidel who married Maria Ruedas is Sancho's son. drift.py now reports ZERO findings that no page makes, from five this morning and six yesterday.

The ladder said 23 August because the tree did, and the sources page had stopped listing sources

did THREE THINGS THIS AUDIT FOUND, and the first two were published errors. AVELINO DIED ON THE 22nd. The descent spine on /uruguay/ said "23 August 1890, La Paz, Canelones". His register row, last-attested-alive.tsv, 1852-aguada-union-certificates.tsv and alberto-lerena-larriera.tsv all say 22 August 1890 at MONTEVIDEO, registered the next day - and the 23rd is the REGISTRATION date. Both wrong values trace to one row of montevideo-lerena-trunk.tsv, a tree file whose own header says "no row here may be cited as fact". The page cited it as fact. The same row called Avelino "the seventh of eight children". He is the EIGHTH of eight - 1793, 1795, 1799, 1800, 1804, 1806, 1811, 1815 - or the seventh of seven without Fidel, who is attested only at second hand. No count makes "seventh of eight" right. BOTH SURVIVED BECAUSE THE LADDER WAS TYPED INTO THE TEMPLATE. check-inline.py had been reporting all three spines for days as "reachable only by editing the page" and nothing gated them, so a tree value could be published and no check would ever see it. All three now come from data/descent-spines.tsv. That is the second hand-written-descent failure in two days; the first was "Alejandro Maximo (1839-1903)", corrected this morning one row below. AND THE SOURCES PAGE HAD FALLEN BEHIND AGAIN. Twenty-one of the twenty-two films the register cites as IMAGE READ were absent from sources-consulted.tsv - two full days of plate reading - under a page headed "Everything consulted so far". Its own header warned about exactly this and said it could not happen again, because the page is generated from the file. THE SAFEGUARD WAS AIMED AT THE WRONG GAP. Generation guarantees the PAGE matches the FILE. Nothing guaranteed the FILE matched the WORK, and that is the join that broke, twice. tools/check-sources.py now walks the other way - register to sources - and is in the build chain. Verified failing before it was trusted. 142 sources, 21 added with what each plate actually proved.

The wrapper was the one pulling Node 20 in, not the action named

did Every run warned that checkout@v4, configure-pages@v5, setup-node@v4 and upload-artifact@v4 target Node 20 and are being forced onto Node 24. The workflow never named upload-artifact; upload-pages-artifact@v3 pins it internally, so bumping the wrapper is the only way to move it - and upload-pages-artifact@v4 does NOT help, because it still pins upload-artifact@v4.6.2. v5 is the first that carries v7. deploy-pages@v4 went too: it is node20 as well, and would have kept warning once the rest was quiet. Checked each bump against this workflow rather than assuming latest is safe: checkout v7 blocks fork-PR checkout under pull_request_target and workflow_run. This workflow runs on push to main and workflow_dispatch, so neither path exists here. setup-node v5 turned on automatic package-manager caching. v6 narrowed it to npm, and only when package.json declares packageManager or devEngines.packageManager. site/package.json declares neither, so no cache step appears where there was none before. upload-pages-artifact v4 stopped including dotfiles. site/dist has 0 hidden entries out of 811 files, so the v5 default of include-hidden-files: false ships the same artifact v3 did. configure-pages v6 and deploy-pages v5 are node24 rebuilds only. Local gate green: ALL GATES PASSED.

Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen had a page all along, in the next archive

did An audit on 22 September counted the names drawn on this archive's person pages that carry no link — because that is what a reader sees: two names side by side, one clickable and one not, for no reason they can see. Eight names here, 14 occurrences across 356 person pages. Seven of the eight are published nowhere in this estate. Those need this archive to publish them, which is not a decision a component makes and not one I am making. The eighth is Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen, who married Nuno Fernando Lerena. She is on the Booyzen archive's own spine at generation two and has had a page there the whole time. This chart drew her as plain text beside her linked husband. She is now a link to it. WRITTEN OUT BY HAND, ONE NAME, MATCHED ON THAT NAME. This estate refuses to match people by name when deriving links, and that refusal is right: it carries two Raffaele Falcos and two Petrus Jacobus Booysens, and a derived name match merges them. Nothing is derived here. This is the archive stating a join it knows, the way D'Arcy states the marriages of its two living generations, and the Booyzen slug was checked live before the line was written. The base URL comes from the ring, so a site that moves does not strand it. Two mistakes worth recording. The ring is an object with a `note` and an `archives` array, not an array — which is why the kit's own helpers unwrap it — and indexing it directly failed the build. Then the href edit silently did not apply, because the file indents two spaces and I matched four; the build went green and the link was simply absent. I had not asserted on that replacement. The second attempt asserts on both. Full chain green, 795 pages.

Eight spines, and the archive was linking to itself

did This archive draws more lines of descent than any other in the estate — one on /direct-line/, four on /argentina/, three on /uruguay/ — and it was several kit versions behind, so none of them had the off-page connectors and none was covered by the gate that watches what a row shows. Repinning found a fault in the kit rather than here. `archiveKey` was documented as required before the ring is consulted and was not enforced, so an archive that passed none was compared against every site in the estate including itself: these pages came out carrying five doors labelled "The Lerena Archive". Fixed in the kit — no key, no ring — and all eight spines now pass `archiveKey="lerena"`. What is left is the one that is true: Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen, who married Nuno Fernando Lerena, doors to the Booyzen archive. The rows were read before and after the repin to be sure the kit's new reading rule left them alone. All three pages were already oldest-first and none was reversed. check:rows is in the chain with a floor of 22 rows, 13 spouses, 9 places, 22 grades, 3 doors. That gate is also why the self-doors were found at all: it reported eighteen doors on an archive that should have had one, and eighteen was worth looking at. Repin to archive-kit fd1621e.

The pin and its lockfile, committed as the pair they are

did Two changes, both left uncommitted by an estate-wide sweep, and committed together because separating them is the actual hazard. the kit pin moves 9ff6320 to 40bf5a3 check:inline joins the build chain, at this archive's own count WHY THE PAIR MATTERS AND NOT JUST THE TIDINESS. CI runs `npm ci || npm install`, and npm ci installs from the LOCKFILE, not from package.json. Staging package.json alone therefore ships a build that fetches the OLD kit and then fails on check:pin — which is the gate doing its job, from a fault committed one file at a time. The Booyzen session did exactly that an hour ago, went red, and measured the rest of the estate rather than just fixing its own: seven archives were sitting on an armed pair, this one among them. The trap was mine. I repinned eight archives in a sweep and left the pairs unstaged in seven, so the first session in each to stage package.json for any reason of its own would have shipped the mismatch. check:pin was right and silent about this, and the reason is worth keeping: it compares build scripts against the INSTALLED kit, and every machine here had the new one. It was correct about this machine and had nothing to say about the runner. That gap is precisely what the lockfile encodes.

He said forty-two, then forty-three, and the tree said eighteen thirty-nine

did Row 85 asked whether Avelino's eldest son is the Alejandro M. Lerena of army drawer Cajon 985. It has answered "inconclusive" since 14 September, on a six-year gap. The gap was never there. The premise was also stale. the-three-alejandros.tsv still named Luis Lerena and Justiniana Lenguas as the first man's parents - they are his GODPARENTS, and the register said so on 14 September. Register row 180 even closed with "the candidate pool has changed and the table needs re-reading". Nobody re-read it. The file is rewritten, and it now reaches a page. TWO MONTEVIDEO BIRTH ACTS, film 004596830 images 01806 and 02145. He stood in front of the officer twice and gave his age: "de cuarenta y dos anos de edad, viudo, escribano, oriental" on 6 November 1886, and "de 43 anos de edad de estado viudo" on 16 March 1888. Sixteen months apart and consistent. His birth falls between 17 March and 6 November 1844. THE 1839 HAD NO RECORD BEHIND IT. It was graded PRIMARY (indexed) against the Capital Federal parish records. All four were opened; every one leaves the father's age blank while giving the mother's. It came from tree PID KZ2N-84J and was re-graded on the way in - and this site printed it in the descent spine as a plain fact. Corrected there, in cajon-985-origins.tsv, in montevideo-lerena-trunk.tsv, and on /corrections/. So the gap is one year, not six, and it still cannot choose: the stated ages miss 1843 and 1845 by one year in OPPOSITE directions. Not merged. AND ONE ROW WAS TWO MEN. The bare "Hector Lerena" who married Amalia Pacheco is Hector Narciso, born Montevideo 1886. His 1911 San Carlos marriage act was opened - "hijo legitimo de D. Alejandro Maximo ... y de dona Julia Ba[ssani] ... con dona Amalia Pa[checo]", groom "de la Rep. Oriental, de veinte y cuatro". Wife, parents and age agree at once. Merged, and the index's "born 1887 at Almagro" corrected: the act says Oriental. The 1888 act is a printed form whose ruled line reads "Que es nieta por linea paterna de ______". It is blank. The form asked this archive's question and nobody wrote the answer on it. What is left is specific: he is a WIDOWER in 1886, so there is an earlier Montevideo marriage - and a marriage act names the groom's parents. 356 people. Julia Bassani is italiana in 1886 and austriaca in 1888; both are recorded, and neither is picked.

Two fields matching five and seven figures cannot intersect at nothing

did Row 28 is closed, and getting there found a seventeenth false zero. Sancho with Maria in Uruguay returned 0 - read twice, with the Gonzalez control returning 479,660 minutes earlier. This time the service was healthy and the query shape was broken: father given name Sancho, alone 10,315 mother given name Maria, alone 1,228,708 both together 0 both, plus the two surnames 6 Maria is the commonest name a mother has in Uruguay. Those numbers cannot intersect at zero. A parent-pair query with GIVEN NAMES ONLY returns zero whatever the truth is, so at least one parent surname must be supplied before a null from that shape means anything. Every earlier zero here drawn from given names alone is void; every one drawn with a surname stands, which is all of the ones this archive published. Arithmetic caught it again - the only guard on the method page that has never failed. It works because it asks whether an answer is POSSIBLE rather than whether it is plausible. And with surnames the query answers row 28 properly. Six records naming Sancho Llerena and Maria Fernandez as parents, and this archive already held all six: Luis Escolastico's baptism of 1811, Justa Pastora as bride in 1830, Dominga Josefa's christening of 1804, and three entries where a child appears as a parent on somebody else's act - two of them spelling the father LERENA where the first spells him LLERENA. So the keyed index contributes nothing this archive is missing. The children it cannot reach - Juan Agustin, Pedro Antonio, Agustina Ramona, Fidel, Jose Loreto - are known from the padron and from full text, and their baptisms are not keyed. The list is as complete as this instrument can make it, and what remains is register-walking, not searching.

Pages refused in writing, after reading them, and the ratchet tightened to match

did More of the estate's shared page NAMES turn out to be shared names and not shared pages, and the refusals are recorded on the line where checkpages prints them on every run. who/[slug] is three different pages across the estate. Three archives use it for NAMESAKES and draw the kit's component. Falco uses it for a page per NAME OVER RECORDS, and its own header says why it cannot be a page per person: the roster's 10,432 rows carry 4,820 distinct names, and "Pasquale Falco" alone names seventy-nine records across sixty years and is certainly several men. D'Arcy uses it for a PERSON DOSSIER. One path, three arguments. places/[slug] is two. Four archives index what the atlas holds in a place and now share a component for it. Defranceski's is an encyclopaedia entry — the name in four languages, parish, diocese, population by year, register holdings, the 1945 census, the plates. Lerena's is a table of everyone of the surname recorded there, and the nationality column is how it tells two Llerena households apart. open-questions at Lerena is prose, and the kit's Questions component says itself that prose "cannot use this until somebody extracts them, and that extraction is research work belonging to each archive". Question 1 alone runs a hundred lines and turns on which of two readings of a clerk's phrase is right. Deciding which sentence is what-has-been-tried and which is what-would-settle-it is a judgement for whoever did the work. A shared page name is not a shared page, and the only way to tell is to read them. The threshold finds candidates; it has never decided anything.

Ratchet down one: the sources page is off the backlog

did Every archive in the estate now draws its sources page with the shared component, and this archive's count comes down to match. The page that started this work is the first shared idea in the estate to reach all eight.

121 sources to the kit, the tier read as the two fields it actually is, and the gap said out loud

did Three things, and the second is the one that was hiding. THE TABLE became the kit's source rows. 121 of them, each with what it was used for and when it was accessed. THE TIER HOLDS TWO FACTS IN ONE STRING. There are three tiers and twenty-six distinct values, because a qualifier has been concatenated onto the tier with a dash — "PRIMARY - full-text transcript read", "SECONDARY - a negative result, controlled". Printed whole, as the chip did, it says something true and cannot be counted, filtered, or compared with any other archive's grading. The tier now groups the rows and the qualifier rides beside each as a tag, which is what that slot exists for. THE DATA FILE IS UNCHANGED and the page says so. Separating the column belongs in data/sources-consulted.tsv; this only stops the page presenting a compound value as though it were an atom. Splitting on the dash was not enough, and the built page showed it. Two of the 121 name TWO tiers at once — "SECONDARY for the marriage index; PRIMARY for the Madrid and Cordoba full-text" — which is a true statement about one source doing two jobs and is not a grade. Treated naively they became a group of one each, and the page showed five tiers where there are three. They are kept together under a heading that says what they are. AND THE GAP IS ON THE PAGE NOW. 38 of the 121 say where they are and 83 do not — the largest such gap in this estate. It is stated here rather than left in a report, so that it shrinks.

The harmonisation backlog was overstated, and a wrapper over the kit is the kit

did checkpages counted a page as harmonised only when the kit import appeared in the page itself. A page that draws a shared component through a small local wrapper — the wrapper holding this archive's own lookup and handing rows to the kit — was reported as hand-drawn. That wrapper is not a failure to harmonise. It is the shape harmonisation is meant to leave behind: the kit draws the thing and each archive keeps only what it alone can say about it. checkshared has said exactly that about components since September; the page check simply did not look. Following one level of local import takes the estate from 50 bespoke pages to 32. Ratchet corrected here to the real number. Overstating a backlog is not the harmless direction to be wrong in. It sends somebody to convert a page that is already right, and the obvious way to do that would be to delete the wrapper and inline the lookup — undoing the harmonisation to satisfy the harmonisation check.

dna exempted after reading all six, and the ratchet tightened to match

did Six archives have a dna page and none of them is drawing the same object. All six were read before any of this was written down. Booyzen has two kits and no ethnicity estimate at all — it is a cousinhood and an aunt whose chart is the purest in the family. D'Arcy has no test to report and its one heading is "What would actually be evidence". Falco is a side-by-side COMPARISON of two people across the groups they share, not a distribution. Defranceski's bars ARE a distribution, one per person. Lerena's subject is two companies disagreeing about the same saliva. Luwinski's is the only one where the DNA overturns the paper record. Even the object that looked shared is not one: an admixture chart comparing two people answers a different question from an admixture chart describing one, and flattening them would produce a figure that is neither. So it is refused in .harmonise-exempt with a reason per archive, where checkpages prints it on every run, rather than converted or left looking like backlog. Reading the candidates is the work; the threshold only finds them.

check:pin, first in the chain, for the failure nobody saw for five hours

did Today's quieter CI breakage: python3: can't open file '.../kit/tools/checksources.py': No such file A gate was wired into this build while the kit pin still named a commit from before that gate existed. It passed locally, because the working copy of node_modules had been installed by hand from a newer sha. CI installs from the committed pin and found nothing there. Nothing was wrong with the script, the package.json or the pin on their own. They only disagree once somebody else installs them — which is to say, never on the machine that could have noticed. check:pin verifies that every kit file a build script names is present, and that THE LOCKFILE RESOLVED THE COMMIT PACKAGE.JSON PINS. It runs first, because it guards every kit tool the rest of the chain calls. Both faults were reproduced on a throwaway copy before it was believed. The pin was moved before this script was added, in that order and in this one commit, which is the discipline the check now enforces on everyone else.

Repin: check:pages was failing every deploy, because CI has one repository

did check:pages compares this archive's pages against the other archives'. A GitHub Actions runner checks out ONE repository, so the estate it needs is not there, and the version wired in an hour ago read that as a failure and returned 1. Every archive it had been added to stopped deploying at once. Local builds had all passed. They would: locally the estate is always there. The kit now treats "fewer than two archives found" as COULD NOT LOOK rather than NOTHING WRONG — it says so and exits 0, and still fails wherever the estate is actually present. Verified both ways before this push: the ratchet still refuses a regression here, and a copy of this archive on its own in a temporary directory reports "not run" and exits 0.

The harmonisation ratchet was one looser than the truth

did check:pages was set to the count before this afternoon's exemptions landed, which left it a page slacker than reality — and a ratchet with slack in it lets exactly one page slip back before anybody notices, which is the whole thing it exists to prevent. Tightened to today's actual count.

The errands and the shot list, both drawn by the kit, both still sorted this archive's way

did Two pages moved to shared components and neither lost its argument. ERRANDS. The panel is the kit's now; the grouping is not. This archive sorts by whether anybody has replied — answered, out and waiting, waiting on a person, closed — which is a different question from Defranceski's (what would the answer buy) and D'Arcy's (where has the request got to). The Rule ornament stays too, so each group keeps its own heading. One real fault found on the way. An unknown status fell through to `LABEL.blocked`, which quietly relabelled a state nobody had defined as "Blocked" — a known answer standing in for an unknown one. Unknown statuses are counted and named now. PHOTOGRAPH THESE. The panel is the kit's Shotlist. The numbered priority stays, because this archive ranks by what the picture would settle rather than by how much effort the trip is worth, and `what_to_capture` stays its own line rather than folding into the prose — that line is the difference between a useful trip and a wasted one. Also wires check:pages at 6, the estate's harmonisation ratchet.

A third son of Justa Pastora, found because the index date was impossible

did Hilario Barros Llerena, christened at Canelones and indexed "19 April 1726" - the first year of the collection, and the same artefact that put his cousin Carlos Ambrosio Florencio in 1726 earlier the same day. This archive now knows to read that as a flag rather than a date. The plate gives the year: "El dia DIEZ Y NUEVE DE ABRIL del ano de mil ochocientos t[reinta y cinco], yo Don FRANCISCO LARROBLA, Cura y Vicario de esta Parroquia de los Canelones, bautice solemnemente a un parvulo ... por nombre HILARIO, hijo legitimo de MAN[uel Zeferino Barros] natural de PERNAMBUCO, y de JUSTA LLERENA ... padrinos PEDRO ANTONIO LLERENA y VICENTA VEGA." So Justa Pastora has three sons by Manuel Zeferino Barros at roughly two-year intervals - 1831, 1833, 1835 - and at every font but the first the godparents are her own brothers and sisters. At the first it was the President of the Republic. And Pedro Antonio Lerena with Vicenta Vega have now been found standing at two different nephews' fonts seventeen years apart, in 1835 at Canelones and 1852 at the Aguada. His birth date is left unresolved and the column carries only the year. The index says 16 March 1835; the act's own phrase appears to end "del mismo", which would put it in April. Read at four times magnification and still not settled - and 16 March has now turned up as an indexed birth for three children of this family, two of them confirmed on their plates and this one not.

Three rules back from the other archives, each better than what I had

did A negative must carry proof that the instrument reached the place - the entry before the gap and the entry after it, numbering continuous across the page break. That is a null carrying its own evidence, where a control query only borrows evidence from something run nearby. A positive proves the service answered FOR THAT COLLECTION. Where access is per-collection, a hit in an open one vouches for nothing in a restricted one. And a service honest in one place while fabricating in another, at the same moment, is worse than one that always lies: a consistent liar is caught once and distrusted for ever. Plus the thing that hid this longest, and it is worth more than the rules. The plate host served images perfectly all afternoon, in the same browser, while the search fabricated. A day of successful image reads is not evidence that the search is healthy. The host you are watching is not the one that is lying.

The account was never signed out, and one tab would have told me

did Correcting this archive's own correction. It published that the FamilySearch account had expired and that David would have to sign in. That was wrong and it asked a person for something the machine could settle. A sibling archive on this machine ran the record search and the full-text search in the same minutes and got 3,652 and 3,967 with the account name in the nav bar. Each Claude session's in-app browser is a separate browser with its own cookies. One context lost its auth and recovered by itself: in a fresh tab the Gonzalez control returned 479,662 and the query that had returned ten that morning returned ten again. The symptom was real and the full-text redirect did correctly diagnose a lost session for that browser. The remedy was the error. Before asking a person to fix something, open a second tab. All three held-over nulls were then re-run against that live control and all three are still zero: Luis x Carolina, Carlos Ambrosio x Luisa, Juan Arturo x Isidora. Row 70 is closed properly - the same query shape returns FOUR for Luis with Justiniana, among them "Alberto Otario", christening 7 October 1850, which is Alberto Octavio's own act. So the shape reaches this exact father, and for Carolina it returns nothing. Also in this commit, a worse error and an older one. The register's Sancho row was given a note this afternoon calling the 1833 FRANCISCO a priest's slip, claiming every plate-read record says SANCHO, and putting the count at "one act against five". All three are false and this archive's own file and its own hypotheses page already said so - the 1846 La Mauricia acts were read off the image and say Francisco, the count is six against three, and the readings split across methods rather than along them. The note was written without reading the file. What the day actually added there is worth more than what it got wrong: the 1833 act has now been READ OFF THE PLATE - "Fran.co Lerenas y M.a Fernandez" - so the one Francisco-bearing original is no longer possibly a machine artefact, and the double-forename reading is stronger than it was. The 1789 act is image-read too. The earliest and the most awkward records in that question have both come off the machine, and they still disagree.

It was a signed-out session, and only one of the two searches admits it

did Correcting this afternoon's entry to the real cause. The search was not degraded - the FamilySearch session had expired. What makes it worth publishing is how differently the two searches behave about it. Asked the same question in the same minute, the FULL-TEXT search redirected to the sign-in page: honest, unmistakable, one navigation. The RECORD search answered "0 - No Results Found", which is the exact form this archive had been treating as proof of a real null. The DeepZoom image host went on serving plates throughout, which is why a whole day of reading images gave no warning at all. So there is now a free test for a lost session, and it costs one navigation: ask the full-text search anything. It admits a lost session; the record search hides one behind a null that satisfies every other rule on the method page - the stable count, the "No Results Found" line, the long wait, and a control that passed earlier the same day. Signing in again is David's to do; this archive does not sign in on his behalf. Work list row 184 carries what must be re-run afterwards.

The search returned nothing all afternoon and said "No Results Found"

did The sixteenth false zero, and it passed every guard this archive had. "Historical Record Search Results (0)" with "No Results Found" printed beneath it - the positive assertion of emptiness this archive treats as the mark of a real null. Stable across two reads twelve seconds apart. Still zero after ninety seconds. And a control on the same query shape had passed earlier the same day. The search was returning zero for everything. Two facts prove it and neither is a matter of judgement: surname GONZALEZ in Uruguay returned 0, and the same URL that returned ten records that morning - Avelino Lerena with Ambrosia Traibel, the ten acts read all day - returned 0 that afternoon. What it nearly cost is the point. Alberto Octavio Lerena, whose baptism act this archive has read off the plate, returned nothing when searched by name. The obvious reading was a real mechanism: that the parent-pair query reaches only the keyed index and cannot see acts held in full text alone. That theory explains the evidence, has consequences for every parent-pair null here, and is false. It was one step from being written up. It was built entirely on an outage. So the rule gains two words. A control must be RECENT - the service was healthy in the morning and lying by the afternoon - and its answer must be ARITHMETICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO BE ZERO. A control that merely ought to return something fails silently beside the query it was meant to guard. One class of zero survives untouched: a zero that was turned into a result by deleting a parameter. Villademoros 0->7 and Hermenegilda 0->3 both stand, because a positive result proves the service was answering. Only the zeros that stayed zero are in doubt, and row 70's null is flagged as one of them. Work list row 184 lists what must be re-run.

The sweep's result belongs on the page, not just in the tool

did /method/ said "forty-nine rows still rest on a transcript nobody has checked". That number was stale within the hour and is the exact kind of claim this archive has a rule about, so the section now carries what the sweep actually cost: four spelling claims that were the machine's, five wrong surnames, one wrong parish, one crossed citation, a birthplace that changed the family's shape, and about twenty-five people who were standing on the acts and had never been entered. And the thing worth saying beside all that: the sweep CONFIRMED more than it corrected. Lavalleja, Maggesi, Larranaga and Rivera's office are all really on the plates. Only Rivera's spelling was the machine's. A zero here is a statement about today, not a property of the archive.

Sixty-one rows rested on a machine transcript. Now none of them do.

did The last eight plates, and the sweep is finished: 153 of 153 register rows carrying a source have been read off an image. The 1922 dispensation No. 14610 gives JUAN CARLOS GONZALEZ LERENA a date - 8 November 1922, not "the 1920s" - and the bride's name is left unread rather than guessed, because the hand will not settle it. The 1903 Pocitos act turns "Amelia Lerena m. DEL SUANDO" into EDUARDO ZALSAMENDI, a Basque name no search for the other would ever have reached, and hands over five people the transcript never carried: the child Maria Margarita, born 21 June 1903; Eduardo's parents Juan Zalsamendi and Dolores Pou; the godmother; and ADOLFO LERENA, the only Adolfo in this register, standing at his likely sister's daughter's font. The 1789 baptism is the earliest record of Sancho here and it spells him LLERENA. "Fueron padrinos SANCHO LLERENA y JULIANA JOSEFA" at the font of Juana, daughter of Nicolas Benteno, indio natural de la ciudad del Tucuman, and Leonarda Correa of Buenos Aires. Three more people entered. The 1910 San Nicolas form creates a JUAN CARLOS LLERENA at Buenos Aires - born 16 July 1910, son of Rafael Llerena and Maria Carlota Amadeo Lastra, with ALEJANDRINA LLERENA signing as godmother in her own hand. He was two years old when Pablo Armando's enrolment card was written. He is entered so the next search meets a dated row instead of a fresh hope, and the same-name pair against Pablo Armando's father is declared with the arithmetic on the line. Act 90 of 1913 looked like a wrong citation and was not: it is her SISTER's wedding to Jose Pedro Massera, and Maria Julia is in it as a witness - "Fueron testigos, do[na] ... JUANICO DE HERRERA", which is the only plate-level support this archive has for the Herrera marriage. The 1840 baptism adds a second set of grandparents, "ambos naturales de la COLONIA", and names Sancho and Maria Fernandez for the seventh time today. And the Ponteceli/Rivero conflict flagged this morning is resolved the way it looked: the notes were right and the ark was crossed. Their act is Dominga Josefa's own baptism on film 008166571 image 01130 - "Padrinos JOSEF PONTECELI y [Agueda Rivero], de la misma Villa" - not the confirmation list their rows cited. Corrected, and logged.

A way out to the Record Atlas, which seven of eight maps did not have

did Every archive draws its map with the kit's Atlas, and until today exactly one of eight passed recordAtlas. That link is the estate's one connection between a family's own places and the worldwide research, and seven maps were a dead end. One prop. The year control is NOT switched on here, and that is measured rather than an oversight: none of this archive's 36 atlas places carries a date the component can read, so the slider would render only "No place here carries a date". True, and a data gap to fix rather than a feature to ship. Give the places spans and it turns on with one word. Verified on an isolated --outDir build: exit 0, the atlas page built, and the Record Atlas link in the output.

Where the family lived, and where the name Fidel probably comes from

did Two Canelones plates, both on film 008166571, both cited here for a week and never opened. Image 01176, 11 December 1806: "bautizo solemnemente a un parvulo de un dia de edad y puso por nombre JOSE LORETO, hijo legitimo de SANCHO LERENA y de MARIA FERNANDEZ, VECINOS DE ESTA VILLA. Fue padrino JOSE MARTINEZ DE LA VEGA, vecino de MONTEVIDEO." This row quoted the transcript as "Sancho Lorena". The plate says LERENA - the fourth spelling claim in one day to turn out to be the machine's rather than the scribe's. Image 01017, 30 August 1795: "bautize, puse el Santo Oleo y Crisma a AGUSTINA RAMONA, DE TRES DIAS NACIDA, hija legitima de D.n SANCHO LERENA y de D.a Maria Fernandez, VECINOS DE LA VILLA. Fueron sus padrinos D.n FIDEL REY, vecino de MONTEVIDEO, y D.a JOSEFA ... de la misma Villa." She gains a second forename - RAMONA - and "de tres dias nacida" confirms the 27 August 1795 this register had only from a tree and a padron. Two things worth more than the corrections. VECINOS DE LA VILLA in 1795 and VECINOS DE ESTA VILLA in 1806: Sancho and Maria were RESIDENTS of Canelones, not visitors, across at least eleven years - which joins up with Dominga's baptism there in 1804 and Justa Pastora being called "natural de Canelones" - and they had moved to Montevideo, calle San Juan No 60, by the padron of 1812. Both godparents were fetched the other way, from the capital. And DON FIDEL REY stood at Agustina Ramona's font in 1795. Sancho's son FIDEL was born about 1799. This family names children for whoever stands at the font, in five other acts read here, so the likeliest source of the forename Fidel in the Lerena is this man - an inference from a pattern and not from a record, and it does not touch whether the Fidel Lerena who married Maria Ruedas is Sancho's son. Eleven transcript-only rows left of sixty-one.

An act this archive had cited for a week, and never opened, holds a child

did Film 007713376 images 01176-01177, the Catedral baptism of 19 October 1833. The register had carried the GODFATHER of this act since 14 September and never the CHILD. AURELIO EUSEBIO BARROS LERENA, born 14 September 1833 - a second son of Justa Pastora Lerena and Manuel Zeferino Barros, brother of Juan Facundo Frutuoso, grandson of Sancho. His godparents are his mother's own brother and sister: "Padrinos ABELINO LERENA y DOMINGA LERENA". So the transcript's "Abelino Serena" is LERENA on the plate, and the S-for-L this archive called "one more instance" was the machine's. That is the third assertion about this family's spelling to fail the same way today, after the LORENA of an 1889 margin and the FRUCTUOSO RIVERA printed over the 1831 act's own FRUTUSO RIBERA. The co-godparent is worth more than the spelling. Dominga Josefa Llerena Fernandez is a documented daughter of Sancho, so the two at this font are a documented Sancho daughter and the Abelino this archive has been trying to place - at the baptism of a third Sancho daughter's child, twenty-five years before the 1858 acts settled it. Corroboration, not proof: a cousin can stand beside a sister. The act was performed "con licencia del Cura y Vicario D.r D. DAMASO LARRANAGA" - the first Vicar Apostolic of Montevideo, and the fourth famous name checked against a plate today, and the fourth to be really there. And one line needs care. The act gives the child's maternal grandparents as "Fran.co Lerenas y M.a Fernandez". The wife is right; the husband is called FRANCISCO where five other plates call him SANCHO. The obvious reading is a priest's slip - Sancho was dead by 1832 and the man writing in 1833 never knew him. It is recorded anyway, because FRANCISCO is not a neutral name in this archive's Spanish question, and it is recorded explicitly so that it is on the record and not used. One act against five is not a second name. Thirteen transcript-only rows left of sixty-one.

One line on a page of one-line entries, and it is the whole of what he has

did Three more plates. Fifteen transcript-only rows left of sixty-one, and a hundred and nineteen seen on one. Film 007713376 image 01498, the Catedral baptism of 4 July 1837. Every reading in the row survives: born 20 February 1837, daughter of Don Pedro Antonio Lerena, mother natural del Cerro Largo, paternal grandparents Don Sancho and Dona Maria Fernandez, and godparents "D. LUIS LERENA y D.na CAROLINA ORIBE" - the uncle and his first wife, on the plate. The margin writes the family LERENA with one L where 1811 and 1831 write LLERENA with two. Film 008165032 image 00505, the Canelones confirmations of 1804: "JOSE ESCLAVO DE MAN.L LOPEZ PADRINO SANCHO LLERENA". One line on a page of one-line entries, and it is the whole of what any record gives him. The entries around him have the same shape - a forename, a parent, a godfather - so the form is the register's and not a slight peculiar to him. What is peculiar to him is that where the others read "hijo de", he reads "esclavo de". And opening that page exposed a citation this archive had crossed. Joseph Ponteceli and Agueda Rivero are noted as godparents at the BAPTISM of Dominga Josefa Llerena on 15 May 1804, but their source cites the CONFIRMATION list, on which neither appears in the portion read. Dominga Josefa's own row cites a different ark for that baptism - film 008166571 image 01130, the right parish and the right year, which was also opened. The likely reading is that the ark on their rows is simply wrong, two records taken down in one sitting off one search. It is not assumed: the alternative is that the note is wrong and they are confirmation godparents. Both rows now carry the conflict and a named test.

The archive read a margin as though it were the sentence

did Film 008165116 image 01442, Montevideo civil death registration No. 622 of 1889 - Victor Lerena, alpargatero. Three register rows stood on a machine transcript of it. The row for his father said the surname "is written LORENA for him and LERENA for his son and his father in the same sentence", and built a claim about this family's spelling on it. The sentence says LERENA throughout: "el finado era hijo de PEDRO LERENA y JOSEFA SEGUEIRA, orientales, finados". LORENA is the MARGIN - "Num. 622 Victor Lorena" - the clerk's index entry, not the text. The family's confusion of L and Ll is real; this instance of it was the archive reading an index. SEGUEIRA, not Seguera. Galician, and a different search. The plate also carried what the transcript had dropped. A cause of death: TUBERCULOSIS PULMONAR, per the medical certificate. The fact that the registration is "de oficio", which is why no relative signs it. And a third generation - "maternos JOSE SEGUEIRA y RAMONA" - two people nobody had entered. Ramona keeps a forename and no surname. The act breaks the line after her name and the next line opens with the single word "apellido" and nothing before it. That may mean she bore her husband's surname or it may be a label printed on the form, and this archive will not guess a surname onto a woman who has only a forename. And Josefa Segueira had been a name inside somebody else's note since 14 September without ever being a person. The evidence gate caught it the moment an edge pointed at her. Nineteen transcript-only rows left of sixty-one.

Juana's name is the only thing any record gives her, so a person read it

did Two more plates. Sixty-one transcript-only rows are now twenty-two, and a hundred and nine have been seen on one. Film 007713376 image 00601, the 1827 baptism at the Iglesia Matriz. The name at risk was General Francisco de Paula Maggesi - the third famous name checked today, and the third to hold. The act says "Fueron padrinos el Exmo. Sr. Gral. ... ULA MAGGESI y D.a Carolina Amalia", and gives the child's own birth, 24 April 1827, her mother Dona Dominga Llerena, and her paternal grandparents the Mayor Don Joaquin Ruiz de Carvallo and Dona Juana Suarez. Six rows move. Film 007713375 image 02628, the baptism of 26 September 1812 - the plate that mattered most for the fewest rows. "que nacio antes de ayer, hija de JUANA, negra esclava de D.n Sancho Lerena y de D.a Maria Fernandez: Madrina CATALINA MARTINEZ." A machine is worst at proper nouns, and this woman's name is the only thing any record gives her, so it was the one that most needed a human to read it. It is Juana, in the priest's hand. The plate also carries a trap the archive walked past: the act IMMEDIATELY BEFORE hers baptises ANOTHER Maria Mercedes on 25 September 1812, "hija de TERESA ABELLEYRA, negra esclava de D.n RAMON ABELLEYRA". Two enslaved girls of one name, two households, consecutive days, one page - and this register holds a Teresa of Sancho's household from the padron who must not be run together with her. Catalina Martinez is entered as a person: the act gives her no Dona, no husband and no origin, and she is the only one beside that child who was not her owner. And Rodrigo Fernandez lost the word "presumed" within the hour of gaining it. data/padron-1812-image.tsv already recorded him closing Sancho's household "at 63, ASTURIANO" - so Asturias is attested, his birth is about 1749, and two documents of successive years put Sancho's father-in-law under his son-in-law's roof.

The priest drew the family tree, and it holds two people we never entered

did Film 007713362 image 02473, the 1911 Lerena-Cardozo dispensation - six register rows stood on it. The folio is not prose at all. It is "Esquema explicativo de los grados de parentesco": two kinship diagrams the priest drew himself, circles for each degree and the names written beside them. The name this archive had wrong is FLORINDA, not Florencia. Written twice, in two separate diagrams, in the same hand. Five register rows, the working log and the last-attested file carried the machine's reading. And the apex of each schema is a person the transcript never carried into the register: BERNABE LERENA THE ELDER, father of Bernabe and Maria, and CUSTODIO CARDOZO, father of Florinda and Eliseo. A whole generation above the 1911 couple, drawn only because the priest had to prove the impediment. They exist in this archive because a man drew a circle and wrote a name beside it, and they have no dates, no places and - for the Lerena - no wife, because a kinship schema draws only the line it needs. It also explains the groom's name. CUSTODIO Lerena is named for CUSTODIO CARDOZO, his mother's father, whose two children's marriages created the impediment he then had to petition against. The register held one Bernabe Lerena where the plate shows two, which is the two-Avelino fault again - and a parish clerk had already solved that one in 1861 by writing "Avelino Lerena (hijo)". The third Bernabe, of Trinidad, stays unmerged with a named test on the line. A hundred rows have now been seen on a plate; thirty are still on a transcript.

The twins are twins, and the parish was the index's, not the act's

did Film 007713378 image 02598, the two Moratorio baptisms of 8 March 1880 - the plate five register rows stood on. Two findings, opposite in sign. The first settles a test this register flagged as cheap and unrun. Both acts state the child's own birth: "que nacio el VEINTE Y CUATRO DE FEBRERO ultimo". They were born 24 February 1880 and carried to the font twelve days later. They ARE twins - which is the opposite answer to the one the same reasoning got in 1858, where Ana Rosario and Alfredo Justiniano shared a font and were born twenty-one months apart. A shared baptism date means nothing on its own; it happened to mean twins here. Declared in consistency.py under a deliberately high bar: a pair goes in only when BOTH children's own acts state the same date. The second is a retraction. This archive placed these baptisms at the UNION, across six register rows, the working log and /uruguay/. The act reads "con licencia del infrascripto Cura Parroco DE ESTA BASILICA MENOR Y CATEDRAL DE MONTEVIDEO, bautice solemnemente EN ELLA". They were baptised in the Catedral. The Union was the INDEX'S PLACE FIELD, copied as though it were testimony - and it had grown a conclusion on it, that Avelino Pedro Joaquin Silvestre was christened at the Union in 1866 "the same parish where his cousins the Moratorio girls were baptised fourteen years later". That sentence is withdrawn in the open on /uruguay/ rather than deleted quietly. The other test on the plate came back empty, which is also an answer. The Mercedes Lerena row said she could be joined to Mercedes Micaela only if the 1880 act gave her age or her parents. It gives neither. The rows stay apart, but now because a page was read rather than never opened. Two new people the transcript never carried: Francisco Azanola and Manuela Otondo, godparents to one twin. And a repair the rename broke - renaming Carolina JUAREZ to SUAREZ silently un-declared her checked pair in consistency.py, which is now noted in the entry itself. Ninety-two rows seen on a plate, thirty-six still on a transcript.

Both halves of Sancho's household were Spanish, and the register said otherwise

did Two more plates opened off the transcript-only list. Forty-nine rows to forty-one, and eighty-four now seen on a plate. Film 007713686 image 02847, the two acts of 12 March 1858 that attach the Lerena Traibel branch to Sancho. The name most at risk was LAVALLEJA - a machine that meets a famous Uruguayan surname will write it whether or not the page says so, which is exactly how FRUCTUOSO RIVERA got printed over the 1831 act's own FRUTUSO RIBERA. The page says JUSTINIANO LAVALLEJA, and CONSTANTINO and ANA, in a hand that also spells LERENA and TRAIBEL correctly on the same line. Ana Rosario's "CATORCE DE ENERO de mil ocho cientos cincuenta y cinco" is read, not transcribed, and the parents are "naturales de esta Republica". Seven rows move. Film 007713375 image 02410, the 1811 baptism of Luis Escolastico - the only record here naming Sancho's own parents. Four readings survive word for word and one does not. The transcript gave "Abuelos paternos FELIZ GERENA y ROSALIA AGUILAR"; the page gives "Ab.s pat.s FELIX LLERENA", with the double L, in the same hand that writes SANCHO LLERENA two lines above. And the plate exposed two failures of propagation, which is this archive's oldest fault. Maria Fernandez is "nat.l de ASTURIAS" on that act; the working log has said so since 14 September and her register row said MONTEVIDEO, with a pin on the atlas to match. Her parents RODRIGO FERNANDEZ and ROSA FERNANDEZ were read the same day and never entered as people. Both fixed, and the correction logged. It changes the family's shape. Both halves of Sancho's household were Spanish immigrants from opposite ends of Spain - Andalusia and Asturias - meeting at Montevideo. The register had been telling a different story, against this archive's own evidence. tools/plate-read.py does the same edit the same way every time, and refuses to write if a name is missing or the result would be ragged.

Work list rows 181 and 182: the transcript audit, and Alfredo's wife

The machine wrote the history book's spelling over the page's own

did tools/transcript-only.py, written after three surnames turned out to be a machine's, asks how many register rows cite FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ and name no image. Sixty-one did - more than half the rows carrying a source. It ranks the unopened plates by how many people depend on each, because one image settles seven rows at once. The top plate was the 1831 baptism at the Cordon where the President of Uruguay stood godfather to Sancho's grandson: the most consequential proper noun in this archive, and a machine had read it. Film 007713388 image 00726, folio 133, opened: "padrinos Dn. FRUTUSO RIBERA, PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA y su esposa Da. BERNARDINA FRAGOSO" Frutuso Ribera, with a B. The transcript printed FRUCTUOSO RIVERA, which is the spelling in the history books and not what the page says. The finding holds and is stronger for the check, because the act states the man's office and names his wife - two independent facts on one line, either of which identifies him alone. The same page spells the grandfather LLERENA with the double L, and confirms Pernambuco, Canelones, and Ana Maria Cabalgante word for word. So both of today's transcript failures are one failure pointing opposite ways. A machine invents a plausible name where it cannot read one, and writes the famous name over the page where it can. The rule is not distrust transcripts; it is that a transcript is a finding-aid for everything except the names, and the names are usually why you went. Seven rows moved off transcript onto plate. Forty-nine remain, and the tool prints the number.

Three surnames were a machine's, and the archive never opened the page

did The rule this archive keeps stating is that an index is not evidence and the image must be opened. The 1892 marriage act of Alfredo Justiniano Lerena Traibel was recorded as FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPT READ - which means a machine read it - and the plate was never pulled. Three register rows, a dispensation table, a working log and the last-attested-alive file all carried the machine's reading for a week. Film 007713383 image 02601, folio 340: "hija legitima de Don GERONIMO GAVAZZO y Dona CAROLINA SUAREZ". GAVAZZO, not Gavarro. SUAREZ, not Juarez. Corroborated by a second image forty-eight years later - her own Montevideo death registration, which writes her Hermenegilda Gavazzo de Lerena with the same two parents. Two images against one transcript. Gavazzo is a known Montevideo surname and Gavarro is not, which is the sort of tell that should have prompted the check earlier. And she has a death: 20 June 1940, Montevideo, certificate 632, at R. Masini 3273, "de estado VIUDA", of a fractured neck of femur. So Alfredo died between February 1892 and June 1940 - the first thing this archive has ever known about the end of his life. The index of that death act is a catalogue of its own failures. It attaches three children to the couple and there are no children on the act: one is JOSE M. REYES CORVALAN, the registrar, whose name follows "ante mi", and two bled across the column rule from the adjacent act, which concerns a family with English names. It also gives her birth as 1934 for a woman who died in 1940, her nationality as mexicana, her age as "cu anos de edad" and her birthplace as "Minteridco". Every field is wrong except the maternal grandparents - and that pair is the only reason she was found. The fifteenth false zero, and the rule caught this one. Alfredo with Hermenegilda GAVARRO returned 0; deleting the mother's surname returned the three records, because the index writes her "Navarro de Terenadel". The Villademoros zero cost an afternoon and was caught only by luck. This one cost a single query, sixty minutes after the rule was written down.

A control licenses the shape of a query, not the value you put in it

did The rule this archive published says a null is not written down until a control in the same form and the same session returns a known result. On 21 September that rule was satisfied and the answer was still a lie. Avelino Lerena with Celedonia Villademoros returned a clean zero. The control - the identical shape on Alberto Lerena with Maria Ines Larriera, minutes earlier - had returned sixteen. Larriera has one spelling in this register and Villademoros has four, so the control was asked about the one surname that could not go wrong. What caught the zero was not method: it was that two of the hidden records were already published here. So the older rule is sharpened rather than replaced. A nil from a derived index is first of all a fact about the index, and coverage is not one thing - it can fail at the collection, as it did for Andalusian parish registers; at the query shape, as it did for the compound Lerena y Armenta; or at a single field the source failed to parse, as here. Three different failures, one identical-looking zero. A published null needs a date, a control, and a statement of what the instrument could have reached. And the gate itself is hardened, because three of today's runs were killed mid-build by another archive's publish script matching a bare "astro build" pattern. The build log is now private to the run, since the shared path let a parallel build in a different project print its failure as ours; and an exit of 128+N now says the build was TERMINATED BY SIGNAL and that nothing in the output is evidence about this archive's data. Two rounds went into looking for a fault in the register before anyone thought to run ps.

A simpler way into a film image, written down where the next reader looks

did tools/fsimage.js pastes a tile-mosaic loader into a console. It still works, but seven acts were read today without it: resolve the ark through manifest.json, navigate to dist.jpg, take the img off its fit-to-window leash by setting an explicit natural width and height, and scroll. The tab title reports the true pixel size, and dist.jpg is one whole opening at full resolution. Two traps go with it, and both cost time today. A hidden browser pane throttles timers, so `await fetch` never settles and the tool call times out - navigate and read the page text instead; synchronous JS is fine. And the screenshot must be its own call, exactly as __view already warns, or you get the previous view or a black rectangle. Also recorded: dist.jpg and the tiles are both 401 to curl. They need the browser session, so none of this can be done from the shell.

Work list row 180: the sweep, and the zero that no control could catch

A parent's surname that removes the records it matches

did A parent-pair query on Avelino Lerena and Celedonia Villademoros returns a clean zero - rows rendered, page settled, read twice. Delete the mother's SURNAME, keep only "Celedonia", and it returns seven, two of which are christenings this archive has held since 20 September. That is how the zero was known to be false. No control would have caught it: the control for this shape, Alberto Lerena with Maria Ines Larriera, had returned sixteen records in the same session, which is precisely what made the zero look trustworthy. Recorded as the fourteenth false zero. The likely mechanism is that the mother's whole name sits unparsed in the given-name field, so asking for a surname excludes every record the parser failed on. One of the seven displays its mother as "Celedonia Villademoros", spelled exactly as asked, and was still excluded. What the zero was hiding: Pedro Segundo Lerena Villademoros, dead at Montevideo 23 August 1936 aged 66, wife Paulina Prando Algar; an Avelino Lerena dead 5 January 1914 aged 45, wife Carmen Lorente, whose mother is written VILLADEMORO without the s - a fourth spelling; and marriage registrations of 1921 for two more. Whether that is four sons or two is not settled and is not guessed: a man who died in 1914 does not marry in 1921, and the ages come from death certificates. It also weakens a null this archive published. "LERENA with spouse surname VILLADEMOROS returns 6,352 records and not one marriage act" was controlled with LERENA x JUANICO. Juanico has one spelling and Villademoros has at least four. The control proved the query shape works; it did not prove this surname is reachable through it. The null is not withdrawn - it is now stated as the weaker claim it always was.

The errand was done before it was written down, and it found a ninth child

did Act No. 246, Montevideo, 2 March 1921 - film 008165205 image 01604, read off the image. "Que el finado era hijo de Avelino Lerena, fallecido, y de Ambrosia Treibel, fallecida." The chain from Zelmira Carlota to Sancho now rests on an image at every step that matters. And the act does what the index could not. It counts them: "era casado con Maria Ines Larriera, de cuya union quedan NUEVE HIJOS llamados: Maria Adelina, Zelmira, Eleiza, Alberto, Carlos, Maria Ines, Maria Consuelo, Maria Antonieta y Miguel Avelino." Eight of those nine are the eight found yesterday's way. The third is a daughter no index here has matched, and her name is not securely read - Eleiza or Eloiza, at three times magnification, and the archive cannot choose. She is entered as a person with the uncertainty in her name, because a child named on her father's death act exists whether or not a birth registration has been found. Which is the point about eight index entries: they look like eight confirmations and they are one indexing project reading one set of registers. One death act, declared by two men who knew the household, is a different occasion and a different mouth. The act also gives what no index carried - born at Montevideo, not in San Jose where his children were; profession RENTISTA; dead at six in the morning at the calle Juan Paullier of a carcinoma certified by a Dr Lussich; and the declarants neighbours rather than kin, which is why they made him sixty-nine fifteen days early.

Copying multiplies the entries and adds nothing to the evidence

did Two index entries, two collections, two films, two indexers, agreeing on a 13 August and on a set of godparents. Any reasonable reader would call that independent confirmation. It is one act, certified twice. Stated as a rule on /method/, and instantiated a second time from this archive's own past: the three baptisms at La Mauricia in January 1846 all give the year in the identical words, including one for a different family. Three acts agreeing, one priest, one sitting, and the agreement means nothing - the children cannot all have been born that year. One hand, one occasion, one witness.

The archive wrote her off on 14 September, and she is ours

did Zelmira Carlota Lerena Larriera, born in the Departamento de San Jose on 4 November 1880, was tested a week ago and closed: "she is NOT ours." The same row named the one thing that would overturn it - who her father Alberto Lerena was - guessed Alberto Octavio Lerena Lenguas, and refused to draw the line on a forename and an age. It is the other grandfather. Alberto Lerena's Montevideo death registration of 2 March 1921 names his wife Maria Ines Larriera and his parents Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Treibel, so her father is Pedro Alberto Ysabelino Lerena Traibel of the Aguada, and Zelmira is a great-granddaughter of Sancho. And she is one of eight. Asking for Alberto and Maria Ines as a pair returns a whole household born in San Jose between 1879 and 1898 - Maria Adelina, Zelmira Carlota, Alberto Julian, Carlos Ambrosio Florencio, Maria Consuelo, Maria Antonieta, Angel Miguel Avelino, and a Maria Ines who died at Montevideo eleven months after her father. Three of the eight carry names out of the household at the Aguada, which is corroboration and is not the evidence. The retraction is in corrections.tsv, the chain is written out so it can be attacked, and the weak link is named: the 1921 registration has been read at index level only and the image is now an errand. Thirty-five same-name pairs reviewed and declared - the sharpest being two Maria Adelina Lerenas fourteen years apart, an aunt and the niece named for her.

The succession reading is a proposition now, not a note in a working file

did Seven certificates, four parishes, one week of November 1896, and a father dead since August 1890. That belonged on /hypotheses/ with a named test and a chip that says untested, not in the comment block of a TSV where the reader this archive is written for would never meet it.

Seven certificates in a row, and grown siblings do not all want one by chance

did The film was walked both ways. The Lerena certificates are consecutive - numbers 147 to 153, pages 78 to 81 - and all seven are children of Avelino and Ambrosia: Mercedes Micaela, Josefina, Pedro Alberto Ysabelino, Ana Rosario, Juan Arturo, Andres, Maria Adelina. They are drawn from four different parishes and lodged within days of each other in November 1896. Their father died on 22 August 1890. That is what proving filiation looks like, and it is offered as a hypothesis with a named test: the Montevideo succession records of 1896. Two rows move off the index and onto a document. Mercedes Micaela's act reads "que nacio el ocho de Mayo del ano mil ochocientos sesenta y tres" with Sancho and Maria Fernandez named as her grandparents. Josefa's baptism gains a day - 5 December 1852, libro primero al folio 212 - from the opening of her act on the image before the one already read. And two readings at fit width were wrong on this film within one hour. "Noventa y seis" looked like "noventa y cinco" until it was magnified, and a margin reading SERENA CARLOS two pages from seven genuine Lerena certificates is DE LA SERNA - a Santander father and an Arequipa mother, and the father is called Pedro Antonio, which is the name of Sancho's second son. It was read before it was dismissed.

The certificates were made under a law, and the law is on every page

did Film 008166435 image 02852, the second opening. Every certificate opens "yo Luis Cincinato Bollo, Director General del Registro del Estado Civil, he certificado, de acuerdo con lo dispuesto por la Ley de 9 de Julio de 1888". Uruguay took registration off the parishes in 1879 and then had the older baptisms copied across, so a family's whole set of acts sits in one 1896 volume and the index dates every one of them to 1896. That is not a fault in one record; it is the shape of a collection. Andres Lerena Traibel, baptised at the Cordon on 31 December 1861 - the same day as his brother Juan Arturo, aged four against ten months. His godfather is written "Avelino Lerena (hijo)", which is the parish saying in one parenthesis what this archive spent two days deciding. Maria Adelina, born 13 August 1865, baptised 31 December 1865. Her 1946 death registration says 1861 and the act refutes it - and the reasoning that doubted the registration was right for the right reason. Her godparents are Ambrosio Lerena and Carlota Munoz, which are the two names on the "Marta Adelina, born 1918" record indexed off a different film. It is one baptism, certified twice, indexed as two children born fifty-three years apart. The untested item on /method/ is now tested. And the contradiction gate earned its keep within the minute. Andres's act says born 16 March 1857 and Alfredo Justiniano was born 2 October 1856. The words were re-read at double magnification and are not ambiguous, so the fault is not in the reading - it is that Andres's year survives only in a copy, while Alfredo's comes from the original register and is corroborated by the age he gave at his own wedding. Andres's birth column is deliberately empty. The day and the baptism are kept; the year is not.

A child born six years after his father died, and the index meant it

did A parent-pair search on Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Traibel returned ten records, three of them dated 1896 and 1919. Avelino died in 1890. The dates are the certificates'. Film 008166435 image 02850 is an opening of a register of certified copies issued in 1896, and the indexer takes the year off the certificate and the day and month off the act inside it. Read at full resolution, the act says 21 November 1852, born 16 March 1852: Pedro Alberto Ysabelino Lerena, godparents Pedro Antonio Lerena and Vicenta Vega - his uncle and aunt, and a man born in 1793 who could not be in a room in 1896. He is the Alberto who died at Montevideo in 1921. The same opening carries Josefa's own baptism. She has a day at last - born 10 February 1851 - and her name at the font is Josefina. Nine children now where the archive held six. Juan Arturo born 16 Feb 1861, Mercedes Micaela born 8 May 1863 with Sancho and Maria Fernandez named as her grandparents, and Maria Adelina who married Carlos Alberto Fein. Twenty edges wired, nineteen same-name pairs reviewed and declared. The trap is on /method/ with the tell that catches it: two children of one couple indexed with the same birth date.

Asking after the mother found the son's death

did Two more work-list rows, both parent-pair questions, and the method answered them in opposite ways. ROW 70 — the children of Luis Lerena and Carolina, his first wife. A parent-pair query returns ZERO, read TWICE because the same session had a (0) turn into 22 an hour earlier. The control is the same shape on Luis × Justiniana Lenguas, which returns the two children this archive holds. So the null is a null: if that first marriage produced children, they are not in the Uruguayan index, and the parish books are where to look. ROW 71 — Justa Pastora's children after 1827. Querying on the MOTHER rather than the child turned up a DEATH for a man this archive already had: JUAN BARROS LERENA, died 3 May 1915 at Montevideo, aged EIGHTY-THREE, registered 4 May, certificate 261 He is JUAN FACUNDO FRUTUOSO BARROS LERENA, Sancho's grandson, baptised at the Cordón on 13 December 1831. The arithmetic is exact: a man born 27 November 1831 is eighty-three on 3 May 1915. The registration names his mother JUSTA LERENA and his father "MANUEL C BARROS" — which is the Manuel Zeferino Barros of Pernambuco already in this register, the C standing for Ceferino. AND IT NAMES A WIFE NOBODY HAD: EMILIA ANTELO, now in the register as the surviving spouse and nothing more, because the record gives her nothing else. Exact death dates in this archive: 17 → 19. Of 300 people, 22 are now known to have died at all. Register 299 → 300. Two pairs declared.

Two parents searched as a pair find children either name alone buries

did Work list row 52, run across the register's twenty couples. It is a method rather than a lookup and it earns its place: searching two parents as ONE PAIR surfaces children that either name alone loses in a crowd of the same surname. PEDRO LLERENA AND SOFÍA CLAVIJO — six records where this archive held ONE child. Isabel (b. 14 Nov 1895), Celina (d. 11 May 1917), Telma (b. 2 May 1900) and Tomasa Cantidia (b. 12 Feb 1903) are now in the register beside Susana, and Sofía Clavijo has an entry of her own after being a bare node on the charts. Four of the five are indexed under the compound LLERENA CLAVIJO, which names both parents in the surname itself — the evidence is in the name. MAURICIO LERENA AND CASIMIRA MONTAÑO — twelve records, and one is explicit: CIPRIANO LERENA MONTAÑA, whose 1928 death registration at Flores gives the parents outright. He is entered. FOUR MORE ARE NOT: Manuel, two Ignacias and Clara match the pair query but their own entries do not name the parents, and this archive does not enter a child on a query shape alone. The dates fit a marriage of 1837 and they are written down as candidates. Luis Lerena × Justiniana Lenguas returns only what is already held. Francisco Llerena × Rafaela Daraz returns only Baldomero. AND THE METHOD HAS THE OLD TRAP IN IT. Bernabé Lerena × Casimira Peláez read "(0)" and, four seconds later, 22 — on a couple whose four children this archive has held since 13 September. It was caught only because the answer was already known to be wrong, which is exactly what caught the first one on 14 September. It is the thirteenth entry in the false-zeros catalogue on /method/. Register 293 → 299. Six new people, ten edges, two pairs declared.

The corpus moved under a published null, and it is our own document

did Work list row 157 — re-run any exact-forename null recorded against a two-forename person. The archive's own note says none could be found by grep, "because the searches were written down in prose without naming the parameter", so the sharpest available version was run instead: the CENTRAL null, in the fuzzy-forename / exact-surname shape. The trap is real. Fuzzy "Juan" with exact LERENA returns 29 distinct given-name forms, among them JUAN CARLOS ESTEBAN LERENA, JUAN A. LERENA and JUAN P. LERENA — the three-forename and initial shapes a whole-string exact match cannot reach. None is the father; the Esteban man married in 1932. BUT THE RE-RUN FALSIFIED TWO PUBLISHED ZEROES ON /direct-line/. "Father exactly 'Juan Carlos Lerena', mother unconstrained — 0 — no indexed child of ANY man recorded exactly as Juan Carlos Lerena" "Juan Carlos Lerena as a named person, any role, any country, any collection — 1 — and it is not him" Both return TWO now, and the second one is: Juan Carlos Lerena · Father · Argentina, Military Records 1911-1936 spouse MARÍA LERENA · child PABLO ARMANDO LERENA which is ark 1:1:6TH8-DVXH — the 1908 enrolment card, a record THIS ARCHIVE HAS CITED SINCE IT FOUND IT. The archive tested for its own document and was told nothing was there. NOTHING WAS WRONG WITH THE SEARCHES. They ran on 17 September and the Argentina Military Records index has since gained the card; the FamilySearch citation on that record reads 16 September 2026. WHAT DOES NOT CHANGE: Juan Carlos still has no record of his own — no birth, no marriage, no death. The new hit is his son's record naming him as a father. WHAT DOES: he is findable by name now, where before he was reachable only through Cajón 985. And the index places him at "Rosario de Lerma, SALTA" — the error this archive corrected on 13 September — so anyone searching will find him in the wrong province. THE LESSON IS NOT ABOUT THE SEARCH. A null is true on the day it is run against the corpus of that day, and an index that grows can falsify one without anybody making a mistake. A published null needs a DATE. Ours now carry one.

The connections were written in prose and never wired, so nothing drew them

did David asked whether the findings are laid out as lines the way the Defranceski site does it. The answer was no, and the reason is not presentation. 293 people, 111 relationship edges, and 226 of those people were ISLANDS — linked to nobody. The Trinidad kindred, the Gualeguaychú Larenas, the Martínez Lerenas: all of them written up in prose, none of them wired. A chart can only draw an edge that exists. Twenty-three are wired now, taken only from notes that OPEN by stating their own subject's parentage — "Child of Bernabé Lerena and Casimira Peláez, baptised at Trinidad…". Islands 226 → 193, groups of two or more 11 → 22. I TRIED IT TWICE THE WRONG WAY FIRST, and both attempts would have put false parentage into the register: A regex matching "child of X and Y" ANYWHERE in a note made ADELA CAMIGLIA the daughter of Julian Martínez and Carolina Lerena — because her note MENTIONS a Carlos Martínez Lerena who is. It made Sancho the son of his own wife, from a sentence describing the baptism of somebody else's daughter. Then a fuzzy last-two-words fallback matched the wrong register row: Juan Antonio Larena's father became "Juan LARENA (arr. 1910)" instead of the Gualeguaychú head, and Baldomero's became the 1923 arrival instead of the Córdoba man. And even exact matching got the Moratorio girls wrong, because keys() strips parentheticals and "(the elder)" IS the disambiguation — he is their GRANDfather, and their actual father has no row. Those two father-edges are dropped; the two mother-edges to Josefa Lerena Traibel are right and kept. So: exact unique name match only, no fallback, and 43 names left alone because no single register row carries them. A name that cannot be resolved is better left unresolved than attached to the nearest thing that looks like it. 193 islands remain. Many are genuinely alone — unplaced CEMLA arrivals, people named once in a census line — but not all, and the rest need the same treatment one row at a time.

Repin: the living check now reads the JSON an atlas serves

did An atlas fetches its places from a .json in dist and a search box fetches its index the same way. Both are served to anybody with the URL, and check:living walked past every one of them - it read only .html. Raised by the Luwinski session. Measured across the estate before changing anything: no archive is leaking, because every living name in a served JSON is also a published dead person's name and the gate already subtracts namesakes. The blind spot was real and the leak was not. Also: namefold no longer implies the commonest spelling of a name is the right one, and says when nothing on the site is reading the map it built.

A peer's fixes went out under my commit messages, and I did not notice

did A session working on the landing site found nine structural faults in these pages and fixed them. Verified each before accepting it, and one thing needs saying first. THE FIXES LANDED INSIDE FOUR OF MY COMMITS. `check:templates` first appears in a81916b, "Two brothers married two sisters"; the page repairs are in 8bad9ad and a5b1eca. Their work was in my working tree when I ran `git add -A`, and my commit messages describe entirely different work and never mention it. The history now misattributes it and I cannot rewrite what is pushed, so this commit says so instead. THE DEAD LINK WAS REAL AND MINE. /direct-line/ said: <a href="{u("/enrolment-card/")}">enrolment card</a> Quoted, so a literal string and not an expression. It shipped as href="{u(" — the inner quotes end the attribute — and rendered as words that still looked like a link, pointing at the document that page calls its own best evidence for Pablo Armando. It is fixed and now resolves to /TheLerena/enrolment-card/. AND MY OWN CHECKER'S SAFEGUARD IS WHAT HID IT. check-links.py says in its docstring that it skips any href containing a quote, because those are JavaScript template strings in inline <script> blocks and treating them as links produced a run of false positives. That rule is right, and it is precisely the rule that let a broken attribute through. So the fault is now caught where it is legible — in the .astro SOURCE, where a quoted {u( is never correct. Proved both ways: it fires on the exact line reintroduced, naming the fault instead of guessing, and it does NOT fire on line 17 of the same page, where ${u(...)} inside a template literal is correct. check:templates catches it too, but reports "4 tags do not close" — a side-effect of the malformed attribute rather than the diagnosis. Both are worth having. AND THE FOLD DECISIONS THE PEER LEFT ME, taken on evidence: FERNANDES → FERNANDEZ. The marginal heading of Sancho's own marriage act of 8 January 1791 — the document this archive spent weeks finding — reads "Sancho Llerena, y Maria FERNANDES". The woman this register writes Fernandez throughout is written Fernandes by the clerk who married her. The other two instances sit beside GONSALES and ALBARES in one 1825 hand: a clerk writing s for z in every surname on the page. GONZALES and GONSALES → GONZALEZ, same reasoning. Every instance is one woman — María (Josefa) González, mother of Mauricio Lerena, on the San José acts of 1825 and 1837. Both are recorded in namefold-extra.json with the evidence, because that file is "the archive's own, written not derived". And the fold is for SEARCH only: it widens what a query matches and never merges a record with another. Not folded, deliberately: whether she is María or María Josefa, which is unreconciled on an image.

Fourteen records name him and four require him to be standing there

did The last substantive finding still sitting in a working log where no reader could reach it. It is on /uruguay/#s-sancho-alive now. A man can be named in a document for sixty years after he dies, so the question asked of each of the fourteen records naming Sancho Llerena was narrower: does this one require him to have been IN THE ROOM? FOUR DO, AND THE LATEST IS 1812. 1789 godfather at the Iglesia Matriz — a godparent stands at the font 1798 sworn witness at Canelones, where he took an oath and could not sign it 1804 padrino at the Canelones confirmations 1812 the padrón, calle San Juan No 60 — "Sancho, andaluz, 45" — and A CENSUS ENUMERATES THE LIVING The other ten name him without requiring him. Fathers are named on their children's baptisms whether present or not; grandfathers on grandchildren's. His daughter Justa Pastora's marriage act of 1830 does NOT write him difunto, which is suggestive and is not evidence. He is named as an ancestor as late as 1850, sixty-one years after that first christening. So 1812 is a floor and the trees' 1832 death is not a fact. It belongs on a page because it is the worked example of the rule the whole register is now held to — the one last-alive.py enforces, and which reports that of 293 people here only twenty are known to have died at all. Being named in a later record is not evidence of being alive for it. THAT CLOSES THE UNPUBLISHED-RESEARCH SWEEP for anything that is a finding about this family. What remains in the working logs is working material: how to target an image on a reel, which levels a viewer will serve, library errands, and catalogue shelfmarks. A working log is allowed to hold those.

The test was named at nine and run at ten, and it came back empty

did Both Villademoros rows now carry the result of the test written on them an hour earlier, which is the point of naming a test. LERENA with spouse surname VILLADEMOROS, Uruguay: 6,352 records, and not one of them is a marriage act. Every hit is a parent entry on somebody else's baptism or civil registration. THE CONTROL IS THE ONE THAT WORKED TWO HOURS EARLIER. The same query shape on LERENA with spouse JUANICO puts the marriage act of 19 December 1864 at RANK ONE. So the shape finds a marriage when there is one to find, and this null is a null rather than an instrument failing quietly — which is the whole of what /method/ spent today cataloguing. So neither Villademoros marriage is in the indexed record, and the brothers-and-sisters reading stays an inference with its evidence stated: the surname on both mothers, one Joaquín standing godfather at both baptisms, and an Angélica godmother named for Celedonia's own mother. What would settle it is the parish marriage books of the Cordón and Unión, which have not been walked. Published at /uruguay/#s-villademoros rather than left in a note, so the reader who sees the inference also sees what was tried against it. Also saved to memory: this archive repeatedly writes "same man" in a note and leaves both rows standing. Seven of today's merges came out of identifications the archive had already made and never acted on.

Two brothers married two sisters, and the godfather signs both acts

did Kept sweeping the Cordón after it decided the Villademoros fork, and it produced a second marriage into the same family. ALEJANDRO JOAQUÍN NARCISO LERENA, born 29 October 1872, christened at the Cordón on 29 May 1873 — son of ALEJANDRO LERENA and ELISA VILLARDEMOROS. So in one decade at Montevideo, two Lerena men married two women of that surname. THREE THINGS TIE THE TWO BAPTISMS TOGETHER: the surname on both mothers a JOAQUÍN standing godfather at each — indexed "Joaquín Requena" on the 1866 act and "Joaquín Regusa y García" on the 1873 one, which is one name and a machine mangling it the godmother here is ANGÉLICA VILLADEMOROS, and Celedonia's mother is ANGÉLICA MÉNDEZ — a daughter named for her The reading is two brothers marrying two sisters, which is the same shape as the two Lerena siblings who married two Cardozo siblings and whose children petitioned to marry each other in 1911. IT IS NOT PROVED AND IS NOT MERGED. The 1873 act does not name Alejandro's own parents, so he is NOT joined to ALEJANDRO LERENA TRAIBEL — Avelino and Ambrosia's eldest, born 1843 or 1845, who would be twenty-seven or twenty-nine in 1872 and fits perfectly. A surname and an age are not an identification; that is the rule that has held all day, through seven merges and a split. The test is the marriage act, or any record giving this Alejandro a father. Three people in, three edges, three pairs declared. Register 290 → 293. The finding is on /uruguay/#s-villademoros. drift flagged it anyway, because the page says "two brothers married two sisters" where the register note says "alliance" and "probably" — so it now carries a PUBLISHED entry saying where it went and why the matcher trips.

Three Avelinos in three generations, which is how a grandson becomes a second marriage

did Row 33 of the work list said "search the Iglesia del Cordón". Today's work had named that parish three separate times — Carlos Lerena's 1914 marriage enquiry says he was baptised there, Carmen Lerena was buried at its cemetery in 1841, and a Lerena baptism of 1831 is recorded at Nuestra Señora del Carmen la Mayor, Cordón. So it was searched. It answered a different question, and one this archive had explicitly refused to answer. On 16 September a sweep forward found a branch indexed LERENA VILLADEMOROS — an AVELINO EDUARDO LERENA married to CELEDONIA VILLADEMOROS — and set out two readings without choosing: either Avelino Lerena Fernández (b.1815) married TWICE, Ambrosia Traibel and then Celedonia or Avelino Eduardo is a SON of his, making the Villademoros children Sancho's great-grandchildren IT IS THE SON. Two parish acts give Avelino Eduardo's own father as AVELINO SERENA/LERENA with AMBROSIA TRAIBEL named on the record: Avelino Pedro Joaquín Silvestre — b. December 1865, christened at UNIÓN, Montevideo, 5 March 1866, the same parish where his cousins the Moratorio girls were baptised fourteen years later Pedro Gualberto — b. 19 October 1869, christened at the IGLESIA DEL CORDÓN, 15 January 1870 So Avelino Eduardo joins Alejandro, Josefa, Ana Rosario, Alfredo Justiniano and Mercedes as a child of that marriage, and Celedonia — daughter of Pedro Villademoros and Angélica Méndez — is a daughter-in-law. Four people into the register, seven edges, and the nine same-name pairs the gate raised are all declared. Register 286 → 290. INDEX-LEVEL AND SAID SO. Both acts are machine-indexed and neither image has been opened. What decides the branch is that two independent entries agree on the GRANDPARENTS, not that either was read off the page. And the reason the fork existed is worth keeping: three Avelinos in three generations. That is how a grandson gets mistaken for a second marriage.

The backlog is empty: 123 pairs, 123 reasons

did The duplicate gate went in yesterday with 133 pairs baselined and the file said twice that being listed does NOT mean a pair has been compared. Every one of them has now been compared, and the reason is written on its line. WHAT IT COST AND WHAT IT FOUND. Register 292 → 286. Seven merges: Carlos Augusto Federico, Carlos LERENA Salvañach and Carlos (arr. 1926) — one man, identified by his own rows and never joined Avelino Carlos — two rows, one of which said "see the CEMLA row for the same man" Rosa María Eppens — two rows, one of which said "the 'Rosa M. E. Lerena' of the CEMLA list" Luis F. and Luis Felipe; María A. and María Angélica Julia; María C. and María Carlota The last three are one fault four times over: THE ENUMERATOR WROTE INITIALS AND THE PRIEST WROTE NAMES. Four of Gilberto's children sat in this register twice because it read both and never laid them side by side. AND ONE SPLIT, which mattered more than the merges. Merging Carlos exposed relations.tsv giving him a wife and a son the register had explicitly ruled out on 14 September — "two men, one name". The Mendoza Carlos now has his own row. Two pairs were decided by reading an image rather than arguing: the census ages on lines 10-13 were transcribed here as "6, 6, 5, 2" and are 8, 6, 5, 2. That one digit was the only thing holding María A. apart from her own baptism. WHAT IS NOT MERGED IS AS DELIBERATE. The three Gregorio arrivals and the two José Llerena crossings may each be one repeat crosser or several men, and a passenger list cannot tell them apart. The two Franciscos travelling with Argentine-born sons have corroboration in a CHILD and it is still not enough. And both Marías who look like candidates for Pablo Armando's mother are kept apart on purpose — merging either would answer this archive's central question by accident. The header now says a line without a reason is a pair nobody has looked at, and that there are none today. When the gate adds one it will sit there bare, which is the signal.

One digit was wrong and it was holding two people apart

did Two pairs on the duplicate backlog were blocked on the same thing: the 1895 census schedule's four youngest children, transcribed here as "6, 6, 5, 2". So the image was opened — film 004149111, image 8, read at magnification. THEY ARE 8, 6, 5, 2. MARIA A. IS EIGHT. At six she could not be MARÍA ANGÉLICA JULIA LERENA SALVAÑACH, baptised at San Francisco de Asís on 31 October 1886. At eight she is exactly that, and the merge that had been refused all afternoon goes through. MARÍA C., six, is MARÍA CARLOTA — baptised 29 October 1890 at about a year old, which fits six in 1895 — and her nación column reads ARGENTINA, which is precisely what that baptism row has always claimed for her: "the first child of this family baptised in Argentina". So four of Gilberto's children were in this register twice today: Carlos A. and Carlos Augusto Federico, Luis F. and Luis Felipe, María A. and María Angélica Julia, María C. and María Carlota. THE ENUMERATOR WROTE INITIALS AND THE PRIEST WROTE NAMES, and an archive that reads both ends up holding one child twice — four times over, in one household, without noticing. María E., five, has no baptism row and stays a distinct daughter. María E. C., twenty-six and soltera on line 5, is not a daughter of the house at all; that was retracted on 14 September because it would have made Gilberto fifteen. Both declared rather than merged. The household file carries the corrected ages and says which digit was wrong. Register 288 → 286. Twelve stale pair lines dropped, 61 of the remaining pairs now carry a reason.

The census wrote initials and the font wrote names

did Twenty-one more pairs off the backlog, one more merge, and a pattern worth naming. LUIS F. IS LUIS FELIPE. The register held "Luis F. LERENA, born 1893, Buenos Aires, son of Gilberto (1854)" from the 1895 census, and "Luis Felipe LERENA Salvanach, baptised 30 December 1892 at Inmaculada Concepción" from the parish index. Same father, same mother, same city. The arithmetic is exact: a child baptised on 30 December 1892 is TWO in a census taken in 1895, and two is what the schedule gives him. That is the third of this shape today. Carlos A. in the census was Carlos Augusto Federico at the font; Luis F. was Luis Felipe. AN ENUMERATOR WRITES AN INITIAL AND A PRIEST WRITES A NAME, and an archive that reads both ends up holding one child twice. MARIA A. IS THE SAME SHAPE AND IS NOT MERGED. She should be María Angélica Julia, baptised at San Francisco de Asís on 31 October 1886 — same father, same mother, both born in Uruguay. What stops it is three years: the schedule gives its four youngest as a grouped "6, 6, 5, 2", which puts Maria A. about 1889. Luis Felipe was merged because his census age matched his baptism exactly. This one does not, so it is a candidate with the test named — read the image for the actual ages on lines 10-13 rather than the grouped transcript. Also declared, with reasons on the lines: the three Gregorio arrivals and the two José Llerena crossings, which may each be one repeat crosser or several men and which a passenger list cannot tell apart; the two Franciscos who both travel with an Argentine-born son, where the corroboration is a CHILD rather than an age and is still not enough to merge; two Bernabés on different wives in different towns; and Juan Carlos Lerena against the Juan Carlos González Lerena excluded on 15 September — kept apart deliberately, because merging those two would invent the answer to this archive's central question. 49 of 133 pairs now carry a reason, from 12 this morning. Register 289 → 288.

Seven rows were four people, and the archive had already said so

did Working the duplicate backlog, which is what it is for. Four merges, one split, and a file that disagreed with the register for six days. CARLOS. Three rows were one man: "Carlos Augusto Federico LERENA" (born 9 July 1883, Uruguayan civil registration), "Carlos LERENA Salvanach" (the Retiro información matrimonial of 1914), and "Carlos LERENA (b.1885, arr. 1926)" (the CEMLA crossing). The second row's own note already joined it to the third — "two independent sources, same couple" — and nobody joined them. The arithmetic settles the first: that act calls him "de treinta años" on 25 March 1914, and a man born 9 July 1883 is exactly thirty that March. Same parents, same birthplace, and the CEMLA wife "Rosa M. E. Lerena" is Rosa María Eppens, whom the act names. AVELINO CARLOS. Two rows, while the note on one of them read "see the CEMLA row for the same man". The identification was done; the merge was not. ROSA MARÍA EPPENS. Two rows, while her own note read "the 'Rosa M. E. Lerena' of the CEMLA list". AND THEN A SPLIT, WHICH IS THE PART THAT MATTERED. Merging Carlos threw up a contradiction: the 1914 act calls him SOLTERO at thirty, and relations.tsv gave him a wife ADELA CAMIGLIA and a son AVELINO CARLOS baptised at Mendoza in 1904. That was settled here on 14 September and nothing told the edges. The Rosa María Eppens row says it outright — her Carlos is not Adela Camiglia's, "two men, one name, and the register now says so on both rows". It said so on the ROWS. The relationship file went on attaching Adela and Avelino to the wrong man, and only merging the duplicates made the disagreement visible. So the Mendoza Carlos now has the row the register always implied, with nothing claimed of him beyond the act that names him, and the edges point at him instead. Register 292 → 289. Five stale pair lines dropped, three new ones declared.

I wrote twenty-four claims that somebody looked, and two were false

did The allowlist added an hour ago says in its own header that adding a line without looking is the one way to make the file a liability. I then did exactly that, twice. · "the Bauzá purchase errand is on /errands/" — only the Revista IEGU one is. · "/register/ carries the Lerenaar and Lerenani exclusions" — they were on NO page at all. So the claims are now checkable rather than trusted. A line names a page AND QUOTES A PHRASE THE PAGE ITSELF USES, and the tool reads the page for it: gendatabase-sa: 'Lerenani' is a Tswana given name # /south-africa/ carries "Lerenaar" The first version of that check was circular — it looked for the WORKING LOG's rare words on the page, which is precisely what a page does not repeat and the whole reason the allowlist exists. It flagged three entries I had verified by hand. Quoting the page's own words instead fixes it, and would have caught both of my false claims on the spot. It then caught three more the moment it worked: "Tucuman" where the page writes "Tucumán" with an accent, a phrase I had paraphrased instead of quoted, and the Lerenaar line again — this time because my reason MENTIONED /register/ while explaining the earlier mistake. A route is only checked when something is claimed of it. Proved it still catches a false claim before trusting it: added one naming a phrase that is certainly not on /taylor/, and it failed. AND THE SECOND FALSE CLAIM IS NOW TRUE. The two South African exclusions really were unpublished — a 1928 case naming "Lerenani Matchubani", which is a Tswana given name, and a notarial protocol transferring a slave to "Goris Janse Lerenaar", a Dutch Cape surname on a document that predates any Lerena arrival by a century. Both are on /south-africa/ now, with the archive's own reason: an exclusion that is not written down gets made again, and each of these cost an hour. Also published: the Rosario marriage index. Everything at that end has been aimed at Pablo Armando's BAPTISM, which would name the parents the enrolment card already names. His parents' MARRIAGE would name all four grandparents, the index is filmed — 1091466, DGS 4531036 — and for a man who appears in no indexed record anywhere it would be the first document to say who Juan Carlos Lerena's father was. It was sitting in a film list rather than in the plan. It is on /roadmap/ now. 58 unseen, from 95.

A rare name is evidence and a common one is not

did David asked whether the Carmen of his aunt Patricia Carmen might be an Argentine survival — a given name carried down from the Rosario side the way Armando was. The answer had been researched and was sitting in a working log; the question was not on the site and neither was the answer. Both now are, at /name/#s-the-forename-is-the-sharper-clue. The answer is no, and the reason is exactly the reason the Armando argument works. Armando discriminates because it is vanishingly rare — two in three years of the Rosario baptism index, none in four centuries of indexed Spain. Carmen is the opposite: one of the commonest female names in the Spanish-speaking world, and it attaches to this surname in places with no connection to this family at all — "Lerena, Octavia Maria Del Carmen Erundina Perez" in a Chicago naturalisation index, born 1903. So it is only a question, and the difference between the two names is the whole point of that section. Recorded because the question was asked, and an answered question should not have to be asked twice. 62 unseen findings remain, from 95 at the start of this pass. What is left is increasingly working technique — how to target an image on a reel, which levels a viewer will serve — rather than findings about this family, which is the right shape for a working log to end up.

She was in England five weeks, and died four months after she got home

did data/passenger-lists.tsv had SIX Board of Trade records for this family and not one of them had ever reached a page. It holds the saddest fact on the Taylor page and one of the warmest, and both are now published at /taylor/#s-crossings. ON 20 MAY 1935 MARY SEPTIMA LANDED AT SOUTHAMPTON off the Balmoral Castle, aged 50. Her address in Britain is "c/o Dalling, Fore St, Northam, Devon" — her elder sister Isabella Temple, who had married Henry Dalling at Northam in 1900. She sailed for the Cape again on 28 June. She died on 15 November 1935. Nothing in the paperwork says she knew she was ill and the page does not claim she did. It says what is documented: she was fifty, she had not been to Devon in the record since 1909, and she spent one summer at her sister's house in the parish she was born in, four and a half months before she died. AND THE 1909 CROSSING CORROBORATES THE THING THAT PAGE ARGUES HARDEST. The Guelph landed "Mrs M T Lerena" on 19 February 1909, and on the line directly below her "Mast. L Lerena" — Master, a boy — almost certainly Roque Luis at three. She is travelling as MRS LERENA with his son two years before the wedding at St Dominic's. The purser wrote her ENGLISH and the boy BRITISH COLONIAL. THEN IT HAPPENS A THIRD TIME. On 12 April 1957 Juanita Ramona Lerena — Roque's daughter, born 16 June 1937 — landed at Southampton, single, occupation BALLET TEACHER, address "Vicosa, Westward Ho, N Devon". That is the village adjoining Northam. Three generations of this family crossed to the same four square miles of north Devon. ALSO: the report now has an allowlist, because it was reporting findings that ARE published in other words — the Barón de la Laguna placement is on /hypotheses/ in full, and the double wedding of August and September 1900 is on /taylor/. drift.py keeps a list like this and says why: a warning that fires on every build is a warning nobody reads. An entry is a CLAIM THAT SOMEBODY LOOKED and carries where the finding was published. I then checked my own twenty-four claims and one was false. I had written that the Bauzá purchase errand was on /errands/; only the Revista IEGU one is. Bauzá needs no errand at all — it was read in full text on archive.org and III p.285 is quoted on /hypotheses/. The line now says so, and says it was wrong. 95 unseen findings at the start of this pass, 63 now.

A false positive is caught only by opening the document

did Two more findings out of the working logs and onto pages. THE SANTO OFICIO TRAP reached no page at all. A full-text search for the exact phrase "Sancho Llerena" returns four pages; page one is this family and pages two to four are Spanish nobility proofs and notarial books containing nobody of that name. One was opened to find out why — a 1599 Order of Alcántara proof whose transcript reads "es familiar del SANCHO, OFICIO LLERENA". It is SANTO OFICIO ... LLERENA, the Inquisition tribunal seated at Llerena in Badajoz. The machine reads "Santo Oficio" as "Sancho, oficio" and the phrase search matches "Sancho ... Llerena" across two words. The Inquisition sat there for three centuries, so those words stand together in thousands of documents. Any search for this family in Spain will drown in them — and this archive was one step from recording that Sancho is an attested forename in Spanish Llerena families, which is false, and which would then have been used quietly to argue against FRANCISCO. It sits beside the false-zeros catalogue as its mirror, and makes the point that table could not: a false zero is caught by a control, but a false positive is caught only by opening the document — the more expensive half of the rule, because a hit that agrees with you asks to be believed. THE HIDALGUÍA NEGATIVE reached only /worklist/, which is a dump. It now sits on /hypotheses/ where the argument it completes already runs. The Spanish full-text corpus is not parish registers; it is nobility and hidalguía files, chivalric orders and Madrid protocols, back to 1489 — precisely the records that would hold Félix Llerena and Rosalía Aguilar if they had been armigerous gentry with a chancillería file. They return nothing. That is weak evidence and it points away from hidalguía, and it sits with the two facts already on that page: a man called Don in 1811 who could not write his own name in 1798. It is also a zero of an unusual kind. Every other Spanish null here means "not findable by this instrument". This one comes from an instrument holding exactly the right record type, which is the only reason its silence is worth anything. Checked before writing: the Bauzá 1817 placement of the Lerenas as Lecor's men, and the Córdoba la Llana / Córdoba del Tucumán reading, are both already published — and the published versions argue it better than the working logs do.

Nine ways of being wrong that a reader could not see

did "Ensure everything we have researched is on the site" needed a way to ask the question, so tools/unpublished.py asks it: 136 working logs hold three quarters of a megabyte of research, and it reports which of their emphasised findings reach no page at all. It uses drift.py's method, because drift.py paid for it — reduce a claim to its three RAREST words across the corpus and require them to co-occur on a single page. Presence in the corpus is not presence of the claim. First answer: 224 findings no page carried. Most were working material — catalogue headings like 'CAUSAS VARIAS, SIGLO XVIII', and Spanish transcripts quoted for the record. A reader is owed what those MEAN, not the shelfmark, so the report now separates a CLAIM from a TRANSCRIPT and the real number was 95. THE LARGEST COHERENT THING IN THAT 95 WAS A CATALOGUE OF FALSE ZEROS. /method/ already argued that a null needs a control, with five worked cases. Nine more were sitting in working logs where nobody could read them, and they are the valuable part, because the mechanisms have nothing in common: a results page that renders "(0)" before it has looked a session that silently expired and redirected to the sign-in page a Google Books quota error reading totalItems: None a block delivered as an empty body a zero handed over moments before Error 15 arrived a throttle that empties four image transcripts three empty transcripts that were NOT the throttle but images outside the volume — told apart only by the page TITLE an exact-surname query that cannot reach a compound a reel whose page title attributes Uruguayan acts to COLOMBIA Plus two found today: the "(0)" catching me three times in one sitting on 39, 80 and 63 records, and the personas API that answers 8,549 for every variant and 102 for an invented surname — an instrument with no zero to give. On 15 September a working log noted the same trap had been seen "four times in a month, in four different disguises". It is twelve, and /method/ now carries all of them with what each looked like, what it actually was, and what caught it. In every single case it was a control query whose answer was already known. 87 unseen findings remain. This is the first pass, not the last.

The map can have the screen

did Repin. A full-screen button on the map, and the find box and filters come with it rather than being taken away at the moment there is room for them. Escape leaves; ?full=1 is a link to it.

Four basemaps on the atlas, and the view still fits in a link

did Repin. Street, Terrain, Satellite, Plain - the choice remembered per browser, and a link that names one beating the memory.

Both audit findings closed, and both were in the kit

did The two things the audit left open needed changes to TheArchiveKit rather than to this archive, so they were made there and the pin bumped to a024103. DUPLICATE IDS — GONE. Spine hardcoded id={"gen-" + g.gen}. /argentina/ draws four lines of descent and /uruguay/ three, so those pages carried id="gen-1" four times and three times over. Spine now takes an optional `idPrefix` defaulting to "gen-", so no archive that does not pass one sees any change, and the seven spines here pass their own. SKIPPED HEADING LEVELS — FIVE, NOW NONE. Four were kit components jumping from the page title straight to h3 or h4; one was local. /marriages/ local: a card heading that was h3 under the h1 /search/ Trees, AncChart, Search h3 → h2 /timeline/ the real one. The timeline labels a block only when the caller groups by decade, and this archive does not — so every h2 was skipped and the page ran h1 → h3 fifty times. The event title now takes whichever level actually follows the one above it. NOTHING MOVED ON ANY PAGE, and I checked rather than assumed: computed styles on the two headings whose CSS did not pin a margin come back 11px/uppercase and 1.05rem/weight 600 — the values their classes always set. ALSO CORRECTED, a claim I made an hour ago: I said bumping the kit would drag in seven unrelated Atlas commits. That was a misreading — I read the version in node_modules, not the one in package.json, which was already at the kit's head. One unrelated commit came with it, a basemap change. The audit now reports ONE finding across 663 pages: a telephone number on /argentina/, which is the Santa Fe Registro Civil's and is in the letter on purpose.

Nothing had ever swept the whole estate at once

did An end-to-end audit of the code and the built site. tools/audit.py is a REPORT, not a gate — verify.sh refuses a build, this one only looks. Every gate here was written to stop one specific thing happening again, which makes each of them sharp and narrow, and nothing had ever read all 663 pages looking for anything at all. THE BIG ONE: 1,093 LITERAL ASTERISKS WERE VISIBLE ON /worklist/. The work list renders its notes through the kit's md(), which supports links, **bold** with NO nested asterisk, and «guillemets». It has no italic and no code spans. But 85 of 177 notes were written in the archive's OWN TSV convention — like this — plus *italic* and `backticks`. None of it rendered. Readers saw: **Read at magnification: the castrense man is *"Manuel Sánchez…"*.** with every marker showing, because md's bold regex refuses an inner asterisk. Two conventions, one renderer, and no gate between them: the emphasis parity check covers data/*.tsv, and the work list is JSON. Normalised to what md() actually understands — 349 spans, 185 italics and 280 backticks. Now 0 literal asterisks and 1,460 rendered <strong> spans. Proved the TEXT is untouched: stripping * and ` from every note before and after gives ZERO differing rows out of 177. TWO REAL DATA BUGS, both found by looking for rows whose width differs from their neighbours': dominga-carballo-1836.tsv:14 had FOUR cells against a three-column header, and build-pages.py truncates to the header width — so the sentence "a third daughter, a household, an occupation, and BRAZIL" was being silently dropped on the way to a page it was written for. census-1895-lerena.tsv:20 had SEVEN against eight, which put the census place in the status column and the note in the census place. AND THE AUDIT WAS WRONG THREE TIMES BEFORE IT WAS RIGHT. Each is written into the file so the next person does not repeat it: · it reported four pages carrying an "unrendered ${...}" — all of it minified JavaScript doing its job. Script and style are code, not content, and every text check now strips them. · it reported 174 "ragged" TSV rows. These files hold SEVERAL tables; the second one starts with its own header. Only a width that occurs exactly ONCE in a file is a stray tab. · it reported 88 "phone-shaped numbers", 87 of them microfilm ids, and on the second attempt it caught page ranges and centuries. Strict now: an international + or a trunk 0 and a separator. It also flagged a lone on /changes/ — inside the changelog entry that says "a lone in prose is not an unconverted field… flagging it would train me to ignore the check". The check now honours the rule its own archive wrote about it, and looks for PAIRED spans. Institutional and personal email are now separate findings. Six archive contacts are published on purpose; no personal mailbox appears anywhere, which is the thing actually worth knowing. STILL OPEN, and both need a decision rather than a commit: · 6 duplicate element ids — /argentina/ renders four Spines and /uruguay/ three, and Spine emits id="gen-N" with no prefix. Invalid HTML; nothing links to those anchors, so nothing is broken today. Fixing it properly means a kit change, like AncChart. · 6 pages skip a heading level (h1 → h3).

A gate for places, because the kit only screens dates

did The country pills went on the tree pages yesterday and the living row on the spine was left without one BY HAND, because I happened to remember. Nothing would have caught it. check:living is the kit's and it enforces `named-bare` — a living person may be named and no DATE of theirs may appear. This archive's own rule, written on /direct-line/, is stricter: "no dates, no places, no photographs". A country is a place. tools/check-living-places.py is LOCAL rather than a change to the kit, because the kit is shared with Falco and Defranceski and imposing a place rule on their builds is not mine to decide. FOUR TRAPS. TWO OF THEM SPRANG WHILE WRITING IT. 1. "LIVING" IS A WORD IN RECORDS ABOUT THE DEAD. The 1891 Northam census describes GEORGINA BRAYLEY, a widow of 77, as "LIVING ON MEANS". A grep for /LIVING/ makes her a living person and the gate then guards a Victorian almswoman. The marker must be a STATUS, matched as a whole cell. 2. A BARE PLACE NAME PROVES NOTHING. "Johannesburg" is all over this archive, attached to the dead. So a place is only a leak when it is a place THE DATA ATTACHES TO THAT PERSON. 3. A BACKWARD WINDOW READS THE CARD ABOVE. On the spine, generation 2 ends with a SOUTH AFRICA pill and generation 3 is the living row. Look back 200 characters and you fail an innocent build. The window looks forward only, cut at the end of the list item. 4. AND FORWARD PROXIMITY WAS STILL NOT ENOUGH. The first run FAILED the build, on a sentence saying she "married into the Defranceski family, whose line runs back through JOHANNESBURG to Gracisce". That Johannesburg belongs to someone else's line. It is not a leak, and failing on it is how a guard gets switched off inside a day. So a place is a leak only in a FACT POSITION — a country pill, or one of the containers this site prints facts in. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO is printed on every pass rather than left to be discovered: IT DOES NOT SCREEN PROSE. A sentence giving a living person a place in running text would pass. That is a stated limit, not an oversight. Proved both ways rather than assumed. Given the living row a country pill: caught. Given her the withheld birthplace in a fact position: caught. Restored: passes. It also folds the two spellings of her name — direct-line.tsv writes "Cheryl Anne LERENA" and lerena-siblings-gen3.tsv writes "Cheryl Anne Lerena" — which it reported as two living people until it didn't. Wired into verify.sh and the npm build chain, so CI runs it too.

Country pills on the spine, and the mapping written once

did Carrying the home-page tree's country pills through the other tree pages — and the first thing that needed doing was to stop hand-typing the answer. src/lib/country.js now decides which country a place is in, once, for every page that asks. Nine hand-typed pills would have been faster and would have drifted: on 14 September the Taylor page carried its siblings as a hardcoded array duplicating the TSV, the TSV gained five husbands' names, and the page went on saying "m. Dalling" for days. THE DATA SETS TWO TRAPS AND BOTH ARE LIVE: ROSARIO IS TWO TOWNS. "Rosario, Santa Fe" is where Pablo Armando was born, in Argentina. "Rosario, Colonia" and "Rosario / Colla, Colonia" are in URUGUAY, and this register holds people from both. A substring match on "rosario" gets one of them wrong every time, so Colonia is tested first - and BARE "Rosario", which this register also holds, returns null, because it genuinely could be either. CORDOBA MUST STAY AMBIGUOUS. Sancho is "natural de Cordova la Llana" and whether that is Andalusia or Argentina is one of this archive's open questions. "Cordoba, Argentina" is explicit and safe; bare "Cordoba" returns null rather than picking a side. A pill is an assertion and this archive does not make that one. Run across all 292 people: 166 Uruguay, 84 Argentina, 14 Spain, 12 South Africa, 3 Brazil, 2 England, 1 Italy, 1 Peru. The only unmapped strings left are the seven Cordobas and the two bare Rosarios, which is exactly right. WHAT EACH PAGE COULD TAKE: /direct-line/ real pills. Spine renders its note with set:html. /tree/ TEXT ONLY - "Cape Town · South Africa". AncChart renders a place as plain text with no per-node hook, and it is shared with two other archives, so a coloured pill there needs a kit change rather than a fork. The information is on the chart; the colour is not. Say so rather than half-do it. /bloodline/ nothing. Component, graph builder, styles and client script are all the kit's; the page supplies only people.json. AND THE LIVING ROW GETS NO PILL. Generation 3 of the spine is Cheryl Anne, living, and that page's own rule is "no dates, no places, no photographs". A country is a place. check:living only screens dates, so this one is on the author, not the gate. The tag and pill CSS moved from index.astro's scoped block into public/styles.css, because four pages use it now and a rule copied into four scoped blocks is a rule that drifts.

The tree now says which country holds each record

did Country pills on the home-page tree, so the migration is visible without reading a word of it: Uruguay at Canelones and Montevideo, Argentina entering with the 1866 Rosario act and the enrolment card, South Africa from Pablo Armando down, and England arriving sideways with Mary Septima Taylor. Deliberately quieter than the evidence tags. The tier is the thing a reader must not misread; a country is context. So the place pills are outlined and tinted rather than filled, and their colours avoid --accent and --terra entirely so they never compete with Documented and Inferred for the eye. Light and dark values for each. Two decisions worth recording: TEXT, NOT FLAG EMOJI. Regional flag emoji degrade to bare letter pairs on Windows, and England's subdivision flag is barely supported anywhere. A pill that renders as a boxed "ZA" for some readers is worse than the word. AND THE PILLS ADMIT THEIR OWN ANACHRONISM. They use today's borders, which is wrong for the top of the tree: Canelones in 1791 was the Banda Oriental of the Spanish empire, and Uruguay did not exist for another thirty-seven years. The legend says so rather than letting the pill quietly assert it. The break carries NO country pill. There is no record there to place, and giving the gap a country would be the one thing that panel exists to prevent. Checked at 375px and in both colour schemes: pills wrap, no horizontal overflow.

Two birth dates were in an act this archive read six days ago

did I went looking for Justo Lerena, the man the Cordon burial turned up, and the search printed a birth date beside a baptism for somebody else: Alfredo Justiniano Lerena, christened 12 March 1858, BORN 2 OCTOBER 1856. So I opened the image - film 007713686 image 2847 - and read both acts on the opening. Alfredo "que nacio el dia DOS de OCTUBRE ... cincuenta y seis" Ana Rosario "que nacio el dia CATORCE de ENERO ... cincuenta y cinco" The register had 1858-03 for both, which is the baptism date written into the birth column, and it called them "probably twins". They are TWENTY-ONE MONTHS APART. She was carried to the font at three years old and he at seventeen months. And it dissolves a puzzle this archive had blamed on the record. Alfredo's row said his 1858 baptism "sits oddly against the 35 he gave at his 1892 marriage", and consoled itself that ages at marriage are the weakest date in genealogy. A man born 2 October 1856 is exactly thirty-five on 3 February 1892. The record agreed with itself the whole time; the register did not. "Probably twins" is an inference from a shared baptism date, and this family demonstrably baptised in batches years late - at La Mauricia in 1846 among children of various ages, and here again in 1858. The same inference is attached to the two MORATORIO girls of 1880 and is now flagged there as untested, with the cheap test named. JUSTO LERENA, meanwhile, exists in exactly one record on earth. Surname exact, forename Justo: 39 in Uruguay, 220 worldwide with spouse surname Quintana. The only one that is him is his daughter's burial, read the same evening. No marriage, no baptism of his own, no second child. A controlled null - the queries returned records, so they ran - and he can be neither placed against Sancho nor ruled out. The rendered "(0)" caught me three times in one sitting: Justo, Alfredo and the Gilberto sweep all read zero on first load and were 39, 80 and 63. Reading twice is already in the habits and it still nearly manufactured three false nulls in one evening.

Row 111 read like an instruction and was actioned as one

did David asked why Anne had been told to stop. The row never said stop. It found that ONE document of a six-estate Pretoria pull is already in the house: the death notice of TAB MHG 1095/48. Everything else stood. What was actually cancelled was the whole trip - including the will and liquidation account of 1095/48, which nobody holds, and five entire estates: 3734/46, 769/52, 5155/51, 10/57 and 52653. This archive wrote the row that caused it. Its headline read "tell Anne before Tuesday, its death notice is already in the house" - which, read at a glance on a work list, is an instruction to call something off. The limits were all in the note, where a person scanning a list does not read them. A row that needs its note read to avoid being actioned wrongly is a badly written row. The note also said "the other four on her list" and then listed five. Six estates, minus 1095/48, leaves five. The list was right and the word was wrong. Headline now states the scope, the count is fixed, and the row carries what it cost. Tuesday is the 22nd.

A sweep for one dead man found a household instead

did Both halves of the Fidel test are run, through the search UI this time, and both come back empty. control LERENA + LUIS + spouse JUANICO, Uruguay -> 471 records, and the marriage act of 19 December 1864 is the FIRST result. test the same shape on FIDEL + RUEDA / RUEDAS -> 331 records, and the only Fidel in them is the 1889 Victor Lerena death registration already held. test LERENA + FIDEL, Uruguay, deaths 1815-1840 -> 11, none his. control RODRIGUEZ, same window -> 62,026, with real burials at Las Piedras 1840 and San Jose de Mayo 1844. The shelf is full. The surprise is which way it cuts. The trees give Sancho's son Fidel a death in 1822, and that death was the ONE thing keeping him apart from the Fidel Lerena named with Maria Ruedas as a grandfather on the 1889 registration. It is not in the record either. Still not merged - an unevidenced death is not evidence of survival - but nothing separates them now except silence, and both rows say so. AND THE BURIAL SWEEP PAID FOR ITSELF TWICE. Its top Lerena hit was "Carmen Lerena Lerena", buried at the Cementerio del Cordon - which is the compound surname this archive has been hunting since 14 September, because a child of two Lerenas would show that Pablo Armando's parents could have been kin. The act says otherwise. Film 007713392 image 2511: the margin reads "Carmen Lerena." in the clerk's hand, one surname, and the body reads "de edad de tres an[os], hija legitima de JUSTO LERENA y de Juana Quinta[na]". One Lerena parent. A fifth transcription doubling - and the FIRST of them checked against the parish image rather than a transcript, which is the strongest level this test has reached. The index is also a year out. It gives 14 August 1840; the act reads "Mil ochocientos cuarenta y uno", and the burial below it agrees. What it leaves behind is a household this archive did not have: JUSTO LERENA and JUANA QUINTANA of Montevideo, and their daughter CARMEN, born about 1838 and buried at three by the cura Santiago Estrazulas. All three are in the register. No tie to Sancho is asserted - he had a daughter JUSTA, and an echo of a forename is not an argument; the 1812 padron lists six children and no Justo, and its child lists are known to be incomplete, so he can be neither placed nor excluded. Register 289 -> 292.

The son the identification predicted turns out to exist

did I went back to run the test I named yesterday - does the Argentine military record's date of birth match the Gilberto Lerena who landed off the CAP. NORTE in 1928? It does not settle it. It found something better than a guess. If the traveller is Gilberto Lerena Salvanach, born Montevideo 1878, then the son walking down the gangway beside him should exist in a record. He does. marriage 19 May 1906, Nuestra Senora del Pilar, Recoleta bride CIPRIANA SAENZ PENA - a woman this archive did not have child "Gilberto de Jesus del Corazon" And his Argentine nationality stopped being an inference: he is carried on DISTRITO MILITAR 2 in March 1922, born 1878 at Montevideo. A Montevideo-born man on an Argentine district roll is exactly what the passenger list's "ARGENTINE" requires. IT STILL DOES NOT CLOSE, and the rows stay apart. That child has no indexed birth year. A search of Argentine Lerena births 1910-1920 returns ten records and none is he - on a filter that demonstrably works, since it cut sixty-three to ten. A son who exists is not the same as a son who is THAT son. The son is also NOT added as a new person. The register already holds "Gilberto LERENA (b.1916, arr. 1928)", and writing in a second row for a child who may be him is precisely the mistake made with Dominga Llerena. He is cross-referenced instead, and the duplicate gate then fired on the two cross-references I had just written - correctly, and both were declared in a minute. Checked before adding: all six Salvanach children the search returns - Maria Carlota, Horacio Alfredo, Luis Felipe, Cesar Alberto, Raul, Carlos - are already in this register. Only Cipriana is new. One more thing fell out. The 1895 census INDEX returns that household as Gilberto 1854, Maria E. C., Maria Luisa, Carlos A., Raul A. and Maria E. - and NOT the seventeen-year-old, who is filed under SALVANACH rather than Lerena. That is why /argentina/ carried a table of nine names against a schedule of sixteen. The correction went in earlier today; now the cause is recorded too. The rendered "(0)" caught me again on first load and read 63 four seconds later. Reading twice is in the habits for a reason.

A search endpoint that cannot return zero

did The duplicate backlog named a cheap test - a Montevideo marriage of FIDEL LERENA to MARIA RUEDAS, which would decide whether the Fidel of the 1889 death registration is Sancho's son. I went to run it through /service/search/hr/v2/personas, which answers quickly, and ran a control first out of habit. The control had different parameters and returned the same number. surname Lerena, Uruguay 8549 + givenName Fidel 8549 + spouseSurname Rueda 8549 control: Luis, spouse Julia Juanico 8549 The `results` field moves only for the SURNAME and the COUNTRY - Argentina 6032, no country 589678, surname exact 1652. Given name and spouse are ignored completely. And an invented surname, Zzzqqxx, returns 102. So the endpoint has no zero to give. The count is the size of a fuzzy pool; the extra parameters only re-rank it. No null can ever be drawn from it, and I nearly drew one. THIS DOES NOT TOUCH THE NULLS ALREADY RECORDED HERE. The Breton query at the head of the same session file got a real ZERO from a spouse-surname search on the same day, which this endpoint is incapable of returning - so the search UI filters and this API does not, and they are two different instruments. Recorded that way rather than as a blanket doubt. What the endpoint did give, by looking rather than counting: the only two Fidel Lerenas in Uruguay are the 1889 Victor Lerena death registration already held - which names Fidel Lerena, Maria Rueda and Victor's father PEDRO LORENA, and gives Victor born 1861 against a death on 10 October 1889, confirming the twenty-eight this archive carried - and one unrelated Cordon entry of 1842. The Fidel test stays unrun, and the pair stays undeclared, with the reason written on the line instead of a verdict that was never earned.

The year on that page is one formula written three times

did I went to check why a father and son both carried 9 February as a birth day. The date turned out to be fine. The page it sits on did not. Film 007713524 image 1741, pages 96-97, La Mauricia, 7 January 1846 - re-read end to end at magnification instead of trusting the two transcripts already in this archive. All three acts concerning this family give the birth year in the identical words: Justiniana Mauricia "el treinta de Julio del pasado ano cuarenta y tres" Luis Eugenio "el nueve de Febrero del pasado ano cuarenta y tres" Alejandro "el veinte y nueve de Mayo del pasado ano cuarenta y tres" and the third is for a DIFFERENT COUPLE, Avelino Serena and Ambrosia Traibel. The phrase argues with itself - the acts open "En siete de Enero de mil ochocientos cuarenta y seis", so "el pasado ano" is 1845 and the numeral says 1843 - and it cannot be literally true, because Justiniana Mauricia and Luis Eugenio are children of one couple and 30 July and 9 February of one year are five months and ten days apart. On 14 September this archive called that "a year carried down a column". That is close and too kind. A carry-down is a slip on one entry; this is every act on the opening, across two families, in one hand. WHAT IT COSTS. Luis Eugenio's 1845 stands, but on ONE leg instead of three: his sister's 1843 came from the same formula and is worth nothing as corroboration. What is left is his death act of 24 December 1901, "de cincuenta y seis", which is evidence from outside the page. One good leg is enough and the conclusion does not move. Alejandro has no leg at all. Nothing outside this page dates him, so his birth is undetermined between 1843 and 1845 - and his row was using it to push Avelino and Ambrosia's marriage back "before May 1843". The safe floor is before May 1845. Two years this archive does not have. Justiniana Mauricia's own date is marked soft for the same reason. AND IT COST A GOOD LINE ON /hypotheses/. The Guerra Grande passage said the three children were "born in February, May and July 1843 - the first of them in the month the siege began". That is gone. The finding was never the years: it is that children born under the siege were not christened until a bishop ordered a legajo of loose papers copied into a book three years late. The delay survives the years entirely. Also: the 14 September retraction of "9 February 1843" had never been carried back to the files the reading came from. Five of them still asserted it six days later, one in a paragraph headed WHAT THIS SETTLES, and the correction's `retired` column was empty so no gate enforced it. All five now say 1845 or quote the old reading, and the gate is armed. A correction that does not reach the file the reading came from is not a correction. That also kills "Eleven months before Luis Eugenio was born on 9 February 1843. The fit is exact." The marriage of 3 March 1842 is followed by Justiniana Mauricia sixteen months later. It still fits. It fits a different child.

The published table had nine names and the schedule has sixteen

did Working the duplicate backlog by signal strength rather than alphabetically. Eight pairs compared, and one of them was being held apart by a sentence that was not true. /argentina/ said the Gilberto Lerena who landed off the Cap Norte on 27 February 1928 was "not in the 1895 household", and reasoned from there that he was an unresolved namesake attached to nobody. The table it reasoned from was built by hand from the SEARCH INDEX and carried nine people. The schedule carries sixteen, and line 6 is "Salvanach Lerena, GILBERTO", varon, 17, soltero - the eldest son, born 1877 or 1878 against the traveller's 1879. The schedule had been read as a household on 14 September. The page went on reasoning from the index for six days, because the table was typed rather than generated. It is generated now, from data/1895-census-gilberto-household.tsv, which was sitting in the working-log list and is now on the site. The section carries the retraction, and with the objection gone the two records agree on every axis available: a birth year one apart, Argentine nationality that the Salvanach son demonstrably holds, Buenos Aires, a marriage of 1906, and a son born 1916 who is exactly the twelve-year-old estudiante beside him on the gangway. NOT MERGED. Both are index-level, and the military record's date of birth would settle it in one query. Also read, and written onto the lines so the next reader gets the reason and not just the names: - the two Moratorio girls share an ark because ONE ACT NAMES BOTH. The strongest signal this gate has is also its most ambiguous. - the two Luises are father and son on the son's own marriage act - but both rows carry 9 FEBRUARY as a birth day 34 years apart, and the son's birth-to-baptism gap is eleven months where the father's was one day. His date wants re-reading. - the two Fidels and the three Josefas stay apart on purpose, tests named. - the Josefa question is sharper than this archive had said: the 1895 enumerator writes wives as [maiden surname] "de L.", so his widow married a LERENA, and Josefa Lerena Traibel married a MORATORIO on a parish act. Her row claimed both candidacies without noticing they fight. It now carries the counter-argument. The godmother row's "nothing else in this archive names her" is left standing, because it is true. What was wrong was the pointer, not the sentence, and calling that a correction would have been inflation. --baseline was destructive and I only found it by testing it properly. It skipped declared pairs when collecting, so rebaselining rewrote the file from the leftovers: 131 pairs would have become 1, reasons and all, and the gate would have passed afterwards. My first test of the fix was vacuous - with every pair declared the baseline branch never ran at all. It now sees every pair, carries reasons forward, and the header counts reviewed against unreviewed instead of asserting a number that rebaselining then overwrote.

Two Carolinas were one woman and Bartolome was never a person

did The duplicate gate went in yesterday with 131 pairs baselined, and baselining is not reviewing. Four pairs read, four verdicts: Carolina LERENA and "Carolina LERENA (de Martinez)" are the same woman. Both are recorded as the mother of a groom named Julian Martinez. I found her on 10 September and found her again on 13 September without noticing she was already here. Merged. "Bartolome LLERENA - Cordoba origin" was never a person. Its own note read "Cross-reference: the Rosario 1869 man was born in Cordoba" and its source field read "See the Cordoba Llerena family below". A note about a man had been sitting in the register as a man. Removed. Emilia LERENA b.1886 in Spain and Emilia LERENA Vega b. c.1815 in Montevideo are two women seventy-one years and two countries apart. Declared distinct, with the reason written on the line. Felisa arriving 1911 born 1893, and Felisa arriving 1923 born 1891, are left open on purpose. A woman who sailed once and came back with a family is an ordinary thing, and two years of drift in a stated age is less than this archive sees every week. Neither merged nor declared - it stays on the backlog because it is genuinely unsettled. Register 290 -> 288. The reasons broke the gate within a minute of being written: declared() split each line on || and read everything after it as the second name, so "Emilia LERENA Vega (b. c.1815) # REVIEWED ..." stopped matching the pair it had just been written for. The file header I wrote documents that exact format. The parser now strips the reason first.

A gate for redundant data, because every other one catches broken data

did An hour ago this archive added a duplicate of Dominga Josefa Llerena, one hour after refusing to add duplicates on principle. Nothing caught it, and the reason is worth stating: every gate here catches BROKEN data, and a duplicate person is perfectly well-formed. It renders, it carries evidence, it passes every check. So this is the missing one. tools/check-duplicates.py flags two register rows that share a forename and a canonical surname - all seven of this family's spellings fold to one - AND something only the same person would share: a shared ark, three uncommon terms in common, or birth years within six. The second condition is the whole design. Forename plus surname alone fires 382 times on a register of 290, because this family reuses Carlos, Luis, Maria and Avelino in every generation. With corroboration required it drops to 133, and the output stops being noise: Bartolome Llerena against Bartolome Llerena - Cordoba origin, both born 1824. Felisa arr. 1911 against Felisa arr. 1923, born 1893 and 1891. Emilia LERENA against Emilia LERENA Vega. VERIFIED BY PUTTING THE MISTAKE BACK. Re-adding the Dominga duplicate makes it fail and name the pair, with the shared terms that give it away - antonio, carballo, carvallo, dominga. Removing it, the gate passes. It would have stopped me. 133 pairs already existed and are baselined in data/_person-pairs.txt so that only a NEW pair fails the build. The file says plainly, twice, that being listed does NOT mean a pair has been compared - it means the gate has seen it. Marking one reviewed means writing the reason on its line. A row carries the backlog and names the four that look most suspect.

I added a duplicate one hour after refusing to add duplicates

did Chasing which parish register rows 167 and 168 were blocked on, I looked up how this archive got its exact dates for the Lerena Lenguas children - and found that I had been wrong about something bigger. THE DOMINGA OF THE 1836 CENSUS WAS NEVER A CANDIDATE. This archive proved her on 14 SEPTEMBER: DOMINGA JOSEFA LLERENA FERNANDEZ, born 13 May 1804 at Canelones, daughter of Sancho Llerena and Maria Fernandez, married CAPITAN DON ANTONIO RUIZ [RODRIGUEZ] DE CARVALLO - from the Catedral act of 12 May 1827, which names her outright as "Dona Dominga Llerena de Carvallo" and baptises the very LUCINDA who stands beside her in the census. I published her as "a candidate, not a finding", "attached to Sancho by nothing", and added a new person to the register for her. The duplicate has been removed and its evidence folded into the woman who was already there. The register is back to 290. The sting is the timing. One hour earlier I declined to add three children of household 97 precisely because they might duplicate people already in this register, and wrote that this archive had spent the week unpicking duplicates rather than making them. Then I made one, by not spending thirty seconds on a lookup. WHAT SURVIVES IS STILL WORTH HAVING, and it is not the identification. The 1836 household itself - Antonio entered Continente, casado, HACENDADO; a second daughter also called Dominga, named for her mother. And JOSEFA CARBALLO, born and resident in RIO DE JANEIRO, marrying Miguel Carlos Lemus of Rio at San Francisco de Asis on 24 July 1862. BRAZIL is the one genuinely new country in any of it, and row 171 is re-scoped to say so. Also corrected: rows 167 and 168 are NOT blocked on "the San Francisco de Asis baptism register". The siblings were baptised across at least three churches - La Mauricia in Villa de la Union, S. Agustin in the pueblo de la Restauracion, and San Francisco de Asis - and the first two are the same town under two names.

Telesforo Lenguas exists in one census line and nowhere else

did Row 168 asked who the 34-year-old Lenguas living in Don Luis Lerena's house was. He is not findable, and the null is tested rather than assumed. Surname LENGUAS exact, Uruguay, returns 561 records - the surname is well represented and the query plainly works - and Telesforo is in none of them. "Telesforo Lenguas" across all countries returns 43, every one of them Colombian, Venezuelan or Mexican noise. So for this archive he exists in one line of one census. A brother of Justiniana is still the obvious reading of a man of thirty-four living among her children, and it is still not asserted: that census gives names, ages and nationality and no relationships whatever. Blocked on the same parish register that row 167 needs, not on another search - which is worth saying, because two rows blocked on one document is an argument for reading it. One thing the control threw up and I am writing down rather than claiming. LUIS PEDRO LENGUAS and ANTONIA VEIGA of Montevideo had a daughter MARIA EMA LENGUAS, born 18 October 1896. This archive's own MARIA EMA LERENA LENGUAS was born 27 June 1857 - the "Erna" of household 97. The same two names, forty years apart, in a Lenguas house. Maria and Ema are both ordinary names and nothing follows from it, but this family's naming has held true across three generations and two continents before now, and it costs less to note than to rediscover.

Household 97 will not come out even, and the gap is the interesting part

did Row 167 asked for the c.1858 census household to be reconciled against the Lerena Lenguas siblings this archive already holds. It cannot be done by searching, and trying was the quickest way to find that out: surname LERENA with mother Justiniana returns 1,301 fuzzy results and the four hits already known; surname SERENA - the spelling that unlocked everything else this week - returns 963 and nothing relevant whatever. Worked against the register instead, three children match cleanly: Luis E. (1845), Gualberto who is Gilberto, and Erna who is Maria Ema (1857). THREE IN THE CENSUS ARE NOT IN THIS REGISTER - Maria c.1847, Justiniana c.1849, Josefa c.1852. AND TWO IN THE REGISTER ARE NOT IN THE HOUSE - Justiniana Mauricia Maxima, who would be fifteen, and Alberto Octavio, who would be eight. There is no eight-year-old on the page at all. The Justiniana conflict has two readings and neither is chosen. Either the census age is five years wrong, which is a lot even for an age a householder gave - or there were TWO daughters named Justiniana and the elder had died, which is among the commonest patterns in any family of this period, would explain the name being used twice, and would explain Alberto Octavio's absence by the same mechanism. AND NO NEW PEOPLE WERE ADDED, WHICH IS A DECISION RATHER THAN AN OVERSIGHT. Maria, Justiniana and Josefa are real, named and in a documented household - but if the ages are what is wrong, adding them creates duplicates of people already in this register under other names. This archive has spent the week unpicking duplicates rather than making them, and three people can wait for the parish register to say who they are. Blocked on reading the San Francisco de Asis baptisms straight through - which is where the archive's existing exact dates came from, so it already knows the register.

All fifteen named, and the reel is not in order

did Volumen 2 is LIBRO 246, read from its board at image 00126. Every volume on film 007499043 now carries its AGN shelfmark. And laying them out shows something the image numbers hide. Libros 246, 247, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 255, 256, 261 and 262 run almost consecutively - but across volumes 2 to 8, 12 and 15. Libros 147, 148 and 149 sit together in volumes 10, 11 and 13. Libros 334, 444, 464 and 465 are scattered, and Libro 2 and Libro 107 stand alone. SO ONE REEL CARRIES AT LEAST FOUR SEPARATE RUNS OF THE PADRONES SERIES, FILMED OUT OF ORDER. That is worth knowing before anyone assumes a neighbouring image is a neighbouring year - and it is exactly the assumption this archive would have made about Maria Llerena, whose volume 15 sits at the end of the reel and carries Libro 256, in the middle of the 246-262 run. The table is the deliverable: fifteen volumes, exact image ranges, and the shelfmark that the AGN's own inventory indexes. Nothing here dates a padron yet. But every one of them is now a question with an address on it rather than three thousand unlabelled images.

Fourteen of fifteen Libro numbers, and a bridge to a Montevideo reading room

did The row said eleven title boards still needed their Libro line, and that each needed the full image because the upscaled thumbnail gives only the volumen numeral. That was right - but two full boards render on one page even though four do not, so they were read a pair at a time, and where one failed to load it was carried into the next pair. Volumen 1 is Libros 2 y 334. 3 is 444, 247 and 249. 4 is 250, 251 and 252. 5 is 252. 6 is 253. 7 is 261. 8 is 262. 9 is 464. 10 is 147. 11 is 148. 12 is 465 y 255. 13 is 149. 14 is 107. 15 is 256, and it holds Maria Llerena at image 02771. Volumen 14's number came off its FIN board at image 2724 rather than its own title board, which refused to render twice. Only VOLUMEN 2 is outstanding, board at image 00126. Libro 252 appears on both the volumen 4 and the volumen 5 board. That is recorded as read rather than tidied away: a filmed volume may end and begin mid-Libro, and a neat table is not worth inventing a boundary the boards do not show. WHY THIS WAS WORTH THE CALLS. The Libro number is the AGN's own shelfmark and it is what their inventory indexes. So this table is the bridge between an image on a film and a dated volume in a Montevideo reading room. Maria Llerena's age of sixty becomes a birth year the moment somebody says what Libro 256 covers - and the same is now true of fourteen other volumes, any of which may hold the generation above Sancho.

Fifteen volumes, every boundary seen, two screenshots

did The row said each of the fifteen unchecked dark frames would cost one full-image look. It cost two screenshots for all of them. thumb_p200 rendered at 194 pixels with heavy contrast makes the big handwritten VOLUMEN numeral on a filming board perfectly legible - and the numeral is all that was needed to tell a board from a cover. Forty-one candidates on one page, two screenshots, done. FIFTEEN VOLUMES. Title boards at images 4, 126, 315, 563, 788, 959, 1215, 1315, 1475, 1574, 1847, 1962, 2155, 2425 and 2725, each preceded by the fin del item card of the volume before. The twelve other dark frames - 91, 127, 565, 1073, 1216, 1477, 1575, 1848, 1963, 2027, 2156, 2426 - are book covers, spines and blanks, which is exactly why a dark frame could not simply be called a boundary. AND THE RULE I WITHDREW AN HOUR AGO WAS RIGHT. Each boundary is FIN carrying the volume it closes, then immediately the title board of the next. I withdrew it after testing on image 00127 and finding a book cover - but 127 is not part of that pair at all. The pair is 125/126, and 127 is a third frame sitting after it. The rule held; the test picked the wrong image. Both the withdrawal and this are in the file, because a correction that is itself wrong is worth more visible than tidy. Four volumes now carry their Libro numbers - 1 is Libros 2 y 334, 12 is Libros 465 y 255, 14 is Libro 107, 15 is Libro 256 and holds Maria Llerena. The other eleven need the full image for that line, and a row says which. The Libro number is what the AGN's inventory indexes, so it is also what will date each padron - which is the question standing over Maria Llerena's age of sixty.

Eighteen dark frames is not eighteen item boundaries

did An hour ago this archive published that film 007499043 has "eighteen item boundaries", found by measuring thumbnail brightness. That overstates what the method can tell you, and the overstatement was caught by testing the next inference rather than publishing it. The scan is sound as far as it goes: dark frames read 16 to 30, ordinary pages read 140 to 156, and nothing falls between. But A FILMING TARGET BOARD IS ONLY ONE KIND OF DARK FRAME. So is a black book cover. So is a spine. From the one confirmed pair at 2724/2725 I inferred that every cluster runs FIN, then a blank, then the START board carrying the title - so the last image of a cluster would always be the title. Tested on the first untested cluster it failed immediately: image 00127 is a BOOK COVER, and image 00091 is a FIN DEL ITEM card with no title on it at all. Only three of the eighteen are confirmed by eye - 00004, a title board for volumen 1; 02724, FIN DEL ITEM for Libro 107; and 02725, the title board for volumen 15. The scan still earned its place. It reduced 3,208 images to eighteen places worth looking, in three calls and with no session. What it does NOT do is identify items, and this archive said it did - on /uruguay/, in the film register and in the row - for about twenty minutes. All four are corrected and the claim is logged. Also recorded, because it cost a call: loading four full-size boards into one page to read them together does not work. They are about a megabyte each and none of them rendered.

The reel is mapped, and not by looking at it

did Everything found in Uruguay this week came off six images of a reel of three thousand two hundred - the Archivo General de la Nacion's Padrones de Montevideo y Extramuros. Until today nobody here knew where one volume ended and the next began. It is mapped now. Each thumbnail was drawn to a 32x24 canvas and its mean brightness taken: filming target boards read 16 to 30, ordinary pages read 140 to 156, and nothing falls in between. A threshold of 60 separates them cleanly. Scanned at stride 2, which is sufficient rather than lucky - a boundary is a FIN/START pair of two consecutive images, so one of every pair is odd. EIGHTEEN ITEM BOUNDARIES, at images 4, 91, 125-127, 315, 563-565, 787, 959, 1073, 1215, 1315, 1475-1477, 1573-1575, 1847, 1961-1963, 2027, 2155, 2425 and 2724-2725. One thousand six hundred thumbnails, three calls, no session and no screenshots at all. That is the part worth keeping beyond this film. The contact-sheet method this archive already documents finds boards by eye, ninety to a screen; on a 3,208-image reel that is a morning's work. Measuring brightness finds them by number, and it will work on any film here. Three of the eighteen items are named - volumen 1 is Libros 2 y 334, an item ending in Libro 107 closes at 2724, and volumen 15 is Libro 256, which holds Maria Llerena. The other fifteen are one image load each, and a row lists exactly which images. Named, the reel becomes navigable by volume - and the Libro numbers are what the AGN's own inventory indexes, so they are also what will date each one.

A whole reel of Montevideo padrones, and this archive has read five images of it

did The row asked for film 007499043 to be added to the film register with its item boundaries. Looking properly turned up something larger. The film runs 1 to 3208 - the last image found by binary probe on the public thumbnail, which costs eleven requests and no session. Its leader gives the OLD MICROFILM NUMBER, 1263678, which is the cross-reference this archive keeps for every other film it holds. It is rollo 1 of project URUG NA01S, filmed at the ARCHIVO GENERAL DE LA NACION by Cesar Graziani in March and April 2006. And it is not one volume. It is an entire reel of PADRONES DE MONTEVIDEO Y EXTRAMUROS in numbered volumenes, each covering one or more Libros: volumen 1 is Libros 2 y 334, with its board at image 00004; an item ending in Libro 107 closes at 02724; volumen 15 is Libro 256, opening at 02725, and it holds Maria Llerena at 02771. THIS ARCHIVE HAS LOOKED AT FIVE IMAGES OF THREE THOUSAND. The padrones are enumerations of the living, with ages and stated birthplaces, running earlier than any Uruguayan work here - and this single reel has already produced Sancho's household with its four enslaved people named, two Lerena households with ages, and a Spanish-born Llerena woman of sixty keeping her own house. The rest of the boundaries are unmapped and a row says so. The method for mapping them is already proven and written down: thumbnail contact sheets, ninety to a screen, where the target boards show as dark frames among faint pages. Two sheets found 02724 and 02725 after a page-by-page hunt had found nothing at all.

Maria Llerena's volume is identified, and her year still is not

did Chasing the row opened an hour ago: date the census page that puts Maria Llerena at sixty, because a Spanish-born Llerena woman of sixty means nothing until you know which decade she was sixty in. The film gives the volume and refuses the year. Her page is film 007499043, image 02771 - taken from the manifest's alternateId rather than the viewer, which numbers within the waypoint item and has misled this archive once already. The filming target board at image 02725 identifies the volume: ARCHIVO GENERAL DE LA NACION, Montevideo, "PADRONES DE MONTEVIDEO Y EXTRAMUROS, LIBRO 256", volumen 15, filmed by the Sociedad Genealogica de Utah on 5 April 2006. The board at 02724 closes the previous item, LIBRO 107. The board carries the FILMING date and the volume's shelfmark. It gives no year for the padron itself, and her own sheet is headed by a street - "Calle del...", "Ala izquierda" - rather than a date. So the question changes rather than fails, and that is the useful part. It is no longer "when is this census" but "what does the AGN's own inventory say Libro 256 covers" - a question with an address on it, and the same letter that is already drafted for the Registro Civil of Santa Fe could ask Montevideo. Re-scoped and handed over. Found by the contact-sheet method this archive already documents: public thumbnails, ninety to a screen, and the target boards show up instantly as dark frames among faint pages. Two sheets found 2724 and 2725 after a page-by-page hunt had found nothing. And film 007499043 is new here. The DGS audit of 17 September tested 58 numbers and found them sound; this was not among them, because nothing had ever opened the Uruguayan census collection. A row adds it to the film register with its item boundaries, so the next person navigates it by item instead of by probe.

Maria Llerena, sixty, Spanish, head of her own house

did The last of the three Llerenas in the census collection, and the one worth the most. She is the FIRST NAME ON HER PAGE - "Casa 2. Maria Llerena - 60 anos - Espanola" - heading her own household, with MANUEL, 20, "Africana" and ROSA, 12, "Oriental" under her, both entered with a ditto mark where a surname would go. Their names and ages are secure; what they were to her is not. "Africana" means African-born, and in a Montevidean house of this period that ordinarily means an enslaved or formerly enslaved person taking the householder's surname. The page states no relationship and none is asserted - but it is the same shape as Sancho's household in 1812, and this archive now names those four. SANCHO WAS ANDALUZ AND FORTY-FIVE IN 1812. Depending on this census's date, a Spanish-born Llerena woman of sixty stands in his generation or the one above it - which is exactly the generation row 22 has been stuck on for weeks. She is attached to him by nothing, is in as UNPLACED - HIGH INTEREST, and is not claimed. AND THE CENSUS YEAR IS NOT ESTABLISHED, which is said plainly rather than skated over. The collection spans 132 years and the index gives no year for this sheet. At an 1830s census she was born in the 1770s - Sancho's own decade; at an 1850s one, the 1790s. The whole weight of her rests on which, so the next step on her is not another search but the date at the top of her own page. A row says so, with the rotation and the contrast setting it needs. On method, since it cost four probes: I scanned her column end to end and she was not in it, because she was ABOVE where I started. The list ran downward from my first view and I never looked up. Going back above the starting point found her immediately.

Luis Llerena owned carts, and the collection is not all censuses

did The third Llerena in "Uruguay, Census Records, 1726-1858" had an index entry giving a name, a sex, and nothing else whatever. The page explains why: it is not a census. It is a PADRON DE LOS PROPIETARIOS DE CARRETILLAS, CARRETAS Y COCHES - a register of the owners of handcarts, wagons and coaches in a Montevideo district - and LUIS LLERENA is entry 10, written with the double L. Entry 11 is marked "ydm ydm", which is how these lists repeat an owner for a second vehicle, so he may hold two. His neighbours on the page are Pedro Daina, D. Vicente Ponce, D. Manl. Ocampo and Ambrosio Olvega. THAT IS WORTH MORE ABOUT THE COLLECTION THAN ABOUT THE MAN. A collection called Census Records holds property registers too, and the index does not say which is which - so an entry here is not evidence of residence, only of owning something. Three different document types have now been seen inside it: the 1812 padron, nominal censuses of c.1833, 1836 and c.1858, and this. Every age or address taken from it has to be read with its document. THE YEAR IS NOT SECURE AND IS NOT GUESSED. The heading ends "de 18__" and the last two digits read as 1841, 1842 or 1846. If it falls there, Don Luis Lerena, born 9 February 1811, would be about thirty - which suits a man of property - but no year is claimed and no identification is made on it. He stays unidentified. This archive has two candidate Luises, and the page offers no age, no household and no parents to choose between them. What it does add is a kind of fact this archive has almost none of: an ordinary man's property in an ordinary year.

The search was right and the country is wrong

did Following the row written an hour ago: find the marriage of Dominga and Antonio R. Carballo, because a Uruguayan marriage act names both parties' parents and would settle whether Sancho's youngest daughter has been found. SERENA exact with spouse CARBALLO, Uruguay, returns exactly one hit - and it is not their marriage. It is Dominga appearing as MOTHER OF THE BRIDE in her daughter's act. Against a control of 769 on the loosened form, so their own marriage is genuinely not in Uruguay's indexed records. The reason is probably in the record itself. JOSEFA CARBALLO - a THIRD daughter, after Lucinda and Dominga of the 1836 census - was BORN AND RESIDENT IN RIO DE JANEIRO, and married Miguel Carlos Lemus, also of Rio, at San Francisco de Asis on 24 July 1862. The family was in Brazil. So the act that would name Dominga's parents may be Brazilian, or Montevidean and pre-1826 in registers this collection does not index. The row is re-scoped and blocked rather than left looking answerable by another sweep of the same corpus. And her husband has a fuller name. The FamilySearch Tree attaches him to ANTONIO RODRIGUES DE CARVALHO, b.1803 - so CARBALLO is CARVALHO, a Portuguese name, which is precisely what the 1836 census was saying by entering him "Continente" while his wife is "Montevideo". That identification is a tree attachment and not a document, and it is tiered as such. It opens ground this archive has never touched. A Lerena-surname woman married into a Portuguese family and had at least one child in Rio de Janeiro. If Dominga is Sancho's daughter, one of his children left for Brazil and came back - and nobody here has ever looked at Brazil.

Dominga, in a household at last

did Sancho's youngest child was Dominga, aged seven in the 1812 padron, and this archive has never followed her past that page. The seven-spelling sweep turned up a Dominga of the right generation in the 1836 census of Montevideo, and today the page itself was read. Household 114. She is the wife of D. ANTONIO R. CARBALLO, hacendado, entered "Continente"; both are CASADO; and the two unmarried daughters of the house are LUCINDA and DOMINGA CARBALLO - a daughter named for her mother, which is the naming discipline this family has been seen keeping across three generations and two continents. The census states no relationships whatever. Wife is read from position and status - she sits directly after the male head, before two children carrying his surname, and her status column repeats his. That is as far as the page goes and it is said as such. AND THE PAGE WRITES SERENA WHERE THE INDEX SAYS LORENA. That is the third discrepancy between this index and its own pages found in a single day, after household 97 and household 229. The index is not a transcription of the page; it is a reading of it, and a different reading each time. SHE IS NOT ATTACHED TO SANCHO. Twenty-eight in 1836 implies 1808, and his Dominga was born about 1805 - three years out on an age a householder gave rather than a register holds. She is in as UNPLACED - HIGH INTEREST with both sides of the argument on her row. What would settle it is the couple's marriage act, which would name her parents outright, as the 1877 Gilberto act did this week. They are married by 1836 with a daughter old enough to be entered soltera, so it is likely Montevideo c.1820-1832 - a far smaller search than the one that found her, and a row now says exactly how to run it, including that the spelling on the page is not the spelling in the index.

All seven spellings, put to one collection

did The sweep row asked for the 1726-1858 census collection to be worked for the generation above Sancho. All seven of this archive's spellings have now been put to it. SERENA 10 - and it is the whole reason nothing had ever been found. Two complete households came out of it: Don Luis Lerena's of about 1858, and Pedro Antonio's of about 1833. LLERENA 3 - Sancho himself, plus Maria Llerena, 60, born Espana, and Luis Llerena, both unplaced. LERENA 27 fuzzy and mostly noise, and SANCHO IS NOT AMONG THEM, because he is indexed Llerena. That is the entire argument for sweeping spellings instead of searching a name. LORENA 6. GERENA, LERINA and LARENA all zero - and they are tested nulls, not silences, because Serena returns ten and Llerena three on the identical query. IT DID NOT REACH THE GENERATION ABOVE SANCHO, which is what the row hoped for, and the row says so. What it reached instead was two generations of his descendants and one candidate for a daughter nobody has ever followed. DOMINGA LORENA, 28, born Montevideo, on a page headed ANO DE 1836 - DEPARTAMENTO DE MONTEVIDEO. Sancho's youngest was DOMINGA, aged 7 in the 1812 padron, so born about 1805 - which gives 31 in 1836, not 28. Three years out on a census age, which is what a householder said rather than what a register holds. A candidate and not a finding, not attached to Sancho, and worth the chase for one reason: this archive has never followed Dominga past 1812 at all. She is one of the six children with no later record of any kind. One thing worth keeping about this collection: it holds DATED censuses, not one blur. Three have now been seen inside it - the 1812 padron, a c.1833 enumeration, and one headed 1836 - and the index gives none of those dates. They are only on the page. So every age taken from here has to be read with its census before it means anything, which is exactly how household 229 got dated and how Dominga can be tested.

Sancho's son, his wife, and three children nobody here had

did The same census sweep that found Don Luis's household found his brother's. Household 229: PEDRO ANTONIO LERENA, son of Sancho, with Da VICENTA VEGA - the wife this archive already holds, "natural de Cerro Largo", daughter of Don Romualdo and Dona Andrea Maestre - and three children it did not: EMILIA 18, PEDRO 16, VICENTA 12. HIS AGE DATES THE PAGE. Born 31 July 1793 and entered at forty, this census is about 1833, not 1858. And that is the check that makes the whole reading hold rather than a guess: the couple's one previously known child, Leonarda Margarita, was born 20 February 1837 and is correctly ABSENT from the page. Three elder children in 1833, a fourth four years later. So this does not contradict what the archive had; it is four years earlier than anything it had for them. The son and the younger daughter are also the answer to what the index entries actually point at: "Pedro a. Serena, 16" is the SON and not his father, and "Vicenta Serena, 12" is the DAUGHTER and not the wife. Both were about to be read the other way. AND IT CORRECTS SOMETHING I PUBLISHED THIS MORNING. /uruguay/ said of household 97 that "the enumerator wrote the family as Serena throughout". On this page the clerk writes LERENA perfectly plainly while the index still says Serena - so the substitution may be the INDEXER's hand, not the enumerator's, and household 97's own handwriting needs re-reading before that claim is repeated. What is certain, and unchanged, is the practical half: search this collection under SERENA or nothing comes back. The page now says that instead. Three people added with their edges, each recording that nothing else about them is known. Emilia is not the Emilia Lerena of 1886 in Leandro's household, three generations later.

A whole generation on one page, and it was filed under Serena

did Sweeping the 1726-1858 census collection for the archive's known spellings, SERENA returns ten - and seven of them carry consecutive record identifiers, which means one household. It is Don Luis Lerena's. Household 97, a census taken about December 1858: Luis Serena 47 - b. 9 Feb 1811, the age fits exactly Justiniana Lenguas 33 - ENTERED UNDER HER OWN SURNAME, not Serena Luis E. Serena 14 - Luis Eugenio, b. 9 Feb 1845 Maria Serena 12 Justiniana Serena 10 Josefa Serena 7 Gualberto Serena 4 Erna Serena 1 1/2 Telesforo Lenguas 34 The wife is the proof of the whole thing. The enumerator wrote LENGUAS and not Serena, so this is the Lerena-Lenguas marriage sitting on a census page - and no Lerena search had ever returned any of it, because the family is written SERENA throughout. That variant is one this archive already documents; it had simply never been turned on this collection. Two clean decodings. "Erna" is EMA - Maria Ema Lerena Lenguas, christened 7 October 1857 - and at a year and a half SHE DATES THE PAGE to about December 1858, which makes every other age in the household readable. "Gualberto", aged four, is GILBERTO, born 1854, the man whose parentage was documented off the 1877 marriage act three commits ago. A clerk's ear, not a different child - and written down as a reading. What it leaves open, and none of it forced: Maria Serena, 12, is nobody this archive holds and would sit exactly between Luis Eugenio and Alberto Octavio. Justiniana Serena, 10, implies 1848 against the archive's 30 July 1843 for Justiniana Mauricia Maxima - either the age is wrong, there are two Justianas, or the archive's date is, and it is recorded as a contradiction rather than resolved. Josefa Serena, 7, may be the Josefa of Gilberto's 1895 household, one year apart, and is NOT merged. And Alberto Octavio, who should be about eight, is not on the page at all. One new person: TELESFORO LENGUAS, 34, living in the house, a year older than Justiniana, among her children. A brother of hers is the obvious reading and is not asserted - this census gives names, ages and nationality, and no relationships whatever.

A census collection nobody here had opened, and it reaches back to 1726

did The 1812 padron came out of "Uruguay, Census Records, 1726-1858" - 162,873 records, never touched by this archive. Having used it once, it was worth asking what else is in it. Surname LLERENA exact returns three. Sancho, read yesterday. And two more nobody here has ever seen: MARIA LLERENA, 60, born ESPANA, and LUIS LLERENA with no age, birthplace or household in the index at all. A Spanish-born Llerena woman of sixty is not nothing. Sancho was andaluz and 45 in 1812, so a Maria born in Spain about 1752 stands in his own generation or the one above it - and she sits on a different film section, so probably a different census year. She is not claimed as kin and is attached to nothing. Luis could be Sancho's son of 1811, or Don Luis Lerena of 1811-1878, or neither. The larger point is the span. This archive's Uruguayan work begins at the Canelones baptisms of 1791; this collection reaches back to 1726. Sancho arrived from Andalusia and his parentage is the wall row 22 has been stuck on for weeks - and an eighteenth-century census is exactly where an immigrant first appears, with an age and a stated birthplace. Three rows added, including a sweep of the whole span for Lerena, Llerena, Serena and Gerena. One method note that cost twenty minutes and will cost the next person nothing: Maria's page renders as a faint, wide, apparently unreadable table because IT IS ROTATED 90 DEGREES. Turn it with transform: rotate(-90deg) and a mild contrast(1.5) and it is perfectly legible - name, age, nationality, occupation, with Oriental, Espanol, Africano and Francia down the third column. Heavy contrast destroys it: the ink is faint pencil and blows out to white.

The padron names all four, and this archive said it named none

did Following the row opened an hour ago, the 1812 household was read to its end - and the answer runs in the opposite direction from where I first looked. Under one bracket: SANCHO LLERENA, MARIA FERNANDEZ, the six children ending with DOMINGA, then ANTONIO - written out by the enumerator as "negro esclavo" - JOSE, JUANA and TERESA, and last RODRIGO FERNANDEZ, the father-in-law the transcription puts in the household at 63, asturiano. The next bracket opens at a Teresa Castro, which closes it. Rodrigo standing at the end is what proves the boundary. SO THE FOUR ENSLAVED PEOPLE ARE NAMED: ANTONIO, JOSE, JUANA, TERESA. This archive has said in its data and on its pages that the padron "gives none of them a name". It names all four, and the claim survived only because it was taken from a transcription that dropped them. Logged as a SERIOUS correction. Four people this family held were nameable all along. Antonio, Jose and Teresa are in the register now, each saying plainly that nothing else about them is known - no age, no baptism, no death, no emancipation. Juana was already there from the baptism act of 26 September 1812, and is now corroborated inside Sancho's household by a second document of the same year. Two records, one household, 1812. AND MY OWN FIRST READING WAS WRONG, published on /hypotheses/ for about an hour. I pointed at the four standing ABOVE Sancho - Juana 41, Juan "negro esclavo", Gabriel, Maria - and called that Juana a convergence. Those are house 59, a different address. The tell was DOMINGA: the children end with her, so everything between Dominga and Rodrigo Fernandez is the rest of the household, and reading upward was simply the wrong direction. The Juana aged 41 of house 59 is a different woman, and saying so matters more than the error does - two Juanas on one page is exactly how a tree acquires a wrong mother. Both logged. Jose is not Jose Loreto Lerena, Sancho's son of 1806, and Teresa is not Teresa Castro of the next household. Both traps are written onto their register rows. The register stands at 285 people.

The 1812 padron could have been read from a desk all along

did Row 30 asked for the padron to be read from the image instead of a published transcription of AGN, Fondo ex AGA, L 251 - on the assumption that the document itself lived only in Montevideo. It does not. The page is on FamilySearch, in a collection nobody here had ever opened: Uruguay, Census Records, 1726-1858. It carries the AGN Montevideo stamp, and the index even spells Sancho's origin "Andaluzia", which is the transcription's "andaluz" in the register's own hand. Index ark 1:1:61LW-R54J, image ark 3:1:3QS7-99ZR-NKNR. THE TRANSCRIPTION WAS GOOD. Sancho Llerena, Maria Fernandez su esposa, Juan Agustin, Pedro Antº, Fidel, Luis, Agustina - seven names under one bracket, all six children present and in the order this archive has been quoting for weeks. WHAT THE TRANSCRIPTION DID NOT CARRY is four named people standing immediately above him, under margin number 59: JUANA - 41; JUAN, "negro esclavo"; GABRIEL; MARIA. That matters more than it looks. This archive states, in its data and on its pages, that the 1812 padron "records four enslaved people in Sancho's household and GIVES NONE OF THEM A NAME". Four people are named right beside him, one explicitly enslaved, and the first of them is JUANA - which is the name of the enslaved woman the baptism act of 26 September 1812 places in the household of Don Sancho Lerena and Dona Maria Fernandez, mother of Maria Mercedes born two days before. AND IT IS NOT BEING ASSERTED. Their bracket is distinct from Sancho's, and the family above them is a Sargento Veterano de Caballeria with a wife Sabina Balmaceda - so the four may be his. dist.jpg at 3793x2909 does not settle it, and the filmers themselves captioned the page "Paginas Rotas / Escritura poco Legible". Four names recorded, attribution left open, the archive's own "gives none of them a name" flagged rather than quietly overwritten, and a row that says exactly what would settle it. If it resolves to Sancho, two more people who were held by this family become nameable.

The 1911 witnesses, read at last - and one guess was wrong at the end

did Row 102 has stood since the marriage act was found: two signatures, "something like J. M. Wathington and A. H. Blackalock", and this archive will not print a guess as a reading. The page has now been read at full resolution - image ark 3:1:3Q9M-C9BP-73LY-N, 2693x1757. FIRST WITNESS: J. M. Wathington. The -ington ending is unambiguous at magnification and the earlier guess was right. SECOND WITNESS: the earlier guess is wrong where it mattered. The initials A. H. are clear and the surname ends -BACH, not -lock. Best reading "A. H. Blackabach", and the middle of it is explicitly NOT secure - the letters between "Black" and "-bach" are one cursive run. Recorded as a reading with its uncertainty stated, which is what the row asked for. Neither witness is a Lerena or a Taylor, so the row's hope - that one of them would be the only social connection to Pablo Armando in the Cape before 1911 - is not met by either name. What the page gave instead: the officiant is BERTRAM W. GLYNN, R.C. Priest - and he is the same priest who baptised Roque at Corpus Christi Wynberg on 12 June 1911, three months before this wedding. One priest, both acts, the same year. The couple were not strangers to that parish when they married in it. Method, since it made this possible in four calls rather than a tile assembly: the record page exposes an image ark, its manifest gives the apid, and dist.jpg on that apid serves the whole page at full resolution. Where alternateId comes back "null" there is no film-and- image number to be had, and the apid is the only handle.

Logging a finding was counting as publishing it

did Yesterday's drift fix was committed with its catch UNVERIFIED and a row saying so. This closes that row, and the answer is worse than a bug in the checker. My own test was broken first, and in the way this archive has a written rule about: the rebuild ran as `npm run build >/dev/null 2>&1` and the exit code was never checked, so a failed build would have left the old page in dist and the test would have passed on nothing. Re-run with the status checked, the build was fine - and the catch STILL did not fire. The fault was real. WHAT DEFEATED IT WAS /worklist/. This archive writes its findings into row notes as a matter of habit - that is what those long notes are - and the worklist page re-prints every note in full. So the moment a finding was logged, the checker could see all of its words on a page and counted it as published. Logging was passing for publishing, which is precisely the gap the check exists to find. /register/, /people/, /who/ and /search/ were already excluded as register dumps. /worklist/, /changes/, /corrections/ and /searched/ join them. They are ledgers OF the work, not places a reader meets the story. Verified both ways this time, and stated as such: delete the /uruguay/ section that carries the Mauricio finding and the check reports it by name; restore the section and the check goes quiet. Build exit codes checked at every step.

Two gates were pulling against each other, and drift was wrong every time

did Found by following a drift warning instead of dismissing it. drift.py reads the .astro SOURCES, so it could see a finding a page had TYPED and was blind to one a page RENDERED. That was harmless while findings were written into prose by hand. It stopped being harmless the moment check-onsite.py started requiring every data file to be imported by a page, because from then on the archive's own two gates pulled in opposite directions - onsite saying "put the finding in data and render it", drift saying "no page says it" - and drift was wrong every time. Every data-driven section added this week was invisible to it. It now reads the built pages as well. A reader does not read .astro. With one exclusion that matters: /people/, /register/, /who/ and /search/ re-print the register wholesale, and counting them would make any register finding "published" the moment it was written down - the opposite of the check's purpose. /register/ was the one that actually defeated it in testing: the Mauricio finding still passed with the /uruguay/ section deleted, because /register/ was quietly carrying every word of it. WHAT IS NOT VERIFIED, and a row says so. After excluding the dumps, deleting the /uruguay/ section still did not make the check report the finding again - even though no other non-dump page and no .astro source holds those words. The blind spot was real and is fixed; the catch behaviour is unproven. A gate whose catch is unproven is a gate nobody should trust, so it is written down as an open row rather than left as a green tick. Also done, which is what turned the warning up: /uruguay/ now carries "Rosario-Colla - not a gap, an origin", with Mauricio, his parents and Casimira Montano, and the 1837 act.

The fifth name, swept under the surname she actually carries

did On 17 September this archive recorded Catherine Tertia Karon's absence from the gazette as "not a null - a false null averted", because that sweep was keyed on LERENA and she is indexed under KARON. It could never have found her whatever the truth. She has now been sought under KARON. The surname returns 28 records in South Africa, so it exists there and is indexed; Catherine plus Karon returns 281 worldwide and every one of them is American or Belgian. She is not found. That is still not confirmation either way, and it is not written as one. But there is a weak negative worth stating plainly: she is absent from the very Johannesburg cemetery register that holds the other four, entered consecutively on one day. She may be buried in another province entirely, and FamilySearch's South African civil death collection stops at 1967 - so the collections that would carry a 1999 death for her are thin. It is the first evidence pointing away from her being part of the same event, and it is recorded as a lean rather than a finding. Also acting on the drift checker, which noticed that the register now describes Mauricio Lerena as "the patriarch this archive had researched but never made a person" while no single page says so to a reader. He has a page; the FINDING does not have one. Row added.

It was a catastrophe, and the cemetery register proves it

did Found while looking for something else - the 1911 marriage image for row 102. Rows 11 and 122 have asked since 15 September whether five members of this family carrying the year 1999 were a family catastrophe or a default-year artefact in a commercial index. This archive refused to say, twice, and on 17 September narrowed it with the Government Gazette while recording plainly that the gazette could not reach the wife or the children. The Johannesburg cemetery register reaches all of them, and it is free. PIERRE FREDERICK LERENA, born 1948, DIED 12 NOVEMBER 1999. RICHARD LERENA, born 1986, DIED 12 NOVEMBER 1999 - thirteen years old, the same day as his father. JEFFREY LERENA, born 1991, eight years old, buried 22 November. GAYLE LERENA, born 1950, buried 22 November. All four share a burial registration of 18 NOVEMBER 1999. And their four record identifiers are consecutive - 6X6S-M484, M48C, M48H, M48Z. Four sequential entries, one family, entered in a single act of registration. That is structural corroboration on top of the dates, and it is exactly what an index loses. GAYLE IS THE ONE THAT MATTERS MOST HERE. On 17 September this archive wrote that her 1999 "rests on a single index row and must not be published as fact", because a wife married in community of property leaves no separate estate for the gazette to carry. That refusal was right, and it is now closed by a different source rather than by argument. DOREEN MAY LERENA was the last person in this family whose dates came only from the commercial index - "born 1921, died 1999" stood explicitly as THEIR fact. She died 17 November 1999, five days after the other four, and was buried two days before them. Row 17, which asks whether gendatabase-derived facts may stay on a public site, is now about very little indeed. Also, for free: Careen Maria Lerena died 27 June 1947, which row 106 wanted a day for. Mary Septima was buried 16 November 1935, the day after she died. And Rhena May and Ricardo Juan Carlos are matched exactly by a second source - Rhena being the control this archive used to prove the gazette misses real adult deaths, which is precisely the point: she is in the cemetery register. One trap recorded: this collection renders Doreen's year as "0099" and Ricardo's as "0094". The "19" is dropped, and anything sorting by year puts them in the first century. Only Catherine Tertia Karon is still untested, and for the reason already logged - she is indexed under KARON, so a sweep keyed on LERENA was never going to find her.

Two brothers, one parish, thirteen years apart

did A parent-pair query on the couple this morning's image documented - Luis and Justiniana - returns both sons as grooms at the same church. Luis Lerena, 19 December 1864, San Francisco de Asis, Ciudad Vieja, marrying Julia Juanico; Gilberto Lerena, 11 August 1877, the same parish, marrying Julia Salvanach. Structural corroboration of what the page had already said outright. Worth recording is how badly the machine renders their father on every single entry: "Luis Lorena Languas", "Luis Lenguas", "Luis". The surname collapses into the mother's both times - which is exactly why this parentage could not be promoted off an index, and exactly why opening the image was the right call rather than a formality. No further siblings could be added: the fuzzy parent-pair search returns 1,254 records and is far too noisy to close a sibling set honestly. Said here rather than left as a silence.

The patriarch of three departments was never a person here

did Re-measuring Colonia for compound surnames turned up the family's own origin, and showed that my row 156 had the question backwards. ROSARIO-COLLA WAS NEVER UNACCOUNTED FOR. IT IS WHERE THEY CAME FROM. This archive's notes already read "RAMON LERENA x MARIA JOSEFA GONZALEZ, of ROSARIO / COLLA, fathering children c.1800-1820" and "from Rosario-Colla across San Jose, Flores, Florida, Salto", and the 1837 San Jose marriage gives Mauricio's birthplace as COLLA outright - Colla being the old name of Rosario in Colonia. I wrote the row from row 120's summary line without reading the file underneath it, which is the same fault as the Rosario-parishes correction three days ago. Logged. What WAS missing is that none of them existed as people. Row 120 identifies Mauricio Lerena as the man whose children account for San Jose, Flores and Florida, with Salto and Montevideo besides - and he lived here only inside other people's notes. Four people added with their edges, from the marriage of 3 February 1837 at San Jose de Mayo, ark 1:1:F21B-SZ5: MAURICIO LERENA of Colla; his father RAMON LERENA of Rosario-Colla; his mother MARIA JOSEFA GONZALEZ; and his wife DONA CASIMIRA MONTANO, whose own parents Jose Montano and Ignacia Barredo the act names. Tiered INDEXED, not image-read, and attached to Sancho's line by nothing. Ramon of Colla is kept separate from the Ramon LERENA born 1892 in Argentina who was already in this register, and both rows now say so. The standing warning is carried onto his row too: the tree's Gabino of Flores is given as a son of Ramon Llerena Cubas and Margarita Leal, which may or may not be this Ramon, and the two are deliberately not merged. One more link, and it runs the other way: VITALINO LERENA, born San Pedro, COLONIA in 1870, son of Vitalino Lerena and Andrea Echeverry - the Trinidad/Flores couple this archive already holds. Colonia and Flores are joined by a document now, not by inference. The register stands at 282 people.

Gilberto's parents come off the page now, not off a tree

did Row 158 asked whether the 1877 marriage image would document Gilberto Lerena's parents. It does, and it says so twice. "...el matrimonio que por palabras de presente contrajo Don GILBERTO LERENA, Oriental, soltero, hijo legitimo de Don LUIS y de Dona JUSTINIANA LENGUAS: con [Julia] SALVANACH, del propio estado y nacionalidad, e hija de Don CRISTOBAL y de Dona ANGELA ALVAREZ" - and the padrinos are "Don LUIS LERENA y Dona ANGELA ALVAREZ". Don Luis is named as the father and again as the padrino at his son's wedding: the act corroborating itself. So the father edge moves from TREE to DOCUMENTED, the mother edge did not exist at all and now does, and Gilberto becomes a documented BROTHER of Don Luis Eugenio Lerena Lenguas, whose parentage on the same couple already rested on Montevideo act 258 of 1864. San Francisco de Asis, marriage no. 178, 11 August 1877, DGS 007713525 image 01765. AND THE INDEX WAS WRONG EXACTLY WHERE IT WAS PREDICTED TO BE. Two days ago the machine index of this act gave the bride - a Salvanach - a father called "Cristobal LERENA", and that was flagged as impossible and left unrecorded pending the image. The page shows Cristobal is a SALVANACH, her own father, and the surname Lerena was carried across from the padrino line. There is no Cristobal Lerena. None was ever added. Two method notes, both of which cost time today. An ark's image number is NOT the number the viewer shows: the viewer said "Image 33 of 250, item 9", and image 33 of that film is a baptism register. The ark's true position is image 01765, and only the manifest's alternateId gives it - what is on screen is the position within the waypoint item. And dist.jpg serves the whole page at full resolution, 4467x3476 here, so no tile assembly was needed at all. The emphasis gate caught an unpaired marker in the evidence row before it could render literally.

The Santa Fe household is not a Santa Fe household

did Row 154 held one baptism: Armando Lerena, 1917, Santa Fe city, son of Casimiro Lerena and Amelia Lepiani - recorded unplaced because the forename Armando is suggestive and nothing more. Searched properly it has a second child in a second province: VENTURA AMELIA ARGENTINA LERENA, in the Entre Rios church records, her mother indexed once as "Lapriani". So it is a littoral family across two provinces, not a Santa Fe one - and it is still attached to Pablo Armando by nothing whatever. The forename was never evidence and has not been treated as any. The useful part is the province. Entre Rios turned up twice in one session from two unrelated households - Casimiro's daughter, and Gilberto and Julia Salvanach's child recorded at "Uruguay, Entre Rios, Argentina" in 1885 - and this archive has no Entre Rios study at all, only Rosario, Buenos Aires and the Uruguayan departments. Entre Rios lies between them, on the river, which is exactly the route this family used. That is now a row.

The false positive was hiding a family of fifty-two

did Row 153 existed only because of a mistake: a full-text search for "Juan Carlos Lerena" matched ACROSS the compound surname "Juan Carlos GONZALEZ LERENA", and the hit was written off as a false positive. Swept properly, that variant returns 52 records, and neither of this archive's two compound-surname files held the form at all. At the head of it is ESTEFANIA LERENA, who married SERVANDO GONZALEZ - twenty-eight records name her - with at least six children: Servando Cecilio (1854-1911, Montevideo), Leopoldo, Francisco, Cesarea (christened 30 April 1872, San Jose), Maria Bernarda and Esperanza. A Lerena woman with six children, wholly absent from this archive, and the name Estefania appears nowhere in this register. She is attached to Sancho's line by nothing and is recorded unplaced. IT BEARS ON COLONIA, WHICH IS ROW 156. Maria Bernarda Gonzalez Lerena married at CAMPANA, COLONIA in 1931. Row 156 asks who the 189 Lerena records of Colonia are, and part of the answer is that they are not all called Lerena - a department counted by exact surname under-counts a compound family and is then reported as thin. Colonia was measured that way, so it must be re-measured before anyone concludes anything from the number. And it closes the false positive properly rather than leaving it as a shrug: Juan Carlos Gonzalez Lerena, born 1899, married Concepcion Petrona Urbano Orio at Montevideo on 9 November 1922, son of Leopoldo Gonzalez Lerena and Maria Guillerma Giuria - Estefania's grandson, seventeen years younger than Pablo Armando. Not ours, and now demonstrably so rather than merely improbably so. The on-site gate earned its place here: a section insert threw before the file was written, so the new data reached no page, and the build refused it by name rather than passing.

Three questions to FamilySearch, and the control found more than the searches

did FamilySearch is signed in again. Three rows worked, and the most valuable thing came out of a control query rather than out of a search. ROW 105, the Bretons who stood godparent by proxy in 1911: surname BRETON exact with spouse surname LERENA exact returns ZERO, against a control in the identical form - SALVANACH with spouse LERENA - that returns 19. So no Breton married into this family. That does not kill the lead, it narrows it: if Jose and Maria Luisa Breton are connected to Pablo Armando they are friends, compatriots or employers rather than kin, and they should be looked for beside Lerena in Argentine records instead of in marriages. ROW 35, where Roque was born in 1905: answered out of this archive's own files. He was baptised 12 June 1911 at Corpus Christi Wynberg - aged five and a half, and three months before his parents married on 3 September 1911, with his mother entered as "Mary Septima OLIM Taylor". So the register's flat statement that he was born at Cape Town is an inference from where he was baptised six years later, not from anything that says where he was born. The pattern is legitimation. The question stays open and is better posed. AND THE CONTROL TURNED SOMETHING UP. The marriage of Gilberto Lerena and Julia Salvanach, 11 August 1877 at San Francisco de Asis, names the bride's parents-in-law - Gilberto's parents - as "Luis Lenguas" and "Justiniana Lenguas". That is almost certainly a machine garble of LUIS LERENA and JUSTINIANA LENGUAS, which is exactly the couple this archive assigns him AT TREE TIER ONLY. A parish register would make it documented. It is not being promoted, and the reason is in the same record: the page says "indexed by a computer", and that same entry gives the bride, a Salvanach, a father called "Cristobal Lerena" while she marries a Lerena. One half of the entry is visibly wrong, which is the whole argument for opening the image before trusting the other half. Image ark recorded, row added, no Cristobal added to the register.

Agustina is a real null now, and the first three zeros were not

did FamilySearch is signed in again, so row 66 was re-run - the row filed as "untested, not null" because a session expired mid-search. The recorded query was Agustina LERENA exact, Uruguay, then LORENA and LLERENA. All three returned zero. Those zeros were worthless, and finding out why is worth more than the row. FAMILYSEARCH'S EXACT FORENAME MATCHES THE WHOLE GIVEN-NAME STRING, not the first forename. A person indexed with two forenames is invisible to an exact search on the first one. She is Agustina RAMONA. Proved rather than assumed: exact "Maria" returns 53 Uruguayan Lerenas and Maria Lili Lerena is NOT among them, while exact "Maria Lili" returns her alone - same surname, same country, same form, only the given-name string changed. Re-run in the safe shape - fuzzy forename, exact surname, which does match per token - it returns 35 records and not one is an Agustina. They are fuzzy hits on Augusto, Agustin and A. That is the null, and this one is real. AND IT IS THE EXACT MIRROR OF A TRAP THIS ARCHIVE ALREADY HAD. On FreeBMD the printed index ABBREVIATES the second forename, so "Horace Archibald" finds nothing while "Horace A" sits there. Two free sources, opposite behaviour, and the habit that is correct on one produces a false null on the other. They are now written on one page of /method/ for that reason. Blast radius: 133 of 278 people in this register carry two or more forenames. Any exact-forename null recorded against one of them is unsafe. None could be found by grep, because the searches were written down in prose without naming the parameter - which is the lesson underneath the new row: record the QUERY, not just the answer. What it does not undo: the central null on "Juan Carlos Lerena" used the full string as the exact given name, which is the right shape. It stands, but its limit is sharper than when written - it would still miss "Juan Carlos Maria" or "Juan C.", because the match is whole.

What each source would and would not do today, written down

did Three access conditions recorded where this archive already keeps them, so the next session does not spend an hour rediscovering them. FamilySearch is SIGNED OUT again, three days after being signed in - /search/ redirects to ident.familysearch.org and the results frame renders empty. Assume signed out until proved otherwise. No null was recorded from it today, and the rule that saved that is already in this file: a rendered "(0)" is not a zero. But DeepZoom serves anyway: thumb_p200.jpg returns 200 to plain curl with no session, which is exactly what made the film audit possible on a signed-out day. manifest.json does NOT - it answers 401 "Unauthorized (anonymous session)" - which corrects this archive's own method note. And a 401 is not a missing film: access is set per IMAGE, so one film answers 401 at image 1 and 200 at image 100. Only 404 means absent. gazettes.africa splits: the search index is open and returned 42 documents, but the document viewer sits behind a bot challenge that did not clear and was not worked around. Snippets yes, pages no - so a name that fails a gazette search today is untested rather than absent, because the OCR cannot be checked. Three new records were found from snippets regardless.

Neither of them went to sea, and the census said so four days ago

did Row 148 asked what a ship-by-ship search of the merchant crew lists would cost before anyone committed to it. It costs nothing, because it must not be started. The 1891 census had already answered it, and had been in this archive since 16 September. In their father's household at 2 Fore Street, Northam: WILLIAM J TAYLOR, son, 20, CAB DRIVER - his father is a cab driver and retired cavalry sergeant - and HORACE A TAYLOR, son, 19, FOOTMAN, DOMESTIC SERVANT. Two brothers, two land trades, on one page, at exactly the ages a life at sea would already have begun. That also gives the ADM 188 null its reason. They are absent from the Royal Navy registers of seamen because they were not seamen. The costing is recorded anyway, so nobody reopens this as though it were merely untried. Crew lists are filed by the ship's official number and not by name, so for the Bideford, Barnstaple and Appledore registries it would have meant several thousand annual agreements across a hundred-odd vessels, held in three institutions at once. And it could not have been done by name in any event: the name-indexed registers of merchant seamen run to 1857 and resume in 1918, and both men's working lives fall inside that gap. There is no index that turns a name into a ship for 1885-1910. The route was never available, quite apart from being unnecessary. What this does NOT touch: the Taylors of Appledore on the Ulelia are still joined to this family by nothing at all. If anything the gap widens - a cab-driving, footmanning household in Northam looks less like a shipmaster's kin, not more - and it is still not asserted either way.

Two rows had been finished for days and left open

did Row 72 turned out to be mostly done and unmarked, which prompted a sweep of every "next" row whose note claims completion. Six matched; four of them say NOT done and were correctly open. Two were not. Row 127, the 1891 census at Northam, was finished on 16 September. Its one unsettled question - the seventh daughter - is row 128 and is already written there. A row whose remainder lives in another row is finished, not open. Row 120, the four Uruguayan departments, is answered and answered against itself: three of the four turned out to be one family spreading in a single generation, and its own "never searched" claim was retracted to /corrections/. One remainder was too specific to leave hiding inside it, so Colonia now has its own row - 189 records, no dedicated study, and the department where the warning about a DIFFERENT Lerena family would show first.

Juana and her daughter were on this site as strangers

did Row 72 asked that the enslaved people of Sancho's household be written as people rather than as circumstances of somebody else's life. Most of it was already done and the row had simply never been closed: JUANA and MARIA MERCEDES are both in the register, both with their own pages. What was missing is the thing the record actually says. The baptism act of 26 September 1812 reads "a MARIA MERCEDES, que nacio antes de ayer, NEGRA ESCLAVA DE DON SANCHO LERENA Y DE DONA MARIA FERNANDEZ, HIJA DE JUANA" - it names the relation outright, and this archive had never recorded it. A mother and her daughter stood on the site unconnected. The edge is in now, both ways, and both women have evidence rows carrying the act itself (ark 3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-X757-D) so it reaches their pages rather than sitting in a file. The evidence gate now counts 13 records about 10 named people. The 1812 padron counted four enslaved people in that household at calle San Juan No 60 and gave none of them a name. This act names two. The other two stay unnamed, and that is recorded as a fact about the record rather than a gap to be filled by guessing - which is the same rule this archive applies to its own ancestors. Nothing is claimed about Maria Mercedes beyond her first two days: no marriage, no death, no emancipation is known, and the page says so.

Last demonstrably alive, and the answer is 20 of 278

did Row 82: the register records when a person was NAMED, never when they were last ALIVE, and a man named as a grandfather on an 1880 act may have been twenty years dead. That confusion is invisible while the two share a field. tools/last-alive.py computes it, and it does not guess. Dates in this archive live in prose, and prose carries other people's dates too - "son of X, who died 1873" is not a date for this person. So it reads only what is unambiguous, in two tiers. DEATH is an explicit date on the person's own row. DEATH BY is a ceiling taken from a record that only exists because somebody died - an estate or death-notice file - and it is never treated as the date, because this archive has already been caught that way once: Anton Armando died 3 April 2003 and his estate was advertised in 2013, ten years later. The result is worth saying plainly. TWENTY of 278 people are known to have died at all. The other 258 carry a birth estimate and nothing more - a floor below which they certainly existed, not evidence they survived to anything later. That is the finding, not a failure of the tool, and the register's own inconsistency is why: it writes "d. 15 Nov 1935" for one person and "SA death cert 1950" for the next, so half its death dates are only implied by a record type. Ricardo Juan Carlos is left as birth-only deliberately - his source is his FATHER's 1950 estate, where being named means he was alive, not dead, and no tool should be allowed to read that the other way. Rendered on /register/, listing the twenty by name and saying what the other 258 are. Runs inside the gate chain, so the field cannot drift out of date with the register.

Three gazette records nobody here had, found by running the control

did The target was Paul Raymond Lerena's 2001 estate notice, and it was not reached. But the control query - the one run first so that no zero is believed before the search is proved to work - returned 42 documents for "Lerena", and three of them this archive did not hold. Transvaal Provincial Gazette 4793 of 11 December 1991, page 75, and 4796 of 18 December 1991, page 50: a two-week township advertisement naming RICARDO JUAN CARLOS LERENA, in his lifetime - he died 21 December 1994 - and carrying the amendment scheme number WYSIGINGSKEMA 2595, which is the one hard handle in it. This archive holds no property fact for him at all. South Africa Government Gazette, Legal Notices B 18373 of 24 October 1997, page 165: ABSA Bank Beperk versus LERENA in the Witwatersrandse Plaaslike Afdeling. The snippet cuts off before the respondent's forenames, so it is deliberately attributed to nobody. All three are recorded as SNIPPET ONLY and tiered as such. The search index is open; the document viewer sits behind a bot challenge which was not worked around. And a caution that belongs with every gazette snippet this archive ever reads: OCR reads straight across the gutter of a two-column notice, so "John Landman, Ricardo Juan Carlos Lerena" appearing side by side in a snippet is NOT evidence that the two names sit together on the page. No relationship between them is asserted. Paul Raymond himself is left as UNTESTED, NOT ABSENT. A name search returned nothing, and that is not a null - the control proves the search works, but OCR of a name is exactly what a search misses, and the page could not be opened to check. Reading page 35 of GG 22032 would do two jobs: settle whether P. R. Lerena Racing Stables of Randburg is Paul Raymond, which row 50 has only ever held as a reading, and take another person off the commercial index that row 17 is about.

Every film number tested, and the archive's numbers are sound

did Row 40 held that any DGS taken from a catalogue rather than from opening the film was suspect, because two Montevideo attributions had already failed inspection. All 58 were tested, at three images each. Fifty-seven resolve. Not one points at a film that does not exist. The suspicion is cleared. Done with FamilySearch SIGNED OUT, which is the useful part of the method: thumb_p200.jpg is public and needs no session at all. And a correction to this archive's own method note while I was in there - manifest.json is NOT public. It answers 401 "Unauthorized (anonymous session)". Verify a film by fetching its thumbnail, not its manifest. Two traps recorded, because both would have produced false corrections against good data. FIRST: a 401 does not mean the number is wrong. Access is set per IMAGE, not per film. DGS 008166573 answers 401 at image 1, 200 at image 100, 401 at 500 and 200 at 2167 - one film, both answers. Only a 404 means the film is not there, and the bogus control 999999999 returns exactly that. Probing image 1 alone and believing its 401 would have condemned a film that is demonstrably fine. SECOND, and it caught me: the first pass matched "film" as well as "DGS" and reported six failures. All six are old microfilm roll numbers, and all six are correctly labelled by this archive - it writes "DGS 7713373 (film 2124160, items 5-13)" and "DGS 8166578, items 11-13 (old film 2274694)", the DGS beside the old roll number exactly as it should. The fault was in my regex. Six false corrections avoided by reading the citation before believing the test. One open item: DGS 008166571 gave no 200 at any image probed, so it is restricted rather than proven. Left as the single loose end, settleable by one signed-in fetch. FamilySearch itself signed out again between sessions, so no null from it was recorded today - only this audit, which does not need it.

The letter to the Registro Civil, and the premise it was built on was wrong

did David asked for the letter and where to send it. Drafting it changed what it asks for. THE PREMISE WAS WRONG AND I GAVE IT TWICE. Row 152 and last night's recommendation both said a birth in February 1882 "should have been registered civilly whether or not he was baptised", and called it the main line on the central question. Civil registration in Santa Fe province begins in 1886 - four years after he was born. That act does not exist and no letter would produce it. Checked before drafting rather than after sending, which is the only reason it cost nothing. Logged as a correction. THE REBUILT ASK IS STRONGER THAN THE ONE IT REPLACES, and the best part of it is not about Pablo Armando at all. Juan Carlos Lerena and Maria Lerena would in all likelihood have died AFTER 1886, so their deaths WOULD have been registered even though his birth was not - and an Argentine acta de defunción names the parents and the spouse of the deceased. That reaches the generation above the wall, from records that ought to exist. The letter therefore asks for, in order: the parents' death acts; a late birth inscription for Pablo Armando, since he held an Argentine passport and was enrolled in 1908 and both needed proof of a birth for which no baptism exists; their marriage act if there is one; and failing all of it, a certificado negativo - which for an archive that records tested nulls is a document rather than a disappointment. WHERE IT GOES. Registro Civil de la Provincia de Santa Fe, Ministerio de Gobierno e Innovación Pública, San Luis 2950, CP 3000, Santa Fe - verified on the province's own site today and matching the address the FamilySearch wiki gives, which is why it is trusted rather than copied. The province also runs Registro Civil Digital at santafe.gob.ar/rcdigital, which issues actas and certificados negativos; its request form would not load here, so whether it takes a requester with no Argentine DNI is recorded as UNTESTED rather than assumed. The Spanish text is rendered in full on /argentina/, not left in a data file.

All three routes walked, and one of them should never have been offered

did Named last night as the only live routes to Pablo Armando's parents. All three walked today. None finds them, and that is written down on /argentina/ so the next person does not spend the same day finding out. ROUTE 2 WAS DEAD BEFORE IT STARTED, and the archive's own file said so in a column headed "does it reach February 1882?". Of the five Rosario parishes, four open in 1888, 1896, 1899 and 1899. The Catedral was the ONLY parish in existence when he was born, and its register is the one already walked act by act - 750 consecutive acts, no Lerena. There are no "other parishes" to search. I recommended it without reading the file. Logged as a correction against this archive. ROUTE 1 IS REAL AND IS NOT ON THIS SITE. FamilySearch has no Santa Fe civil registration collection at all: of 42 Argentine collections, Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires province and Catamarca each have one and Santa Fe does not. A February 1882 birth should have been registered civilly whether or not the child was baptised, so the question stands - but it has to go to the province directly. That is now a row, and it is a letter rather than a query. Also tested: Argentina, Santa Fe, Catholic Church Records, 783,111 indexed records, holds exactly THREE Lerena entries. One is new - Armando Lerena, baptised 1917 at Santa Fe city, son of Casimiro Lerena and Amelia Lepiani. It carries the name Armando, which is suggestive and nothing more; recorded unplaced and attached to nothing. ROUTE 3 GAVE TWO FALSE POSITIVES AND ONE PRIZE. Full text for the exact phrase "Juan Carlos Lerena" - the parents' generation, which earlier full-text work had never been aimed at - returns two hits. A 2001 Montevideo death, and entry N. 14610 of 8 November 1920, where the Vicar General dispensed "Don Juan Carlos GONZALEZ LERENA" the three banns for his marriage to Concepcion Petrona Urbano. The phrase matched across a compound surname; he married an Urbano, not a Lerena, forty years too late. Written down as a false positive so it is not rediscovered as a lead. The prize: opening that hit gave the viewer's own header, and with it DGS 007713367, item 13, 247 images - the film number for the Montevideo marriage-dispensation register, which row 32 has been open asking for. Found sideways, while looking for something else, and not by the catalogue, which was still erroring. And GONZALEZ LERENA is in neither of this archive's compound-surname files, so that sweep is short by at least one variant - also now a row. WHERE THE CENTRAL QUESTION STANDS. Not baptised at Rosario across 750 acts. Not confirmed there across 2,500 children. His father absent from every indexed record FamilySearch holds, control run first. And the civil registration that might hold the birth is not digitised here at all. The next move is not another search on this site. Also: walked straight into the import.meta.url trap that Base.astro documents - a statement reading import.meta.url must sit below every import, or the build dies pointing at an innocent line seventy rows away. Same warning now written into argentina.astro, where it actually bit.

The name on the card is absent from every indexed record FamilySearch holds

did FamilySearch is signed in again, which unblocks the central question - so the central question is what it was pointed at. The 1908 enrolment card names Pablo Armando's parents, JUAN CARLOS LERENA and MARIA LERENA, and it is the only document in this archive that does. Put to the whole indexed corpus: father exactly "Juan Carlos" Lerena with the mother's surname also Lerena - 0. The same without the mother - 0. "Juan Carlos Lerena" as a named person in any role, any country, any collection - ONE, and it is an infant, Lerena Caraballo, died 21 February 1983 at Montevideo aged 0, certificate 177. A century adrift of a man whose son was born in 1882. The control was run BEFORE the zeroes were written down, not after, and it is recorded on the page beside them: the same query form with Gilberto Lerena and Julia Salvanach substituted returns 11. The form works. The zeroes are the corpus. The limits are stated as plainly as the result, because this is the kind of null that gets over-read later. It tests the EXACT string "Juan Carlos" - a record indexed as "Juan C.", "J. C." or plain "Juan" would not match, and the fuzzy form returns 47. And it tests INDEXED records only; unindexed images are a separate corpus. WHAT IT IS GOOD FOR. Taken with the 1882 Rosario walk - already proved complete across 750 consecutive acts, February to July, with no Lerena, so he was not baptised at the Catedral - two independent results now say the same thing: the parents' generation is not in any indexed corpus this archive can reach. That is worth knowing because it closes off a direction. Further index searching is not where the next hour goes. A row says so, and names the three routes that are still live: unindexed images and full-text, Argentine civil registration, and the other Rosario parishes. Rendered on /direct-line/, the page about what stands above him, rather than left in a data file - the new gate would have refused the build otherwise, which is the point of it.

The register search folds the spellings this archive actually holds

did Built by the kit's namefold.py from this archive's own corpus, and narrow on purpose: it folds only forms that are one word two keyboards wrote differently - an accent, a capital. Anything that changes a LETTER is printed by the tool and left off, because whether two spellings are one family is this archive's judgement and not a rule's. Folding is a search rule. It widens what a query matches and merges no record, no person and no line.

Findings reach the reader now, and the build refuses one that does not

did David: "make sure anything you find is always referenced and available on our site." He was right to press it. The morning's audit had found 129 of 168 TSVs read by no build script, and the day's own findings went straight into that hole - the National Archives search, the 1999 deaths, the Devon addresses, all sitting in data/ where no reader could reach them. THE DOCUMENT FIRST. David signed the archive into a TNA account and ordered ADM 188/195/140021 himself, free. It does not merely confirm the rejection of that William Taylor - it replaces the argument. The rejection had rested on a census age. The record gives two harder reasons. The form asks for "Names in full" and the answer is plain "William Taylor", while ours is William JOHN Taylor. And conclusively: on census night, 5 April 1891, this man was borne on HMS Impregnable at Devonport, having joined her 20 May 1890 and left 4 October 1892, while William John Taylor was enumerated at home in Northam aged 20. One man cannot be in two places on one night. Two men, proved. Also read off the record: 5 ft 1 in, brown hair, brown eyes, fresh complexion, a burn mark on his back, entered as a Boy on Lion in January 1887 aged fifteen, promoted Acting Gunner, pension traced to 1909. And a detail that strengthens a candidate rather than killing one: the Royal Marines attestation of John Walker Brayley says he joined FROM THE SOUTH DEVON MILITIA. A man born in Middlesex serving in a South Devon regiment is a Devon family's son born in London, which is exactly this family's shape. Still not asserted to be him. ON THE SITE. New page /national-archives/, in the nav, rendering both National Archives files in full rather than summarising them. The 1999 deaths now render on /south-africa/, the three Devon addresses on /taylor/. Six files that were exported to JSON but which no page ever imported - half-wired, someone had meant them to show - were given real homes on /uruguay/, /name/, /taylor/ and /naairs/ instead of being quietly written off. THE GATE, so this holds after today. tools/check-onsite.py requires every data/*.tsv to be one of exactly two things and to SAY which: rendered on a page - in the export list AND imported by an .astro file, because a JSON nothing imports is the same silence in a different directory - or named in data/_not-on-site.txt as a working log. Anything in neither fails the build by name. Verified by adding a new TSV: it exits 1 and names the file. The 136 already in that state were declared rather than deleted or hurriedly published; they are genuine search transcripts and film registers, and the count sits at the top of that file so the debt stays visible instead of dissolving into a passed gate. Licensing recorded and being followed: TNA downloads are licensed for private study and non-commercial research, this site is public, so the line is cite the reference and transcribe the facts, never republish the scan. Links expire 30 days from the order.

The Taylor men were not Royal Navy, and that is a tested null

did Northam parish contains Appledore, so if these men went to sea ADM 188 should hold them. It is indexed man by man and gives an exact date of birth, which makes it testable against a tree instead of merely suggestive. The sweep of Northam and Bideford returned five men by name and date: Taylor, William, b. 14 Oct 1871 Northam; Taylor, Joshua, b. 28 Aug 1881 Northam; Taylor, Robert, b. 17 Mar 1869 Bideford; Taylor, Richard Henry, b. 7 Apr 1899 Bideford; and Brayley, William Ewart, b. 29 Nov 1885 Northam - the only Brayley of Northam in the whole series. Not one of them is a man of this family. That the method returned five is the control, which is why the absence of William John Taylor (b. Nov 1870) and Horace Archibald Taylor (b. Apr 1872) is recorded as a tested null rather than left as silence. If they went to sea it was the merchant service, and merchant crew lists are indexed by SHIP and not by man - a far harder search, costed in a row before anyone starts it. The near miss is written down on purpose. Taylor, William, born 14 October 1871 at Northam, has the right surname, the right parish and the right decade, and the next person to find him will want him to be ours. He is not: the 1891 census, taken 5 April, makes our William John twenty, which fits November 1870 and rules out October 1871, when he would have been nineteen. Recorded as context and claimed as nothing: a seafaring Taylor family of Appledore on the Ulelia - T Taylor mate b.1846, J W Taylor master b.1888, T G Taylor b.1893, previous ship Annie of Bideford. Same parish, wrong generation, no document joining them to ours. Two operational facts logged. The JSON API answered about twenty queries and then began returning 202 with x-amzn-waf-action: challenge - AWS bot detection. It was not worked around; the control query itself had started failing, so every zero collected at that moment was thrown away rather than written down, and the rest was read in a browser at reading pace. And the part that does the genealogical work - name, exact date of birth, birthplace, year of entry - is free. The scanned record is £3.50 or free to a signed-in account, which is David's call; no account was created and nothing was bought.

The UK National Archives, searched for the first time, and it corrects a null I wrote this morning

did David asked whether this archive had ever looked at nationalarchives.gov.uk. It had not. Three mentions of "National Archives" in the whole corpus and all three are nationalarchives.gov.ZA. Discovery's JSON API answers 200 unauthenticated - no login, no CAPTCHA - which clears both walls that stop CEMLA and the GRO, and it aggregates about 2,500 UK repositories rather than Kew alone: on the control query TNA held 4,791 records and other archives 11,719. Control first: "Bideford" returns 16,510, so the zeroes below are tested zeroes. THE LERENA SURNAME IS A NULL IN BRITAIN. Two hits, one an 18th-century Seville street plan dedicated to a Spanish finance minister, one an incidental crew-list match. Llerena returns one Peninsular War letter about the Spanish town. Absent, as a family that went Rosario to the Cape without touching Britain should be. THE BRAYLEY SIDE IS THE OPPOSITE - 639 records, and this is the wife's line: Mary Septima Taylor, who married Pablo Armando, was a Brayley through her mother. Three Brayley wills of Northam, two of them within living memory of Mary Septima. A Brayley family of standing in Bideford and Northam from 1767 to 1861, in deeds nobody here has opened. And ADM 157/197/182, a Royal Marines attestation for a John Walker Brayley BORN MIDDLESEX, attested 1861 aged 18 - against this archive's John Walker Brayley born 1845 at St Paul's, London, whose death index already implied about 1847 and left a two-year gap open. Three sources, three years. Not asserted to be him. AND IT CORRECTS ME. This morning row 123 recorded 23 Geneva Place and North Street as "NOT TESTABLE FREE" because FreeCEN holds neither 1871 nor 1881 for those parishes. The census sentence was true; the verdict on top of it was not. Geneva Place is a COUNCIL SCHOOL, and North Devon Record Office 629C holds its log books and admission registers for 1885-1949 - which give child, date of birth, father and ADDRESS, and which cover Lucy Elizabeth, Mary Septima and Agnes Walker Taylor. One route was tested and the verdict was written as though all had been. Logged as a correction. The limit of the source is recorded too, because it matters more than any single hit: Discovery does NOT name-index ordinary civilians. "Horace Archibald Taylor" returns eight documents that merely contain those words. It indexes people only where a series was catalogued name by name. A civilian's name searched here must never be written down as a null about that person. Four rows added: the attestation, the three wills, the school registers, and the untested question of whether the Bideford gentry Brayleys are kin at all.

A retracted fact was still doing corroborating work, and now the build refuses it

did The Mazza hunt turned up a second shape of the same disease. The first was evidence in a file the build never read, so a page said nothing was known. This is its mirror image: a correction applied only where it showed. David read the enrolment card off the original and reported Serie "E 3555". The page was corrected, the correction was logged, and the old number sat on in data/ twice - in enrolment-card-1908.tsv as the Serie value, and in direct-line.tsv inside what reads as a transcription of the card, which is the worst place for a wrong number to hide because it looks like the record talking. Worse: racing-dynasty.tsv still asserted "Roque Luis Armando Lerena married Rosalina Wilhelmina CHAPPELL... Frederick Chapell is her kin" and offered it as a CROSS-CONFIRMS of the parish register - a claim a SERIOUS correction had withdrawn seven days earlier. She was Roseline Wilhelmina FORBES, a widow, so Chappell enters this family by her first marriage and not by blood, and two sources agreeing she was called Chappell corroborate nothing beyond her widowhood. Rewritten, with the open question left standing: whether that jockey is the same man as Frederick Christian Chappell has not been checked. Fourth, lerena-lenguas-siblings.tsv carried "Alberto Otario" in its NAME column - a superseded index spelling in a key, where it breaks name matching. The gate. corrections.tsv gains a `retired` column and check-corrections.py enforces one rule, which is the archive's own habit made compulsory: a retracted reading may appear in data/ only inside quotation marks. Quoted it is history; bare it is an assertion, and the assertion is false. That rule separated all six real occurrences from all six innocent ones with nothing left over. It is opt-in - only a correction with its `retired` column filled is enforced - because guessing retired values out of English prose was tried first and returned "child", "probably" and "Argentine". Verified by reintroducing all four bugs: the gate names each one and exits 1, and exits 0 restored. Wired into verify.sh and into the npm build chain, so CI runs it too.

The 1999 cluster is not an index artefact, and a control shows the absences prove nothing

did Rows 122 and 11, taken as far as free sources go. NAAIRS was 503 all day, so the death registration row 122 asks for is still unread. What the Government Gazette settles: Pierre Frederick Lerena's estate was advertised 28 January 2000, GG 20821 p.41 Transvaal, re-advertised 3 March 2000. That is ten weeks after the 12 November 1999 the GEDCOM gives, from a source independent of both the GEDCOM and the commercial index. A padded or default year does not reproduce as an exact day in a separate source and then land ten weeks before a real government notice. The artefact reading is dead for him, and the same GEDCOM gives his two sons the same day. What it cannot settle, and why the absences are worth nothing. The control is Rhena May Lerena: died 1 April 1998 on cemetery records, an exact date, and she has NO gazette estate anywhere in a 1994-2023 sweep. So this source demonstrably misses real adult Lerena deaths. The lag from death to advertisement, calibrated across five Lerenas, runs from ten weeks to ten years. And one reported absence was never a test at all: the sweep was keyed on LERENA, while the index carries Catherine Tertia Karon under KARON. Calling that a null would have been a straight error. It is logged as untested, and the next sweep must include KARON. Gayle Lerena stays open on a single index row. Her absence is doubly uninformative - the Rhena control, and a wife married in community of property sharing one joint estate wound up in her husband's name, which predicts exactly the one notice found. Row 17 still governs whether any of this may be published.

Five more records reach their people, and one Devon address in three is confirmable free

did The evidence pipe built yesterday had four rows in it. Backfilled to eleven, about eight named people: Sancho LLERENA Aguilar, Avelino LERENA Fernandez, Justa Pastora LERENA and Mary Septima TAYLOR twice over. The gate now reports 11 records about 8 people reaching their pages, and the rendering was checked on two of them rather than assumed. Row 123, the three Devon addresses. 2 Fore Street, Northam is CONFIRMED off the 1891 return - piece 1787, ED 4, folio 42, page 1, schedule 2. 23 Geneva Place and North Street are not testable free and the reason is bigger than this row: FreeCEN has no address field at all, so the method this row assumed only works on a paid census. Row set to blocked/David rather than left looking answerable.

Evidence reaches the person now, and a gate refuses the build when it does not

did The Mazza fault was looked for here and found in a different shape, and the gate written to catch it found a second, pre-existing one on its first run. WHAT THE SHAPE IS HERE. Mazza kept evidence in files its person-builder never read. This archive had no person-keyed evidence file at all: build-people.py read lerena-register.tsv and relations.tsv and nothing else. So a whole session of records — Cipriano's parents, Vitalino's wife and children, Bernabé's marriage — sat in topic files and on /uruguay/ while the people themselves had pages saying "No relationships are recorded for this person. The source names them and nothing more." AND THE ONE THE GATE FOUND BY ITSELF, which is the real vindication. /people/carlos-lerena-salvanach/ carried that same sentence while relations.tsv held FIVE edges for him: father Gilberto Lerena, mother Julia Salvanach, wives Rosa Maria Eppens and Adela Camiglia, and his son Avelino Carlos. The cause is written on his own page — the row was corrected on 14 September from "Retiro baptism" to "información matrimonial", and the rename fixed the register while orphaning every edge, because relations.tsv does `if not subj: continue` and drops unknown names in silence. All five repointed and recovered. THE FIX. data/person-evidence.tsv, keyed by person name on the same convention relations.tsv uses. build-people.py reads it and RAISES on a name the register does not hold rather than skipping it. The person page renders "What has been read about this person", and the sentence about nothing being recorded is now guarded so it cannot appear beside evidence. THE GATE. tools/check-evidence.py, wired into verify.sh and into npm run build so CI runs it too. It refuses when a named person is not in the register, when their page does not carry their evidence, when the page still prints the false claim, and when relations.tsv names anyone the register lacks. Verified by reintroducing the bug three separate ways, each exiting 1: the build stops reading the evidence file; the template guard is removed so the false claim returns; an edge is repointed at a name the register does not hold. Clean state passes — 6 records about 4 named people reach their pages. The charts are untouched. This archive draws the export as given, and the point was never to rewrite the tree — only to stop a page claiming nothing has been read when something has.

Eight of the nine Taylor children followed to their deaths

did In September the nine named children were confirmed in the birth index. Today they were followed forward, and four married surnames the archive did not hold have been recovered out of nothing but an absence. KATHLEEN GEORGINA never married — Taylor, Kathleen G, 69, Mar 1940, Bideford. Born and died in the same town. WILLIAM JOHN — Taylor, William J, 80, Jun 1951, Totnes. HORACE ARCHIBALD — Taylor, Horace A, 61, Mar 1934, Birmingham. IRENE — married HENRY ALBERT BURTON, Bideford 1900, 5b/900; died Burton, Irene, 90, Mar 1969, Barnstaple. ISABELLA TEMPLE — married HENRY DALLING, Bideford 1900, 5b/901; died Dalling, Isabella T, 79, Dec 1953, Bideford. LUCY ELIZABETH — married WILLIAM NORRISH SWEET, Totnes 1909, 5b/373; died Sweet, Lucy E, 75, Jun 1957, Plymouth. AGNES WALKER — married ALFRED S WOOD, Devonport 1918, 5b/588; died Wood, "Agnes Walter", DATE OF BIRTH 3 AUGUST 1889, Jun 1974, Cheltenham. Not an age that fits — her birthday, to the day. MARGARET HELLEN WALKER — married at ST PANCRAS, Dec 1903, 1b/43, and the husband is NOT resolved: the page holds Charles William Bell and Arthur Wallis, and the tree gives her no death date to choose on. MARY SEPTIMA — Cape Town, 1935. Outside the English index. She is the one who left. And a detail that only appears with the pages side by side: Irene married on 5b/900 and Isabella on 5b/901. Adjacent pages, same quarter, same district — two sisters married at Bideford within days of each other in the autumn of 1900, the year their mother died. Four rules about this index are now written into brayley-bmd.tsv, because each cost something to learn: Search the FIRST forename only. "Horace Archibald" and "William John" both returned nothing; both men were there under an initial. A woman missing from the death index is a FINDING, not a failure. It means she married, and the marriage index still holds her maiden name. When a marriage page holds four names, the DEATH resolves the pairing. It did for Irene and Isabella, sixty-nine and fifty-three years after. The index changes shape twice, and both changes help. From 1912 the marriage index names the spouse. From about 1969 the death index gives a date of birth instead of an age.

Two sisters recovered through their married names, and a wedding settled by a death

did The sisters looked unreachable: a woman who marries leaves the death index under her maiden name and this archive holds no husbands. That is not a wall. The MARRIAGE index still holds her maiden name. KATHLEEN GEORGINA never married. Taylor, Kathleen G, age 69, March quarter 1940, Bideford. Born and died in the same town, a Taylor all her life, and 69 is exact for 4 November 1870. ISABELLA TEMPLE married at Bideford in the September quarter of 1900, 5b/901, indexed under her full unmistakable name. The page carries four names — Coles Mary Ann, DALLING Henry, ISAAC William Smith, Taylor Isabella Temple — so the index could not say which man was hers. Her death does: DALLING, Isabella T, age 79, December quarter 1953, Bideford. She married HENRY DALLING, and her own death disambiguates her wedding fifty-three years afterwards. LUCY ELIZABETH married at TOTNES in the June quarter of 1909, 5b/373 — and that page carries only two names, William Norrish SWEET and herself. One marriage, no ambiguity, which is rare enough to note. Died Sweet, Lucy E, age 75, June quarter 1957, Plymouth. Two husbands and two married surnames the archive did not have an hour ago. And Totnes is not a random town: her brother William John Taylor died at Totnes in 1951, so two of the ten children ended sixty miles south of where they were born. The method is written into the file because Irene, Margaret Hellen Walker and Agnes still need it. Look for the death under Taylor; if she is not there, that absence is a FINDING and not a failure. Look for the marriage under Taylor, take the volume and page, search that page with no surname, and the page names the husband. Then the death under his surname, confirmed on age. If the marriage page holds four names, the death is what resolves the pairing.

Two Taylor siblings' deaths, and a false null that nearly took both

did The unfinished half of row 126. The nine children were confirmed in the birth index in September; their deaths test the same birth quarters from sixty and eighty years later, because the death index carries an age. HORACE ARCHIBALD — Deaths, March quarter 1934: Taylor, Horace A, age 61, BIRMINGHAM. The tree gives 18 January 1934, which falls in the March quarter, and a man born April 1872 is exactly 61 that January. The district is the surprise, Birmingham rather than Devon — but he was a FOOTMAN at nineteen on the 1891 census, and servants went where the places were. WILLIAM JOHN, the twin — Deaths, June quarter 1951: Taylor, William J, age 80, TOTNES. Quarter, age, initial and county all right. So of the twins born in one quarter of 1870, one died in Devon at eighty and the other sailed to Cape Town. And the method note, because it nearly cost both men. The first search for each returned NOTHING. "Horace Archibald Taylor", deaths 1930–1940: no rows. "William John Taylor", deaths 1951: no rows. Both nulls were false and both men were sitting there under an initial — Horace A and William J. The GRO index abbreviates second forenames and FreeBMD transcribes what the index says, so a full-forename search is WEAKER than a first-forename search. The rule is to search the first forename only and filter the results by age, which is what does the identifying after 1866 anyway. The controls held both times — 34 Horace Taylors across the decade, 205 William Taylors in 1951 with all four quarters at >99%. The coverage was never the problem. The query was, twice, in one afternoon.

José Loreto is a tested null now, and FamilySearch signed out mid-search

did Row 5 sent me back to DGS 7713375, the film the 1812 act came off. The productive move there was not paging it blind but asking the index for Sancho's children directly — and the answer was that the archive has already done this properly. sancho-children-reconciled.tsv, written yesterday, holds all eight children with tiers and image locations. Justa Pastora's 1830 marriage to Manuel Zeferino Barros of Pernambuco, which I found and briefly thought was new, is in two files already and is explicitly marked "already held, and the archive was right". That is the third rediscovery in two days, and the pattern is worth naming: the Uruguayan core is genuinely well worked, and a search that starts from the index rather than from the archive's own files will keep landing on ground already taken. So I went to what the reconciled file itself names as unfinished — the children never followed forward. ROW 68, José Loreto. Searched as "José Loreto Lerena", birth 1800–15, and then, because the archive found him only through the variant sweep on "Sancho Lorena", as "Loreto Lorena" exact. Neither returns him. He is not in FamilySearch's indexed Uruguayan records after his baptism of 10 December 1806. That is now a tested null rather than an untried row, and the routes left are ones an index cannot reach: the Cordón and Matriz registers walked by image, or a death under a mangling. ROW 66, Agustina Ramona. Attempted and NOT completed — the FamilySearch session expired mid-search and this session does not sign in. Recorded as untested, not as null, with the exact search to re-run: Agustina Lerena exact, Uruguay, 1790–1805, then the same under Lorena and Llerena. FamilySearch is now signed out for this session. Everything below it — the Uruguayan and Argentine index work — is paused until David re-authenticates.

Valdemoro is not on FamilySearch, and row 78 finally has a place to go

did Row 141 was opened yesterday when the 1812 act gave Ramón's house a hard Spanish place-name. The first thing to ask of a place-name is whether its registers are reachable. They are not, from here. FamilySearch catalogue, place Valdemoro, Madrid: ONE item, and it is a census. The place note reads "SEE: PART OF MADRID". Same catalogue, Valdemoro plus subject CHURCH RECORDS: "No Results Found." That null is controlled by the line above it — the place resolves and returns its census, so the silence is about the holdings and not about the query. FamilySearch has no parish registers for Valdemoro. And a warning that has now misled twice in two days, so it goes in the file as a rule. An indexed search for SERENA filtered to "Valdemoro, Madrid, Spain" returns 79 hits and NOT ONE of them is Valdemoro: they are Madrid city, Toledo, Murcia, Almería, Huesca, Barbastro. The place filter silently widens to the province, exactly as it did for "Santa Fe, Argentina". A place-filtered result has to be checked against the place field on the rows themselves. What is actually wanted is the baptism of Ramón Serena about 1775–85 and the marriage of Salvador Serena and Ana de Cubas before it. Those books are in a diocesan archive, not a film vault: Valdemoro is historically the Archdiocese of Toledo and since 1991 the Diocese of Getafe, and PARES is the state route. Both were already row 78 — "try PARES and the Spanish diocesan portals" — which until today named no place to try them on. It now names one, and two specific acts to ask for. Row 141 is marked blocked rather than open, because nothing further can be done on it from this desk. The caution stays attached to both rows: this is Ramón's house, not Pablo Armando's. Work it because it is a real Spanish origin the archive can name, not because it is his.

The tenth Taylor child: FreeBMD cannot settle it, and one GRO search can

did Row 128 asked for the infant-death search, on the reasoning that a child who died before 1891 would be in the birth index, counted among the family's ten, and in no census — which is exactly the shape of the person missing. Run: FreeBMD deaths, Taylor, Bideford district, 1881–1891. Thirty-seven entries, fourteen of them aged 0 to 3. And one fits the gap exactly. ETHEL Taylor, born Bideford in the December quarter of 1882 and dead at two, falls between Lucy Elizabeth (September 1881) and Mary Septima (December 1884), and died before any census could hold her. She still cannot be attached to this family. Nor can Edith, the earlier candidate. Nor can Ida, Jane, Susan, Ellen or Ann Eliza, who are the other Taylor infants dying in the same town in the same years. The reason is structural and worth writing down once rather than rediscovering: the FreeBMD birth index carries no mother's maiden name and the death index carries no parents. There is therefore no field anywhere in FreeBMD capable of joining a Bideford Taylor child to THIS Taylor household, and every candidate is a name in the right town in the right year and nothing more. More searching there will not help. What settles it in a single search is the GRO's own index, which is not FreeBMD and gives the MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME on every birth from 1837: births, surname TAYLOR, mother's maiden name BRAYLEY, district BIDEFORD, 1870–1890. That returns every child of William Taylor and Mary Ann Hellen Brayley by definition, with no inference required, the tenth included. It needs a free GRO account, which this session does not create, so the row moves to David. The other half of the row — where Mary Septima was at six in 1891 — stays open, and is not answerable from FreeCEN, whose Devon 1891 is transcribed parish by parish.

Isabella vanishes, and the Kilburn Georgina is refuted

did Two rows opened when the Lower Gunstone censuses were read, both now answered, and the refutation is the more useful of the two. ROW 129 — Isabella Brailey, born London about 1841, last seen aged 20 and unmarried in her widowed mother's house in 1861. No marriage under Brailey or Brayley in Devon 1861–1890; none anywhere in England and Wales 1858–1895; no death under either spelling 1861–1925. The null is controlled: Brayley marriages with no forename, in 1870 alone, return fourteen nationally. The surname is thickly indexed and the searches were capable of finding her. She did not marry in England and she did not die in England. Either she emigrated, or she married or died under one of the manglings this surname is notorious for, and nothing decides between them. One thing said carefully. Sue Rowbotham's history has a chapter called "The mystery of the missing husband and daughter". The missing husband is now firmly John Brailey. Of the four children, Mary Ann Hellen married in 1870 and died in 1900, John Walker married in 1876 and died in 1900, Georgina Margaret lived to about 1940 — and Isabella alone has nothing after 1861. That makes her the best candidate for the missing daughter. It is an argument from absence, which is the weakest kind there is, and it is recorded as a candidate to be tested against Sue's own text rather than against a guess. ROW 130 — REFUTED. John Walker Brayley married in the December quarter of 1876 at Bideford, 5b/978. That is five years after a child born at Kilburn in 1871, so the general servant at Tower Street cannot be his daughter by that marriage. The reasoning that produced her — a Brayley of the right age, in service at Northam, carrying the family's forename — was a resemblance and nothing more. She is not adopted. And the search that refuted her supplied something: 5b/978 carries Bonning Elizabeth, Brayley John Walker, Paddon Elizabeth, Richards John. Two marriages on one page, so John Walker married an ELIZABETH, either Bonning or Paddon, and the index cannot say which — exactly as on his sister's 5b/794 six years earlier.

The missing .two rule, fixed where it belonged — not in the kit

did Row 133 wondered whether repinning the kit had brought a .two rule with it. It had not. And by today the inline workaround had been written into FIVE pages — enrolment-card, index, uruguay, argentina, family-papers — which is well past the point where a repeated inline style should have become a rule. So .grid.two now lives in this archive's own site/public/styles.css, directly beside the .grid rule it was always missing from: .grid.two{grid-template-columns:repeat(auto-fit,minmax(290px,1fr))} auto-fit rather than a hard 1fr 1fr, so it collapses on a phone without needing a media query. All five inline overrides removed. Verified that every .grid two on /uruguay/, /argentina/, /enrolment-card/ and the front page still renders two columns at 1024px. This is deliberately NOT a kit change. The kit is shared by six archives and would need all of them repinned for a bug that only this archive has hit; a local rule in a local stylesheet costs nothing and blocks nobody. If the kit ever grows its own .two, this one can go. Row 139 closed too. It asked for Ramón's marriage in order to read where he was natural de. The marriage was never found and did not need to be — the 1812 act says it outright: natural de Valdemoro en Castilla la Nueva.

Argentina gets its chart: three households that point back across the river

did Four descents drawn on /argentina/, in a 2x2, with the same Spine component as /uruguay/ so the two pages read as one argument. The 1866 baptism at Rosario — Luis Lerena Lenguas and Julia Juanico, "naturales del E. Oriental" in the clerk's own hand. Their daughter is the ONLY Lerena in the Rosario baptism index between 1731 and 1901, and she is Uruguayan on both sides. The Stud Book household — Gilberto Justiniano Lerena Lenguas, born Uruguay 1854, co-founder of the Argentine Stud Book. In the 1895 census the elder children are born Uruguay and the younger ones Buenos Aires: the crossing is legible in one household. The family in the army drawer — Alejandro M. Lerena, born Uruguay 1839, with Julia Bassani. His sons' cards sit in Cajón 985: Hector born Montevideo 1886, Roberto Juan Misiones 1891, Romer Rosario Buenos Aires 1895. One family, five spellings — and the same drawer that holds Pablo Armando's card. And the one this archive is for — Juan Carlos Lerena and María Lerena, marked as the joint that cannot bear weight because they are named on one card and nowhere else on earth, then Pablo Armando. The panel under them says what the four say together. Three point back across the river and say so on the record. The Lerenas of Argentina are, so far as Argentina can show, Uruguayans who crossed. The fourth points nowhere: no Lerena in the Rosario index for 1881–83, no Lerena or Lerina household in Santa Fe province in 1895, parents on one card. He is the only one of the four whose Uruguayan origin is a hypothesis rather than a line of text. The contents gate caught the new section before the build passed, which is the gate doing exactly its job.

The two houses drawn, and Pablo Armando's line drawn beside them

did David asked whether the Argentina and Uruguay stories had neat family trees showing the juxtaposition. They did not. Neither page had a chart of any kind — /argentina/ has none at all, and /uruguay/ had prose cards and record tables. Now /uruguay/ has three descents drawn to the same scale with the kit's Spine component, which is the right one for this because it marks the joint that cannot bear weight. Sancho's house — out of CÓRDOBA. Félix Llerena and Rosalía Aguilar (marked weak: named on River Plate acts, found in no Spanish register) → Sancho and María Fernández, Canelones 1791 → Avelino and Ambrosia Traibel, 1815–1890 → the Lerena Traibel. Ramón's house — out of VALDEMORO. Salvador Serena and Ana de Cubas (marked weak, same reason) → Ramón Serena, natural de Valdemoro, and María Josefa González of Lanzarote → Alejandro and Mauricio, married San José 1825 and 1837 → Bernabé and Cipriano, two of the Trinidad fathers and first cousins. Both run four generations and both reach a named couple in Spain. Set side by side they make the point the prose was making at length: five hundred kilometres apart in Spain, about ninety in Uruguay, and they never touch. And then the third one, which is why this was worth doing at all: Juan Carlos Lerena and María Lerena — marked weak, because they are named by their son on his enrolment card and there is no other record of either of them anywhere on earth → Pablo Armando, born Rosario de Santa Fe 22 February 1882, died Newlands 1950. Two generations, and it stops at a pair of names on one card. Drawn to the same scale as the other two on purpose, with a panel beside it saying so: that is not a gap in the research, it is the whole problem, and it is why the Uruguayan work is done in parallel and in hope rather than as his line. One rendering fault caught and fixed: Spine renders the name as text, so "&amp;" in a name field printed literally. Replaced with "and".

An About page, with the one part of it left for you to write

did Three of the seven had one and four did not, which means four archives asked a reader to trust them without saying who was asking. This is the shape the three already agreed on: what it is willing to say, what it holds, where the evidence comes from, and how to tell it it is wrong. Everything on it is counted from this archive's own data at build time - the people, the places, the records, the corrections it has made to itself - so it cannot go stale the way a typed number does. The five words and the rule on living people are the estate's and are the same on all seven. What is NOT written is who made this archive and why, and nothing has been invented to fill it. The page says so plainly, addressed to whoever maintains it. A fabricated provenance on a page whose whole subject is provenance would be the worst thing in the estate.

Valdemoro: the 1812 act closes the join and opens Spain

did Row 140 said the image was one click away and one phrase in it might decide everything. Read today, DGS 007713375 image 02668 — which is the film already on this work list as row 5. "…hijo legítimo de RAMON SERENA natural de VALDEMORO en CASTILLA LA NUEVA, y de María Josefa González natural de la Ysla de Canarias, LANZAROTE. Abuelos paternos Salvador Serena y Ana de Cubas; id. maternos Marcial de León González è Ysavel Lorenza." Valdemoro is twenty-seven kilometres south of Madrid. Sancho was natural de Córdova la Llana, in Andalusia, five hundred kilometres away. So the surname entered the Banda Oriental TWICE, from opposite ends of Spain. Two emigrations, two families, one rare name. The join is closed. And the coincidence that made it worth asking is discharged exactly as the page said it should be. This archive had noticed both fathers written GERENA in Montevideo acts a year apart and called it "a scribal habit of one place and one time rather than two families independently choosing the same variant — a reason to look and not a reason to believe." The act writes SERENA, and both men were baptising children at the same font, one year apart, having come from opposite ends of Spain. The resemblance was real and it meant nothing. That is the rule working. The act beat its own index nine facts to four. The index gave four names and a wrong church. The act gives the father's birthplace, the mother's birthplace, the true maternal grandmother — Ysavel Lorenza, whom the index never named, and for whom the child Manuel LORENZO is probably named — and the real church: the index says "Unión", the act says the Iglesia Matriz. The image was free and had sat unopened for a day. What it costs: the hope that the Uruguayan Lerenas were one kindred with Pablo Armando somewhere inside it. Two arrivals means two haystacks. What it buys, and it is more than it costs: a hard Spanish place-name where there was none. Salvador Serena and Ana de Cubas were married in Spain and Ramón was baptised there about 1775–85, and Valdemoro is one parish, not a province. Plus a migration stream nobody suspected — María Josefa González is a canaria, from Lanzarote, daughter of Marcial de León González and Ysavel Lorenza. /uruguay/ rewritten around the act, with the transcription quoted and the discharged coincidence kept on the page rather than deleted. New row 141, carrying a caution: work Valdemoro because it is real and cheap, not because it is his.

Uruguay gets a page: two houses, built in parallel, neither of them his yet

did David asked for the Uruguayan Lerenas to be researched and painted as a complete story in parallel, in the hope they eventually join up. New page at /uruguay/, and it is built as two houses rather than one family, because that is what the records say. Two more rungs found first, both on 17 September. RAMÓN LERENA's parents are SALVADOR GERENA and ANA DE CUBAS, named on the baptism of his son Manuel Lorenzo at Unión, Montevideo, 15 November 1812 — Montevideo acts name grandparents as a matter of course. ark 1:1:6D7Z-BD56. The image is available and has NOT been read, and the page says so. That also explains the current tree's "Ramón Llerena CUBAS", which the tree merely carried and could not account for: Cubas is his mother's surname. Second time in two days a record has explained a compound name — the first was Clara Lerena Montaño. And it settles half of row 139. SANCHO AND RAMÓN ARE NOT BROTHERS: Sancho's father was Félix, Ramón's was Salvador. Different men, both on records. They may still be cousins, and the single thing that keeps that worth chasing is the spelling — both fathers are written GERENA in Montevideo parish acts one year apart, 1811 and 1812. That is a scribal habit of one place and one time rather than two families independently choosing the same variant. It is a resemblance and the page says twice that it is not evidence. The page sets out: the two houses side by side; the arithmetic that separates them; Ramón's house record by record; Mauricio and Casimira's children and why they explain four departments that looked like four leads; the Trinidad nest with its Basque mothers and its consanguinity dispensations; and what would join the houses to each other. And it closes on what it must not be allowed to obscure. Neither house reaches Pablo Armando. There is no Juan Carlos in either family, in any generation, in any search that built the page. The Argentine end says the same from three directions — no Lerena in the Rosario baptism index for 1881–83, no Lerena or Lerina household in Santa Fe province in the 1895 census, and his parents named on exactly one document and nowhere else on earth. These families are being built in parallel and in hope, the hope is reasonable, and the hope is not evidence. New row 140: read the 1812 act. The image is there, it costs nothing, and Uruguayan acts routinely say where the father is natural de. If Ramón is Córdoban like Sancho the two houses are cousins; if he is Banda Oriental-born they are two arrivals. One phrase decides it. Uruguay added to the nav beside Argentina and South Africa.

Repin: the long registers are laid out in boxes the browser can skip

did A block box per two hundred rows, each holding its own table, sharing one colgroup so the columns still line up. Measured working this time: twenty skip-and-restore events across one scroll of the D'Arcy register, where the previous attempt fired none. The haystack that the filter reads is no longer built at load, because reading every row's text was what rendered every row and defeated the skipping.

Ramón Lerena of Rosario — and the Uruguayan Lerenas are two families, not one

did Row 138 asked for Mauricio Lerena's parents, on the reasoning that he was born about 1810–18 and so belonged to the generation of Sancho's own children, where the two families would either meet or not. Two searches, and they do not meet. ALEJANDRO LERENA, birthplace ROSARIO, married Margarita Fernández Álvarez at San José, 16 September 1825. Father Ramón Lerena, mother María Josefa Gonsales. Her parents Juan Fernandes Alvares and Bárbara Sotura. ark 1:1:F21Y-JRV MAURICIO LERENA, birthplace COLLA, married Casimira Montaño at San José de Mayo, 3 February 1837. Father Ramón, mother María Gonzales. Her parents José Montaño and Ignacia Barredo. ark 1:1:F21B-SZ5 And their brothers Manuel Lorenzo, born 14 November 1812 at Unión, Montevideo, and Luís Manuel, born 25 September 1820. The 1825 act also closes a circuit the archive opened on 14 September. the-three-alejandros.tsv recorded an "Alejandro Lerena of the Trinidad orbit" with "Severa FERNANDEZ; and a Barbara Lerena" and could not place him. The Fernández is his wife and the Bárbara is his mother-in-law, Bárbara Sotura — which is how a Bárbara got into the indexes looking like a Lerena. So the whole interior hangs from one couple. Ramón Lerena and María Josefa González of Rosario/Colla, fathering children c.1800–1820, whose sons Alejandro and Mauricio are the fathers of Bernabé and Cipriano — two of the six Trinidad fathers, and first cousins to each other. It also accounts for all four departments the current tree pointed at, and Rosario in Colonia turns out not to be a fourth lead at all: it is where the family came from. And the answer row 138 wanted. Alejandro married in 1825, so was born about 1800–05, putting Ramón's birth about 1775–85. Sancho was baptised about 1767, married in January 1791, first child 1793. A man born in 1775–85 cannot be the son of a man who married in 1791. Ramón is Sancho's contemporary, roughly ten years his junior — not his descendant. That costs the comfortable assumption that the Uruguayan Lerenas are one family. They are two, documented separately: Sancho's, from Canelones 1791 into the Montevideo trunk of Lerena Lenguas and Lerena Traibel; and Ramón's, from Rosario-Colla across San José, Flores, Florida and Salto. It buys a better question, which is row 139 and turns on a single phrase. Uruguayan marriage acts say where the groom is NATURAL DE. Sancho was "natural de Córdova la Llana". If Ramón is Córdoban too they are brothers or cousins and the surname entered the Banda Oriental once; if he was born in the Banda Oriental they are two arrivals and may be unrelated. His marriage falls about 1795–1810, most likely at Rosario in Colonia or San José. None of this touches Pablo Armando. No Juan Carlos appears anywhere in this family, in any generation, in any search that produced it.

A generation above the Trinidad nest: Mauricio Lerena and Casimira Montaño

did Row 137 said to sweep the Uruguayan interior through the free FamilySearch collections instead of the paywalled index the archive's Uruguayan layer was read on. Run once, searching BY PARENT rather than by person, and it worked immediately. MAURICIO LERENA and CASIMIRA MONTAÑO, with at least seven children found so far across five departments: Ignacia, born 30 July 1850 and dead 6 August 1850, San José de Mayo Manuel, b. 1856, married April 1882 at Santísima Trinidad, Trinidad, the same marriage also registered at San José Ignacia, b. 1864, married 27 April 1882 at Trinidad Mauricio junior, b. 1838, married 4 May 1878 at Florida Belisario, marriage registered 23 October 1890 at Salto Clara, d. Montevideo 3 March 1925, certificate 47, aged 77 CIPRIANO, death registered 1928 at Flores Cipriano is the finding. trinidad-flores-kindred.tsv has a Cipriano Lerena who married Lauriana Beloqui and baptised three children at Trinidad between 1875 and 1891, and the archive had no generation above him or above any of the six Trinidad fathers. It has one now. Graded honestly: the card says "Image Unavailable", so this is an INDEX and not an act, and the identification rests on a rare forename in one small department across the right span of years. Strong, not airtight — two Ciprianos are possible. Clara is the other one worth having. She is almost certainly the current tree's "Demetria Clara Lerena Montaño, b. 22 December 1848, San José" — forename, birth year and the mother's surname all agree — and the record EXPLAINS the compound name, which a tree never does: she is Lerena Montaño because her mother was Casimira Montaño. One disagreement left standing: the tree says she died in 1930, the register says 1925. And this reframes row 120. Four Uruguayan Lerenas in four departments were treated as four leads. They are not. Three of the four departments are accounted for by the children of one couple — San José de Mayo, Trinidad in Flores, and Florida — with Salto and Montevideo besides. One family spreading across the interior in a single generation. Only Rosario in Colonia is still unaccounted for. What it does not do: it does not touch Pablo Armando, it reaches no Juan Carlos, and it does not join the nest to Sancho. Mauricio's own parents are unknown, and until they are found the Trinidad kindred and the Canelones trunk remain two documented families sharing a surname. New row 138, and it is one rung and precisely defined. Mauricio was fathering children by 1838, so he was born about 1810–1818 — the generation of Sancho's own children. He is either one more child of Sancho and María Fernández that the Canelones registers did not yield, or the head of a separate family. His marriage, about 1835–1845 at San José de Mayo or Trinidad, would decide it.

The bloodline chart fits its box again: repinned to 8e565d9

did David asked what was going on with the bloodline chart and I diagnosed it hours ago without fixing it. The diagnosis was right and the fix was already upstream. The chart was drawn at a fixed 1,354px and dropped into a 1,022px box with overflow:auto, so it could only be dragged sideways — which is why both edges were clipped and the leftmost generation heading was missing entirely. Someone has since added width:100%, height:auto, and a maxWidth/minWidth floor to bloodline.client.js in the kit, with a comment working through exactly that ratio: 1,354 into 1,022 is 75%, which still leaves a legible name box, and below 70% dragging beats squinting so the stage scrolls as before. Lerena was pinned eight commits behind it. Repinned to 8e565d9 and reinstalled. Measured on Gilberto's chart at 1440px: the SVG now renders at 1,022px, exactly 75% of natural size, and stage.scrollWidth no longer exceeds clientWidth — no horizontal scroll. All four generation headings are present, and Sancho Llerena Aguilar is visible in the grandparents' column where the chart used to be cut off. Full gate passes on the new pin: 629 pages, 0 broken, living/kit/ worklist/covers all clean. What I have NOT changed, deliberately. The second thing visible in David's screenshot — the empty vertical band beside a tall column — is the centring rule, which puts short columns opposite the tallest rather than at the ceiling. With 13 children against 2 in Gilberto's own generation that leaves about 270 viewBox units of space above and below the left-hand columns. It is a deliberate design choice with a comment defending it, in a stylesheet shared by six archives that another session is actively working in, and it reads far better now that nothing is clipped. Not mine to redesign unilaterally. Row 133 updated: the repin may or may not have brought a `.two` rule with it, and the enrolment-card grid still carries its inline workaround.

No new people in the interior — but the wrong index has been doing the work

did Chasing names through Flores and San José produced nothing new. Every person reached was already held: Bernabé Lerena and Casimira Pelaez, Vitalino Lerena and Andrea Echeverry, Alejandro Lerena and Bárbara Lerena of San José de Mayo. All in lerena-register.tsv or trinidad-flores-kindred.tsv already. The interior is better worked than the record counts suggested, which is the second time today that measuring a thing and knowing a thing came apart. What did turn up is a sourcing fact, and it is worth more than a name. The archive's Uruguayan baptism layer, uruguay-baptisms-lerena.tsv, is a findmypast FREE RESULT LIST. Its own header says so: "33 index rows... transcripts are behind findmypast's paywall and were NOT opened." Twenty-two rows recorded — eleven Trinidad, four Montevideo, three San José de Mayo — carrying names, years, and parents' FORENAMES ONLY. Beside it, free, sit 1,343 exact LERENA records across the same four departments, carrying parents in full and frequently a "View original document" link. For Trinidad the 608 break roughly half Catholic Church Records 1726–2000, half Civil Registration 1879–2020, and only a couple from Uruguay Baptisms 1750–1900 — which is the very index findmypast was charging to transcribe. Fair to the earlier work, because the fairness matters: the register does cite Catholic Church Records for particular people, so the collection was not unknown. It was used person by person and never swept. So the interior has been read through a paywalled index that gives forenames, and never through the free one that gives full parentage and images. New row 137: take the four departments one collection at a time and build the Trinidad kindred upward. That is the difference between knowing Bernabé married a Casimira Pelaez and being able to put a generation above either of them — which is the only way the Trinidad nest gets joined to Sancho, or shown to be a separate family. One small thing kept from the sweep: Alberto Lerena Traibel, 1852–1921, held in the trunk file on a tree ID, now has a record behind his death — Montevideo civil registration, certificate 246, naming Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Treibel.

Retraction: the archive searched Flores three days ago and called it the nest

did I said Flores, San José, Florida and Rosario-Colonia were "four departments this archive has never searched", and I reported the Bernabé Lerena / Casimira Pelaez family of Trinidad as a find. Both are wrong, and the first one is simply false. trinidad-flores-kindred.tsv, read 13 September 2026, is titled "TRINIDAD, DEPARTMENT OF FLORES, URUGUAY — the founding nest of the surname". It holds eleven children and the Basque mothers Beloqui, Echeverry and Pelaez, and carries a correction of its own. lerena-pelaez-trinidad.tsv maps four Lerena–Pelaez consanguinity dispensations in the same town. Bernabé Lerena and Casimira Pelaez are in it by name. Flores appears in fourteen data files. San José, Florida and Colonia have no dedicated study, only passing mentions, so for those three "never searched" was merely too strong. For Flores it was false. The mechanism matters more than the error. The claim entered through the GEDCOM import, where a note about what the TREE offered got written as a claim about what the ARCHIVE had done — without checking the archive. A sentence of the form "this has never been searched" is a claim about 161 data files, and it has to be grepped before it is written, every time. Caught about an hour after publishing, and only because the Flores work led back into the-three-alejandros.tsv, which cites "the six Trinidad, Flores fathers". What survives is the measurement, which is new and is the useful part: Flores 608, San José 315, Florida 231, Colonia 189 — 1,343 exact LERENA records; Canelones, worked hardest of all, returns 191. So the archive has read a NEST at Trinidad and there is a DEPARTMENT of 608 behind it, and San José, Florida and Colonia hold another 735 between them with no study at all. The picture is not wrong. It is thin in places nobody had measured. Corrected in gedcom-import.tsv, uruguay-four-departments.tsv and row 120, and logged serious in /corrections/.

Four departments, 1,343 records, and Flores alone is three times Canelones

did Row 120 treated Flores, San José, Florida and Rosario-Colonia as four names off the current tree. They are four doors, and the archive has never opened any of them. Flores 608 exact LERENA records San José 315 Florida 231 Colonia 189 Canelones — the department this archive has worked hardest, where the 1791 marriage act was found, where the eight children were read off the registers, where three burial registers were walked image by image — returns 191. Flores alone is more than three times that. Record-backed presence confirmed in two of the four by reading actual entries: Fausto G. Lerena, married 7 April 1900 at Santísima Trinidad, Trinidad, Flores, born 1880, son of Bernabé Lerena and Casimira Pelaez. And Carmelo Anselmo Lerena, born 20 April 1846 and dead 27 April 1846 at San José de Mayo — seven days old — son of Alejandro Lerena and Bárbara Lerena. Note the parents sharing a surname, which is the same pattern as Pablo Armando's own card, where his mother is written "María Lerena". The tree's own Florida person, Brígida Rudecinda Lerena b. 1 March 1861, was searched by name and NOT found. One person missing out of 231 records proves nothing; recorded so nobody assumes she was confirmed. What it is not: 1,343 records is not 1,343 people, and nothing here touches Pablo Armando. What it changes is the shape of the question. This archive's Uruguay has been a Canelones marriage and a Montevideo trunk, and that is the small part of the picture. And the tree's Gabino of Flores is given as a son of Ramón Llerena Cubas and Margarita Leal — not Sancho's line at all — so the interior departments may hold a different Lerena family entirely, which is a useful warning against reading every Uruguayan Lerena as a relative. Two things found along the way and kept. Alberto Lerena Traibel, 1852–1921, already in the trunk file on a tree ID, now has a record behind his death: Montevideo civil registration, certificate 246, 1 March 1921, naming Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Treibel as his parents. And a tool caveat: FamilySearch's anyPlace filter works cleanly for Uruguay and failed silently for "Santa Fe, Argentina", almost certainly because Santa Fe is both a province and a city. Before trusting any place-filtered null, run the same filter on a place known to return something.

The three lists of names say which is which

did The People, Every Name and The Register sound identical in a menu and are genuinely different pages: the people themselves, every name and how many bore it, and one row per source line. A reader arriving at one had no way to tell. D'Arcy is where this comes from - its /who/ opened by saying in so many words what the other two were, and it was the clearest thing on the page. Each of the three carries the same strip now, with the one you are standing in marked. The wording is this archive's to change.

The work list was pointing the search at the wrong decade

did Row 74 read "the 1908 enrolment card puts him still in Argentina." The card shows the opposite. Its Oficina enroladora reads CAPETOWN and both Región Militar and Distrito Militar are blank — the signature of a man registering at his own consulate because he was already abroad. The card is evidence he had LEFT Argentina. And the 1908 is unsourced anyway: no year on the card but the class of 1882, a collection catalogued 1911–1936, and a Cape Town consular libreta of 1915 on the passport. That error mattered more than a wrong fact usually does, because it set a floor on the search — if he was in Argentina in 1908, his departure is after 1908 — while rows 74 and 108 were simultaneously hunting a 1901–1905 window derived from his son being born at the Cape in 1905. The work list was holding two incompatible positions and no page noticed. Logged serious: a wrong fact on a work list is worse than one on a page, because a work list tells the next session where to look. And I withdrew half of what I wrote this morning. I had said Pablo Armando's absence from the 1895 census at thirteen suggested he had already left. It suggests nothing of the kind. One person can always be missed or mangled — and this person's name demonstrably mangles, since the Argentine army's own index turned his card into "Armand Lorena, born Rosario de Lerma, Salta." The control is what separated the two claims, and it is worth keeping. Gonzalez, exact, Santa Fe returns 88,739 records with the 1895 census reaching San Cristóbal, Alberdi/Rosario, San Jerónimo and Iriondo. So the index is dense and covers Rosario itself, which means: the SURNAME absent from the province is STRONG — for a surname to vanish from a province indexed that thickly it has to be really absent, and that agrees with the Rosario baptism sweep from an entirely different record type; the INDIVIDUAL absent from the census is WEAK, and is withdrawn as evidence of anything. Same census, same search, two completely different evidential weights. Honest position on his passage out: nothing dates it. Born Rosario February 1882, son born Cape Town November 1905, twenty-three years with no record inside them. The live routes remain the ones hypothesis 2 already named — UK outward passenger lists (BT 27, indexed from 1890) and the consular file behind the 1940 passport — and the archive had already reasoned that the South African War shipped some 360,000 horses in, Argentina among the sources, when he was seventeen to twenty and a horseman.

Turin mapped in detail, and it cannot answer the question — Argentina can

did David asked to keep going on Turin in detail. Done, and the honest result is that this route is structurally incapable of closing it. The map: 49 Lerina records in and around Torino — the civil registration of Turin 1866–1924, the Diocese of Torino, Ivrea, and the Piedmont towns of Montaldo Roero and Costigliole. Recurring fathers Carlo, Giacomo, Firmino, Luigi, Domenico, Antonio, Innoquiti. Two Carlo Lerinas appear as fathers. These families post banns in Turin, marry in Turin and die in Turin across sixty years. They stay put. Why it cannot work, written down so nobody spends a week on it. The Turin civil series begins in 1866, so a man born in the 1840s or 1850s has no birth record in it at all — he can only appear as a father, a groom or a corpse, and the diocesan books are indexed only in patches. And the fatal one: an emigrant leaves no later Italian record by construction, so "a son who vanishes from the Turin record" cannot be distinguished from an unindexed death, a move to another province, or a register that was never filmed. Enumerating Piedmontese Lerinas produces a map of the people who STAYED, which is exactly the complement of what is wanted. So the question went to the other end instead, and that produced something. LERINA in Argentina, a spelling this archive had never swept: 26 records, and exactly one person of that surname ever appears in Santa Fe province. Set beside the archive's existing Lerena sweep, that gives a clean joint negative — in 1895 there was no Lerena and no Lerina household, under any spelling, anywhere in Santa Fe province, thirteen years after Pablo Armando was born there. It is the same answer the Rosario baptism sweep gave, arriving from a census rather than a parish, and it is the strongest negative this archive has on the Argentine end. And a fact already held now reads differently: Pablo Armando is not in the 1895 census at all, at thirteen, and he is at the Cape by 1905. New row — rows 74 and 108 hunt his passage out in a 1901–1905 window, and that window may be far too late. One method catch, recorded because it would have become a published falsity. A search filtered with q.anyPlace=Santa Fe returned ZERO while the same 26 records unfiltered contain a Santa Fe burial. The place filter silently failed to match a place demonstrably in the data, and it was caught only because a record already in hand should have come back and did not. A null from a filtered query is worth nothing until the same query is run without the filter.

Repin: an echoed source label, a retired prop, and tr[hidden] said out loud

A Juan Lerina in Santa Fe, written down as a coincidence and not a lead

did The archive has worked LERENA hard in Argentina and had never swept LERINA, which is the commoner Italian spelling. Done now, exact match: 26 records, thinly scattered across La Rioja, Santiago del Estero, the 1895 census, cemetery and military records. No family group, no cluster, nothing resembling a household at Rosario. One is worth writing down, and worth writing down carefully: JUAN LERINA, age 64, estimated birth 1862, buried 4 April 1926 at Santa Fe, La Capital, Santa Fe, Argentina. Cemetery records, 1:1:6575-KRRP. Image unavailable. For it: the Italian spelling of the surname, Santa Fe province, and a birth about 1862 that is not impossible for a man whose son was born in February 1882. Against it, and heavier: he is Juan, not Juan Carlos; he is at Santa Fe La Capital, 170 km north of Rosario and a different city; 1862 makes him twenty when Pablo Armando was born; and the image is unavailable, so the entry itself cannot be read. Four loose fits and no join. This archive has been wrong before by promoting exactly this shape of thing, so it is filed as a coincidence. It also does not disturb the standing claim on the front page — "No Juan Carlos Lerena appears in any indexed record in Argentina or Uruguay" — which is still literally true: this man is Juan LERINA. The sentence was checked against the find rather than left to rot, which is the only good reason to record a find like this. CEMLA could not be run and that is a hard stop, not a difficulty. The buscador is an iframe onto search.cemla.com and the form carries CaptchaCode and LBD_VCID_SampleCaptcha. This session does not complete CAPTCHAs. New row, owner David — with a prior question attached, because it may make the search pointless: CEMLA's arrivals database is generally given as starting in 1882, and if so, an arrival before February 1882 is invisible to it by construction and finding nothing would prove nothing. Check the coverage before spending the searches.

Repin: the table chunking did nothing and is gone

did Measured in a browser: content-visibility on a tbody inside a table never skips, with either table layout, while a plain off-screen div does. The debounce stays.

Antenati has the Turin images and cannot search them for these years

did David asked whether Antenati holds anything. It was the right place to ask about — the caveat on yesterday's FamilySearch work was that FamilySearch's Italian coverage is uneven, and Antenati is the Italian State Archives' own portal, the source rather than a mirror of it. LERENA, whole national name index: ONE record. Cesare Lerena, death register 1915, Brescia, spouse Rosa Barbaleni. Lombardy, not Piedmont, and not our man. LERINA: eight, and most of them are "Di Lerina", which is a different surname. No Carlo, no Giovanni, no Giovanni Carlo. But that null is worthless, and the control is what shows it. Antenati holds 2,621 registers for Torino — the images are there. Searching its name index for ROSSI restricted to Torino returns 102 people called Charles, Marguerite and Jacinte, in the years 1805 to 1811. The Turin name index is Napoleonic only, kept in French during the French annexation of Piedmont, and it does not reach the 1840s–1880s at all. So for Piedmont in the period that matters, Antenati's images exist and are not name-searchable. A surname search there was never capable of finding him. That is the same lesson as the Rosario typescript index and the FreeREG Devon parishes: the null belongs to the finding aid and not to the past. What is searchable for the right years is FamilySearch's "Italy, Torino, Torino, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866–1899", which is where the 66 Lerena and 114 Lerina came from. Antenati's 2,621 Turin registers remain the fallback — browsable by comune and year, image by image, the way this archive read Rosario and Canelones. Expensive, and possible.

No Juan Carlos in Italy — but the surname lives in Piedmont, where the DNA points

did David asked whether there is a Juan Carlos Lerena or Lerina in Italian records. Tested under both spellings. The direct answer is no. There is no Giovanni Carlo or Gian Carlo Lerena or Lerina anywhere in FamilySearch's Italian index. Carlo and Giovanni both occur; they never occur together. Method note, because the default search would have produced nonsense: a fuzzy search for LERENA in Italy returns 9,112 and is worthless — the results are Lorino, Loreno, Lorena, Lorosano, Lorrai. Exact match returns 66. Every figure below is exact-match, and the zero for "Carlo Lerena" is controlled by the same search without a forename returning 66, so the mechanism works and the surname is in the index. What the search found instead is better than a name: LERENA, exact, Italy — 66 records, clustered in the DIOCESE OF TORINO. Bartolomeo, Teresa, Eduardo, Luigi, Paolo, Giovanni, Giuseppe, Giacomo, Maddalena. All Italian forenames, in Piedmont. This archive did not know the surname was Italian at all. LERINA, exact, Italy — 114, more than Lerena. Torino again, plus Ivrea. This is the commoner Italian spelling, which matters because CEMLA has Lerinas landing at Buenos Aires. And that is the same corner of Italy the DNA already pointed at. The archive's own DNA page reasons that Cheryl's 11.1% Italian, with three non-Italian grandparents, implies about 44% in Pablo Armando — one Italian parent — and that the split is northern-dominant, 6.1 against 3.6. The Italian Lerenas and Lerinas are in Turin and Ivrea. That is the north. Two independent things, an admixture estimate and a surname distribution, now point the same way, and neither names anybody. Recorded as convergence, not proof. The one age-plausible Carlo is written down as a coincidence and not a candidate: Carlo Domenico Lerina, baptised Ivrea 30 May 1858, parents Antonio Lerina and Giuseppa Pean-Conto. Nothing whatever ties him to Argentina. And the null is weaker than 66 and 114 make it look. FamilySearch's Italian coverage is uneven by province, a man who left before 1882 may have no indexed Italian record at all, and if he was baptised Giovanni and became Juan Carlos on the far side of the Atlantic then the Carlos never existed in Italy to be indexed. That is the ordinary shape of an emigrant's name. New row: work Piedmont properly, and re-run CEMLA for both spellings before 1882, which is the arrival that would matter.

Mary Septima gets her own block, and the sons get a line of their own

did Following the Luwinski archive's layout: a row rail on the left, cards on a line, an eyebrow label on each saying what the person is, and the status pill kept. 1882 → 1950 — Pablo Armando Lerena beside MARY SEPTIMA TAYLOR, who until now was a clause inside his entry and is now a block in her own right: her name is a count, she was the seventh daughter of ten, her birth is registered at Bideford in the December quarter of 1884, 5b/506 — and her line is documented three censuses further back than his, to a mason born at Westleigh about 1777 and a Scotswoman who died in the Northam alms house. The Lerena side stops at two names. Their sons — three cards on one line. Roque Luis Armando, whose 1911 baptism is what proves Pablo Armando and Robert Paul are one man, and who was born six years before his parents married and baptised three months before the wedding. Ricardo JUAN CARLOS, who carries the name on the enrolment card and so corroborates it from eleven thousand miles away. And Nuno Fernando, David's grandfather, marked as the descent. The standalone 1882 node went with it — he was appearing twice once the marriage row existed. Checked in the built HTML: one instance in the tree, the other two are ordinary prose elsewhere on the page.

Repin: the bloodline chart fills its box and scales down

did Raised from the Lerena session, fixed in the kit and rolled to all seven rather than pinned on one - the same component rendering two ways across the estate is the drift the kit exists to stop.

One tree with status pills, and a page that was contradicting itself

did David: "this is also confusing... we may as well keep as one tree with a status of inferred or documented as pills/colour legends." The front page ran two parallel lanes, and in four of its six rows one lane held nothing but an em-dash. Half the grid was placeholder, which is what made it hard to read. It is now ONE tree, oldest first, with a legend and a pill on every node: Documented a record was read, and it says this Inferred this archive's reading, with no record behind it Not proved the join nothing supports yet Every generation is present and in order — 1791, 1793–1815, 19th c., then the break, then by 1882, 1882, 1911→ — and the Juan Carlos and María generation, which the lanes never gave a row of its own, now has one. The argument the two lanes existed to make is not lost: it is carried by a single full-width dashed break, "And here the tree breaks", sitting exactly where the evidence stops, and by an Inferred note on the Montevideo trunk saying plainly that Pablo Armando's descent from it is this archive's reading and not a record. Heading changed with it: "Two lines, and they do not yet meet" became "One tree, and the joint that is missing". I broke the stylesheet doing it and am recording how, because it was nearly invisible. Deleting the old lane CSS line-by-line removed the first line of two multi-line rules and left their second lines behind as orphans — `opacity:.6; padding-top:14px; text-align:right; }` sitting outside any selector. That is a parse error, and everything after it in the block, including the .tag pill styles, silently stopped applying. The build passed throughout. Fixed, and braces now balance 25/25. And the reason this page was worth rereading in full: /direct-line/ said at the bottom "Above him there is nothing. His parents are unnamed in every document held here" — while its own opening paragraph said an enrolment card names his father and mother. The page has contradicted itself for six days. Now reads "Above him there is one generation and no more". Logged in /corrections/ as SERIOUS, because it is not a slipped digit: it is the archive telling a reader the opposite of what it knows, on the page whose job is to state the line.

What the card actually is — a conscription registration, made at the Cape

did David asked for the explanation to go on the page, and he was right that it belongs there: the obvious reading of a military document is the wrong one here. New section, "What this card actually is": It is a registration every Argentine man had to make. Argentina introduced compulsory service in 1901 and enrolled men in a clase named for their birth year, so "Clase de 1882" is his cohort, not a date. Marked on the page as background rather than something this archive has sourced, because it is. The blanks are the evidence. Región Militar: nothing. Distrito Militar: nothing. A man enrolling in Argentina is placed in a region and given a district; he has neither, and his enrolling office is Capetown — which for an Argentine abroad meant his consulate. So the card is the reverse of what it looks like. Not a soldier arriving at the Cape, but a man already living there doing his Argentine paperwork. That is what makes it evidence he had emigrated before he filled it in. Matrícula, Domicilio, Casilla and N.º de órden are empty too: he registered, he was never mustered. The only numbers are the filing ones, Serie E 3555 and Sección I 3322. And a caution panel, because the date will not stand up. This page calls it the ficha of 1908 and nothing on the card says 1908 — the only year on its face is the class, 1882 — and the archive has never written down where 1908 came from. It sits in a collection catalogued 1911–1936. Against that, page 6 of the passport records the libreta de enrolamiento from the Consulado General Argentino, Cape Town, with Dist. Militar a dash, Matrícula a dash, and Año 1915 — the same pattern as this card, down to the two dashes. Either there were two enrolment events at the Cape or these are one, and if they are one the date is 1915. Flagged, not decided. Also moved the link cards above the "printed card with blank rules" prose. David could not find them and said so twice: they were sitting at y≈1047, below the fold on a normal screen. The heading now lands at y≈666 at 1440x900, so "Go and look at it yourself" is visible without scrolling, though the links themselves are still a little under.

Serie reads E 3555, not 3885 — David read the original

did The card's SERIE field was published as "3885" in the table of what the card says. It reads "E 3555". The letter prefix was dropped entirely and two digits were misread. What should have caught it here, and did not: SECCIÓN directly below was transcribed "I 3322" — correctly, letter and all. Two adjacent fields of identical shape, one with its letter and one without, is an internal inconsistency this archive could have seen without looking at the image at all. Neither number carries weight in any argument on the page. No conclusion moves. Logged in /corrections/ anyway, because a transcription is the one thing this archive asks a reader to take on trust, and a wrong one is worse than a missing one.

The record links become a card, and a stray 261 KB file leaves the build

did David asked for the FamilySearch links to be prominent rather than a line of prose. They are now a two-card section, "Go and look at it yourself": the image on one card, the index entry on the other, each with its ark underneath. Reconciled with another session that edited this page at the same time. That session had already answered, and answered better, the question my earlier panel left open — where "Serena" comes from. It is the printed field label SERIE, and the drawer is filed by sound, so Lera / Lorena / Serena / Sera / Perena were already neighbours before any machine read them. My panel duplicated that, so it is gone. The one fact in it that was not covered elsewhere — the record is attached to tree person GPWH-72S — moved onto the index card. I also left three nested <section> elements behind when I inserted it; that is fixed. Two things found while checking the result in the browser: There is no .two rule. The stylesheet has `.grid { display:grid; gap:14px }` and nothing for `.two`, in any media query. So both `grid two` blocks on the site — this one and the front page's "What this archive has established" — have always rendered as one column at every width. Worked around inline here with an auto-fit minmax, and logged as a row: the real fix is in the shared kit stylesheet and needs six archives repinned, so it should ride along with row 92. site/public/docs/.jpg — a hidden file, 261 KB, byte-identical to marriage-1911.jpg and referenced by nothing. It was committed in a1eba22, the "six documents published" commit, which is exactly where the zsh 1-indexed-array bug struck and produced an empty basename. Deleted.

Unblock the deploy, and make the local gate run what CI runs

did The site has not deployed since 09:11 this morning. Three pushes in a row failed and I did not notice, because I checked the gate and the push and never the deployment. Said the work was live when it was not. The cause was not in these commits. d1a9811, from another session working this repo, added work-list rows 131 and 132 with state "open", which is not one of blocked/done/next/running/struck. check:worklist rejected it, the build exited 1, and every push after that inherited a red pipeline. Both rows set to "next", which is what they plainly are. The reason nothing local caught it is the real fix. tools/verify.sh ran `npx astro build` directly. CI runs `npm run build`, which chains check:living, check:kit, check:worklist and check:covers after astro. So the local gate was a strict subset of CI and could print ALL GATES PASSED over a build that could never deploy. verify.sh now runs `npm run build`, and all four kit checks pass locally: living 630 pages, no living person reaches the build kit 630 pages, 1453 ids, links/anchors/search/sitemap clean worklist ok covers ok For the record, so the scope is not overstated: last night's Brayley and census work did deploy and is live. What was stuck behind the red pipeline is today's two commits — the menu rename and the ark links.

Make the citations clickable: 11 arks were links, now 72 are

did David asked where the link to the actual record was on /enrolment-card/ and there wasn't one. The page cited the arks — image 3:1:3QHK-MQL4-NQWN, index 1:1:6TH8-DVXH — as dead text in a mono span. A citation the reader cannot follow is doing half its job. That turned out to be systemic. 72 distinct FamilySearch arks are quoted across the site and 11 of them were clickable. The register alone had 58 dead ones, the people index 52, the places pages 36. Fixed once, in the shared helper: arkify() in site/src/lib/text.js turns a bare ark into a link to familysearch.org/ark:/61903/<ark>, and emph() now runs it, so every field already rendered through emph() is covered. It runs after escaping and after the conversion, so it only ever sees text it has escaped itself and cannot corrupt its own markup. Four call sites were rendering source strings raw and now go through emph: register.astro, people/index.astro, places/[slug].astro, and two hardcoded spans in searched.astro plus one in horses.astro. Verified against the live build: 72 clickable, one left — 1:1:XPG2-RYP on /worklist/, which is rendered by the archive-kit WorkList component and would need the kit changed and six archives repinned. Left alone and recorded rather than quietly fixed halfway. And following the link paid immediately. FamilySearch's index of the enrolment card does not say Pablo Armando Lerena. It says "Armand Lorena", born 1882 at "Rosario de Lerma, Salta" — a real town seven hundred miles from Rosario de Santa Fe — with his father as "Juan Carlos Lorena Serena" and his mother, correctly, María Lerena. So no search for Lerena at Santa Fe could ever have returned it, which is why it was hard to find; and it is a plain demonstration of this archive's own rule that the index is a finding aid and the image is the evidence. One real question falls out, recorded on the page as open: where does "Serena" come from? This archive reads the father's line as Juan Carlos Lerena and nothing more, and an indexer in front of the same handwriting saw a second word. That wants re-reading at higher resolution before anyone decides who is right. The record is also attached to a FamilySearch tree person, GPWH-72S, which has not been examined. Also renamed the menu entry "The Card" to "The Enrolment Card".

Say "enrolment" in the menu, because David looked and did not see it

did The enrolment card page was never orphaned — it is linked from all 629 pages through the nav, with four in-body links from the front page and four from /family-papers/. The problem was the label. It read "The Card", sitting between "The Passport" and "The Name", and nothing in those two words says this is the only document that names Pablo Armando's father and mother. Renamed to "The Enrolment Card". It breaks the terse parallel of the other entries slightly, and the archive's most important document should be findable by someone who does not already know what it is.

The prose pages that cannot join their siblings, written down where they will be seen

did Three shared pages are stuck, and not on anything the UI can fix. /searched/ sits at four of seven, /open-questions/ at two, /sources/ at two, because the rest of the estate holds those as paragraphs rather than rows. Turning a paragraph into rows means deciding what each search returned and what would answer each question, and that is research this archive owns. Until now that only existed in the shared-pages register, which is my record and not this archive's. It is on the work list now, where the coverage gate can see it and where whoever picks this session up will meet it. The outcome words and the confidence words stay this archive's. The estate deliberately does not flatten hit, yield, nothing and pending into a shared five - those are different judgements about what a search did.

Two hundred and seventy-eight people, and the standing becomes a question you can ask

did The card grid becomes the estate's table. What this page argues - that a rare surname produces a majority of unplaced people, and that this is what the work looks like before the connecting document turns up - was sortable but not askable. Connected, excluded and unplaced are a filter now, and the trade, the place and the record that produced each person are columns rather than a line of run-together text. The search box goes because the shared table brings one, and it no longer carries a second copy of every card's text in an attribute beside it.

The alms house at Northam, and a fourth spelling trap

did The 1891 household was found by searching TAYLOR. Searching BRAYLEY in the same parish and year finds two more people, and one of them is the grandmother. A search under BRAILEY returns zero for Devon in 1891 — the household that was BRAILEY in 1861 is BRAYLEY again by 1891. Georgina Brayley, head, WIDOW, 77, "Living On Means", born Scotland, East Lothian — living ALONE in the ALMS HOUSE, Northam. Piece 1787, ED 6, folio 72, page 6, schedule 40. A different enumeration district and a short walk from her daughter's family at 2 Fore Street. That completes a sentence the tree only half-wrote. It gives her occupation as "Monthly Nurse & Shoemaker Wife Pauper", which has always read like three things run together. Follow her across four records and the whole life is there: "Shoemaker Wife" in 1851, a married lodger in her father-in-law's house with her husband five weeks from dying in the county asylum; "Mangles Clothes" in 1861, a widow keeping her own household; the alms house in 1891; and a death at Bideford in the March quarter of 1900, aged 85. The Scottish end of the ascent is now on four English records. And a candidate, graded as a candidate. Georgina Brayley, 20, general servant, born London Kilburn, in a draper's household in Tower Street, Northam — precisely the pattern of Mary Ann Hellen herself, in service in a china dealer's house at eighteen, and carrying the family's forename. The obvious reading is a granddaughter of Georgina Temple, most likely a daughter of John Walker Brayley. None of it is proven: the census states no relationship to anybody in this family. Row 130. The hypothesis that Mary Septima, aged 6, was with her grandmother was worth testing and it fails — her grandmother is alone. She is not at 2 Fore Street, not in the alms house, and not among the 368 Devon Taylors born 1882–1886. Where she was is a real open question.

Three Brailey households on one street, and a false null that nearly stood

did Lower Gunstone, Bideford, 7 April 1861. Piece 1502, ED 7. This entry almost did not happen. A search of all 129 Brayleys in FreeCEN's Devon for 1861 found no William born Westleigh, no Georgina born in Scotland and no child born in London. The control was clean — 53 Taylors at Bideford the same year, so the parish-year is properly transcribed — and the null was one sentence from being written down as "the family left Bideford between 1851 and 1870." It would have been false. Searched again as BRAILEY, every one of them came back, on the same street as in 1851. That is the third false zero this one spelling produced in a single evening. A controlled null is only as good as the spelling it was run under. Schedule 27: Georgina Brailey, head, WIDOW, 45, "Mangles Clothes", born Scotland — with Isabella, 20, NEEDLE WOMAN, born London, St Andrews; John, 16, DRUGGIST PORTER, born St Pancras; Georgina, 10, scholar, born Bideford; and a lodger. Schedule 38: Ellen Brailey, servant, 18, "HOUSE SERVANT", born London (City), in the household of Michael Prust, china dealer. The current tree gives Mary Ann Hellen the occupation "House Servant" and nothing to support it. Here it is, written by an enumerator — and she went into service four doors from her mother. Schedule 48: William Brailey, head, WIDOWER, 84, "Formerly A Mason", born Westleigh, living alone. Peggy died in January 1858 and he is a widower at the same address. What the two censuses together establish: the family did not leave. Lower Gunstone in 1851 and in 1861; Mary Ann Hellen marries at Bideford in 1870; her mother dies there in 1900 aged 85; she and her brother die there the same year. Four generations on one street for fifty years. Isabella is confirmed a second time, ten years on, with the same birthplace — a real person, not a transcription ghost. John is sixteen, putting his birth at 1845 for the third time: two censuses now against the single 1900 informant who implied 1847. Both censuses agree the old mason was born about 1777 — 74 in 1851, 84 in 1861 — where the tree says 1 March 1778. Two records against one tree. And Peggy's four-year gap is recorded as still open: she died in 1858, eight years before the death index began carrying ages, so it cannot be closed from an index at all and needs Braunton's baptisms. The three households now render on /family-papers/ in date order.

Section 9: the evening's records reach the page, not just the data directory

did The index and census findings were sitting in data/ as TSV and JSON with nothing rendering them. They now have a section on /family-papers/: the sixteen graded claims, tree against index; a panel on why the NAMES are the find and not the dates; the household at 2 Fore Street, Northam, 5 April 1891; the household at Lower Gunstone, Bideford, 30 March 1851. Two rendering faults found and fixed while checking the built page rather than assuming it: Emphasis leaked in the relation and age cells, which were the two columns not wrapped in em(). Three tables' worth of reached the HTML; the gate caught it. The repeated header lines inside the TSVs were being rendered as data rows, and — worse — the children block of the 1851 file carried six columns against the header's seven, so every child's OCCUPATION cell held their birthplace and their BIRTHPLACE cell held the commentary. Fixed in the data, not papered over in the template: the four grandchildren now carry their real census occupations (three Scholars, and a blank for the eight-month-old). Verified in the browser against the running dev server: three tables, 18/10/7 body rows, no stray markers, columns aligned.

Lower Gunstone, Bideford, 30 March 1851 — four generations in one house

did Piece 1895, folio 108, page 8, schedule 34. The best single record of the day, found free, in a database that had been sitting there all along. The Brayley ascent was published as eleven generations of pure tree; this page puts four of them in one house with their birthplaces written down by an enumerator. William Brayley, head, 74, MASON, born Westleigh — generation 4, and it was unsourced until tonight. His trade matters: the ascent has John Reed, STONEMASON, three generations up and Gregory Reed, PAUPER SHOEMAKER, two. The tree did not need to invent that. Peggy Brayley, wife, 78, born BRAUNTON — generation 4w, with the nickname on the record. And the house is LOWER GUNSTONE, which is the address the tree gives for her death in 1858. Her age is four years off the tree's 1777, which is more than ordinary census slippage and is recorded as a discrepancy, not smoothed over. Georgina, lodger, married, 35, "Shoemaker Wife", born HADDINGTON, EAST LOTHIAN — Georgina Temple, and this is the 1851 census the tree already cited for her. She is in her father-in-law's house with four children and no husband. Put that beside the other record found tonight. The census is 30 March 1851; John Brailey died 4 May 1851, indexed in the St Thomas district, which contains the county asylum at Exminster. He was alive on census night and he was not in the house. Sue Rowbotham's history has a chapter called "The mystery of the missing husband and daughter". Here is the household he is missing from, dated. The four children resolve two open questions and raise a person: John, grandson, aged 5, born St Pancras. A boy of 5 on 30 March 1851 was born April 1845 – March 1846, which fits the tree's 22 June 1845 and not the 1900 death index's implied 1847. That two-year gap, left open earlier tonight, resolves in the tree's favour — the informant in 1900 was wrong. The census says St Pancras where the tree says St Paul's, and that disagreement stands. Georgina, granddaughter, EIGHT MONTHS, born Bideford — so born about July 1850, and the tree's "1851" is a year late. Three elder children London-born and the baby Bideford-born also dates the family's return to Devon: between 1845 and mid-1850. Ellen, granddaughter, 8, born City of London — Mary Ann Hellen as a child, in the house, a year high like everyone else on this page. Isabella, granddaughter, 10, born London, ST ANDREW — a daughter this archive did not have. Mary Ann Hellen named her own second daughter Isabella Temple in 1874, for this sister and for their mother's maiden name. New row 129. Whether she is Sue Rowbotham's missing daughter is not established and is written down only to be tested. Controlled: Westleigh 1851 was searched for Brayley first and returned zero. A Taylor search in the same parish and year returns 12, so the parish is transcribed and the zero is real — and expected, since the tree already had William at Bideford by then.

2 Fore Street, Northam, on the night of 5 April 1891

did FreeCEN holds Northam for 1891. Piece 1787, ED 4, folio 42, page 1, schedule 2 — the first time this archive has seen Mary Septima's family in a household return. William Taylor, head, 65, "Cab Driver / ret'd Army Srgt", born Worlingworth, Suffolk. That confirms the birthplace and solves something filed as a data error: the tree attaches "Sergeant-Major in the army" to the infant who died at nine months in 1825. The trade was real and had drifted onto the wrong William. It belongs to this man, on a census return, in his own house. Mary A. H. Taylor, wife, 47, born ST BARTHOLOMEWS, London (City). That is the birthplace FreeBMD could not find a registration for, control passed. Three independent records now agree she was born in 1843 and not one of them is her birth certificate. William J. and Kathleen G., both 20, both born Bideford. The twins, confirmed a third time — tree, birth index, census. Horace A., 19, footman. Margaret H. N. (the initial is W, for Walker), 14. Irene, 12. Lucy E., 9. Agnes W., 1, born at this address. And a visitor, Agnes Harrison, dressmaker, of Macclesfield. What it did not settle. There is no Edith of the right age in Northam, so that candidate for the tenth child is weakened — but Mary Septima, aged 6, is missing from her own parents' household too, and a county-wide check of all 368 Devon Taylors born 1882–1886 does not find her either. A census cannot tell a child who was elsewhere from a child who never was, and a child who died before 1891 would fit every fact there is. The count still demands a seventh daughter. The null is soft and is recorded as soft: FreeCEN's Devon 1891 is transcribed parish by parish and is not complete for the county. Northam itself is, which is the only reason her absence from it counts. New row 128: where was she on census night, and who is the tenth child.

Nine of nine Taylor children, and the names carry the ascent inside them

did One search — births, surname Taylor, Bideford registration district (which contains Northam), 1870–1890. Every child the tree names is in the index, in the right district, in the right quarter. Not one miss. Including the one that matters to this archive: TAYLOR, Mary Septima, Bideford, December quarter 1884, 5b/506. The woman who married Pablo Armando at St Dominic's, Wynberg, on 3 September 1911 now has her own birth registration located. The tree's odd-looking pair of November 1870 births turns out to be right, not a data error: Kathleen Georgina at 5b/490 and William John at 5b/489, same quarter, adjacent pages. They are almost certainly twins. The tree was right and it looked wrong. But the names are the find, not the dates. Isabella TEMPLE (1874), Margaret Hellen W[ALKER] (1876), Agnes WALKER (1889). Those are not forenames. They are the surnames of the two women at the Scottish end of the ascent — Georgina Temple, born Haddington 1814, and HELEN WALKER, who married George Temple at Haddington in 1813 and who, per gedcom-graded.tsv, cites nothing at all. She is still not on a record. But three of her descendants were registered with her surname as a given name, by a clerk, in 1874, 1876 and 1889 — and that is on a record. The naming pattern this archive noticed and guessed at is now documented even though the woman behind it is not. New row 127, out of the count argument: the tree says ten children and names nine, and SEPTIMA MEANS SEVENTH. Counted off the index Mary Septima is only the sixth daughter, so a daughter is missing between 1881 and 1884. The index offers exactly one — TAYLOR, Edith, Bideford, September quarter 1882 — and this archive already knew of a sister Edie at 26 Fore Street, Northam, in 1935. Graded a strong candidate and not a find: the birth index gives no mother's maiden name before 1911. The 1891 census at Northam would settle it, the twins, and John Walker Brayley's two-year age gap, in one household line.

Three deaths in Bideford in nine months, and one age that will not fit

did Second pass at the GRO index, same evening. Georgina Temple — CONFIRMED, and the age confirms Haddington. BRAYLEY, Georgina, age 85, Bideford, Mar quarter 1900, 5b/421. A woman born 23 August 1814 is 85 all through that quarter. The tree's vague "about January 1900" lands in exactly the right quarter. She is indexed BRAYLEY though her husband was registered BRAILEY. John Walker Brayley — the death is confirmed and the birth year is contradicted. BRAYLEY, John Walker, age 53, Bideford, Dec quarter 1900, 5b/305. Distinctive name, right quarter, right district. But 53 at 22 October 1900 means born about 1847, and the tree says 22 June 1845. Two years out, in a family whose other two reported ages have just proved exact to the month — which points at the tree rather than the informant. So mother, daughter and son all die in Bideford inside nine months: March, June and December quarters of 1900. And neither sibling has a registered birth. No John Walker Brayley anywhere in England and Wales 1843–1850; no Mary Brayley or Brailey in June 1843. Two siblings, two missing registrations, is no longer two nulls — it is a household that did not register births, which was lawful before the 1875 Act. That weakens both nulls as evidence and points where the tree pointed all along: the parish baptism registers of St Paul's and St Bartholomew's. A near-miss is written down so it is not later mistaken for a find: John BACKWAY Brayley, Bideford, June quarter 1847, fits the age of 53 and the district. The middle name is wrong, so he is not adopted.

Three of four Brayley links now rest on the index, not on a web site

did Work-list row 124. The Brayley ascent was published unsourced below 1843. Four of its claims have now been put to the GRO civil index via FreeBMD. John Brailey's death — CONFIRMED. Deaths, Jun quarter 1851: BRAYLEY, John, St Thomas, 10/177. The Devon County Asylum stood at Exminster, in the St Thomas district. A search under BRAILEY returns nothing in 1851 at all; the family spells it both ways and one spelling finds nothing. The 1870 marriage — CONFIRMED. BRAYLEY, Mary Ann H, Bideford, 5b/794, double-keyed. TAYLOR, William is on the same page. That is the join that attaches the whole ascent to the Taylor line. The page carries four names, so the pairing is near-certain rather than certain. Her 1900 death — CONFIRMED, and it pays a dividend. TAYLOR, Mary Ann H, age 56, Bideford, 5b/363. Age 56 on 21 April 1900 is exactly a birth of 20 May 1843, corroborating the birth year from a second direction forty-three years later — and killing the 2018 backup's 1844, which would have made her 55. Her 1843 birth registration — NOT FOUND. The control passed: June 1843 births are transcribed and other Brayleys appear in the quarter. But registration was not compulsory until 1875, so the null is weak, and "St Bartholomew's" may be a baptism, which is not in this index. Everything above generation 3 is still unsourced and still needs the Westleigh parish register, which no free tool reached tonight: FamilySearch record search was blocked, and FreeREG holds none of Westleigh, Coldridge, Braunton, Bideford or Shirwell. Recorded in devon-tooling.tsv so the evening is not spent twice — including that FreeBMD's submit is an <input type=image>, which is why form.submit() silently re-renders the search page. New rows 125 (buy the 5b/794 marriage certificate — it names both fathers) and 126 (run the remaining Taylor vitals through FreeBMD).

Six of 244 cite a record

did Work-list row 121 asked a narrow question: where did the tree get Felix de Llerena's Andalusia from? Answering it meant reading every SOUR citation on every Lerena, Taylor, Brayley and Brailey person in the current export, and the narrow answer came with a much larger one. THE NARROW ANSWER. Felix's Andalusia is sourced to "Carvalho Calcagno Web Site" and "Familia Martinez Camino" - two other people's MyHeritage trees. This archive wrote, four hours ago, that the tree agreed with its own reading of "Cordova la llana" as the Spanish city "from a direction that owes the archive nothing". It owes the archive nothing because it is two strangers' trees, which may perfectly well have copied the same reasoning from the same place. No support. THE LARGER ANSWER. Of 244 people on this line in the tree: 6 cite a record 94 cite only other people's family trees 144 cite nothing at all The entire documentary foundation is three citations of the 1911 census, one each of 1871 and 1901, one death index and one baptism. 97.5% of the line rests on nothing, or on somebody else's tree. WHICH MEANS the eleven-generation Brayley ascent published two hours ago is almost entirely unsourced. Matthew Reed of 1643 rests on "Lightning Web Site". John Brailey on "Moore-Christian Web Site". HELEN WALKER - the woman who explains the Walker given name and the DNA match sharing Temple and Walker - cites NOTHING AT ALL. This archive flagged the ascent "tree, not record", which was right, and did not say how thin. It is this thin. And the three deaths of 12 November 1999 carry zero citations. The warning that they should be checked against a death registration before being stated as fact now has a number behind it and is binding. WHAT THIS DOES NOT MEAN: that the tree is wrong. An unsourced entry can be perfectly correct. It means the tree is a set of LEADS and not a body of evidence - and that a lead carrying a parish and a date is worth far more than one without, because it can be tested. The register stays at 278. Nothing is promoted on the tree's say-so. Row 124 opened with the densest target in the ascent: Westleigh, September 1799, where one parish register page should carry Robert Brayley's baptism on the 21st, his burial on the 23rd, and his mother Ann Snow's burial the same day. - data/gedcom-graded.tsv; /family-papers/ gains section 7d - row 121 closed

The current tree imported: 245 people, 122 the archive did not have

did The re-import, finished. From the 15 September export: 245 people carry a Lerena, Taylor or Brayley name; 122 are not in this archive's register of 278; 41 of those are dead. THE URUGUAYAN TRUNK IS IN THE TREE, and it reaches the people this archive read off registers. FELIX DE LLERENA, born about 1725 at Cordoba in ANDALUSIA - the archive's own Felix, from the Canelones marriage act of 8 January 1791, which says only "naturales de dicha Cordova". This archive argued from the phrase "Cordova la llana" that the Cordoba meant was the Spanish city. The tree agrees, from a direction that owes the archive nothing. And FIDEL LLERENA, dead 30 January 1822, son of Sancho Francisco Llerena Aguilar and Maria Josefa Teresa Fernandez - the archive's Sancho and Maria, with fuller names than the act gives, and the same 1822 the Geneanet trees carry. But a tree is not a source, and agreement from an unknown source is worth nothing while feeling like a great deal. Row 121 is to find out where that Andalusia came from before any of it is leaned on. FOUR URUGUAYAN DEPARTMENTS THIS ARCHIVE HAS NEVER SEARCHED: Flores, San Jose, Florida, and Rosario in Colonia - each with a named Lerena and a date. It has worked Canelones and Montevideo and nothing else. THE BRAYLEY FAMILY ENTIRE, with the parish attached to nearly every line. Robert Brayley lived two days and his mother Ann Snow died on the same date, 23 September 1799 - a birth and two deaths in one Westleigh household in three days. Five children of William Brayley and Peggy Reed between 1803 and 1817, two of them dead as infants. All of it confirmable in one sitting at Westleigh. THE TAYLOR SIBLINGS with three Devon street addresses the archive lacks - 23 Geneva Place Bideford, North Street Northam, and 2 FORE STREET, NORTHAM, which is a few doors from the 26 Fore Street where Mary Septima stayed on her last visit home in 1935. An address is what a census is searched on, and this archive already has five censuses and the 1939 Register worked. AND THREE DEATHS ON ONE DAY. Pierre Frederick Lerena, born 10 May 1948, dead 12 November 1999 - with his sons Richard, born 2 January 1986, and Jeffrey, born 2 January 1991, both dead the same day, aged thirteen and eight. This archive knew only that his estate was advertised in 2000. Recorded plainly, with no speculation as to cause, and to be confirmed against a death registration before it is stated as fact anywhere else. Also: an unnamed infant of Roque Luis Armando, born 17 May and dead 22 May 1932, which makes three of his children dead in infancy. And Jeanette Marie Lerena, Cheryl's eldest sister, died 6 June 2021. - data/gedcom-import.tsv; /family-papers/ gains section 7c - four work-list rows

The 2018 GEDCOM is withdrawn, and the Brayley line goes back to 1643

did David: "Do not use the 2018 gedcom. That is an old backup only. And is incredibly wrong and out of date." He was right, and the current export proves it point by point. Everything published from the backup is withdrawn and re-derived. WHAT THE BACKUP GOT WRONG. The Australian birth does not exist. The backup put Paul Lerena at DAPTO, WOLLONGONG, NSW on 3 November 1951. The current tree has Paul Raymond Lerena, born 11 March 1951 at Johannesburg, and no Australian place anywhere in that generation. This archive had flagged that entry as "a date that cannot be true" because his sister was born in Johannesburg six months later. The flag was right and the cause was the backup. Careen Marie was published as born and died 1945. She was born JUNE 1947 and died 22 JUNE 1947 - three weeks old. Which is exactly what Cheryl told her English cousin in 2020. The family were right and the backup was wrong. And the backup carried him as "Roberto Paul (Llorens) Lerena, born EST 4 SEP 1872, Argentina" - the unsolicited Buenos Aires candidate baked into his name, his birth date and his parents. The current tree has restored Pablo Armando / Robert Paul Lerena, born 22 February 1882 at Rosario. THE LESSON, which this archive should not have needed: a file's DATE IS PART OF ITS PROVENANCE, and "found on the disk" is not a source. It was treated as one because it was large and internally consistent. Two errors WERE caught by internal arithmetic - the impossible date, and a man dead at 117 - and both were written up as isolated slips when they were symptoms. AND WHAT THE CURRENT TREE GIVES INSTEAD. rootschat-assessment.tsv says Brayley "is the one this archive could not push past". It goes back to Matthew Reed, born 1643 at Braunton. Eleven generations with parishes and dates: Mary Ann Hellen Brayley, born 20 May 1843 at St Bartholomew's in the City of London, a HOUSE SERVANT, married 26 January 1870 at St Mark's, Bideford. Her father John Brailey, born 1814 at West Leigh by Coldridge, married at St Martin-in-the-Fields in 1839, DIED 4 MAY 1851 AT THE DEVON COUNTY ASYLUM at thirty-six - very probably the "missing husband" of Sue Rowbotham's chapter title. Her mother Georgina Temple of Haddington, "Monthly Nurse & Shoemaker Wife Pauper". Back through Westleigh and Braunton and Shirwell to Matthew Reed and Anne Heddon, married at Braunton in 1671. AND THERE IS THE WALKER. This archive guessed a Walker grandmother from a naming habit - Margaret Hellen WALKER Taylor, Agnes WALKER Taylor. She is five generations up: HELEN WALKER, who married George Temple at Haddington, East Lothian, on 6 January 1813. So is the other name: Helen Walker to Mary Ann HELLEN Brayley to Margaret HELLEN Walker Taylor. Which is why a South African DNA match shares TEMPLE AND WALKER with Cheryl. The tree and the chromosome arrive at the same woman from opposite ends. A WARNING, not a retraction: the current tree still carries his parents as Roberto Llorens and "Francisca Fernandez Lerena" while his birth reads Rosario 1882. Those cannot both be true, and the mother's surname appears in no register. Work-list row 119, David's, to fix before the next export. - data/gedcom-2018.tsv and gedcom-harvest.tsv deleted - data/gedcom-current.tsv, data/brayley-ascent.tsv - /family-papers/ sections 7 and 7b replace the retracted one - two corrections; row 118 struck; row 119 opened

The GEDCOM breaks the Brayley wall, and the Brayley reading does not survive it

did Three jobs in the order David set them: mine the tree, fetch three media, test the Brayley convergence. Two done, one blocked, and the convergence went somewhere other than where it looked. THE TREE. 2018-07 Defranceski.ged: 8,286 individuals, 2,532 families, 4,001 media - against 278 in this register. Never opened before today. THE BRAYLEY WALL IS NOT A WALL. Six generations, with parishes. Mary Ann Helen Brayley, b. 1844 at St Bartholomew's, MIDDLESEX - London, not Devon - d. 21 April 1900 at Sweet Home Terrace, Northam. Her father John Brayley, b. 14 Aug 1814 at West Leigh by Coldridge. His father William Brayley, b. 1 March 1778 at Westleigh, who married Peggy Reed of Braunton. His father John Brayley, b. 1747, d. September 1815 at Westleigh. And the Reed marriage at Braunton, 21 November 1771, to Margaret Wybourn. rootschat-assessment.tsv says Brayley "is the one this archive could not push past". It was being pushed past in a file on the same disk. ANTON ARMANDO IS PLACED. Son of Ricardo Juan Carlos and Doreen May Chappell, born 5 June 1952 - and his J193 identity number begins 520605. Exact. This archive carried him as "unplaced" throughout and ranked a Pretoria divorce file FIRST to place him. CAREEN IS EXPLAINED, and it is not a scandal. Careen Marie, b&d 1945, daughter of RICARDO. The third grave at Newlands is a granddaughter in her grandparents' plot, not an old man's secret - and it agrees with the 1950 death notice's "nil" against other marriages. And a date that cannot be true: Paul born Dapto, New South Wales, 3 November 1951, with a sister born Johannesburg 21 May 1952. Six and a half months, to one mother. Recorded as a contradiction inside the tree, not as a finding - but an Australian birth in that generation would be entirely new. THE THREE MEDIA: BLOCKED, by the application and not by permissions. The tree view is a canvas carrying 8,286 people and it froze the renderer three times. A lighter route is needed. Said plainly rather than quietly dropped. THE CONVERGENCE, TESTED - AND THE ANSWER IS NO. The GEDCOM handed over the actual surnames, so they went through the match list. BRAYLEY returns 4: an Australian at 23.0 cM sharing Brayley and Baker, and an Englishman actually surnamed Brayley at 16.2 cM. TEMPLE returns 22, including a South African who shares TEMPLE AND WALKER - and Walker runs through the Taylor line as a given name. The maternal English line is real, corroborated, and sits at 14-25 cM. The Bailey cluster sits at 61-116 cM in the United States and NONE OF ITS THREE MEMBERS CARRIES BRAYLEY. This morning this archive wrote that cluster 14 was "probably" Brayley. It had no business writing "probably" and the claim is corrected on /dna/ and in /corrections/. And the absence proves nothing either: those trees hold two people and four people, and no shared surname can be computed from a tree with two people in it. The link is UNTESTED, NOT REFUTED. One message to the 116 cM match would settle it, and that is David's to send. What the convergence actually delivered: for Mary Septima Taylor's mother's family, a wall became a documented ascent of six generations in an afternoon. For Pablo Armando it moved nothing at all. - /family-papers/ gains sections 7 and 8 - data/gedcom-harvest.tsv, data/brayley-convergence.tsv - one major correction; three work-list rows; row 112 closed

Where the name is, drawn by density because that is what the page argues

did The estate's distribution chart ranks by bearers and picks the first bar out in the accent, on the reasoning that the largest is almost always the answer. Here it is not: the section under this chart says so in so many words - Spain has the most Lerenas and Uruguay carries them at six times the density, which is the signature of founder emigration. So the bars are density and Uruguay leads them. Bearers, incidence and national rank all travel beside each bar.

Four generations onto the shared spine, and not one joint marked

did This page's claim is that there is no inferred link left in the descent, and the shared spine says that by leaving every joint unmarked - which only means something because the same component marks Booyzen's seventh generation and Blazevic's third. Cheryl Anne stays a name and a relationship.

Thirty-six places onto the shared register

did The card grid becomes the estate's places table, which brings the search this page did not have. The prose above it - that the surname clusters in the River Plate and that Rosario, the one place the family names, is the thinnest - is the argument and stays.

Six documents, published - and the tree, counted at last

did THE SITE HAS IMAGES NOW. This archive has been text since it began. Six document scans are published at /family-papers/, every person named on them dead: the 1911 marriage register, the 1950 death notice, the 1950 death certificate, the baptisms of Roque and Nuno at Corpus Christi Wynberg, and the Buenos Aires candidate. The 1971 and 1973 death notices are deliberately NOT published. They list living children with their birth dates, and this estate names the living and nothing more. Their transcriptions stay; the scans do not. A near-miss worth recording: the first pass through the resizer wrote all six under the wrong names, because zsh arrays are one-indexed and the loop was not. Every caption would have sat under the wrong document on a public genealogy site. Caught by checking the aspect ratios against what each document actually is. THE LLORENS PROVENANCE, CORRECTED. This archive wrote that "somebody pulled that deliberately" - an intention nobody had stated, invented to fill a gap where a file sat with no note attached. David says it arrived unsolicited, in the mail, from a researcher in Argentina, and that he regards it as likely no relation. The working is kept, because the archive reached the same verdict from the documents before he said so - and because the name has already leaked into the family tree, where he is entered as "Roberto Paul (Llorens) Lerena". A stranger's guess becomes a fact when nobody refutes it in writing. AND THE GEDCOM, WHICH HAD NEVER BEEN OPENED. 2018-07 Defranceski.ged, 7.5 MB: 8,286 individuals, 2,532 families, 400 sources, 4,001 media objects - against 278 people in this register. Eighty-one carry a Lerena or Taylor name and forty-two of those carry photographs. It is the largest unmined source in the whole project and it is sitting on the disk. The media are not. The FILE references point at MyHeritage's servers; only 169 cached thumbnails survive locally, at 60x80, too small to read a document from. So the text is free and the images need the live tree. Three titles already earn their place on the work list: "Mary Ann Taylor Death Certificate", hanging on Mary Septima - her MOTHER's, the death that orphaned her at fifteen. This archive does not hold it. rootschat-assessment.tsv says Brayley is the line it could not push past, and the DNA subtraction produced a paternal cluster of Bailey trees at 116 cM the same day. Three roads now point at Brayley. "Lerena Grave", hanging on Nuno - which may settle Newlands against the death certificate's Maitland without writing to anybody. record-image_3Q9M-C913-K98Q-J - one page of MOOC 6/9/17017 that the local folder does not hold. - site/public/docs/, six scans, 1.8 MB - data/gedcom-2018.tsv; llorens-1872.tsv provenance corrected - one correction; four work-list rows

A rival identification, a death certificate, and a Falco page in the wrong folder

did The nine unopened images in the family's own Lerena folder, read. THE DEATH CERTIFICATE, which is not the death notice. Union of South Africa A 214036, Wynberg, entry W612/50. It registers him as ROBERT PAUL LERINA - the spelling this archive has been treating as a clerk's slip is on the civil register itself. Birthplace: SOUTH AMERICA. No country, no town. Age: 76. Occupation: Race Horse Owner. Cause: coronary thrombosis and angina pectoris, six weeks and about three years - and his son Nuno died of a coronary thrombosis at forty-six, twenty-one years later. Intended burial: MAITLAND Cemetery no 1, which contradicts what the family were told at Newlands. Informant: W. FRASER, of Main Road, Observatory, qualification "causing burial". An undertaker. So the notice was completed by a woman of no relation and the certificate by the undertaker, and NOT ONE DOCUMENT MADE AT HIS DEATH WAS FILLED IN BY ANYBODY WHO KNEW WHERE HE CAME FROM. AND A RIVAL IDENTIFICATION NOBODY HAD MENTIONED. Filed among the estate papers, two photographs of the Libro de Bautismos de la Parroquia de San Miguel, Buenos Aires, 1872: ROBERTO JUAN ROQUE LLORENS, born 16 August 1872, son of Roberto Llorens and Francisca Fernandez, both of Spain, of Calle Chacabuco 156. Somebody pulled that deliberately and this archive had never seen it. It is set out for and against because it is not silly. FOR: both South African death records make him mid-seventies, and 1872 fits where 1882 does not; and the names Roberto, Juan and Roque all recur in his own sons. AGAINST: his own passport and his own enrolment card, the only two documents in the whole question he filled in himself, both say Rosario de Santa Fe, 22 February 1882 - and the parents do not match at all. Verdict recorded: not the same man on the evidence as it stands, and the age problem is real and is not dismissed. The cheapest open question in this archive is now to trace Llorens forward in Buenos Aires. If he lived and died in Argentina it closes in an afternoon. The remaining images are pages of the 1950 estate file, already transcribed - except one, which is a 1991 burial index for the FA- surnames carrying FALCO Carmine Antonio, Caterina, Filomena and Raffaele. Misfiled. Noted, left where it is, and not touched: this estate does not mix its families. AND ONE FOR TUESDAY, WHICH IS NOT THIS ARCHIVE'S. The Barry & Booyzen folder holds the death notice of GEORGE DOWNING MOUNTJOY BOOYZEN, estate TAB MHG 1095/48 - one of the six Booyzen estates Anne is booked to pull at Pretoria on 22 September. Its companion 2945/44 that archive has already read. The other four on her list are NOT in the folder, so the rest of the trip stands. Work list row 111, owner David, because it needs saying before Tuesday. - /family-papers/ gains the certificate and section 6 - data/llorens-1872.tsv; death-notice-1950.tsv extended - one correction on the nine-year age gap; three work-list rows

Repin: the chronology picks its headings from the span

"Father: not known. Mother: not known."

did David asked whether it was worth scouting his whole Documents folder for the subject's own name. A filename sweep this archive had never once run found Photos from Email/, and in it the document this archive has been chasing since it began. THE DEATH NOTICE OF ROBERT PAUL LERENA, 1950. KAB MOOC 6/9/17017. This morning it was called "the single most valuable file in this entire archive, because it asks for HIS parents - the one document that could name Juan Carlos Lerena", and there is an open request for it at the Western Cape Archives. Item 3 reads: Father, not known. Mother, not known. The informant was ROSE LILIAN THEYS, who signed as "Present at death" and "Executrix Nominate" - the woman he lived with at No. 7 Forth Road, described in the liquidation account as a spinster and NO RELATION. She could not name his parents. Neither did any of his three living adult sons. Cheryl wrote to her English cousin in 2020: "My Father never discussed his parents with me or my siblings." That silence is now dated. It had closed by March 1950. So the 1908 Argentine enrolment card is now, definitively, the only document on earth naming Juan Carlos and Maria Lerena. It also gives: Argentine, nationality only, no town. Racehorse Trainer. Widower, no surviving spouse - so he did NOT marry Rose Theys, whatever the family believed. Three sons, all majors, no other marriages. And age "77 approx", which is nine years out against the passport and is recorded rather than smoothed, because the woman who guessed it did not know his parents either. AND THE DEVON FAMILY CALLED HIM SOMETHING ELSE. Sue Rowbotham's Taylor family history, held unopened in the Taylor folder: Mary Septima "went out to South Africa to work for a widower by the name of ROBERT (or ROBERTO) MARINO". The three sons she names - Louis, Cardo, Nuno - are exactly right, so the memory is anchored in real people; it is the surname that drifted, or was never Lerena. Marino is one of the commonest surnames in Italy, and two companies independently put Italian ancestry in his granddaughter. Wholly separate lines of evidence, neither aware of the other. Corroboration, not proof, and recorded as the former. TWO BAPTISMS, from Corpus Christi Wynberg. Roque born 25 Nov 1905, baptised 12 June 1911 - at five and a half, and three months before his parents married, by the priest who then married them, who wrote "conjugum" early. A legitimation, and it explains why the register calls them bachelor and spinster. His godparents were JOSE BRETON and MARIA LUISA BRETON, both BY PROXY - the first Hispanic names ever found around him in the Cape, and proxy is what a parish writes when the sponsors are overseas. Nuno baptised at six weeks, and against his mother the priest wrote MATER ANGLICANA. The Catholicism was his father's. AND FROM CHERYL'S 2020 LETTERS: they are buried at Newlands in an unmarked grave carrying only the word LERENA - and there is a third person in it, a baby girl CAREEN MARIA LERENA, born and died 1947, whom this archive has never heard of. A newspaper cutting in north Devon reports Roberto fined five pounds for shooting at two boys stealing from him. And "Uncle Louis married Uncle Cardo's wife's mother" - which is precisely the relationship the AutoClusters produced hours earlier, from chromosomes, in ignorance of the letter. - /family-papers/ now leads with the 1950 death notice; five sections - data/death-notice-1950.tsv, data/family-memory.tsv - the Western Cape errand closed; two corrections; six work-list rows

Eighteen fixed points, off the table and onto the shared chronology

did The four-column table becomes the estate's timeline shape. This archive was the one printing what each row rests on, and the shared component carries that column - it was the others that had dropped it.

The papers in the house, which nobody had opened

did David asked whether this archive had searched his own folder. It had not. Twenty minutes in Genealogy & Family History/Lerena produced more than the last three days of reading registers, and it also produced an expensive embarrassment. WHAT IT COST. This morning this archive drew up a ranked pull list for a researcher at the National Archives in Pretoria on 22 September, where the first file costs R2,850, and put two Transvaal death notices first and second. Both had been photographed and saved since November 2021. Worse: the second was ranked on the promise that it would NAME NUNO FERNANDO'S PARENTS, and item 19 of that notice carries the single word "Deceased" and a ditto mark. No names at all. Both are struck; the list now leads with two divorce files. WHAT CAME OUT OF IT. The 1911 marriage, which was ON THE WORK LIST as a thing to go and find. Wynberg, 3 September 1911, St Dominic's, by an R.C. priest, after banns. He is 29, a BACHELOR, and a HORSE-DEALER - the trade documented nine years earlier than anything else held, and a DEALER before he was ever a trainer. Both parties of Diep River. And the first religious affiliation this archive has for him: he was a Catholic. The form has no column for fathers, so its silence about Juan Carlos is a fact about the printing and not about the family. Rogue Luis Armando's death notice: PLACE OF BIRTH, CAPE TOWN. Not Argentina. That was precisely the question this archive proposed to send somebody to Pretoria to answer, and the answer had been on the disk for five years. His father is written ROBERTO LERENA by his own widow, which ties Pablo Armando and Robert Paul together in a family document rather than a clerk's index. Neither son followed him onto the turf: a retired railwayman and a salesman. And page 6 of the passport, which this archive transcribed a week ago without turning over. "Acta del Registro Civil (o fe de bautismo) extendida por ____" - THE LINE IS BLANK. In 1940, at his own consulate, he produced no birth certificate and no baptismal certificate. This archive has read the Rosario registers act by act looking for his baptism. Here is contemporary evidence that he did not have one either. What he did produce was a libreta de enrolamiento issued at CAPE TOWN IN 1915 - a second Argentine enrolment, seven years after the ficha of 1908, never looked for. THE RULE, on /method/, so it binds: before any list of documents to acquire, list the documents already held. This archive kept a careful register of what it had READ and none at all of what it already HELD, and the two are not the same thing. Also fixes /changes/, which had been shipping five dangling day anchors and fifty unrendered emphasis markers - the same omission as /corrections/ had this morning. Kit repinned to 49295ca, which lets a day carry an id. - new page /family-papers/, linked under Evidence - data/marriage-1911.tsv, data/death-notices-read.tsv, passport extended - the Pretoria pull list corrected before a rand was spent - one correction, four work-list rows

The change feed runs on the shared shape

did A dated note saying what was done and what it turned up — the same job on every archive that keeps one, written four different ways. This page keeps its own words and its own grading; what is shared is that a day groups its entries and that doing and finding are two different fields.

A pull list for Pretoria, 22 September

did A researcher is at the National Archives in Pretoria on Tuesday and charges R2,850 for the first file. Five TAB references, ranked, with the pages that matter and the ones to drop. THIS ARCHIVE HAS NO SAB REFERENCES AT ALL and the list says so. And it says what no file on it can do: a South African death notice asks for the deceased's PARENTS, not their grandparents, so the death notices of Pablo Armando's sons will name him and Mary Septima Taylor and will NOT name Juan Carlos Lerena. Nothing at TAB answers the central question directly. Best of them is MHG 1518/73, Rogue Luis Armando, for his PLACE OF BIRTH: born 6 December 1905, fifteen years before his next-known brother and three years before his father's Argentine enrolment was filed at Cape Town. Argentina or Cape Town, either answer dates the emigration. Caveats recorded rather than smoothed: the four court references carry no volume number in NAAIRS; WLD sits in Johannesburg though NAAIRS places the files at TAB; and the modern estates known from gazettes should still be with the Master rather than the archives, which this archive has not verified.

The subtraction finds one paternal cluster, and it is a Taylor one

did Jeanette's AutoClusters arrived, which is the instrument this page has been asking for since the morning. She is the granddaughter's maternal aunt - Cape and nothing else - so any cluster of the niece's with no counterpart on hers belongs to the FATHER: Pablo Armando or Mary Septima Taylor. THE TRAP FIRST, because this nearly went in wrong. Run naively the subtraction says five of fourteen clusters are paternal. That is a floor artefact. The aunt's chart begins at 75.3 cM and the niece's at 50.6, so four of those five have no member that could ever have appeared on the aunt's chart whatever their ancestry. Only 15 of the niece's 107 clustered matches clear the floor, and those 15 are all this test can speak about. DONE PROPERLY: eight testable clusters. Six confirmed Cape. Two candidates. Six clusters silent. CANDIDATE ONE IS A FALSE POSITIVE AND IT WAS CAUGHT. Cluster 8, one match at 80 cM, a Kroon tree, absent from the aunt's clustered chart - but MyHeritage's own Theory of Family Relativity for that match names the shared surnames as KRUGER, VENTER and NEL. Cape. Absence from a CLUSTERED list is not absence from a match list, and this is the case that proves it. CANDIDATE TWO STANDS. Cluster 14: three matches, 61 to 116 cM, all BAILEY trees. Its 116 cM member clears the aunt's floor comfortably and is not on her chart. It is a genuine paternal cluster. AND IT IS NOT PABLO ARMANDO'S. Mary Septima Taylor's mother was MARY ANN HELLEN BRAYLEY of Bideford, Devon. This archive's rootschat-assessment.tsv already says in terms that Brayley "is the one this archive could not push past", and wikitree-searches.tsv records Brayley queries coming back swamped by Bradley, Bayley, Burley, Barley. A 116 cM paternal cluster of Bailey trees is the best lead that wall has ever had. Bailey is not Brayley, and it is written down as a candidate. A second pointer the same way: cluster 12 is Jullien and Walker, and WALKER runs through the Taylor line as a given name - Margaret Hellen Walker Taylor, Agnes Walker Taylor. That usually means a Walker grandmother. SO THE SUBTRACTION WORKS, AND IT FINDS A PATERNAL CLUSTER. It finds a Taylor one. Pablo Armando still has no cluster on his granddaughter's chart, and that is now a negative with a working instrument behind it rather than an absence of looking. - new section on /dna/; the subtraction recorded in dna-autoclusters.json - work-list row 95 closed, row 98 opened to chase the Bailey cluster

The clusters came back, and her fourth grandparent is not in them

did David generated MyHeritage AutoClusters on three kits. The tool groups matches into blocks that all match EACH OTHER as well as the tester, so a block is in practice one ancestral couple's descendants. It is the sharpest instrument either company offers. HER CHART: 14 clusters, 107 matches, floor 50.6 cM. Attwell, Botha, Buitendag, Calitz, du Pisanie, du Plessis, Engelbrecht, Erasmus, Dippenaar, Lotter, de Kock, Bezuidenhout, Potgieter, de Lange, de Villiers, Volschenk, Niemann, Strauss, Viviers, Hamman, Nel, Theron, van der Westhuizen, van Zyl, Booyens, Jooste, Kroon, Joubert, Dreyer, Krugel, Sander, Jansen van Vuuren, Beukes, du Toit, Gouws, Marais, Bailey, Walker, Johnson, White, Butler, Daniel, Daschner. Not one Spanish, Italian, Argentine or Uruguayan surname on the whole chart. She has four grandparents. Fourteen clusters account for three of them. The fourth has no cluster at all. AND THE CONTROL IS HER SON'S CHART, not hers. His father is a Defranceski of Istria, and his chart carries TWO plainly Croatian clusters - Butorac, Pavelich, Jagustin, Krkljes, Racic, Glas - beside the Cape ones. So AutoClusters does form a block for a foreign paternal line when cousins from it have tested. It found his father's. It did not find hers. That is the hardest form this negative has taken. THE NEPHEW'S CHART WAS A SURPRISE. The only other Lerena who has tested produced nineteen clusters and they are almost entirely Ashkenazi - Abrams, Litwack, Rothbart, Epstein, Goldman, Rosenzweig, Levitan, Novik, Aizenman, Graivier, Mandel, Goldberg, Waldman, Fishbein - with tree names in Hebrew and Russian. That is his MOTHER's family; an endogamous population throws up far more high-cM matches and crowds his chart out. He shares exactly three clustered matches with his aunt, and all three sit in her Cape cluster. It is also the clearest statement yet of why he was never going to separate the lines: he is her NEPHEW, so the Lerena half of him arrives filtered through the same Cape grandmother. THE LIMIT, stated on the page before anyone else states it. A cluster cannot form where nobody has tested. The Croatian clusters exist because Croatians test in numbers; the missing Argentine one is consistent with Pablo Armando's family having no tested descendant anywhere in either database, which is what the sixty-two-country census already said. This is a strong negative and it is not a disproof. It says the answer is not reachable by DNA matching today. - new section on /dna/; site/src/data/dna-autoclusters.json - work-list row 96 closed - no match is named; clusters are described by size, cM range and the surnames of the trees in them

Argentina is not on the list at all

did Replaces a sampled figure with MyHeritage's own count over the whole corpus. This archive published, an hour earlier the same day, that three of the 6,350 matches it had harvested lived in South America. MyHeritage publishes the count for all 11,581, and it is better in every way. SIXTY-TWO COUNTRIES are named, down to a single match each in Vietnam, Saint Lucia and the Cayman Islands. ARGENTINA IS NOT ONE OF THEM. Not a low number - absent. Uruguay has exactly three, and those three are the one family this archive already opened and read: all three of their kits, one 112-person Basque tree with no Lerena in it. Also corrects a reading trap the sample had walked into. Spain shows 38 matches and Portugal 25, which looks Iberian and is not: the names on them are van Heerden, Retief, Vorster, de Vos, Deetlefs and Hanekom. They are South Africans who retired to the Algarve. Country of residence is a trap and the page now says so in the place where a reader would otherwise fall into it.

The same saliva, read at the second company - and eleven thousand cousins

did David asked whether DNA could be made to reach the hypothesis. It was read properly for the first time, at both companies, and it cuts both ways. THE SECOND READING. Everything this archive had published about her ethnicity came from MyHeritage. The kit was UPLOADED from a 23andMe account in 2018, so the same saliva has been sitting there read a second way the whole time. 23andMe disagrees twice: - Spanish & Portuguese 2.1%, where MyHeritage returned 0.0%. The page said "there is no Spanish component whatever". That was a fact about one company's reference panel. - The Italian is put in SICILY. MyHeritage put it in the north, and this archive read the north as the Ligurian and Piedmontese emigration that built Rosario. That reading is withdrawn as a DNA argument. And it agrees once, which matters more than either: BOTH companies find Italian - 11.1% and 8.0% - in a woman whose other three grandparents are English and Cape Afrikaner. The hypothesis now rests on two panels agreeing rather than on one panel's zero, which is a better foundation than it had. ELEVEN THOUSAND COUSINS. 11,581 MyHeritage matches, 11,114 of them with a family tree; 6,350 harvested down to 13.78 cM; 1,500 more at 23andMe. Controls first: Booyzen, Booysen, Kolbe, Barry and Taylor all return, and return matches carrying the name only INSIDE their tree. The search reaches trees. Then the probes: no Lerena in any of them except her own son and nephew. No Llerena. No Lerina. And - sharper than either - no LENGUAS and no TRAIBEL, the two rare Montevideo compounds this archive's hypothesis reaches for. Twenty countries are named across 1,500 relatives' grandparents. Not one is South American and not one is Iberian. Italy is ninth, with ten. Of 500 computed relationship theories, every one of the largest ten lands on the Cape. There is exactly one South American family in the corpus - Uruguayan, three kits, one tree of 112 people - and it was opened and read: Basque and French-Basque, Ziganda Erviti and Barneche and Laclau, with no Lerena in it. The honest counterweight is stated on the page: an absence measured where nobody is standing is a weak absence, and Uruguay and Argentina are barely present in either database. A CONTROL THAT FAILED, recorded because it worked. Twelve probes at 23andMe all returned zero. The controls run before believing them - BOTHA, SOUTH AFRICA - also returned zero, against facets on the same screen showing thirty and 581. That box searches display names only. Twelve nulls were one step from publication. Parental Inheritance would settle which parent the Italian came from. It is behind 23andMe+ Premium; this archive does not buy sources. It is David's, on the work list, and it is the most valuable unbought thing here. - /dna/ substantially rewritten; two published claims corrected in place - data/dna-match-probes.tsv, wired into build-pages.py - site/src/data/dna-match-corpus.json, dna-23andme.json - two corrections, five work-list rows - no DNA match is named anywhere; the people named out of a match's tree are its deceased ancestors

Nobody on the blood chart is drawn twice, and nobody is their own brother

did David looked at /bloodline/ for Nuno Fernando and said it made no sense: two Juan Carlos Lerenas, two Maria Lerenas, Mary Septima twice. He was right, and it had been published in that state since the page was built. Nothing was duplicated in the data. The drawing was, in two ways. A husband or wife was always drawn as a "married in" chip beside the person, with no check that they were already standing in the chart in their own right. Every married pair of ANCESTORS is two blood relatives, so each of them got a box AND a chip of the other. Nuno Fernando's 13 relatives came out in 22 boxes. And this register deliberately keeps a row for the mangled machine-index reading of Pablo Armando - "ARMAND[O] LORENA (as machine-indexed) = Pablo Armando LERENA" - so the false trail stays visible. That row carries the same father and mother as the man himself, so the sibling pass handed it its own person as a brother, and the chart drew Pablo Armando beside Pablo Armando, labelled "aunt or uncle". Fixed in the kit, because it is the kit's chart and five other archives were drawing the same doubled picture - Mazza's for Frank Mazza was 232 of 530 people twice. A chip is drawn only for somebody the chart does not already hold; where both halves of a couple are on it they are seated together and the marriage is a tie between them; an alias folds onto the person it is a spelling of. Every one of those tests is on a SLUG, never a name. Kit repinned to 45b37a7. Here: build-people.py writes aliasOf as {slug, name} rather than a bare name, so the kit can act on it, and stops handing an alias siblings of its own. The same chart is now 14 boxes for 12 people, and the two chips left are husbands the archive genuinely does not hold. Checked rendered, desktop and mobile. No gate caught this and none could have: every checker here reads data, and the data was right. It was the picture that lied. Logged in /corrections/ as major, and the other five archives are on the work list as theirs to repin.

Pin the kit to the map that draws provincial boundaries

did An inland frame has no coastline in it. The Falco map is 26 km of Campania and drew an empty box; it now carries the provincial line that separates the towns this family married across. The box also follows the shape of the ground rather than a fixed letterbox, and the fine layers are dropped on frames that span continents, where they were 1.1 MB of illegible markup.

Draw the two lines on the home page, and trace Pedro Antonio forward

did THE HOME PAGE NOW SAYS WHAT THIS ARCHIVE ACTUALLY CLAIMS. David pointed at the Luwinski archive, where the line of record and the line the DNA points to run side by side on the front page. The Lerena equivalent is the second section here: "Two lines, and they do not yet meet". Left lane, documented: Rosario, Wynberg, Newlands, Germiston - the descent David was born into, with a record behind every step. Right lane, inferred: Sancho Llerena and Maria Fernandez married at Canelones on 8 January 1791, he natural de Cordova la Llana and unable to sign his name; their eight children; the Montevideo trunk; Luis Lerena Lenguas, whom the 1866 Rosario act reaches for when it says the only Lerena in that parish was natural del Estado Oriental. The point of the drawing is the row where the two fail to meet. Pablo Armando's own 1908 enrolment card names Juan Carlos Lerena and Maria Lerena - and no Juan Carlos Lerena appears in any indexed record in Argentina or Uruguay. Not a baptism, not a marriage, not a burial. That row is dashed in both lanes, and the caption says what would close it. Everyone in the second lane is documented. What is not documented is the joint. The page says so in those words rather than implying a descent it cannot show. Checked rendered rather than assumed: desktop and mobile, stacks to one column at 720px, no horizontal overflow. PEDRO ANTONIO TRACED. His marriage was already held - Vicenta Vega, natural de Cerro Largo, daughter of Don Romualdo and Dona Andrea Maestre - but his children were not. Manuel Antonio, Vicenta Margarita, and a Pedro Antonio Natalio baptised at the Cordon on 12 December 1828, born 1 December. One index entry names his mother as Maria Fernandez, consistent with him being Sancho's son; another garbles his father as "Francisco Llorena", which is why they are recorded as candidates and not attached.

One reconciled list of Sancho's children - and a file called "complete" that held half of them

did sancho-children-complete.tsv holds FOUR children and is called complete. The archive names EIGHT across its other files. Nothing in it is wrong; it is partial, and its name made the partiality invisible - which is exactly the drift these registers exist to prevent, wearing the one disguise a checker cannot see. Superseded with a banner rather than deleted, because deleting a file to hide a bad name is how archives lose evidence. data/sancho-children-reconciled.tsv is the single list: Pedro Antonio de la Santisima Trinidad (1793), Agustina Ramona (1795), Fidel (about 1799), Justa Pastora (1800), Dominga Josefa (1804), Jose Loreto (1806), Luis Escolastico (1811) and Avelino (1815). Each row carries what the act actually says, its tier, and the film and image - four of the eight now point at an image read this week, and two are honestly marked "not yet resolved to a film and image". It also reconciles the count. The 1812 padron returns SIX children where eight are named, which is consistent once Luis (1811) and Avelino (1815) are set aside, and means one or more of the earlier children had died before 1812. This archive had already reasoned that way once, about a boy of about five missing from the same return. AVELINO TRACED, AND A BRANCH THIS ARCHIVE HAS NEVER NAMED. The indexes give "Avelino Eduardo Lerena" married to CELEDONIA VILLADEMOROS, children recorded under the compound LERENA VILLADEMOROS, and an Avelino Lerena born 1869 who died 5 January 1914 at Montevideo. This archive knows Avelino as the husband of Ambrosia Traibel. Either he married twice or "Avelino Eduardo" is a son of his - not chosen between, recorded unattached, as an existing note in this archive already half-anticipated. FIDEL TRACED, AND THE YIELD REPORTED AS THIN. One cluster matches the Victor Lerena branch already held, with relationships garbled by indexing, and does not establish that this Fidel is Sancho's son. A second gives a child "Feliz Llama", which could be a mangled Felix Llerena and is not evidence. AND check-links CAUGHT A PAGE THAT HAD BEEN BROKEN ALL ALONG. The corrections page lists one anchor per day and the kit's Corrections component never rendered those ids, so every day link on it pointed at nothing. Adding two dates made it visible. Fixed by giving the first correction of each day its day id, which the component already supported.

Corrections run on the shared shape

did Every archive publishes what it got wrong and no two did it the same way. This one keeps its own page title and its own words — the estate settled that a menu label is shared while a page title need not be — and hands the entries to the component that every archive now uses. A correction is a dated retraction with the truth under it and a note on how it was caught. That is the same everywhere, and it is filterable by how badly it mattered.

The Sanchez objection is withdrawn, and drift.py refuses a false completion

did THE SANCHEZ QUESTION, SETTLED AGAINST THIS SESSION'S OWN OBJECTION. The page edge that ran off image 660 was read at magnification: "hijo legitimo del MANUEL SANCHEZ SARGENTO DE 1a CLASE DEL REGIMIENTO, NATURAL DE LA CIUDAD DE CORDOVA". The Canelones petitioner of March 1791 is "Juan Manuel Sanchez, natural del REINO DE ANDALUCIA". The two descriptions do not match. A man born in the Andalusian city would be called of Andalucia - which is what the Canelones clerk writes, and what Sancho's own marriage act means by "Cordova la Llana" - while an unqualified "la Ciudad de Cordova" in a Montevideo register most naturally means Cordoba del Tucuman, which this same book names in full a few leaves earlier. So the counter-example dissolves. This session raised the Sanchez match as evidence against its own suggestion that military jurisdiction explains Sancho's absence from the Canelones informaciones. That objection is withdrawn - and the argument it attacked is NOT thereby proved. Removing a counter-example is not producing evidence, and the hypotheses page says so. AND THE ERRAND MIGRATION WAS WRONG, CAUGHT BY A CHECKER. Setting all eleven me-owned errands to "done" claimed work was finished because its index entry had moved. drift.py refused: one of them says in its own detail that the register has never been turned. All eleven are back at "ready", each carrying a pointer to the work list, which is where their state is maintained. The detail text is untouched. The checker was right and the migration was wrong. Also closed: both collections found by the variant sweep were opened - Montevideo Catedral baptisms 1825-1828 at dgs:007713376 images 515 and 601, and the Cordon marriage register at dgs:007713391 image 1669 - and all three acts turned out to be already held, which is what made the parent-pair query a coverage check rather than a discovery. 89 rows: 51 next, 33 done, 4 blocked, 1 struck.

The people register runs on the shared table

did Seven archives had each written their own long-list-with-a-search-box, and this one hands its rows and its own facets to the shared component now. What stays is everything that is actually its own: the columns it chose, the counts, the caveats, the filter groups it decided a reader needs. Nothing was given up to standardise. The facets keep their own keys, a group too big for buttons becomes a select without losing them, spelling folds still fold, and the links gained the trailing slash they were missing.

Migrate eleven misfiled errands, settle the last catalogue attribution, and pay the estate what it is owed

did THE ERRANDS ROW WAS WRONG, AND WRONG IN A USEFUL WAY. It assumed eleven errands sat on David. All eleven were already owned by "me" - this archive. That is the third time today this session asserted something about its own files without opening them, after the three "unread" images and the method page that already carried the rule it was told to add. But it exposed a real fault underneath. By the estate's own division - errands is work for a PERSON, the work list is work for a SESSION - eleven rows of this archive's own machine work were in the wrong register. All eleven are migrated: closed in errands.tsv with their detail kept verbatim, and seven new work-list rows opened for the ones that had no counterpart, including Sporting Life's Argentine racing columns, which matter more than they look now that the gazette calls Robert Paul Lerena a racehorse trainer and a 1986 notice names Lerena Racing Stables. What remains in errands is what should be there: institutions written to, and four things genuinely waiting on David. THE LAST CATALOGUE ATTRIBUTION HOLDS. DGS 7713382 was recorded as "Matrimonios, 1726-1826" on a catalogue line. Image 2736 opened: a marriage register, couples in the margins, "las solemnes Bendiciones" in the text. Two of this archive's three Montevideo attributions now verified and one disproved. AND FOUR THINGS PAID FORWARD. notes/FOR-THE-ESTATE.md sets out, for a sibling session: the film-and-image addressing method with working code and its three traps; why catalogue-derived film numbers should be assumed wrong until opened, with both failures worked through and the film-gap lesson beside them; that pdftotext -layout welds two gazette columns into one person, with the actual welded line quoted; and that a death_year column harvested from ancestors.co.za may hold the year the estate was advertised, with both worked examples. None of it is Lerena-specific. All four came out of one day. 89 rows: 58 next, 26 done, 4 blocked, 1 struck.

Every Name runs on the shared component now

did Three archives' /who/ pages were byte-identical apart from the line that imports the data, and two more differed only in wording — a copy-paste fork sitting there waiting to drift, which is the thing the kit exists to stop. It gains a search box and a facet for the names held by more than one, which is the distinction the page exists to draw: a name is not a person. Every row is still in the HTML and visible before any script runs.

The living-person tick was passing over an empty set - so the set was counted

did checkliving.py finds living people from an explicit flag: living, presumedLiving, alive, isLiving, or conf:"living". people.json carries none of them. So the green tick this archive has been shipping was passing over nothing at all. The kit's own docstring says that is "correct rather than a gap" FOR AN ARCHIVE THAT GENUINELY HAS NO LIVING PEOPLE - which had never been established here, only assumed. So it was established. Of 278 people, three are born 1930 or later with no death recorded. Rieta Maria (1936) and Antoinette Septima Lynette (1943) are both over eighty and presumed deceased by the rule the checker itself applies. Anton Lerena, born 1952, was not - and he was the one person this archive published who might have been living. He is not. The J193 read today gives his death as 3 April 2003, and his register row is updated from "named in the tree; not yet corroborated by a document" to a documented death, with the internal inconsistency kept rather than smoothed: the typed birth date says 05-05-1952 while the identity number encodes 1952-06-05, so the year is certain and the day is not. drift.py then did its job and refused to let that finding sit in the data without appearing on a page. So the South Africa page gains a section on the gazette work - the three sons with their exact dates, the twenty-one-year agreement between the 1950 liquidation account and Nuno Fernando's 1971 notice, Rogue Luis Armando born 1905 and what that asks about the eight unaccounted years, Anton Armando's documented death, and Robert Paul Lerena described by the state as a racehorse trainer. Also cleared a stale site/dist that was failing the build with a missing open-questions.astro.mjs - unrelated to content, fixed by removing dist and .astro and rebuilding.

A gate for stale errands - the failure that started all of this

did tools/check-errands.py, wired into verify.sh. It fails the build when an errand whose status is still open carries a detail that announces the errand is finished. That is exactly what happened on 15 September: "Sancho's 1791 marriage - FIVE FILMED BOOKS" sat at ready, addressed to David, for hours after the act had been found and published, still telling him to go and find it. Nothing was checking, so nothing complained. It threw a false positive on its first run, which is the useful part. An errand said the work "cannot be closed online at all" - meaning the TASK was impossible, not that the errand was over - and a bare \bCLOSED\b matched it. The patterns were tightened to phrases that can only mean this errand is finished: "CLOSED 15 September 2026", "THIS ERRAND IS CLOSED", "DO NOT REDO IT", and so on. A noisy check gets switched off, and the docstring already said so before the run proved it. Then tested both ways rather than assumed. Planting the real case - the 1791 marriage errand set back to "ready" - makes it exit 1 and name the row and the phrase. Restoring it returns to green. 40 errands checked, none finished-but-open.

Sancho is last seen alive in 1812, not 1798 - and the siege did not burn the registers

did TWO MORE ROWS DONE, AND THE FIRST CORRECTS THIS SESSION TWICE. Fourteen records name Sancho Llerena. Only four require him to have been standing there: godfather at the Iglesia Matriz in 1789, sworn witness at Canelones in 1798, padrino at the 1804 confirmations, and enumerated in the 1812 PADRON at calle San Juan No 60, household 59, as "Sancho, andaluz, 45". A census enumerates the living. So the last document in the world that shows Sancho Llerena alive is the padron of 1812 - not the deposition of 1798, which this session asserted twice today, including in the very worklist row that set out to answer the question. Everything after 1812 names him as father, grandfather or ancestor, up to 1850, and a dead man can be all three. The unaccounted gap before the trees' 1832 is twenty years, not thirty-four. Written up record by record in data/sancho-last-alive.tsv, with a column that does nothing but ask whether the document requires him to be alive. That column is the whole point, and the archive did not have it. AND THE COVERAGE TEST. Montevideo church burials are indexed continuously across the period - 1832, 1833 and 1838 in the first window; 33 indexed burials for one surname across 1839-1848, including 1841 and 1842; and 1852 in the next. The siege of 1843-51 did not destroy the registers. So Sancho's absence from the burial index is not explained by register loss, which strengthens the negative and justifies walking the images rather than abandoning them. One honest limit recorded with it: indexing density is not register survival. The 1850s window returns seven where the 1840s returns thirty-three, and that may be thinner indexing rather than fewer burials.

Four infrastructure rows done: the ark map, the film register, the tool, the rule

did RESOLVE EVERY ARK. 78 image arks, 51 films. 73 resolved to a film-and-image, two restricted (HTTP 403 - access denied, not absent), two with no DeepZoom id, two Argentine enrolment cards on a different id scheme. data/ark-to-film.tsv. Every one of them can now be reopened through the tile service while www is blocked. THE FILM REGISTER. data/film-register.tsv, 51 films, built from resolved arks rather than catalogue lines - which is the point, since two of this archive's catalogue attributions failed inspection today. Nine are identified in detail, including the two-block structure of 8166573 and the correction that 7713386 is not the 1726-1800 index. The other 42 are listed as "not yet identified", which is the honest state and a queue in itself. This archive had named perhaps nine films before today; it can now reach fifty-one. THE TOOL. tools/fsimage.js - mosaic reader, contact sheet, ark resolver, extent prober - with the three traps written as comments where they will actually be read: never cache-bust a failed tile, wait after naturalWidth, never batch the view and the screenshot. Plus the rule that is not about code: do not read names at fit-width, with the four misreadings of 15 September named in full. THE RULE - and this row was wrong. The method page has carried "A null is not a finding until a control says so" since 14 September; assuming it did not was the same error as assuming three already-read images were unread. So it was strengthened rather than duplicated, with the four times the rule decided a question today: once it saved three hundred images of hand-reading, twice it voided nulls that looked clean, and once - only once - it confirmed a negative worth keeping.

The errands key belongs in the TSV, because build-pages rewrites the JSON

did Second archive with the same trap, and the gate caught this one loudly instead of going quiet. errands.json is generated from data/errands.tsv by tools/build-pages.py, so the stable keys written into the JSON lasted until the next build — and the gate then refused, saying the declared key was on 0 of 40 rows and naming the likely cause. That refusal is the fix working. Before today it would have reported nothing to count and exited 0, which is how Mazza sat at "nothing outstanding" with twenty-four outstanding searches. The key is now a column in the TSV, which is the record, and the generator passes every column through untouched. 40 errands, 40 unique keys.

Twenty-six more on the work list, most of them opened by today's failures

did The list goes to 82 rows: 59 next, 18 done, 4 blocked, 1 struck. Seven groups, and the largest came out of things that did not work. THE BURIAL HUNT, WIDENED. Sancho's death is now the live question and the Cordon is only one parish. Rows for the Iglesia Matriz and Canelones burial registers, for Santa Lucia where his wife's people were vecinos, and one that has to come first: test whether the registers of the 1830s and 40s even survive, given the siege of 1843-51 and that civil registration does not begin until 1879. An absence proves nothing until coverage is established - the same discipline as the Berroeta control. And one that changes the question rather than answering it: establish the last date Sancho is attested ALIVE. He is named in acts of 1831, 1836 and 1850, but in every one of them as somebody's father or grandfather, which a dead man can be. His last certain appearance as a living person is the deposition of 9 January 1798, where he stood in a room and could not sign his name. INFRASTRUCTURE THIS SESSION PROVED AND SHOULD NOT LOSE. A film register - every DGS, what it actually is rather than what a catalogue said, its image range, and what has been read; two attributions failed inspection today and one film turned out to have two blocks. Resolve all seventy-nine stored arks to film-and-image, because an ark alone cannot be reopened when the viewer is down. Put the mosaic reader in tools/ with its three traps written as comments. And publish the control-before-null rule on the method page, where it is not stated, having today saved a day of work once and voided three nulls. THE CHILDREN, INDIVIDUALLY. Agustina Ramona, Fidel, Jose Loreto, Avelino and Luis' children each get a row, plus Justa Pastora's after 1827 - the archive already notes a thirteen-year gap between two of hers that almost certainly hides others. THE PEOPLE IN THE HOUSEHOLD WHO WERE NOT FREE. The 1812 padron puts four enslaved people in Sancho's house; Juana and Maria Mercedes are named in acts as belonging to him and his wife; the castrense register is full of baptisms of enslaved children of the regiment's officers. They are in this archive as circumstances of somebody else's life. Their names survive in the same records this archive reads for its own purposes. SOUTH AFRICA AND ARGENTINA. A Lerena birth in Argentina in 1905 would close the declared gap between Northam and the Cape. Pablo Armando's arrival in South Africa connects nothing to nothing at present. The 1911 Taylor marriage record would state his father's name, which is the whole question here. SPAIN, WITHIN THE CONSTRAINT. The Santander collection is the only free route that touches Asturias. PARES and the diocesan portals were never tried - this morning established what FamilySearch does not have, not that nobody has it. And the catalogue back route, from an image's own Information panel, which worked for Canelones when catalogue search was down. QUALITY. Merge the overlapping accounts of Sancho's children while they still agree. Lift consistency.py's sibling coverage above 106 of 277 using the parent-pair query. And give every person a last-attested-alive date, because the archive currently records when someone was NAMED, not when they were demonstrably living - which is exactly the confusion the Sancho search exposed.

Pin the kit to the gate that refuses a key on no rows

did A declared key that matched nothing was being skipped silently, so an archive with outstanding work could report none. It now fails and says so.

Give the register rows a stable key, and start counting what is outstanding

did The work-list gate can only see a row that is MISSING if it has an exact key to count against, and these rows had none — which is why this archive has been printing "nothing declared to count the work list against" on every build since the gate arrived. Every row now carries a key, seeded once from its most stable fields and frozen in the file, so editing a title later cannot move it. Nothing is derived from the title at build time, deliberately: a gate that guesses from names calls a genuinely unopened source stale, and a gate that cries wolf gets switched off. Enforcement is on, with the backlog declared rather than pretended away. The number of outstanding items with no covering row is printed on every build and the build fails if it grows. Writing a row lowers it; a row may cover several items at once.

The timeline, on this archive too

did Dated events laid over who was in charge — the Defranceschi chart, promoted to the kit because the idea was never about marriages: it is what this family was doing, and what was happening to them while they did it. What a dot IS stays this archive's to say, and the caption says it. Four of the seven have real marriage dates; the other three plot the years they actually hold and say so, because a chart quietly plotting births while claiming marriages would be worse than no chart.

Search for Sancho's death - a controlled null, in the right parish and decade

did No indexed death or burial exists for Sancho Llerena in Uruguay under any spelling. Across 401 loose results he appears only as father, father of the bride, spouse or "other" - never as the principal of a death. The two death-flagged hits are an S/v Lorena of Artigas in 1902 and a Castilla Llerena of Flores in 1924. The control passed, and it is a strong one. A surname-Rodriguez search for Montevideo deaths 1828-1838 returns church burials from "Uruguay, Catholic Church Records, 1726-2000" at NUESTRA SENORA DEL CARMEN LA MAYOR, CORDON, dated 1832, 1833 and 1838. That is the exact parish and the exact decade: Justa Pastora married at the Cordon in 1830, the 1831 godfather act is at the Cordon, and Dominga lived there. So burials in his own family's parish, in the years he is supposed to have died, ARE indexed - and he is not among them. Maria Fernandez is absent on the same terms, searched 1810-1870. One gain from it: FamilySearch's index gives her "Parents Rosa Fernandez, Rodrigo Fernandez", which is a third independent witness to what the 1811 baptism and the 1791 marriage act both say. Three sources, one couple, no disagreement. What the null does not mean, written down before anyone assumes it. The index is name-based and an eighteenth-century surname mangled by a transcriber is invisible to it; and the Cordon is one parish of several - he could be at the Iglesia Matriz, at Canelones, or at Santa Lucia where his wife's family were vecinos. He is not in the INDEX. That is not the same as not in the REGISTERS, and the trees' 1832 remains a tree. So a new row: walk the Cordon burial register by image for 1826-1845. The Cordon marriage register is already anchored at dgs:007713391 image 1669, so the burial volume is findable from the same reel's item boards. 56 rows: 33 next, 18 done, 4 blocked, 1 struck.

Search the Granada index for Felix and Rosalia - a controlled null, after two fake ones were thrown away

did Exact-surname searches returned zero twice: "Llerena" + spouse "Aguilar", and "Lerena" + spouse "Aguilar", Spain 1720-1800, both with the "No Results Found" line present. Both were DISCARDED. The control - the same exact-match shape run for 1750-1760 - fails to retrieve the 1754 act that is KNOWN to be in that collection, because the indexed surname is the compound "Lerena y Armenta", which exact matching will not reach. A null from a query that cannot find what is there is not a null, and the temptation was to report two clean zeros and move on. The working shape is non-exact surname, exact given names, place Spain, dates 1735-1785. Run for the known couple it returns 263 results including the Granada Catholic Pre-Marriage Investigation Files and the full 1754 marriage record, so the shape works and that collection is reachable by it. Only then is a null worth anything. And it is a null. The same shape for Felix Llerena and Rosalia Aguilar, Spain 1735-1785, returns 305 results and not one Andalusian collection among them - nothing from Granada, Cordoba, Sevilla, Jaen or Malaga. What comes back is Spain Catholic Church Records, Spain Baptisms, Gerona Municipal Records and the Diocese of Santander. So their marriage is not indexed by FamilySearch anywhere in Andalusia in the fifty years that must contain it; their son was born about 1767. Taken with this morning's mapping - that Cordoba's parish registers are not on FamilySearch at all - the searchable routes are closed. What is left is the Archivo General del Obispado de Cordoba, which is a letter and is already logged as David's. It also means the Canelones marriage act of 8 January 1791 remains the only document in the world this archive has that names Felix Llerena and Rosalia Aguilar.

Chase the 1754 pre-marriage file - it cannot be read, and my own lead deflates

did The expediente has its own record: Spain, Granada, Catholic Pre-Marriage Investigation Files 1556-1899, ark 1:1:XPG2-RYP. It is "Image Unavailable" like the marriage record beside it, no image ark is exposed, and the collection's own FamilySearch Wiki page has no text at all - so no film number can be recovered and the film-and-image trick has nothing to bite on. Its index entry is thinner than the marriage index this archive already held: names, date, place, nothing else. A controlled negative - the record exists, was opened, and yields nothing. And the more useful result is the second one, which is against this session. Yesterday's turn found "Felix Llerena and Rosalia Aguilar, naturales de dicha Cordova" on the 1791 act and called the 1754 marriage "two Lerena-Aguilar unions in Cordoba and Granada in one generation". That over-read it. The 1754 bride, Ana Maria de Aguilar, is of LA MALA - La Malaha, in GRANADA province - and this archive had already recorded exactly that, including the modern identification. Our Rosalia Aguilar is explicitly of Cordoba. Only the groom is Cordoban. Aguilar is among the commonest surnames in Andalusia and a town in Cordoba province besides. So the convergence is one common surname in two different provinces, not a family. An earlier session had already run the decisive test - a structured search for a son "Sancho de Lerena y Aguilar", returning a controlled "No Results Found" - and was right to close the file. This session was wrong to reopen it on that basis, and the reasoning is kept because it is the useful part. Every field on the marriage record was already here too, including the bride's parents Francisco de Aguilar and Beatris Franco and the original event place of Santa Ana, Granada. Nothing was gained. That is worth recording as plainly as a find would be.

The families who married in, on the front page too

did All seven home pages now carry the same five sections: where this family can actually be put, the families who married in, what this archive has established, the archive in numbers, and what is still missing. Before this only four of those were shared and the diagram was on none of them. The grouping rule moves into src/lib/marriedin.js so the front page and /marriages/ read the same answer to "how does this family reach this line". A rule copied into two pages is a rule that will be two rules by next month. Each archive keeps its own rule — descent, ahnentafel, route, status, or the line already assigned in the data — the lib only stops it being written twice.

Rank the families instead of drawing a wheel of them

did The radial chart came from the archive with seventy-four in-law surnames, where a ring is a reasonable shape. At thirteen it was indefensible: a large empty hole, every name sideways or upside down, type shrunk to fit a circumference nothing needed, and most of a wide page unused. A ranked bar reads at any count. The name is horizontal and legible, the bar is the count so the comparison is a length rather than the area of a dot, and the rows fill the width. One scale across every group, because two bars of the same length meaning different numbers is how a chart like this lies.

Map what is filmed for Cordoba and Asturias - and the answer cuts both ways

did THE BAD HALF. Cordoba's parish registers are not on FamilySearch. The Research Wiki's Church Records section for the province lists no FamilySearch collection at all, only MyHeritage indexes behind a paywall; the registers are with the Diocese of Cordoba. Asturias is the same, with one partial exception - "Spain, Diocese of SANTANDER, Catholic Church Records 1538-1985, contains some records for Asturias". Full text for Andalusia is nobility and notarial only. So Sancho's baptism is not sitting on a film waiting to be addressed by number. That route is a letter to a diocesan archive, not a search, and it is logged as David's with the exact citation to quote. Also tested rather than assumed: "Spain, Cordoba, Municipal Records, 1509-1947" does exist with images, but a search for Llerena in Cordoba returns 5,031 results of which every visible one is a municipal CENSUS of 1919-1924. Its 1509 start date is not where its indexed content is. THE GOOD HALF, which corrects this session's own pessimism of an hour ago. The provincial wiki pages are not the whole picture. A record search for Llerena in Spain, 1730-1800, returns 228 results from national collections the Cordoba page never mentions: Spain, Catholic Church Records 1307-2005; Spain, Baptisms 1502-1940; Spain, Marriages 1565-1950; and Spain, Granada, Catholic Pre-Marriage Investigation Files, 1556-1899 - the same record type walked at Canelones this morning, indexed, for Andalusia, covering the right century. The eighteenth century is reachable by INDEX even where it is not reachable by IMAGE. AND A FILE THIS ARCHIVE CLOSED, WHICH THE 1791 ACT RE-OPENS. The index gives "Sancho de Lerena y Armenta, married 17 November 1754 at Granada to ANA MARIA DE AGUILAR, born CORDOBA, son of Sancho de Lerena y Velasco and Maria Antonia de Armenta y Guebara". This archive found that act, examined it, and correctly set it aside - it settles Cordoba versus Granada for the 1754 groom and not for ours, and this archive has already corrected itself once for overstating exactly that. What changed is the other side of the comparison. The act of 8 January 1791 gives our Sancho's parents as FELIX LLERENA and ROSALIA AGUILAR, naturales de dicha Cordova. So there are now two Lerena-Aguilar unions in Cordoba and Granada in one generation, with the given name Sancho recurring across them. That is not proof and is not being treated as any. It is a reason to read the 1754 pre-marriage file itself rather than its index entry, and to search the same Granada files for a marriage of Felix and Rosalia about 1750-1766. 55 rows: 36 next, 14 done, 4 blocked, 1 struck.

Run the parent-pair query on Felix Llerena and Rosalia Aguilar - and run the control first

did "Llerena y de Rosalia Aguilar" returns ZERO. The page rendered and reported a count of 0; it was not a blocked page. "Felix Llerena" returns results, all of them modern Latin America - Cartagena, Peru, Mexico - where the name is common. "Rosalia Aguilar" returns forty collections, of which two are in Spain at all: La Carolina, Jaen, notarial records of 1829-1837, wrong province and forty years too late. On its own that would mean nothing, so the control was run BEFORE the null was believed rather than after. Searching "ciudad de Cordova" and reading the collection names shows what FamilySearch full text actually holds for Andalusia: Nobility Records for Granada 1489-1718 and Ecija 1529-1907, Madrid notarial protocols, and Orders of Chivalry induction files. The only "Cordoba" that appears is Cordoba, VERACRUZ, in Mexico. So the full-text index for Andalusia holds nobility and notarial records, not parish registers. An eighteenth-century Cordoba baptism or marriage is not in the corpus being searched, and the zero above is "not findable by this instrument", not "not there". Recorded that way. This is the Berroeta lesson applied forwards instead of backwards. There, the control came after a day of hand-reading had been planned on an unchecked assumption. Here it came before a single conclusion was drawn. One thing the null does support, weakly. The corpus that IS indexed - Spanish nobility and hidalguia files, chivalric orders, Madrid protocols, searchable back to 1489 - is exactly where an armigerous couple would appear, and Felix Llerena and Rosalia Aguilar are not in it. Weak evidence that they were not gentry with a Chancilleria file. It bears on this archive's long argument about "de Llerena" as a toponymic, and it sits with the 1811 act calling Sancho "Don" while the 1798 deposition records that he could not write his own name. Mapping what is filmed and indexed for Cordoba and Asturias is therefore promoted to running, and is the gating item for the whole Spanish programme: four people wait behind it, and until it is done every Spanish null this archive produces is uninterpretable.

Read the three images - and every one of them was already in the archive

did dgs:008166571 image 1130 is the baptism of DOMINGA JOSEFA, 15 May 1804, godparents Joseph Ponteceli and Agueda Rivero. dgs:007713376 image 515 is FRANCISCO JUAN RAMON, 22 March 1826, son of Capitan Don Antonio Rodriguez de Carballo and Dona Dominga Llerena. dgs:007713376 image 601 is LUCINDA GREGORIA DEL CORAZON DE JESUS, 12 May 1827. All three were already read and recorded here, and the last two in fuller words than FamilySearch's index gives - the archive has the Capitan, the Mayor Don Joaquin Ruiz de Carvallo, and a General standing godfather, none of which the index carried. So the worklist row calling them unread was wrong, and this session wrote it. The inference was "the collection is not in sources-consulted, therefore the act has not been read", and that does not follow: the same act reaches this archive under different arks by different routes. An unread COLLECTION is not an unread ACT. Logged in corrections. Which reframes the parent-pair query, and in its favour. Every document the phrase "Llerena y de Maria Fernandez" returned, the archive already had - five for five. That is an independent instrument, aimed at the exact question "who are the children of this couple", run against an index this archive did not build, and it found nothing missing. The coverage of Sancho and Maria's children is better than this session assumed when it opened the row. The query keeps its value where coverage is NOT established - Felix Llerena and Rosalia Aguilar in Cordoba, Rodrigo and Rosa Fernandez in Asturias - where a clean pass would mean something different. One thing the exercise did add. The 1826 act names the father "Antonio RODRIGUEZ de Carballo" and the 1827 act names him "Antonio RUIZ de Carvallo"; this archive had already logged that split as a discrepancy recorded rather than smoothed. FamilySearch's own extraction splits the same way, which argues the difference is in the registers and not in this archive's reading of them. 52 rows: 36 next, 12 done, 3 blocked, 1 struck.

The marriages page has one shape, and the map has a coast

did Two complaints, both right. The marriages page was standardised in its families section and left different everywhere else — measured after the fact: one archive had a metrics row and six had none, two had a chart and five had none, two had no register of couples at all, and the couples sat above the families on five and below on two. And the place map was a scatter of dots in an empty box, which cannot be read as anywhere. The order is no longer this page's to arrange. Metrics, the wheel, the spine, the couples and the families are handed to the shared component and rendered in that order, so seven archives cannot drift into seven layouts again. The wheel is the radial chart that was local to one archive. It draws labelled groups of named things with counts, which is what the component is already given, so an archive that can list its families can now draw them. The map now carries real coastlines and national borders — Natural Earth, decoded at build time and clipped to this frame, so the page ships its own corner of the world and not an atlas. The line saying there is no coastline here has gone, because there is one.

Run the gate that can see a work-list row that is missing

did The existing gate checks the rows this list has; nothing checked for the rows it was missing, which is how a sent letter — the one that named three further doors — stayed off a list where every visible row looked fine. This archive now runs checkcovers on every build. An archive declares where its outstanding work lives and a row declares what it answers for, and the gate refuses in both directions: work with no row, and a row pointing at something that no longer exists. Declaring nothing does not pass quietly, because silence is the failure the gate exists to end: it prints what is going uncounted, and says where a list needs a stable key before it can be counted at all. It does not fail the build for that, so this can be adopted without the archive going red first.

One name per page, in the menu and on the page itself

did A reader who clicks The Register should land on a page called The Register. Across the seven archives they often did not: the same estate route carried a different title on nearly every site, and sometimes a different one from the menu entry that led to it. /corrections/ had five titles, /searched/ five, /who/ four, /direct-line/ three. /people/ was The People, The people or Everyone depending where you stood. /register/ was The register on five sites, The Register on one and Register on another. /worklist/ was the reverse case — all seven pages agreed on The work list while all seven menus said The Work List. The canonical name for each route is not a preference imposed on them; it is what the archives already mostly said, counted across all fourteen slots per route — seven menu labels and seven page titles — with the six names that were decided directly kept as decided. Where that count was a tie the tie is broken and said so: /worklist/ goes to the pages, because the title lives in worklist.json and the menus were the outlier; /bloodline/ is left alone entirely, because all seven agree on both sides and the menu's extra word, drawn, is doing real work. Five titles are deliberately not canonical and stay: For Michael, What was taken back and What This Archive Got Wrong for three corrections pages, The Search Register, and The Names. Menu labels are estate-wide so that a reader learns them once; a page title may keep the archive's own voice.

Open Canelones 1776-1794, and correct a claim I made this morning

did The volume is DGS 8166573 images 72-478 - the SAME FILM as the informaciones matrimoniales, in a separate block. This archive already held an ark into it, 3:1:3Q9M-CS2Z-WH52, and had never resolved it. Which disproves something this session published this morning. The informaciones walk said "images below 1057 return nothing at all, so whatever else is on film 8166573, this archive cannot reach it by number". That came from three probes - images 1, 500 and 1000 - all of which happen to fall in the same gap. The film has TWO blocks, 72-478 and 1057-3295, and block one is the baptism register. Three samples are not a survey. Corrected in place and logged. Pedro Antonio's baptism read from the image rather than the full-text transcript the archive had been relying on: "El Capellan del Regimiento de Infanteria de Buenos Ayres Don Bartolome Munoz bautizo, puso oleo y crisma a PEDRO ANTONIO DE LA SS.ma TRINIDAD, que nacio ayer, hijo legitimo del Soldado Dragon Sancho Llerena y de Maria Fernandez. Fueron padrinos Don ANTONIO ALEMAN y su mujer." New: the full baptismal name, and the godparents. Confirms 31 July 1793. And a query worth more than the volume. Full text for the phrase "Llerena y de Maria Fernandez" returns six documents, three of them this family - because that phrase only occurs when a document names BOTH parents, which happens when a child is baptised, when a child marries, or when a GRANDCHILD is baptised. It resolves to Canelones baptisms 1794-1810 (dgs:008166571 image 1130), the Cordon marriage register (dgs:007713391 image 1669), and two Montevideo cathedral baptisms of 1825-1828 (dgs:007713376 images 515 and 601). Three of the five are still unread and the worklist says so. The Cordon one turned out to be Justa Pastora's marriage, which this archive already holds - and holds correctly. At fit-width the heading read "Noviembre de 1836" against the archive's five records of 3 November 1830, which briefly looked like a contradiction. At magnification it is plainly 1830. The archive was right and the session was wrong. That is the fourth fit-width misreading today - Mendoza for Berroeta, Llerena for Juarez, Rosalia Illera for Petrona Illescas, and now 1836 for 1830. None reached the site, because each was magnified before it was believed. The rule is holding. The habit of trusting a small image is not. 52 rows: 1 running, 36 next, 11 done, 3 blocked, 1 struck.

Pin the kit to the marriages component all seven now use

did The shared page picked up a chip grid, structured group detail, a per-group count label and a count noun while it was being rolled out, and each of those came from an archive that needed it. Without the repin, CI installs the sha from before them and builds a page the local one does not match.

The Marriages: the couples, and what has been decided about everybody else

did This archive had no marriages page. It has one now, on the estate's shared shape, and it is grouped by this archive's own judgement rather than by descent or by name. The subject here is a NAME, not a family. 183 of 278 people carry some spelling of Lerena and most have no proved relationship to the line, and sorting out which do is the entire reason the archive exists. Grouping by descent would claim what the evidence cannot support; grouping by surname would assume the very thing in question. So the groups are the status field: 22 connected, 6 of high interest, 12 of interest, 230 unplaced, 8 excluded. The excluded are the point. Lola Lerena, Italian-born, where the name is coincidental; Catherine Buys, where Lerena is a given name and not the surname at all. An archive that grouped on the name would have swallowed all eight. They stay visible rather than deleted, so the next person to search this name finds the answer instead of doing the work again. The count in a group heading is people, not families: 230 unplaced Lerena are not 230 families, and the shared component now takes the noun from the archive.

Close the Berroeta control on both limits - Sancho is not in the regiment's book

did LIMIT ONE, the hits are that film. Six arks from the 22 results were resolved through the tile service's manifest. Five return dgs:007713373 - images 657, 667, 676, 716, 831 - and image 657 is a page this session had already read by hand. So the collection labelled "Montevideo. Military Award Records 1812-1814" IS the Regimiento de Infanteria de Buenos Ayres book, whatever its label says. The sixth returns dgs:007713382 image 2736, the Montevideo marriage register, which is a new anchor. LIMIT TWO, the sweeps are run. "Sancho Llerena" 68 results, "Sancho Lerena" 143, "Sancho Lorena" returns results too. Their Uruguayan collections are Canelones and Montevideo cathedral baptisms and marriages. Not one hit, under any of the three spellings, comes from DGS 7713373. So Sancho Llerena does not appear in the regiment's chaplaincy book as indexed. The book IS indexed - the control proves it - so this is a real absence and not a gap in coverage. The standing caveat does not go away: machine transcription of eighteenth-century hands is imperfect, so an index absence is weaker than a page absence. Eleven images read by hand agree with it. Row 1 is therefore retired rather than performed, and says so on its face. Images 663-950 were never read and now will not be. "Done" is the nearest of the five states to what happened; if anything later contradicts this, the 290 images are still there. The sweeps also threw up four bodies of record nobody here has opened, and one of them should go to the front: CANELONES BAPTISM RECORDS 1776-1794. This archive has been working from the 1794-1810 volume and did not know an earlier one existed. Sancho married in January 1791 and Pedro Antonio was baptised in August 1793 - both inside that book. Also opened as rows: Montevideo cathedral Religious Marriage Records 1782-1797, and cathedral baptism volumes for 1811-1813, 1831-1833 and 1840-1842. And the free gazette produced one more: "N84/085959 ... Lindana Boys ... P. R. LERENA RACING STABLES, P.O. Box 425, Randburg", 8 August 1986. The 1951 gazette calls Robert Paul Lerena a racehorse trainer at Newlands; this is a Lerena racing stable at Randburg thirty-five years later, in the town where Ricardo Juan Carlos lived and died. "P. R." is most likely one of his sons and Paul Raymond is the obvious reading of the initials - recorded as a reading, not a fact. Nothing is said here about any living member of this family. 50 rows: 36 next, 10 done, 3 blocked, 1 struck.

Twenty-seven more items on the work list, arranged as a roadmap

did The list had twenty rows, most of them loose ends from today. This turns it into a programme, in seven groups. SPAIN, which the 1791 marriage act opened and nobody has walked into. Five rows. The act names four people as natives of Spain - Sancho of Cordoba, his parents Felix Llerena and Rosalia Aguilar of the same city, and Maria Fernandez with her parents Rodrigo and Rosa Fernandez of Asturias - and this archive has never opened a single Spanish parish register. The enabling row is mapping what is actually filmed and indexed, and deliberately not from a catalogue line, because two of two catalogue attributions failed inspection today. Then Sancho's baptism about 1767, his parents' marriage, the Asturian Fernandez family who emigrated and lived in his household, and the Llerena-Aguilar compound tested where it would actually occur. URUGUAY, finishing Sancho's own life. Five rows: his death, still only a tree's 1832; Maria Fernandez's death, never looked for; a closed sibling list read straight out of the Canelones registers instead of assembled from scattered searches; Pedro Antonio forward from 1793, who is "Mayor Don Pedro Antonio Llerena" by 1826 and is the generation where this family changes class; and the 1812 padron read from the image rather than a transcription. ERRANDS THAT ARE NO LONGER ERRANDS. Eleven rows sit in errands.tsv at "ready" and owner David because when they were written this archive could not drive the viewer and full text was down. Both are solved. One row to go through them and leave David only what genuinely needs a person. SOUTH AFRICA, from people the gazette produced this afternoon. Catherine Mary Sophia Lerena, a wife nobody knew Nuno Fernando had. Where Rogue Luis Armando was born in 1905, which tests a declared gap - the eight years between Northam and the Cape. Rose Lilian Theys, who was "no relation" and yet lived at the deceased's address, executed his will and took a quarter of the residue. A Taylor and Booyzen sweep, since the pipeline works and costs nothing. And the Rapeport thread - one firm, four estates, twenty-five years. METHOD. Make the build catch a stale errand, which is the failure that started all of this. Audit the other catalogue-derived film numbers. And check that check:living's green tick was a question asked rather than assumed, now that people who died in 2022, 2023 and 2024 have been added with addresses and identity numbers. OWED TO THE ESTATE. Two warnings, both learned the hard way here: pdftotext -layout interleaves the gazette's two columns and a bare grep will weld two strangers into one person; and a column labelled death_year in an ancestors.co.za harvest may hold the year the estate was advertised, which is invisible until you fetch the gazette the row points at. DECIDED NOT TO DO, recorded rather than left implicit. No accounts and no payments, with the visible cost named - Doreen May is the one person who could not be taken off a commercial index. No routing around the FamilySearch block, with its costs named too, including the rule that every zero from a blocked page was discarded rather than recorded as a null. And no reading 290 more images until the Berroeta control's two limits close. 46 rows: 34 next, 8 done, 3 blocked, 1 struck. 39 on this archive, 4 on the kit and estate, 3 on David.

Four menu labels brought to the house style

did The estate writes menu labels in sentence case — 257 of 368, and it is every archive’s own majority. These four were the shared pages where archives disagreed with each other: What Changed against What changed, Photograph These against Photograph these, What We Cannot Close, and The Namesakes against Namesakes. Only case and one article. The six shared pages that carry genuinely different WORDS — /people/ as The People or Nine lives in full, /who/ as Every Name or Everyone, a page each — are left alone: those are a decision about voice, not a tidy-up. Also: /tree was the one menu link here without a trailing slash.

Finish the gazette re-sourcing, and find a column that was lying

did Four of the five notices read, the fifth a real null, and two corrections that matter more than any of them. ROGUE LUIS ARMANDO LERENA, in full: "1518/73 - LERENA, Rogue Luis Armando, 6/12/05, 331/402089, 20 Park Lane, Florida, 29/1/73." Born 6 December 1905, died 29 January 1973. That makes him the ELDEST of the three sons by fifteen years - Ricardo Juan Carlos 1920, Nuno Fernando 1924 - and forty-four when his father died in 1950, comfortably the "LOUIS LERENA, major son" of that account. It also opens a question this archive has not asked: Pablo Armando was born at Rosario in 1882 and the eight years between Northam and the Cape are still unclosed. A son born in 1905 may not have been born in South Africa at all. ANTON ARMANDO LERENA: born 1952, died 3 April 2003, estate 15127/2013. Which kills the contradiction this session invented yesterday. There was never one and there is one man. The archive's row read "2013 ... 68"; 2013 was the GAZETTE year and 68 was the PAGE NUMBER - both columns in its own file - and this session read them as a death year and an age. gendatabase was right. And pulling that thread found the bigger fault: THE COLUMN LABELLED death_year IN data/sa-deceased-estates.tsv IS THE YEAR THE ESTATE WAS ADVERTISED. Every one of the eleven rows had it equal to the year of its own notice. Ricardo Juan Carlos died 21 December 1994 and was filed under 1996. Renamed to gazette_year, true dates recorded, both errors logged in corrections. Also read: Roberto Juan Roque (b. 20 March 1944, d. 20 February 2022), Brigitte (b. 16 October 1951, d. 18 May 2023, Johannesburg), Belinda Maud (b. 16 January 1957). Two anomalies flagged rather than smoothed. Anton Armando's typed birth date says 05-05-1952 while his identity number encodes 1952-06-05, and every other entry on that page agrees with its own number - so the year is certain and the day is not. Belinda Maud's death field reads 7 August 2024 in a gazette published on 2 August 2024, which is impossible; recorded as "died 2024, day unreliable" rather than quietly corrected to something that looks sensible. DOREEN MAY could not be re-sourced. Estate 16409/00 returns exactly two J187 accounts and no J193, so gendatabase's "born 1921, died 1999" stands as THEIR fact, not this archive's. A real null - the search ran and returned results, it did not error. One thread worth pulling later: Rapeport Incorporated of 107 Oxford Road, Rosebank acted for Doreen May in 2001, Anton Armando in 2013, Roberto Juan Roque in 2022 and Belinda Maud in 2024. One family solicitor across a quarter-century. Worklist moved with the work: rows 9 and 19 done, row 20 opened for Doreen May's missing J193 and for the 1986 Lerena Racing Stables notice.

Pin the kit where the work list pills filter

did Ten or twenty rows and no way to ask the one question anybody opens that page with: show me only what is blocked. The pills are buttons now — one active at a time, count stays on the pill, and the choice goes into the URL as ?show=blocked so a filtered list can be sent to somebody. Every row is in the page and visible before the script runs, so a reader without JavaScript gets the whole list rather than an empty one.

Re-source the South Africans from the Government Gazette, and get more than the index gave

did David chose re-sourcing over arguing fair citation. gazettes.africa is free and official, and the Form J193 estate notice carries the estate number, forenames, DATE of birth, identity number, address, DATE of death, surviving spouse and executor. gendatabase gave years; the gazette gives days. RICARDO JUAN CARLOS LERENA - "19962/95: Lerena, Ricardo Juan Carlos, 6 January 1920, 2001065053080, 6 Barbeque Agricultural Holdings, Randburg, 21 December 1994; Doreen May Lerena." The identity number confirms the birth date out of its own first six digits. NUNO FERNANDO LERENA - "6746/71: born on 6 October 1924, Identity No 331/406051W, of 24 Leiden Road, Gerdview, Germiston, who died on 1 July 1971, and surviving spouse Catherine Mary Sophia Lerena born on 25 March 1929." The 1950 liquidation account made his capital payable when he "attains the age of thirty years - i.e. 6 October 1954", which implies birth on 6 October 1924. Two unrelated documents twenty-one years apart agreeing to the day. The wife is new to this archive. ROGUE LUIS ARMANDO LERENA - "1518/73", identity 331/402089, of Florida, Roodepoort. The gazette spells him ROGUE exactly as the national archives index does, so that spelling is what the clerks wrote rather than an index typo. Short form, no dates, so his identification as the 1950 estate's "LOUIS" remains an inference from the middle name and is recorded as one. ROBERT PAUL LERENA - "1847/50/754: Robert Paul Lerena, RACEHORSE TRAINER, of Newlands, Cape." The archive had "Trainer" from his own 1940 passport; this is an independent statement made after his death by the administration of his estate, and it is more specific. A trap recorded because it nearly cost a person: the gazette sets two columns and pdftotext -layout interleaves them. A first pass read "died on 26 June 1971" and "Bedfordview" into Nuno Fernando's entry; both belong to 6546/71 MARSHALL in the left column. Caught only because two gazettes gave two death dates for one estate number. Print context, never grep matches. Worklist moved with the work: row 17 rewritten - the exposure is materially smaller now that the three sons are off the commercial source, but Doreen May and the later generation are still gendatabase's alone, so the decision stands and the attribution is still not stripped. Row 19 added with the five notices already located and unopened, including the 2013 one that may settle the Anton Armando contradiction, and a 1986 notice for "Lerena Racing Stables" that belongs on the horses page.

The Berroeta control passed - the regiment's book is in the full-text index

did FamilySearch came back for about four requests. The one that mattered got through. "Capellan del Regimiento Infanteria de Buenos Ayres" returns 22 results, from a collection titled "Montevideo. Military Award Records 1812-1814", with snippets reading "...de Berroeta Capellan del Regimiento ..." and years 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792 - the chaplain and the exact years of the book read by hand earlier today. So the book is indexed. That is what the control was for: it means the absence of any military collection from the 68 results for "Sancho Llerena" is EVIDENCE rather than a gap in coverage, and it probably retires the plan to read images 663-950 by hand, which existed only because this was unknown. Two limits kept open rather than glossed. The 22 hits have NOT been traced to DGS 7713373 - the collection is labelled 1812-1814 while its snippets carry 1789-1792, so the label is unreliable and nobody has resolved one of those arks to a film number. And the variant sweeps were never run: "Sancho Lerena" and "Sancho Lorena" were blocked by Error 15 between the control and them. Both are single searches, and they are row 18. So the honest statement is that the book is indexed and Sancho is not in it under the spelling "Sancho Llerena" - not yet that he is absent from it. Machine transcription of eighteenth-century hands is imperfect, so an index absence is weaker than a page absence, which is why the eleven images read by hand still matter. Worklist moved in the same commit that moved the work, which is the rule check:worklist exists to hold: row 2 done, row 1 rewritten from running to next and retitled "now probably unnecessary", row 18 added. 18 rows: 11 next, 3 done, 3 blocked, 1 struck.

Frame the drawing the way two archives already did, on the other five

did Two front pages introduced their picture — a heading, a line telling you how to read it, then the drawing. Five dropped a bare dot-plot in after the doors with a one-line caption under it, which is why that picture read as dots in a void. Same slot, same framing, on all seven now: the drawing comes straight after the three doors, under a heading, with a sentence that says what a dot is, what its size means, and that this is deliberately not a map.

Adopt the estate work list, and strike the register invented an hour before it

did This session was asked whether outstanding work was tracked centrally, found it was not, and wrote data/open-threads.tsv - the ninth session to invent its own answer, and exactly the habit that produced a Chip meaning two things and one chart drawn under three names. The right thing already existed, written first in the Defranceschi archive and now in the kit. Adopted here; the invented file is deleted and its content folded in, and the act of inventing it is kept on the list itself as a struck row rather than quietly dropped. The pinned kit was b16bea7, which predates both WorkList.astro and checkworklist.py. Repinned to 60aad58, clearing the cached git resolution first, which this project has been bitten by before. site/src/data/worklist.json, 17 rows: 1 running, 9 next, 4 blocked, 2 done, 1 struck. Owners are 12 on this archive, 3 on David, 2 on the kit and estate. Two rows are owned by the kit and estate rather than by this archive. The FamilySearch film-and-image addressing method found here - dgs:{film}.{film}_ {image}, which needs no viewer, no ark and no catalogue, and keeps serving while www is behind Error 15 - belongs to every archive that touches FamilySearch. And both of this archive's Montevideo film attributions came from reading a catalogue rather than a film; one held under test and one did not. Page at /worklist/, linked in the Evidence menu between Open Questions and Corrections. check:worklist added to package.json and wired into build after check:kit. Verified the gate refuses: removing an owner and setting a state outside the five both exit 1. TWO THINGS CAUGHT WHILE COMMITTING, BOTH REPORTED RATHER THAN ABSORBED. git add -A swept in notes/SHARED-CONTACTS.md, an untracked file this session did not write and had not read - the sibling Luwinski session's note, carrying a named archivist's work address, a commissioned researcher's address and David's own. This repository is public. It has been removed from the commit and left on disk exactly as found, for David to place deliberately or not at all. Reading it then surfaced the second thing: that note records that gendatabase.com forbids republishing without written permission, and this archive published from it earlier today in a commit that is already pushed. The people were already here from the deceased-estates index and NAAIRS; the vital years are gendatabase's. Logged as row 17, blocked on David. Nothing further from that source is published meanwhile, and the attribution has deliberately NOT been stripped - doing that quietly would be worse than the original mistake. npm run build clean at 628 pages; tools/verify.sh ALL GATES PASSED.

A central register of outstanding work, and a stale errand retired

did Asked whether outstanding findings and actions were tracked centrally, this archive checked and the answer was no. Errands for David were well kept in data/errands.tsv. gaps.tsv held what cannot be closed. open-questions.astro held seven narrative themes and had not been touched all session. What was tracked NOWHERE was the archive's own next actions, which lived scattered across per-topic TSVs and page prose. The cost was not hypothetical. The errand "Sancho's 1791 marriage - FIVE FILMED BOOKS" sat at status "ready" for hours after the act had been found and published, still telling David to go and find it, and still calling DGS 7713386 "the cheapest test in the archive" after that attribution had been disproved. Retired here, with all five books' outcomes recorded on it. data/open-threads.tsv is the single list. Fifteen rows: the Berroeta control that decides a day of work; images 663-950 of the castrense book; two full-text collections found and never opened; the 68 results that were only half harvested; DGS 7713375 with two known acts and nothing else read; the Sanchez question that cuts against this archive's own argument; the HOJAS SUELTAS caveat; the real Montevideo index, still unlocated; Cordoba itself, now the largest unopened door and in Spain rather than Uruguay; the Anton Armando contradiction, deliberately not merged; the five deaths of 1999; and the one purchase worth making. The division is now explicit and written at the top of each file: errands.tsv is work for a person, open-threads.tsv is work for a session, gaps.tsv is what cannot be closed at all. Last row records the rule this session kept breaking - that names in eighteenth-century hands cannot be read at fit-width - with the three misreadings that proved it, including one that would have manufactured a Llerena inside the regiment's own book.

Name the places on the front-page picture

did Sixty dots in an empty box with no town, no region and nothing to read. What was missing was not a coastline — this is a plot and it should not draw geography it has not got — it was names, and they were in the data all along beside a count and this archive's own regional grouping. The largest places are labelled now, biggest first, skipping any that would land on another label or on a town. The dots take their colour from the region the archive itself assigned, with a legend in its own words.

The regiment's book read across the marriage year, and a film number the archive did not have

did Full text came back mid-session and answered in seconds what this session was about to do by hand: 68 results for "Sancho Llerena", against far fewer in the archive's earlier sweeps. Two of the collections are new and unread - the Montevideo Cathedral Baptism Records 1825-1828, and the Cordon Religious Marriage Records 1825-1916. DGS 7713375. The 1789 godparent act is image 551 and the 1811 baptism of Luis - the archive's best document on Sancho's parents - is image 2410, both resolved from their arks through the tile service while www was blocked. The archive had never named this film. It is NOT the castrense film: the Cathedral and the regiment kept separate books, and Sancho is so far in the first and not the second. Images 652-662 of DGS 7713373 read continuously - eleven openings, no gaps, December 1787 to July 1791, so the month he married and two years either side. No Llerena, Lerena or Lorena in any of them. The families are Menchero, Arias, Illescas, Lamas, Sanchez, Martinez, Coronel, Villar, Juarez. Recorded as a negative over eleven images, not over the book. Images 663-950 are unread, and this is a scan not a transcription. The hand was misread at fit-width three times in one sitting - the chaplain as "Mendoza" when he is BERROETA, a slave-owner as "Llerena" when he is FRANCISCO JUAREZ, a mother as "Rosalia Illera" when she is PETRONA ILLESCAS. Every L candidate was magnified before being dismissed, but a name buried mid-sentence in an unzoomed line could have been missed. Not found and not there are different statements. And the cheap test is written down for next time: search a phrase known to be in the book - "Capellan del Regimiento Infanteria de Buenos Ayres", or BERROETA. If it hits, the book is indexed and the question is settled in one search; if not, the remaining 290 images are a day's work. The control could not be run - Error 15 returned first, and no zero from a blocked page is recorded as a null.

The castrense books opened, Cordoba la llana identified, and a second attribution that did not hold

did gendatabase: David's direct search-results URL checked. It resolves to the same index and returns the identical 38 rows, "Showing all 38 matching results" - so nothing was missed through the form. Two details added: a Ricardo Paul Lerena (TPD M680/1979), another "Paul" in the grandsons' generation, noted without being believed; and Goris Janse Lerenaar and "Lerenani Matchubani" written down as explicitly NOT ours, so nobody excludes them twice. PRIORITY 1 - the Libros Castrenses. DGS 7713373 is not what this archive called it: its boards say "Uruguay, Archivo de la Curia" and "Montevideo, Archivos Parroquiales, P. Inmac. Concepcion (Catedral)", roll 84. But the substance held. Item 5, "Catalogo y Libros Militares", begins at image 623, and at image 655 the priest names himself: "yo Don Juan Miguel de Berroeta, Capellan del Regimiento Infanteria de Buenos Ayres, en esta Iglesia Matriz de Montevideo". Neighbouring entries name the Dragones de Buenos Ayres, and Sancho is "el soldado dragon". Image 656 is headed Ano 1790; image 660 is headed Ano de 1791 and carries 30 January 1791; 661 carries March 1791. No Llerena in the five images read - and five images is not a search of a three-hundred-image book. And the film damages one of this archive's own arguments. At image 660, 30 January 1791, the book baptises the son of "Manuel Sanchez, Sargento de dicho Regimiento" - while the single 1791 expediente in the whole Canelones informaciones belongs to "Juan Manuel Sanchez, natural del Reino de Andalucia", marrying that March. If those are one man, a soldier of this regiment did leave an informacion at the Canelones vicaria, which cuts against the suggestion that military jurisdiction explains Sancho's absence. Not established; recorded because it tells against the preferred reading. PRIORITY 2 - "Cordova la Llana" is the city of Cordoba. No municipality of that name exists because it is not one: "Cordoba la llana" is a standing epithet for the city. And the qualifier does real work - the same castrense book describes a man as "natural de Cordova del Tucuman", so a River Plate priest had to say which Cordoba he meant. La llana says Andalusia, agreeing with the 1811 baptism. PRIORITY 3 - it fails. DGS 7713386 was called "Indices... 1726-1800" and opening it "the cheapest test in the archive". Image 300 is an 1887 Montevideo cathedral burial register; image 1500 is a 1905 one. Two samples of 2,244 do not prove the index absent, but the attribution is unconfirmed and the errand no longer calls it cheap. Logged in corrections. Also logged: the chaplain was misread as "Mendoza" and a neighbouring slave-owner as "Llerena" at fit-width; at magnification they are Berroeta and Francisco Juarez. Neither reached the site. Recorded because inventing a Llerena in the regiment's own book is exactly the error this archive is most exposed to.

gendatabase.com, tried for the first time - and it pays

did David suggested it; the archive had never touched it. Its only South African index was NAAIRS, which returns file references and nothing else. Gendatabase returns birth, death and marriage YEARS, maiden names and spouses. Surname Lerena: 38 results across a Verified Death Database, the National Archives index and an Estate File Database. The gain: the three sons named in the 1950 estate of Robert Paul Lerena of Newlands now have death years. Nuno Fernando - estate MHG 6746/71. "Rogue Luis Armando" - MHG 1518/73, very likely the estate's "Louis" using his middle name, flagged as an inference and not established. Ricardo Juan Carlos - born 1920, died 1994, married 1941 to Doreen May Chappell. He carries his great- grandfather's name: the 1908 enrolment card gives Pablo Armando's father as Juan Carlos Lerena. Llerena in South Africa: ZERO. A real null - the first attempt returned the cached Lerena page with an identical timing figure and was discarded rather than recorded. It supports the spelling argument: the reduction of Llerena to Lerena had finished before the family reached the Cape, while Sancho's own 1791 act still writes Llerena. Two things recorded as questions, not findings. Anton Armando Lerena is born 1952 died 2003 here, and died 2013 aged 68 in the archive's existing row from ancestors.co.za - not merged, and possibly two men. And five of the fifteen death rows carry 1999, including a married couple and two children aged 8 and 13; that is either a family catastrophe or a default-year artefact, and a summary row cannot say which. Summary rows are free; full records need a paid account, which this session did not create and did not pay for. Logged as an errand for David with the one purchase worth making - the 1994 death notice, because a South African death notice names the deceased's parents.

Ten tiles, and two of them were not numbers

did "Juan Carlos" and "Uruguayan" sat in that row as though they were statistics. They are two of the best findings this archive has made — a father's name off an army card filed at the Cape, and what the act behind the one Rosario Lerena says of her parents — and shaping them into tiles was the worst possible way to tell anyone. They are in the cards and on their own pages, in sentences. The years went with them. 1882, 1911, 1931 are the spine of the story and belong to the story; a tile is for saying how much work stands behind the archive. Six now, counted at build time: 278 people published, 37 places, 116 sources consulted, 53 corrections, 39 enquiries raised. The surname count stays. One thing the rewrite caught: the register tile and the people tile were the same number. registerCount was literally people.length, so the row said 278 twice under two different labels.

The marriage act of 8 January 1791, found and read

did DGS 8166578, image 2687 - Canelones, Parroquia de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, Matrimonios Libro I, left page, second act. Margin: "Sancho Llerena, y Maria Fernandes. Casados y Velados". "En ocho dias del Mes de Enero de 1791 anos, haviendo precedido justificacion de libertad de Sancho Llerena, nat. de Cordova la Llana, hijo legitimo de Felix Llerena, y de Rosalia Aguilar, naturales de dicha Cordova... el matrimonio que el dicho Sancho intentava con Maria Fernandez, nat. de las Asturias, hija legitima de Rodrigo Fernandez, y de Ro[sa] Fernandez, naturales de dichas Asturias, y Vecinos de Santa Lucia" Four things settle. The DATE is in arabic numerals - 1791 - so the noventa/ ochenta trap does not arise, and Apolant's ficha 355 is corroborated by the act itself. CORDOBA, not Granada: this archive had Cordoba only from unsourced trees and had said so; the act says Cordova twice. THE PARENTS, independently for the second time - the 1811 baptism gave Feliz Gerena and Rosalia Aguilar, and this adds that they were themselves of Cordoba, the first evidence placing that generation anywhere. And it CORRECTS the trees on the bride: they said her father was Ramon Fernandez Tresguerras; the act says Rodrigo, as the 1811 act does. Recorded as unresolved: the qualifier after Cordova reads "la Llana", but the hand does not separate m from n so "la Llama" is equally readable, and no municipality of either name has been identified. A lead, not a finding. Married by Don Juan Francisco Cardoso, Cura Interino - interim because Don Juan Miguel de Laguna, who signed the 1788 informacion, is "el finado" by February 1789. Witnesses Antonio Villegas and Jose del Rio, the same notary who seven years later wrote down Sancho's deposition and that he could not sign it. Found by reading dated anchors, not arithmetic: 2670 = 12 Feb 1789, 2700 = 16 Jun 1792, about nine images to the year. The standing errand asking David to page the register in his own browser is retired - it needed no viewer at all. One broken anchor was caught by the gate before this commit, and fixed.

The informaciones matrimoniales, walked - and Sancho could not write

did Entered DGS 8166573 at the one image this archive already had, and mapped the reel by its filming targets and the archivist's pencil dates instead of paging through it. Read in full, image 2167, 9 January 1798: Sancho Llerena sworn as the SECOND witness for Florentino Gomez - not the groom, which this archive had left open. He had "andado en la Linea de Vicaria algunos anos", and the deposition closes "y no la firmo porque dixo no saver escrivir". Sancho Llerena was illiterate. First fact this archive holds about the man rather than his household, and it sits pointedly beside the 1811 baptism calling him "Don Sancho Llerena". The expediente we actually wanted is not there. Volumen 6 runs 1776 to November 1790 and ends at image 1459; Volumen 7 opens at 1460 and its first dated case is March 1791. Sancho married 8 January 1791. The whole of 1791 in the series is one expediente belonging to an Andalusian named Juan Manuel Sanchez, and by image 1464 the pencil already reads "Marzo 1792". January 1791 falls in the seam between two volumes - a gap in the filing, not a failed search. Caveat recorded honestly: image 1461 says "HOJAS SUELTAS", so the order is not guaranteed. Argues the castrense books to the front: a serving soldier's marriage ran through the military chaplaincy, which would explain why Sancho is a witness in the vicaria's informaciones and never a petitioner. DGS 7713373, still unopened. Method, now in memory: FamilySearch's tile service accepts dgs:{film9}.{film9}_{image5} as an id, so any image on any film is addressable by NUMBER - no viewer, no ark lookup. It also kept working throughout an Error 15 block, which takes down www (both /search/ and ark: pages) but not sg30p0.

Pin the kit where a dangling edge no longer kills the chart

did The bloodline walk followed every edge carrying a slug and read .parents off whatever was at the other end. On a graph where a record names somebody the graph does not carry, that dereference threw — and it did not drop one line, it killed the whole chart, on a page that built green and passed every gate. An edge is now followed only when the person at the other end is in the graph. Also here: the husband-or-wife box is drawn with a dashed border, which says they are not blood without spending a legend entry on it.

Pin the kit that turned the bloodline chart on its side

did Generations were rows, so the width grew with the family. One Blazevic chart ran 25,008px wide against 616px tall — a 41:1 ribbon with every parent-child line flattened into a horizontal dash. Generations are columns now: width is set by how many generations there are, which is small, and a crowded generation costs height instead, which is what a page has to spare. Every archive gets it, because the renderer is one file in the kit rather than seven copies.

The walk to 1791, attempted and not finished

did With the login restored I re-ran the three searches the logout had invalidated - "Fidel Llerena" (26 results, none Uruguayan) and "Maria Ruedas" (50, none) - both clean this time, against a control of "Sancho Lerena" returning 100 links on familysearch.org rather than a sign-in page. The Fidel/Ruedas marriage is not findable by full text. Then Libro I was walked by tile toward January 1791. The act was not found, and the file says so. What the attempt did establish, so nobody repeats it blind: Libro I opens at image 2590, its first page carrying "1776." in digits at level 12 tile 6_1. Level 12 is genuinely readable for this hand - image 2680 came out as "En veinte y dos ... de Septiembre de ocho...", with "siendo testigos", "y por verdad lo firme", "Juan Fran[cisco] ... Cura Interino", and on a neighbouring tile "Canarias", "proclamas", "intentaba contraer", "del Canelon". And that is exactly where it fails. A year written in words straddles tile boundaries. "de ocho..." is ambiguous between "mil setecientos OCHENTA y..." and "mil OCHOCIENTOS...", eighty years apart in effect, and the tile that should have settled it carried a different line of the same page. Each date costs three to six fetches and often does not resolve. That is a tool problem, not an archive one. A viewer that renders the whole opening at once reads the year at a glance; this session's takes thirty to sixty seconds per image and frequently renders nothing, which is why tiles were used at all. So the errand is rewritten from "sign in again" to a ten-minute job in a normal browser, with the entry point, what to watch for, and the honest note that the two estimates bracketing 1791 between images 2640 and 2720 are unverified - trust the pages, not the arithmetic. It also points at the informaciones matrimoniales, which are worth more than the act: a pre-marriage investigation gives a Spanish groom's parents, birthplace and time in the country. Also checked: "Tesguerza" returns exactly the 1826 act and nothing else.

The logout that looked like three nulls, and five reels on a page

did FamilySearch logged the session out mid-run. Three searches - "Fidel Llerena", "Lerena y Maria Ruedas", "Pedro Lorena" - came back with zero results and no "No Results Found" message. They looked exactly like the controlled nulls recorded earlier today. The control caught it, and only the control. "Sancho Lerena", which had returned three Canelones baptisms an hour before, was re-run and came back with zero links and a page title of "Sign-in to your account". Every request was being redirected to ident.familysearch.org. That is the fourth costume this same trap has worn in a month: a results page rendering "(0)" while still loading; a Google Books API returning "totalItems: None" on an HTTP 429; a blocked session returning Access Denied behind an empty body; and now an expired login. The rule that has survived all four is the same - a null is not written down until a control in the same form returns a known result in the same session - and running the control is the only thing that has ever caught it. I do not sign in to accounts, so the FamilySearch work stops here. An errand records what is waiting, all of it located and none of it read: the Canelones act at DGS 8166578 image 2590 onward, the Libros Castrenses at 7713373, the Montevideo 1726-1800 index at 7713386, and the Fidel Lerena / Maria Ruedas test. And item 6 is done, which needed no login. /roadmap/ now carries the five reels as a table with their DGS numbers and both catalogue record ids, the index entry itself, why the military books stopped being a hopeful idea - the 1793 baptism was performed by that regiment's own chaplain and calls Sancho "el soldado dragon" - and how the catalogue was reached while its search box was down. Including the warning that image 2631 of the Canelones reel opens under the title "Colombia, Catholic Church Records" and cites the Archdiocese of Cartagena. The image is Canelones.

The fix this archive already had is now everyone's

did Rule was identical in three archives except for one thing this one had got right: a label set flex:0 0 auto cannot shrink, so a long one pushed the row wider than a phone — 31px of horizontal scroll on /roadmap/ and /photograph-these/. That version is the shared one, so the other two archives inherit the fix by no longer keeping their own copy. The horse, the star and the rest stay here. The mark goes into the kit as a slot; all 9 call sites keep their name= prop. Verified: every mrule on /photograph-these/, /changes/ and /timeline/ is byte-identical.

The chart this file promised to match, it now IS

did The header said it for months: 'same structure and class names as the Falco archive, so a reader moving between the two archives reads them the same way.' That was a promise kept by hand, and by hand it had slipped — max-width 16rem against 15rem, and a spouse whose 'married' label sat outside the card here and inside it everywhere else. Six archives now draw one component. What stays is this archive's own vocabulary — line means the direct line AND a record read here, which is not what it means next door — and the note that the machine-indexed second Pablo Armando is the same man, not a brother. The Taylor chart on /taylor keeps the same vocabulary for a different drawing, three generations rather than one person, and imports the kit stylesheet directly rather than pretending to be a person page. Verified against a build of the old component: byte-identical markup on Gilberto Lerena.

Pin the kit that fixed the atlas flow lines

did Every archive has been emitting two CSS parse errors on every build from a stray paren in the kit atlas — the wreckage of :global(.at-flow). Two rules died with it: the marching dash on the flow lines, and the prefers-reduced-motion guard meant to stop it. The second is the one worth naming. A reader who asks their system for no animation was getting the same nothing as everyone else, so the failure was invisible — and would have stayed invisible the moment the first rule started working again.

A branch at the other end of Montevideo

did The variant method, pointed at the rest of the family rather than at Sancho. Controlled nulls first, recorded as such: "Juan Agustin Lerena" and "Lerena Traibel" both return No Results Found, against searches in the same session that return documents. Then searching FIDEL rather than the surname turned up a Montevideo death registration of 1889: "ha fallecido VICTOR LERENA de nacionalidad oriental de veinte y ocho anos de edad, de estado soltero y de profesion ALPARGATERO, a consecuencia de tuberculosis pulmonar ... el finado era hijo [de] PEDRO LORENA y JOSEFA SEGUERA, orientales, finados. Abuelos paternos FIDEL LERENA y MARIA RUEDAS." Three generations this archive had never seen, and the declaration was made de oficio - by the authorities, not by family. He died in hospital at twenty-eight, single, of tuberculosis. An alpargatero makes rope-soled shoes. Every other Lerena placed in Montevideo here is a hacendado, a juez de paz, a major, or a senator's household. This is the same surname at the other end of that city, and it is worth having for that alone. Whether this Fidel is Sancho's son is NOT established and all three rows say so. Sancho's Fidel was born about 1799 and the trees give him a death in 1822 at twenty-two; for this to be one man, Pedro would have to be born by 1822 and fathering Victor at about forty. Tight but possible - and that 1822 is tree-only and has never been tested against a burial. A second Fidel Lerena is not ruled out. What makes it worth testing is that Fidel is a rare forename in this family, appearing once elsewhere, and this archive worked out only yesterday where it came from: Don Fidel Rey, godfather at Agustina's baptism in 1795. The cheap unrun test is named on the row: a Montevideo marriage of Fidel Lerena to Maria Ruedas. Also confirmed as already held rather than new: the Justa Pastora hits (the 1833 Catedral act with "Maternos: Francisco Lerina y Maria Fernandez"), and both Lerena Lenguas death records, which this archive found yesterday by the same compound-surname route.

Fix a broken anchor, and the reason it got committed

did The previous commit went in on a RED GATE and I did not notice, because I ran the gate through a pipe: ./tools/verify.sh 2>&1 | tail -3 && git commit ... check-links.py had found a real break - the new /searched/ section carried an id that was not in the page's own contents list - and verify.sh exited non-zero. But a pipeline exits with the status of its LAST command, which is tail, which always succeeds. So the && fired and the commit landed with a broken link in it. This is the exact failure verify.sh was written to prevent. Its header already documents it for `python3 tools/consistency.py | tail -1`, which swallowed every exit code in this project for a full day in September. I reintroduced it one level up, on the script whose entire purpose is to stop that happening. The anchor is fixed and the section is in the contents list. verify.sh's header now warns about piping the script itself and gives the form that works: ./tools/verify.sh > /tmp/v.log 2>&1; echo "EXIT=$?"; tail -5 /tmp/v.log Verified that way: EXIT=0, ALL GATES PASSED.

The variant sweep, turned on Pablo Armando

did Spelling the surname three ways found eight Uruguayan documents for Sancho that this archive had missed. So the same method was pointed at the question the whole archive exists to answer. "Pablo Armando Lerena" - No Results Found. "Pablo Armando Llerena" - No Results Found. "Pablo Armando Lorena" - No Results Found. All three with the message present rather than a bare zero, and the control run in the same form and session immediately before - "Juan Carlos Lerena" - returns two documents. This is an independent negative by a different method. Everything this archive knew about his absence from Rosario came from reading the baptism index end to end and the register act by act for February and March 1882. Full text reaches documents no index covers, and reaches them by name. It is not proof of absence - full text covers a fraction of what is filmed, only three of seven spellings were tried, and a baptism act often names the child by forename alone in the sentence that matters. It means no transcribed document in that corpus puts Pablo Armando next to any spelling of this surname. The two "Juan Carlos" hits are both namesakes and both are now in the register with the reason they are excluded. Juan Carlos Gonzalez Lerena was dispensed the conciliar proclamas at Montevideo in the 1920s - Lerena is his mother's surname, the same shape as the only Juan Carlos Lerena in all of Geneanet. The other was born in 1910 at Buenos Aires, son of Rafael Llerena. Neither can have fathered a son in 1882. Rafael Llerena is worth keeping for himself: Argentine-born about 1881, within a year of Pablo Armando, at Calle Cerrito 535 in central Buenos Aires. Nothing connects him. He sits beside Gilberto Lerena b.1879 as an unresolved Argentine namesake of exactly the right generation. /searched/ carries all of it, including what the negative does not mean.

Why this archive has no 'The families' group

did Six of the seven carry one, holding between four and thirteen pages. This archive has exactly one family page — the Taylors, who married in — and a menu group of one implies a section that is not there. That is the same rule the canon already applies to the surname: its own group only where there is more than one page for it. Written into the layout beside the nav so the next person comparing the seven finds the reason rather than the hole, and does not fill it to make the chart square. The Taylors stay under Our line. If a second and third family page are written, the group goes in and the comment comes out.

The DNA page joins the other three in Start

did The last shared page in the estate with two homes: Start on three archives, Our line on this one. It was not in the menu canon that was applied, so it sat there afterwards as the one remaining split. Four archives have a DNA page and all four now keep it in Start, after the timeline.

An eighth child, and two names the census left out

did The variant sweep continued. Searching LORENA as well as LERENA and LLERENA, and then the phrase "[L]erena y de Maria Fernandez", returned five more Uruguayan documents this archive had never opened. Jose Loreto, baptised at Canelones on 11 December 1806, born the day before. He is in no tree and no census, and he is not in the 1812 padron, which lists six children and no boy of about five - so he most likely died in between, which is usually what a household return's silence means about a small child. No burial has been looked for and none is claimed. The tree's own prose says the couple had eight children while naming seven. And the four enslaved people the padron counts in that household without naming now have two names. Montevideo Catedral, 26 September 1812: "bautice solemnemente a MARIA MERCEDES, que nacio antes de ayer, negra esclava de Don Sancho Lerena y de Dona Maria Fernandez, hija de JUANA." Juana, and her daughter Maria Mercedes, born six weeks before the census counted her mother without naming her. Both are in the register as people. Nothing is known of what became of either of them. From a grandson's baptism of 22 March 1826, two more: the godfather is "el MAYOR Don Pedro Antonio Llerena", so Sancho's son held rank at thirty-two where his father had been a soldado dragon in 1793; and the act writes the grandmother "Maria Fernandez TESGUERZA", which puts Tresguerras on a second act - this archive had it once, from 1830, and called that a vindication of the trees. Also controlled nulls, recorded rather than assumed: "Sancho Serena" (37 results, none Uruguayan), "Sancho Lerina" (5, none), "Sancho Gerena" (Spanish only). One small self-correction while publishing. Juana's row had emphasis around a sentence explaining why the row exists. That is editorial, not a finding, and the drift check was right to keep asking which page said it. The emphasis is gone; the sentence stays.

One L instead of two, and three more acts fall out

did Every full-text sweep in this archive had been run on "Sancho Llerena". Nobody had searched "Sancho LERENA". That search returns three Canelones baptisms that were not among the eighteen already worked through, and one of them changes where to look next. 1 August 1793. "El Capellan del REGIMIENTO DE INFANTERIA DE BUENOS AYRES Don Bartolome Munoz; bautizo puso oleo y crisma a Pedro Antonio de la Ssma Trinidad que nacio ayer, hijo legitimo del SOLDADO DRAGON Sancho Lerena, y de Maria Fernandez". Pedro Antonio was born 31 July 1793 - this archive had a tree's "1793" and a padron age of 19. His father's rank is on a record for the first time: a dragoon, not just a soldier. And the priest is the chaplain of the Regimiento de Infanteria de Buenos Aires - the exact unit whose Libros Castrenses of 1781-1814 were identified this week as DGS 7713373. Looking in the military books for the 1791 marriage was a hopeful idea on Monday because Sancho was called a soldier. It is now the first place to look, because that regiment's own chaplain was serving this family at Canelones two years after the wedding. 30 August 1795. Agustina Ramona, born 27 August, entered in this register only yesterday from a census age and a tree. Her godfather is Don Fidel Rey of Montevideo - and Sancho's next son, born about 1799, is Fidel, a forename that appears nowhere else in this family and that his row could not account for. The children were named for the people at the font. 27 October 1805. Sancho stands godfather with "Maria Teresa Fernandez de este Pueblo". The trees give his wife as Maria Josefa (Teresa) Fernandez Tresguerras and this archive had marked those forenames tree-only. It is an identification rather than a naming, and it is recorded as one. The lesson is the archive's own and it keeps having to be relearned. The surname has seven documented spellings. A search run under one of them is not a search.

Blood relatives, drawn — from the kit

did Choose a person and the chart is built around them: parents above, brothers and sisters beside, children below, and through them the aunts, uncles and cousins, as far as this archive's records reach. Every line takes the colour of the record behind it, at the weaker grade of the two that made it. The chart, the graph builder, the renderer and the styles are all the kit's. What is local is one file saying which people to read and who to open on. That shape is deliberate: BranchRivers was copied instead of shared and the copies drifted for weeks, so this one travels with its renderer inlined rather than as a file each archive keeps a version of. Nothing here is matched on a name. An edge exists only where a record names a slug — this estate has 94 Marijas and two consecutive generations both called Ivan Defranceski, and name-matching gave one Pietro five mothers before a count of parents-per-person caught it. In the People & places menu, after the person indexes.

Six unopened hits held a child, a birth date and three godfatherings

did The same full-text search for "Sancho Llerena" that produced the 1811 baptism returned eighteen Uruguayan documents. This archive already held twelve. The six it had never opened were worked through. A new child. Canelones, 9 August 1800: "bautizo solemnemente a una Parvula de tres dias nacida a quien puso por nombre Justa Pa[st]o[r]a, hija legitima de Sancho Llerena y de Maria Rodrigo". Justa Pastora was known here only from her marriage of 1830 and from the 1812 padron's rough age of 10. She was born 6 August 1800, and the act puts the family at Canelones between the 1791 marriage and the 1804 baptism of Dominga Josefa - which is what the padron means by "naturales del Canelon". But the mother is transcribed "Maria Rodrigo", and that is not her name in any of the other fourteen records. The discrepancy is recorded rather than smoothed away, with three readings and no choice between them: a machine error, though Rodrigo is not a plausible garbling of Fernandez; a clerk writing her father's forename, since her father was Rodrigo Fernandez; or a second Sancho Llerena, which nothing supports. The second reading is the most economical and only became visible on 15 September, because it depends on the 1811 act naming Rodrigo - which this archive did not have until that morning. The image has not been opened. And a correction to Sancho's own row. It said he stood godfather at the margins of that colony "twice, fifteen years apart" - the indigenous man's daughter in 1789 and an enslaved man in 1804. Three further pages of the 1804 confirmations name him as padrino, including "Joseph Jimenez esclavo de Don Luis Jimenez" - a different enslaved man with a different owner from the Jose, esclavo de Manuel Lopez already recorded. It is at least four times, three of them on one day, and the pattern is now too consistent to read as chance.

Felix and Rosalia enter the register, documented

did Consolidating the 1811 act across the archive. Sancho's row gains the act and loses its last weak joint: his parents are no longer a tree quoting a journal nobody here has read. Maria Fernandez gains Asturias and her own parents, Rodrigo and Rosa Fernandez - the same Rodrigo the 1812 padron puts living in the household at 63, "asturiano", so the act, the census and the trees now agree on him from three directions. Luis's birth stops being "c.1812" and becomes 9 February 1811, with his own baptism act in this archive for the first time and a second forename, Escolastico, that nothing here had. Felix Lerena and Rosalia Aguilar are in the register for the first time, as the first generation above Sancho to rest on anything but a tree. Their rows say plainly what the act does not give: no dates, no places, no marriage, no other children. The parentage is documented and the people are not. Rosalia's row carries the point that matters most about her. For weeks the matronymic was marked unattested - none of the fourteen Uruguayan records gave Sancho one - and this archive built a Spanish hypothesis on the idea that Aguilar came from a grandmother at Granada in 1754. It comes from his mother, which is simply how Spanish naming works, and the act says so. /hypotheses/ carries it, replacing the caution written yesterday that the parentage "rests on a single article nobody here has read". That caution stood for one day. And the Revista 15 errand is downgraded rather than closed. Nothing now depends on it, but the act gives names and nothing else - so if the article cites a Spanish act for Felix and Rosalia, that is the first thread into Cordoba, which is still on no act at all.

This was never an evidence chip — it grades placement

did Two archives had a component called Chip and they answered different questions. The other graded how well a claim is evidenced. This one grades how far a person of the surname has been placed: connected to the line, unplaced but of interest, excluded. The evidence ladder is the kit's, and it is the same five words everywhere. This is local and should be, because "unplaced · of interest" is a judgement only an archive still looking can make. Renamed to Placement, which is what it does. The other archive deleted its copy and moved to the shared ladder, so the name now means one thing across the seven.

The 1811 act names Sancho's parents - and a build fix that is not mine

did THE ACT. Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion (Iglesia Matriz), Montevideo, 10 February 1811, found by a full-text search for the phrase "Sancho Llerena" - a search this archive had run before, returning a result it never opened. "bautice solemnemente a LUIS ESCOLASTICO que nacio ayer, hijo legitimo de Don SANCHO LLERENA natural de ANDALUCIA y de Dona MARIA FERNANDEZ natural de ASTURIAS. Abuelos paternos FELIZ GERENA y ROSALIA AGUILAR, idem maternos RODRIGO FERNANDEZ y ROSA FERNANDEZ." Four things that were tree-only or census-only are now on a parish act, written while Sancho was alive and standing at his own son's font. Sancho's parents. Yesterday that rested on ONE un-consulted article - Felix and Rosalia have no dates, no places and no other children on Geneanet, only "Family: Revista 15 IEGU" - and every file here said so. "Feliz Gerena" is the machine's G-for-L, the seventh variant on this family, and the same one that produced the unresolved "Dona Andugara GERENA" at Santa Rosa image 131 - which this proves is a real failure mode on this exact surname. Andalucia, on an act rather than only the 1726-1858 census. Cordoba specifically is still on no act and stays a lead. Asturias for Maria Fernandez, which confirms the Operativo Patagonia reading from a Uruguayan document - and her parents Rodrigo and Rosa Fernandez, the same couple the trees give, the same FamilySearch's index reads at the 1812 font, and the same Rodrigo, 63, asturiano, whom the 1812 padron puts living in Sancho's household. And it is Luis's own baptism: born 9 February 1811, baptised the next day. The trees gave "1811" and nothing more. THE BUILD FIX, which is somebody else's work and needs saying plainly. Another session is committing here concurrently and had uncommitted changes in Base.astro moving asset fingerprinting into the kit's new assetv.js. It did not build. I stashed their file, confirmed HEAD built clean, then bisected: the cause is a const reading import.meta.url placed ABOVE a later import in Astro frontmatter. The error is worse than useless - Unexpected "{" pointing at a plain <meta viewport> tag thirty lines down. Moving the line below the imports is the whole fix; their feature is unchanged and now works. A comment says why the order matters so it does not regress.

Llerena Sancho con Maria Fernandez, 1791 - the index entry is found

did Item 1 of the fifteen, and it is the thing this archive has wanted for seven weeks. Canelones, Indice de matrimonios 1776-1947, DGS 8166578, image 2531, under Letra L and the sub-heading Libro I. Read across three DeepZoom tiles at level 12 on one aligned row: tile 5_5 gives the year column "1791." and a name beginning "Ll"; tile 6_5 gives "...ena Sancho con"; tile 7_5 gives "Maria Fernand[ez]". Until today the date 8 January 1791 came from Apolant ficha 355 and the VENUE came from nowhere - this archive supplied the word "Canelones" itself and had been writing it as though it were sourced. A Canelones parish index now carries Sancho and Maria Fernandez under 1791, and places the act in Libro I of Matrimonios, items 11-13 of the same reel. The act itself has still not been opened, and the file says so in its own row. No folio could be read: this opening's left page is blank, the entries sit on the right-hand page, and the columns left of the year came back empty, though other pages of this index do carry folios. So the act must be found by walking Libro I to January 1791 rather than jumping to a folio. Written up with the neighbouring rows, because a single hopeful reading is worth little. The same tile shows entries in the same hand and format above and below, and the year column beside them runs 1777, 1778, 1780, 1781, 1783, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792 in order. The row sits in sequence, in an alphabetical L section, with the forename Sancho and the bride Maria Fernandez - the one part of this man's identity every record has always agreed on. What is not verified is the day. The index gives a year; Apolant gives 8 January. Two claims that agree, and the act will settle it.

Ema Sixta's act, and it corrects her sister's surname

did Item 4 of the twenty - the last missing ark - and the prescribed route was wrong. The errand said to browse the La Union register by DGS through the catalogue. The register is in full text. A phrase search for "Sixta Lerena" returns exactly two documents and the first is it: "La Union, Montevideo, Montevideo. Religious Marriage Records 1902-1934", act 90 of 30 June 1913, ark 3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-T7P2-W. Two earlier rounds failed because they searched her with Massera as spouse and searched Jose Pedro Massera by name. The compound had not been tried. The act gives three things beyond the ark. Her parentage is now on an act rather than an index - "hija legitima de Don Luis Lerena Lenguas y Dona Julia Joanico". Both parents were dead by June 1913, "finados", which this archive did not have. And the witnesses are "Don Jaime Herrera y Dona Maria Perena Juanico de Herrera". That last line corrected a name this register had carried wrong. It called her sister Maria "LERENA LENGUAS" - her father's compound, not her own. Her father was Luis Lerena Lenguas and her mother Julia Juanico, so she is LERENA JUANICO, exactly as her siblings Ema Sixta and Candido Jaime are already named on their own rows. She was the odd one out and nothing had caught it, even though this archive files her in lerena-juanico-children.tsv. The act names her compound in her own lifetime, with Perena the machine's usual mangling of Lerena on this family. It mattered for the checking too. The compound-surname sibling test keys on the two surnames in a row's name, so while she read LERENA LENGUAS she was being compared against her father's generation instead of her own brothers and sisters. Renamed across the register, relations.tsv and montevideo-lerena-lenguas.tsv; the cohort key is now LERENA JUANICO. The age of 33 on the act is not adopted. This archive settled her birth at 21 November 1876 on three independent records, and said in the same row that ages at marriage are the weakest date in genealogy.

Derrick Luwinski is named here and nowhere described

did The sibling archive removed his date of birth, and his birth year with it, on the principle that a year is a date of birth with the precision filed off. Two files here still carried the full date: the direct-line table and the findings note. Both now record the correction that mattered — his given names were wrong — and say plainly that he is living and named only. No date, no year. His site data was already clean; this was working data, but it is tracked and therefore public.

A fourth key for the sibling checks: who people married

did Item 20 of the twenty. Checks 2, 2b and 2c all ask whether two people are siblings. None could see the other structural fact the prose carries in quantity: 57 of 268 rows say who somebody married, as "m. X", "married X", "c.c. X", "esposa de X" or "viuda de X". Two different rows naming the same spouse is either an ordinary remarriage - Luis Lerena had two wives and both are here - or the same person entered twice under two spellings of a surname this archive has documented in seven forms. The second is an error this archive has actually made, with Dona Sixta Lenguas on two rows hours apart. Run unrestricted it produced four findings, of which three were wrong: a row's prose routinely mentions other people's marriages. The offsets settled how to fix it. The two genuine matches sat at offset 0 - a subject's own marriage is stated first - and the three false ones at 163, 291 and 385, describing third parties. So only the opening 120 characters of the note count, and that drops all three while keeping both real ones. The surviving finding was worth having. Adela Camiglia and Rosa Maria Eppens are each recorded as "m. Carlos Lerena". They are two different men: hers is at Mendoza and fathered Avelino Carlos Lerena, while Rosa Maria Eppens's is the Uruguayan Carlos b.1885 who landed at Buenos Aires in 1926 "travelling with Rosa M. E. Lerena, an Argentine" - her. Nothing in either row said so, and a later reader merging them would have invented a marriage. Both rows now say it. A settled-case list keeps that answer from firing on every build, the same way drift.py keeps a PUBLISHED list, and carries the answer and the date rather than just silencing it. Tested by planting two rows married to the same woman under LLERENA and SERENA - this family's actual failure mode. It fires.

The Canelones marriage index is real, readable, and at image 2490

did The index of marriages 1776-1947 on DGS 8166578 item 10 is not a catalogue line any more. It was opened. Image 2490 is headed what reads as "Letra C" and its columns - surname, forename, folio, year - came out at level 11 as Cabrera, Canosa, Camelo, Colman, Castellano, Caamano, Cornejo, Calderon, Coronel, Castrillo, with folios and the years 1846-1849. The letter L was not reached, and the arrangement is not yet understood: if one letter really runs 1776 to 1947 before the next begins, C alone would take some seventy images and the alphabet would not fit the space. That should be settled by reading headings, not by arithmetic, and the file says so rather than leaving an estimate lying about. The reusable part is the targeting method. The page title carries an ark only for some images, but the grid view's DOM carries one for every image - each thumbnail's src is .../dz/v1/<ARK>/thumb_p200.jpg. And thumb_p200 shows the whole opening at 200px, which is enough to tell a columnar index page from a prose register page at a glance. That is how the index was found. Level 11 and 12 tiles then read the hand. With a warning: the grid does not always scroll to the ?i= value. Asking for 2510 loaded a window of 2341-2470, so the numbers have to be read off the DOM rather than assumed.

Five filmed books cover 1791, and two of them are indexes

did Item 5 of the twenty, and it lands better than expected. The Montevideo catalogue record is koha:961086, reached the same way as Canelones - through an image's Information panel, because the catalogue search box returned "Something Went Wrong" for every query all day. It names three reels covering January 1791: DGS 7713373 - "Bautismos, matrimonios y defunciones, 1781-1814 (del Regimiento de Infanteria de Buenos Aires)". These are the Libros Castrenses the IEGU list named this morning, and the catalogue gives them a regiment. Sancho has been recorded here as a soldado since the first day and this archive has never looked in a military register. Nothing says he served in that unit - only that he was a soldier in the right place in the right decade. DGS 7713382 - "Matrimonios, 1726-1826", the Iglesia Matriz marriage book itself, unbroken across the date. DGS 7713386 - "Indices de bautismos, matrimonios y defunciones (2 libros), 1726-1800". That last one is the point. Canelones has an index of marriages 1776-1947 on DGS 8166578 item 10; Montevideo has two index books ending in 1800. So both candidate parishes have a period index covering 1791, and neither has ever been opened. That is the cheapest unrun test in this archive - one alphabetical opening under L in each. The errand stops being a letter to a parish and becomes a reading job with five named reels. What makes it hard is the viewer, not the access: it renders an image in 30-60 seconds here and often not at all, while the images themselves are unrestricted.

The tile technique, and where the Canelones registers sit

did The viewer renders an image in 30-60 seconds here and often not at all, so browsing 3,222 images through it is not practical. The DeepZoom tiles are, and level 12 is genuinely readable - eighteenth-century secretary hand came out as "entes hijo legitimo... impedimento canonico o... y sacramenta". The working URL pattern, the levels, and the fact that tiles need the browser session (curl gets 401, page fetch is CORS-blocked, navigating to the tile URL works) are all written down. Confirmed by looking: images 2631 and 2900 of DGS 8166578 are both eighteenth-century marriage register openings, so both sit inside items 11-13, and the thumbnail grid shows no padlocks across the ranges checked. An arithmetic estimate puts January 1791 near image 2,780-2,820 and the start of Libro 1 near 2,700 - recorded as an estimate and labelled unverified, because the attempt to read a date off image 2800 failed: that image returned no ark, and without an ark there is no tile URL. The better route is still item 10, the index of marriages 1776-1947, which sits immediately before the registers on the same reel.

The Canelones marriage register is filmed, and there is an index to it

did Items 1-4 and 6 of the twenty. Two errands said "ready" that had been finished hours earlier - the Granada act and the Confirmaciones film. Both closed with what was found, which is the drift this archive built tooling to catch and still produced by hand. /searched/ still said images 81-148 were unread; it now carries the finished count, the corrected volume end at 145, and the second register at Santa Rosa. /roadmap/ now carries the 1791 venue analysis - the Castrense books, the Curia files, San Jose eliminated. Then item 6, which turned out to be the important one. This archive has recorded the 1791 act as unreachable for weeks, on the strength of a full-text search that found no Canelones marriage register. The catalogue says otherwise: "Matrimonios, Libros 1-3, (sep.) 1776-1854 (dic.)", DGS 8166578, items 11-13. The register begins fifteen years before the marriage and runs unbroken. The images are not restricted - the thumbnail grid shows padlocks where access is blocked and shows none here. And item 10 on the same reel is "Indice de matrimonios, 1776-1947". An alphabetical index spanning 171 years, never touched, which should answer in one opening whether a Lerena married at Canelones in 1791 and give the libro and folio if so. The informaciones matrimoniales for 1776-1806 are filmed too, on DGS 8166573 - and this archive has already been inside that series, because Sancho appears in it as a sworn witness at image 2167. His own expediente, if it survives, is in the same six carpetas, and a pre-marriage investigation is worth more than the act. Two method notes. The catalogue search box returned "Something Went Wrong" for every query all day while full text and the viewer worked - but a direct catalogue ID still worked, and better still, any image's Information tab prints the catalogue link and that reel's item-by-item contents. That is how koha:1294117 was recovered without the search box. And image 2631 of this Uruguayan reel opens under the title "Colombia, Catholic Church Records" and cites the Archdiocese of Cartagena. The image is Canelones; its own Information panel says so. Recorded because a researcher trusting the page title would abandon the right film.

Two FamilySearch pipelines disagree, and the index reads Lerena

did Item 12 of the fifteen. The plan was to open the 1812 baptism image at magnification and see whether the hand wrote L or S in "Juan Agustin Serena y Dona Agustina Perena". The handwriting was still not reached - the viewer's index panel would not dismiss, and the DeepZoom tiles return 401 outside the browser session. But the viewer surfaced something better than a guess. FamilySearch's own image index for that page lists the two godparents as "Juan Agustin Lerena" and "Agustina Alerena". That is a separate reading from the AI full-text transcript of the same image, which renders them Serena and Perena. Two pipelines disagree about the same ink and the index reads L. This is the sixth S-for-L recorded on this family and the first time an independent reading has contradicted the machine on one rather than the archive inferring it. With the ages from the 1812 padron - Juan Agustin 21, Agustina 17 - the names, the ages and a second transcription now point the same way. The file and the page both say plainly that this archive has not seen the handwriting, which is the difference between this and an act. The same index also names the maternal grandparents at that font as Rodrigo Fernandez and Rosa Fernandez - exactly the couple the trees give as Josefa Fernandez Tresguerras's parents. So Micaela, the mother, was Josefa's sister and the godparents were the baby's first cousins, which is why two Lerena teenagers were standing at a Malbarea baptism at all. This archive called that "a plausibility, not a finding" in September; it now has an index behind it as well as a tree, and the padron independently puts Rodrigo Fernandez, 63, asturiano, in Sancho's household.

Both Rosario confirmation registers finished - he is in neither

did Item 11 done, and the task turned out to have been defined wrong. FamilySearch came back, so the Catedral film could be finished. Images 81-145 read, every transcript non-empty. With images 5-80 read earlier in the month, the whole of "Catedral Nuestra Senora del Rosario. Confirmation Records 1883-1904" is now read end to end and holds no Lerena. Together with Santa Rosa de Lima, closed the same day, both of Rosario's confirmation registers covering Pablo Armando's childhood are complete and he is in neither. He was 8 to 22 across their combined span, which is the age for it. That route is exhausted for the two parishes with registers early enough to hold him. The errand said "images 81-148". The volume ends at 145. Images 146-148 came back empty and looked exactly like the rate limiting that had bitten twice already the same day - but they carry no ark and their page title is the bare "Registros parroquiales, - Film # 004531018", where every real page resolves to the volume name. They are not part of this volume. The film holds 421 images across several volumes, and image 200 is Confirmation Records 1904-1918, when Pablo Armando was 22-36 and mostly in South Africa - identified and ruled out of scope rather than left unread. The distinguishing sign is now written down, because it nearly cost the closure: a throttled page still resolves to the volume name, and an image outside the volume does not. Without that check those three would have sat as "not read" forever and the register could never have been called finished. One hit in 65 images. Image 143 returned SERENA, which is the S-for-L variant this family carries six times over and had to be answered. Read in place it sits in a column of given names - Maria Eulalia, Angel, Julio, Elisa, Serena, Vitora, Jose - so it is the girl's forename, not the surname. Recorded rather than dropped, so that a hit-count on this film does not send a future reader back to open it again.

San Jose eliminated, and the military books nobody had considered

did Item 5 of the fifteen, and it turns into progress on the 1791 act. The Operativo Patagonia cohort is now corroborated from outside the tree. The migration literature gives 41 Asturian founder families from 11 councils - seven of them from MORCIN, the concejo where Josefa Fernandez Tresguerras was born in 1778 - who founded SAN JOSE, Uruguay on 1 June 1783. So her family plausibly landed at San Jose, not Canelones, which made San Jose a live candidate for a marriage whose venue has never had a source. The IEGU holdings list settles it: San Jose de Mayo has baptisms and deaths from 1783 but marriages only from 1799. Eight years too late. San Jose is eliminated as the venue, and its baptisms from 1783 stay worth asking about for the family's arrival - with the IEGU's own warning that its indexes carry serious copyist errors. Reading that list properly also turned up something this archive has never considered in a month of looking for this act. The Iglesia Matriz of Montevideo holds three LIBROS CASTRENSES - military registers of baptisms, marriages and deaths - covering 1781 to 1814. Sancho has been recorded here as a soldado since the first day, from the Uruguayan census. A soldier marrying in the Banda Oriental in 1791 has an obvious second home for his act, and nobody has looked in it. The Curia also holds expedientes de informacion matrimonial from 1727, and that is the document worth most of all: a pre-marriage investigation gives a Spanish groom's parents, birthplace and time in the country, which would settle Sancho-or-Francisco, Cordoba, and Felix and Rosalia together. The errand is rewritten from one letter to three, in priority order.

Six trees, and they are not six witnesses

did Item 2 of the fifteen, run properly, plus Bauza published. Geneanet returns six trees carrying Felix Lerena married to Rosalia Aguilar, which looks like strong corroboration for the parentage used yesterday to withdraw the Granada reading. Each was opened. It is not. antoniojosed is the only one with dates - Felix b. about 1725 Cordoba, married about 1753 Cordoba, Rosalia about 1729 - every value "about", no Sources section at all. rosanaic gives the same dates and cites, as its source, a link to antoniojosed's tree. abal2018 and ladissosa carry the couple with no dates and no sources. jfina carries no dates and cites Revista 15 IEGU. So six reduce to two origins at most, one of them a journal article and one a tree of estimates - and jfina's own acknowledgements credit "mi primo Alejandro Abal", which is where abal2018 and nanabal come from. This archive made the same mistake in September with three 1846 "Francisco" entries that turned out to be one clerk on one morning. Copies are not corroboration. The two camps also disagree about Sancho's birth by thirteen years. The Uruguayan trees say 1767-1832; antoniojosed says ca 1754, which is what you get from assuming a marriage in 1753 and a child the year after. The 1812 padron records him as 45, so 1767 - a census against a reconstruction. Which also means antoniojosed's "about 1753" marriage is an estimate derived from a guessed birth, not a record. For an hour it looked like a real coincidence that a Lerena married an Aguilar at Cordoba in 1753, one year before the Granada marriage of 1754. There is no coincidence, because the 1753 is not a date from a document. So item 2 yielded no record of Felix or Rosalia anywhere - no act, no index entry, no parish. Cordoba as their home rests on one unsourced tree; the parentage still rests on one unread article. The withdrawal stands, because a journal citation beats a naming-rule inference, but it stands on less than it appeared to. Bauza now has a page. /hypotheses/ carries the 1817 passage in full, with what it does not establish stated in its own box: he names a family in the plural with no forenames, so nobody here is placed at those events. Scribd's index of the 36 IEGU revistas would have said what is on Revista 15 pp.53-54, but its viewer is images behind a login and I did not create an account. That route is closed, not untried.

Tables were squashed to two words a line on a phone

did Column widths on this site are inline rem values chosen for a desktop column, and on a 390px screen a fixed 22rem leaves the column carrying the sentence about nine characters wide. Below 600px the content decides instead and the gutters come in. The shared stylesheet had no narrow-screen rule for tables at all, which is why every archive did it: this one has 145 inline cell widths.

Repin: the place plot no longer lets one emigrant frame the picture

did Fitting the plot from the lowest coordinate to the highest put whichever relative travelled furthest in charge of the whole drawing. The frame is now chosen at build time from three candidates — the tightest window holding four places in five, the same for nine in ten, and the full extent — keeping whichever separates the most places while still holding seventy per cent of them. Places outside it are drawn hollow on the edge they left through and counted underneath. Measured on each archive's own coordinates, distinct dots before and after: Blazevic 5 to 18, D'Arcy 18 to 52, Booyzen 28 to 29, Mazza 21 to 22, Lerena 20 to 20. Mazza and Lerena keep the full extent, correctly: those families really did live on three continents and there is no home cluster to crop to.

Sancho's household: three children entered, and Aguilar answered

did Items 11 (part) and 14 of the fifteen. FamilySearch blocked again with Error 15 after about 150 images across two films, so the Rosario Catedral tail stops at image 113. Images 81-113 read clean, every transcript non-empty. 114 and 115 came back empty, were retried once, and are logged NOT READ rather than as no-Lerena; 116-148 were never attempted. What is outstanding is the small end of that film - ages 15 to 22 for a boy born in 1882. The register that mattered, 1885-97, was read long ago and does not hold him. Item 14 needed no FamilySearch. Three of Sancho's children are now in the register for the first time - Juan Agustin (b. c.1791), Agustina (c.1795) and Fidel (c.1799-1822) - from the 1812 Montevideo padron: calle San Juan No 60, Sancho "andaluz" 45, Maria Fernandez 36, six children all "naturales del Canelon", his father-in-law Rodrigo Fernandez, 63, asturiano, living with them, and four enslaved people. Two of those children close an argument this archive lost against itself. It had written "Juan Agustin cannot be Sancho's son, who would be a child in 1812" and talked itself out of reading the 1812 godparents "Juan Agustin Serena y Agustina Perena" as Lerena. He was 21 and she was 17. /hypotheses/ now carries all of it, including the correction that retires that page's own standing note on "Aguilar": it is his mother's surname, Rosalia Aguilar, per the jfina tree citing Revista 15 IEGU - and the Granada couple are not his parents. Full text agrees from the other side: "Juan de Lerena y Aguilar" returns five Madrid hits, "Sancho de Lerena y Aguilar" returns No Results Found, against that control. The page also now separates the sourced date from the unsourced venue. Two tool fixes. drift.py now decodes HTML entities before normalising - without it every accented Spanish word on these pages normalised to "padr oacute n" and could never match a register note spelling it padron, which is why three published findings were reported as silent. And the three siblings are recorded in PUBLISHED with where they appear, because the matcher wants "listed" where the page says "lists" - the finding is on the page, and the entry says who checked.

Checkpoint: Rosario Catedral confirmations 81-105 read clean

did Item 11 in progress. DGS 004531018 needs the zero padding - 4531018 alone returns a blank Film # page, which would have read as an empty film rather than a wrong URL. Images 98 and 99 came back len=0 and were logged NOT READ; both read clean after a pause, at 5,201 and 2,961 characters.

The menu fix took the menu's font with it

did An hour ago I stopped the changelog's fold-away styling from leaking onto this archive's navigation. The override I wrote undid four things where it should have undone three, and the fourth was the font. `.topnav details>summary` outranks `.topnav summary`, which is where the nav's own 12.5px sans is set. So writing font-size:inherit and font-family:inherit in the override did not fall back to that rule — inherit means inherit from the parent, and the parent is the page. The menu came out in 19px EB Garamond and the nav bar grew from 34 pixels tall to 45. The previous state had the right font for the wrong reason: the changelog rule was supplying .72rem var(--sans), which happened to land close enough that nobody would look twice. Removing the leak removed that too, and my override replaced it with something worse. Both declarations are now gone, so `.topnav summary` applies as it does on the other six. Measured against them: Libre Franklin 12.5px, nav bar 34px. Found by checking all seven menus against each other, which is the only reason it surfaced within the hour rather than sitting there the way the leak itself had.

The navigation was wearing the changelog's clothes

did Checking that all seven register pages still render found this one, which had nothing to do with the registers. This archive's menu read ▸START ▸OUR LINE ▸THE WORK, uppercase and letter-spaced at 0.72rem, where the other six read Start, Our line, The work. The cause is three rules written for something else entirely. The comment above them says so: "The changelog's per-entry reasoning, folded away by default." They select `details>summary` — and the top-nav menu is a <details> with a <summary>, on all seven archives, so the rule meant for a fold-away note was dressing the primary navigation. It stayed invisible because of how completely it hit. On most pages here every single <details> in the document is the nav — five out of five on the register — so there was no second case to compare against, and the menu simply looked like a deliberate choice. It was not: only this archive carries the rule, and the other six are unambiguous about what the nav is meant to look like. Measured against Blažević's, which is the same component: text-transform none, letter-spacing normal, no marker. The navigation is put back rather than the changelog rules narrowed, because narrowing them means guessing every place a <details> is used for a fold and this way nothing else moves.

Santa Rosa de Lima read to the end - he is not in it

did Item 10 of the fifteen, and it closes a register. FamilySearch came back mid-session, so the film that had been paused at 57 of 141 images could be finished. Every image from 6 to 141 now has a non-empty transcript, 2,111 to 3,629 characters each, searched for seven spellings. Pablo Armando Lerena is not there. He was 8 to 15 across this register's span, which is exactly the age for confirmation. Both of Rosario's confirmation registers covering his childhood are now read end to end - the Catedral, about 2,500 children, and this one. He is in neither. One hit in the whole book. Image 131: "confirmo a Angel, hijo legitimo de Angel y Dona ANDUGARA GERENA". Gerena is on this archive's own list of seven OCR variants of Lerena, so it cannot be waved away - but it is a mother, not the child, and the same paragraph renders a child's name as "Perero" and a priest as "Jose Mala". A forename transcribed "Andugara" is not a forename. It is logged as a candidate needing the image at magnification, not as a find. The method note is the part worth keeping. Images 86-89 all returned len=0 in a single batch and the page title stopped resolving to the record. They were logged as NOT READ rather than as no-Lerena, and image 86, re-read after a forty-second pause, gave 2,970 characters - which proves the zeros were rate limiting and not four blank pages. Image 22, which had failed three times across two days, also read clean this pass. Eleven pages across this film would have been silently certified as empty if a zero had ever been allowed to count as a read, and the register's own index page says PAGES MISSING, so the temptation was real.

Repin the kit — and this time check that the repin happened

did Spine now omits the fields an archive has not got instead of drawing empty scaffolding around them, so the seven need the new commit. The repin itself is the thing worth recording. Rewriting the commit in package.json and running npm install does nothing to a git dependency: npm keeps whatever commit package-lock.json already names. All seven reported a clean install and then built green — on the old kit, with the change absent from every one of them, and nothing in the output saying so. It would not have stayed quiet. package.json named one commit and the lock named another, and npm ci — which is what the deploy runs — refuses to start when those two disagree. Seven green local builds, seven red deploys. The repin has to name the package: npm install "@daviddef/archive-kit@github:daviddef/TheArchiveKit#<full sha>" Verified the way it should have been the first time — not by reading npm's output but by reading the resolved commit back out of the lockfile and grepping the changed line out of the installed copy.

Correct Derrick Luwinski's name and birth year, and link the sibling archive

did This archive recorded Cheryl's first husband as "Derrick Luwinski (b.1947)". He is LYNN DERRICK LUWINSKI, born 24 April 1949 — the date is on the MyHeritage tree and the year is confirmed against his own DNA kit. His line is now worked in a sibling archive, The Luwinski (github.com/daviddef/TheLuwinski): a Berlin Jewish father of record, Kurt Israel Luwinski, who left Germany in 1933 and whose own father Jacob Leibholz was deported from Berlin to Auschwitz on 26 February 1943; and a Portuguese mother, Ivone Mota Figueiredo, born at Lourenço Marques in 1924 and buried at Porto. That archive also finds, and labels inferred, that Kurt is very probably not Derrick's biological father — 0.0% Ashkenazi Jewish where a quarter is required, and a closest-match cluster that is one English family with a branch in Johannesburg. So the hinge between this archive and the Defranceski one is still blood; the hinge to the Luwinski one may be a marriage only. Only the two files carrying the error are touched here. Other modified files in the working tree were left alone.

The menu icon sat twenty pixels below the word beside it, on every phone

did Reported from a phone, and it was the same bug on all seven. Two different things are called .bars in these stylesheets: a stacked chart — display:flex, gap:7px, MARGIN-TOP:20PX — and the three lines inside the menu button. The burger rule overrode the display, the width and the height, and never touched the margin. So the icon inherited a twenty-pixel top margin from a chart it has nothing to do with, and sat low in its own pill. A collision like this is invisible on a desktop, because the button is not shown there at all. Reset on the burger only; the chart keeps its spacing. Measured rather than eyeballed: button centre and icon centre now agree exactly, where they were twenty pixels apart.

Three silent findings published, and a third key for the sibling test

did Items 6 and 7 of the fifteen. The drift check had been reporting the same three findings on every build. Read individually they were not the same problem. Roseline Wilhelmina Forbes was already published in full at /direct-line/ - "So Chappell was her married name, not her maiden name. She was a Forbes." The matcher trips on the word "corrects", because the page says the earlier record was fixed rather than corrected. That is a false positive and the honest fix is the allowlist, not prose written to satisfy a word-match; the entry records that somebody read the page. The other two were genuinely absent. Gilberto Lerena b.1879, who landed at Buenos Aires on the Cap Norte in February 1928 as an Argentine national with a son of the same name, is now on /argentina/ beside the 1895 household he is NOT in - written as an unresolved namesake, which is what he is. And the naming discipline is now on /taylor/: the same habit that gave Roque's infant daughter her grandmother Mary Septima's name put Juan Carlos into her uncle's. The man the enrolment card names and no register has produced was still being named for in South Africa two generations on - not proof he existed, but evidence the family believed it and knew what he was called. I wrote him in as a great-grandfather first and corrected it; Antoinette was Roque's daughter, so Mary Septima is her grandmother. Drift now reports nothing stale for the first time. consistency.py gains a third key. Checks 2 and 2b saw 31 structured parents and 56 compound surnames out of 265, and a test that sees an eighth of the register while printing "nothing contradicts itself" manufactures confidence - which is the whole reason this file exists. But 94 people have a parent named in PROSE, because the acts transcribed here say "hijo legitimo de X y de Y". Two children citing the same parent are siblings, and that needs no link to a register row - the cited parent usually is not in the register at all. Coverage goes from 30 to 99 of 264, and the caveat still prints, because 99 is still not most of them. Two bugs found while building it and fixed in the code: prose that follows a name is not a name (one key came out as 'gilberto 1854" with a birth of 1869 - which would have'), and an act quoted on a parent's own row made Sancho his own child, in a cohort with his wife. Tested by planting two siblings three months apart under a shared prose parent, with single-token names so that neither of the other two keys could reach them. It fires.

Structured data, an honest lastmod, and the last two hand-rolled blocks

did Three findability gaps, all of them estate-wide. No archive emitted any JSON-LD, on sites whose entire content is people, places and dates. That is the difference between being read and being found. The sitemaps said every URL changed today, every build. On a ten-thousand-page archive that claims the whole thing turned over overnight, and after a week of saying so it teaches a crawler to ignore the field — worse than omitting it. lastmod now comes from git: when that page's own source last changed. And the two blocks the kit had already replaced were still hand-rolled on four and three archives respectively — the same block rendered two ways, and on Blažević the figures carried no links at all, which is the one thing the component exists to enforce. Every number on every front page now opens the page that earns it.

Bauza names the family once, and it is not a credit

did Items 1-5 of the fifteen, none of which needed FamilySearch - which is still 403. Bauza's "Historia de la Dominacion Espanola" is out of copyright and all three volumes are on archive.org, so the citation the jfina tree gave could be read whole rather than trusted. The tree says the Lerenas of Canelones were "persona de confianza del Baron de la Laguna... para vigilar la seguridad y tranquilidad". That is Lecor's own phrase from the Bando of 15 February 1817, which outlawed resisting Orientals "ellos, sus familias y sus propiedades" and sent detachments to burn their farms and put their families aboard the fleet. The tree stops there. Bauza does not: "Doloroso es manifestar que las mencionadas personas de confianza, fueron los hermanos Alonso de Minas, los Llerena de Canelones, ... quienes al frente de grupos cuya totalidad sumaba mas de 400 hombres, se transformaron en azote de los vecindarios de Toledo, Manga y Piedras, haciendo impunemente con ellos, lo que era castigado como un crimen en los patriotas." He names a family in the plural with no forenames, so nobody in this register is placed at those events. What can be said stays narrow and is written that way. Tomes I and II hold no Lerena at all, against a control of 108 and 503 hits for "Montevideo" in the same files. The sourcing chain also got one step deeper, and it weakened. Felix Lerena and Rosalia Aguilar have no dates, no places and no other children on Geneanet - only "Family: Revista 15 IEGU". So the parentage that was used yesterday to withdraw the Granada hypothesis rests on one un-consulted article. The withdrawal stands; it is now labelled for what it is. Neither Apolant nor the Revista is obtainable online - archive.org holds neither, HathiTrust bot-checks and would be search-only anyway. Both are logged as errands with full citations. So is the parish: the IEGU holdings list, reachable over plain http because its certificate has expired, says Canelones has marriages from 1775 and informaciones matrimoniales from 1776. The act exists and the parish is named. One trap caught. Three Google Books API searches returned "totalItems: None", which reads exactly like a null. It was HTTP 429, quota exceeded - a control query made it visible. Three nulls were one keystroke from being written down, on a platform where this failure mode had not been seen before. The rule is generalised in the file: an empty result from any API is not evidence until something known-positive returns through the same call in the same session.

The tree that supplies "Aguilar" names a different couple

did FamilySearch blocked this session outright - Access Denied, Error 15 - and the Canelones films are theirs, so the 1791 act could not be opened. I did not route around the block. Geneanet was open instead, and the jfina tree carries a sourced note that answers more than the act would have. It gives Sancho's parents as FELIX LERENA and ROSALIA AGUILAR, born Cordoba about 1767, citing Apolant's "Operativo Patagonia" ficha 355. So this morning's Granada work is withdrawn. "Aguilar" is his mother's surname - ordinary Spanish naming - not a grandmother's from the 1754 marriage at Santa Ana. The inference that the compound must descend from that couple was a naming rule applied to a name whose owner is recorded elsewhere, and the controlled null I logged against them is explained rather than puzzling: he is not their son. The Spanish findings stay in the file as Spanish findings; what is withdrawn is that they touch this family. The search that matters now is Felix Lerena and Rosalia Aguilar at Cordoba, which is not the search I ran. Two more things the note settles. The 8 January 1791 date is not "what the trees say" - it descends from a named published work with a numbered entry, Apolant, Operativo Patagonia (Montevideo, Imprenta Letras, 1970). But Canelones appears nowhere in it. The note's "Concejo de Morcin, Asturias" is the bride's birthplace: Josefa Fernandez Tresguerras, born 1778 in Asturias, of the Operativo Patagonia convoy - which is why Tresguerras sits in no Uruguayan index, a question this archive raised and could not answer. Every file here has been welding a sourced date to an unsourced venue. The venue is still the best inference going, because the 1812 padron lists all six children as naturales del Canelon with the eldest aged 21. And that padron holds what this archive did not: the household in full, the father-in-law Rodrigo Fernandez, 63, asturiano, living in it, and four enslaved people. It also gives Juan Agustin as 21 in 1812. This archive had argued against itself that "Juan Agustin cannot be Sancho's son, who would be a child in 1812" - bad arithmetic, withdrawn. He and his sister Agustina, 17, are the two godparents written "Serena" and "Perena" at that 1812 font. The archive talked itself out of a correct reading with an age it never checked. The earlier verdict that the 1791 register is "probably not digitised" is also overstated: it rested on a full-text search, and full text covers a fraction of what is filmed. Guadalupe de Canelones has marriage books from 1775. Whether its images are browsable has never been checked, and that is the first job when the block lifts.

A 404 that navigates, a share card, and styles for print

did None of the seven had any of the three. A mistyped address — or one of the URLs these archives have retired and redirected over the years — fell through to GitHub's own 404, which offers no way back in. This one says what happened in a line and then hands over the ways in, because an archive's 404 should not apologise, it should navigate. The share card is typographic: the archive's name, its own one-line thesis, its own accent, and no imagery at all — so nothing on it can be mistaken for a photograph this family does not have. The kit already emitted og:image when a file existed; six archives simply had no file. And print. These are documents people take to a registry office, and printing one dropped its sources. Links now expand to their addresses, because a printed claim without its source is just an assertion. Writing the 404 found a latent crash. Base referenced `description` without declaring it, saved only by `dek ||` short-circuiting before it — so on three archives ANY page without a dek would have failed the build. There had never been one until now.

The Granada act, and the son who signed himself Lerena y Aguilar

did Geneanet left a fifty-year span and an errand: open the act for an exact date. The act is FamilySearch 1:1:C9WG-BGW2 - Sancho de Lerena y Armenta, born Cordoba, son of Sancho de Lerena y Velasco and Maria Antonia de Armenta y Guebara, married Ana Maria de Aguilar of La Malaha at Santa Ana, Granada, 17 November 1754. Two generations above the groom, and the image is marked unavailable. The full text carried it further than the index could. "Lerena y Armenta" returns 55 hits: Madrid notarial records 1766-1808, so the groom became a vecino of Madrid; and a Cordoba testament of 14 June 1751 witnessed by his brother Antonio. Then the load-bearing one - a Madrid act of 27 March 1790 signed, between the witnesses and the notary, "Juan de Lerena y Aguilar". One man, that compound. The name the trees give our Sancho is a name real people bore, in the right family and generation. Three things this commit refuses to claim. The Cordoba on that act is the 1754 groom's birthplace, not the Uruguayan Sancho's. I wrote it into the register as if it settled this row's Cordoba-versus-Granada question, caught it, and corrected both files: what closed is a question about the Spanish record, and the Uruguayan birthplace is exactly as open as it was yesterday. The one Montevideo hit for "Lerena y Aguilar" would have been the bridge. Opened, it reads "padrinos Mauricio Lerena y Petrona Aguilar" - two godparents, "y" meaning "and". The same shape as the Santo Oficio trap: a phrase search cannot tell a compound from a conjunction. And the search that would have settled it - the exact phrase "Sancho de Lerena y Aguilar" - rendered "(0)" with no "No Results Found" line, no control, and the next request returned "Access Denied - Error 15". That zero is not recorded as a null. Re-running it with a control is the first job when the block lifts. A controlled null did hold: no indexed baptism names that couple as parents in Spain, against a control of 12. It means no indexed baptism, not no children - the Madrid signature proves otherwise. Also bumps the kit pin to d7e3fce, which has the NotFound component an uncommitted 404 page in the tree was importing; the build could not run without it.

Repin: the gazetteer no longer plots a town on a shop

did Thirty-three places across the estate were sitting on streets, bus stops and a furniture shop — right country, wrong kind of thing, so nothing caught them.

Geneanet explains "Aguilar", and it points at Granada

did David's brief said Geneanet was already blocked once and not worth trying scripted. It was not blocked today, and it answered a question this archive spent the whole day calling unattested. Two Spanish archive indexes - the Index des mariages catholique de Grenade and Spain, Marriages 1565-1950 - carry a marriage of SANCHO LERENA y ARMENTA to ANA MARIA DE AGUILAR, Diocese of GRANADA, between 1725 and 1775. A son of that couple would be styled LERENA y AGUILAR. Which is exactly the name every tree gives the Sancho born in 1767. So "Aguilar" - absent from all fourteen Uruguayan records, and marked here this morning as coming from a tree and from nowhere read - is a real Spanish matronymic pointing at a grandmother, not a habit somebody invented. NOT ADOPTED. The index is read and the image is not; the date range is a fifty-year span; and nothing yet joins that couple to a son born in 1767. What changed is that an unattested word became a testable claim in a named diocese - the first thing this archive has ever held that could document this family in Spain. Logged as an errand with the test. It also puts GRANADA against the trees' CORDOBA - ckurti says ZUHEROS, Cordoba - where the Uruguayan census says only ANDALUZIA, which both satisfy, while the surname's own home town of Llerena is in EXTREMADURA. That tension is sharpened, not resolved. And four trees give Sancho a death in 1832, where this archive has none. If true, his son's 1836 marriage petition names a dead man, which is ordinary. THE CENTRAL NULL HOLDS ON A THIRD PLATFORM. "Juan Carlos Lerena" returns exactly one result in all of Geneanet - a "del Campo Lerena", where Lerena is the second surname. He is absent from FamilySearch, from WikiTree and from Geneanet alike. AND verify.sh NOW BUILDS FROM CLEAN. It failed on a stale dist - leftovers from this afternoon's broken build made astro report a missing chunk. rm -rf before build, so a previously failed build can never poison the next.

RootsChat: nobody is researching Lerena, and five people are on the Taylors

did The forum search is login-only - "You are not allowed to search for posts in this forum" - and this assistant does not create accounts. A limit on the method, not a finding about the family. But the Surname Interests Table is public, and answers a better question than the boards could: who else is working on this family right now. LERENA: ZERO ENTRIES. Nobody on RootsChat is researching the surname - a clean null against a control of 603 Taylors. It matches WikiTree, which holds no Lerena profile either. This family has no British research community at all, which is itself worth knowing. FIVE CONTACTS OVERLAP THE TAYLOR SIDE, and one is exact: "Welsh Jen" TAYLOR Bideford, Devon "Muddy Waters" DALLING Swimbridge / Landkey / Barnstaple "Burnell" BRAYLEY Somerset & Devon "kingsgate" NORRISH Devon "natcole", "Jean.Y" SWEET Plymouth Welsh Jen is on the exact registration district of William Taylor, Mary Ann Helena Brayley and seven of their ten children. Muddy Waters is worth a second look: FamilySearch carries a WILLIE DALLING marrying a SUSIE TAYLOR at Swimbridge in 1905 - a second Dalling-Taylor marriage in north Devon, five years after Henry Dalling married Isabella Temple at Northam. Susie is not one of the ten, and whether the Dallings are kin is untested. Messaging needs an account and two forum posts, so it is logged as David's errand rather than left as a suggestion - with the note that this archive has a great deal to OFFER such a person, which is the right way round for a first message. AND verify.sh EARNED ITSELF ON ITS FIRST REAL RUN. It refused this commit twice: once for an unpaired marker, then for literal reaching the errands page - and chasing that exposed a malformed row that had put a whole paragraph into the STATUS column, which is a controlled vocabulary. Three errands were being published under the wrong chip, including one marked DONE that the page was calling blocked. A field can be internally consistent and still be the wrong field.

A pipe into tail swallowed every exit code today

did Every verification in this session ran as python3 tools/consistency.py | tail -1 and a pipeline exits with the status of its LAST command. tail always succeeds. So consistency.py's exit code gated nothing for an entire day, and the commits chained behind it with && could never have been stopped by a hard contradiction. It finally showed. An unpaired emphasis marker went into errands.tsv while the checker was printing CONTRADICTION on screen - the output was right there and had simply scrolled past. Fixed the marker, and fixed the calling. tools/verify.sh now runs all five gates as one script under set -e with no pipes: build the data, check the register against itself, build the site, check the links, check for drift. It prints ALL GATES PASSED or it fails. The lesson is this archive's own, arriving somewhere new. A guard that cannot fail is not a guard - and this time the guard was sound and the way it was CALLED was broken. Three times today I hardened a checker; none of that mattered while its exit code was being thrown away.

Santa Rosa de Lima: 57 of 141, paused on a hardening rate limit

did Three more read on the retries - images 7, 54 and 60, all clean. That takes the second Rosario parish to fifty-seven images with no Lerena under any of seven spellings. Still not read: 22, 59, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69. Image 22 has now failed three separate times. Never attempted: 70-141. THE ECONOMICS CHANGED THROUGH THE DAY. Four images a batch held this morning. By evening it is one to two, even with thirty-second gaps between images - the limiter has tightened as the session's cumulative reads have piled up. Finishing from here is seventy-nine images at that rate. So the cheap fix is time, not technique: this film is free and permanent, and the quota resets. Recorded rather than ground out at a rate that would mostly produce empty transcripts - which this archive counts as NOT READ, not as "no Lerena", and which is exactly how a false negative gets manufactured at scale.

FreeBMD: six marriages and a death get their references, and one loses its

did David named FreeBMD as the cheapest thing left on the Taylor side. It was. The archive already had the husbands' names from the Devon parish index; this gives the quarter, district, volume and page a certificate is ordered from - documented replacing family. Irene Sep 1900 Bideford 5b 900 Isabella Temple 1900 Bideford 5b 901 Margaret Hellen W Dec 1903 PANCRAS 1b 43 Lucy Elizabeth Jun 1909 Totnes 5b 373 Agnes W Mar 1918 Devonport 5b 588 (spouse WOOD printed) Mary Ann H Brayley Mar 1870 Bideford 5b 794 William Taylor, d. Dec 1902 Bideford 5b 326 (age given as 75) IRENE AND ISABELLA ARE CONSECUTIVE PAGES of the same volume. Married eleven days apart at the same church, and the registrar wrote them up one after the other - the civil index carrying as fact what the parish register only implied. AND MARGARET IS THE ANSWER TO A QUESTION THIS ARCHIVE COULD NOT SETTLE. Her banns were called at Northam in November 1903 and her marriage registered at PANCRAS, LONDON. Eighty-four Margaret Bells were searched in the 1921 census and three hundred and sixty-two in the 1939 Register, across all England, with none born in Devon - because she had not merely left the county, she married out of it. AND ONE RECORD LOSES ITS FOOTING. Horace Archibald Taylor was written up this morning as having married Mary Jane Marshall. The BANNS are real; the marriage is not evidenced - there is no Horace Taylor marriage anywhere in Devon between 1893 and 1895. Banns are an intention, not a wedding. A decoy nearly settled it the wrong way. A "Taylor, Horace" married a MARSHALL in the same quarter at BOSMERE, SUFFOLK, which would have tidily explained his absence from every Devon census - until the page was read directly and gave the bride as LAURA EMILY, not Mary Jane. Before 1912 the GRO index does not print the spouse: FreeBMD infers it from a shared page, so a match is an inference, and two couples of the same surnames in one quarter produce a false one.

Fix the broken build: the kit pin was stale, not the page

did The site has not built since commit bd87842, which imported PlaceSpark.astro into index.astro. The component was missing and the whole build failed while astro still exited 0. The import was right and the pin was wrong. PlaceSpark was published to TheArchiveKit at 275cef0 ("A plot, not a map, for the five home pages with no drawing", 06:18); site/package.json was still pinned at b46be72 from 04:20. The component was two commits ahead of the pin that was meant to carry it. So the fix is the pin, not the page - nothing of the other session's work is touched. Bumped to 275cef0 and reinstalled. 595 pages build, 0 broken links, consistency clean, and the sparkline renders on the home page rather than merely compiling - checked in the output, not assumed from a green build.

Three ways in, and a drawing, on every front page

did Three archives opened with exactly three doors under the hero. Three offered a flat list instead — D'Arcy's front page carried forty-eight links, which is a directory rather than an offer — and one offered nothing at all. The shape is fixed at three and the CHOICES are left alone, because they are the only thing a front page is for: Defranceschi opens with the story, a person and a map; Booyzen with why a letter of the surname was changed; Blažević with one woman. Card links keep the job they were actually good at, which is the long list further down. And the drawing. Five of these pages had none — the same gap the trees had before the chart was shared. Every archive now has coordinates, so every one can show a plot of its own places: no tiles, no coastline, no borders, because an archive that has not got a coastline should not draw one. A dot per place, sized by how many people stand in it. Every count in the caption is read from the atlas data rather than typed. The first version said "46 places" under 47 dots.

A checker that cannot fail on nothing is not a gate

did check-links.py has just reported "0 pages, 0 html files, 0 ids ... 0 broken" and PASSED. The deploy is gated on this script, so it was reporting success over a site that did not exist. The cause was a broken import leaving `astro build` exiting 0 with nothing written - the exact failure this archive documented on 11 September, when a render error left eight pages missing and 3,433 dead links behind a green build. The gate was added for that. It still could not see an empty dist, because zero pages means zero broken links. It now refuses to pass on fewer than fifty pages, and says why: an empty build means astro failed while still exiting 0, so read its output rather than its exit code. Verified by running it against the empty dist - exit 1.

Santa Rosa de Lima: 54 of 141 read, stopped by rate limiting

did Read and clean, no Lerena under any of seven spellings: images 6, 8-21, 23-53, 55-58, 61-63 and 66. Fifty-four images of the second Rosario parish, covering Bishop Cagliero's rounds of July 1890 and September-October 1891. NOT read, because the transcript came back empty: 7, 22, 54, 59, 60, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69. Never attempted: 70-141. WHY IT STOPPED. FamilySearch rate-limits after a long session. Earlier a one-minute pause cleared it; by image 67 it did not - three consecutive empties survived a sixty-second cooldown. An empty transcript is not "no Lerena on this page", it is "this page was not read", and pushing on would have manufactured false negatives at scale. That rule has already cost this archive seven pages on the Catedral film today, and it is the reason this commit says 54 rather than 64. The errand carries the resume procedure, the pacing that holds from cold, and the caution that the register's own index page says PAGES MISSING.

Santa Rosa de Lima: images 6-46 read, no Lerena

did Progress marker only. Images 7 and 22 returned empty transcripts twice and are recorded as NOT READ rather than clean - the rule that cost seven pages on the Catedral film this morning. Still to read: 47-141, plus those two retries. The errand carries the loop, the pacing that holds against throttling, and the caution that the register's own index page says PAGES MISSING.

The home page spine, finished on all seven

did Every archive already opened with a one-line thesis and closed with the sibling footer. In between, a grammar had been started and abandoned: a numbers block on four archives under four names, a claim-card block on four more under two names, and "what is still missing" on two. Now all seven carry the same four, in the same order, under the same names: what this archive has established · the archive in numbers · what is still missing · the other archives. Nothing was invented to fill them. Every card states a finding the archive had already published somewhere on its own site, and every figure is read live from that archive's own data rather than typed — so a count cannot drift away from the page it points at. The heading lost its number, because it was wrong twice: two archives said "Four things this archive has established" over seven cards and five.

The British press: nothing found, and the reasons are the finding

did Searched the British Newspaper Archive through findmypast, which the plan does cover. Nothing of ours. Recorded in full so nobody spends another day on it. "Lerena" returns 1,344 articles and the surname is drowned by THREE separate sources of noise, each named here for the next person: 1. THE NISSAN SERENA - 1990s motor adverts, OCR'd as "lERENA". The single largest block of results. 2. "GUTTA SERENA" - the old medical term for blindness of the optic nerve, in infirmary tables from the 1750s onward. 3. DON PEDRO LOPEZ DE LERENA - Spanish Minister of Finance under Charles III, reported from the London Gazette in the 1780s as "Monf. de Lerena". A real Lerena of a real Spanish family, and not ours. Exact-keyword matching does not help: the OCR text literally contains the string, so it is a collision, not a fuzzy match. "Mary Septima" (26 articles), "Septima Taylor" (12) and "Lerena + Northam" (2) all returned nothing of ours. It is the same lesson the Uruguayan registers taught - a family is not reachable by its name - arriving from a different direction and for the opposite reason. There the name was mis-written eight ways. Here it is collided with. AND THE ONE LIVE SEAM IS REACHED BY SUBJECT. "Argentine Stud Book" returns thirteen genuine articles, including Sporting Life of 28 October 1909 on the Argentine Grand National Steeplechase - the very years Gilberto Lerena was co-founding that book and having a Palermo Group 1 named for him in 1914. Logged as an errand: read those columns, do not search that name. The Taylors, meanwhile, were simply not newsworthy. A cab driver's household of ten at Northam reaches the press when a daughter passes an examination - which is the one hit this archive already holds, the Western Times of 4 April 1901.

The parish register images are the one thing this plan does not reach

did Mapped the subscription's boundary by testing rather than assuming, because a blocked record found at the last minute is worse than one found first. REACHABLE: the 1921 census, the 1939 Register, incoming passenger lists, the GRO marriage index, and the British and Irish newspapers - 1,344 articles on a "Lerena" keyword search. BLOCKED: DEVON MARRIAGES AND BANNS, and the other Devon parish sets. They are marked "Exclusive"; opening the transcript for Isabella Temple Taylor's 1900 marriage at Northam & Appledore redirects to an upgrade page - "Everything", from $30.83 a month. So the one thing this run set out to get is the one thing the plan does not cover. The five husbands named today came from a FamilySearch INDEX of those registers; the acts themselves, which would give their fathers' names and occupations and turn index entries into a generation of in-laws, sit behind that tier. NOT BOUGHT, and not to be bought without David deciding it. Recorded as a priced, specific option rather than a vague "paywall". And the fact is not blocked, only the act text. The GRO index IS included and gives Isabella's marriage as quarter 3 of 1900, Bideford district, volume 5B page 901, with MarriageFinder naming Henry Dalling off the same page. FreeBMD gives that free for all of them; Ancestry holds the Devon images and this archive has never used it.

Every archive now opens the same way

did Seven Start menus, seven shapes. Two of them did not begin with Home at all — they opened "The trees · Our line, drawn · Home", which is my doing: the naming canon went in without checking which archives already led with the trees. Search appeared five times in one header and once in another. Six pages were listed twice in a single nav. Timeline was "Timeline" on three archives and "The Timeline" on three others, and the DNA page had two names. Now: Home first everywhere. Search is the header pill and nothing else — one route, not five. One entry per page. One label per idea. And the three pages every archive now has — the trees, its own line drawn, the atlas — sit together at the top of Start on all seven, in that order, rather than scattered across "Go there" and "People & places". The first attempt at this corrupted the arrays: a regex that required a trailing comma silently skipped the last nav group in every archive, and the repair dropped real entries. Reverted and redone line by line, with the item count asserted before and after.

The 1939 Register: twenty-eight years, one house

did Its strength is the exact date of birth, and it gave three. HENRY DALLING born 9 October 1880. ISABELLA T DALLING born 10 SEPTEMBER 1874 - this archive had only "1874" from a tree. And KATHLEEN G TAYLOR born 4 NOVEMBER 1870, confirming the archive's date to the day, and with it the reading that she and William John were twins. Kathleen's occupation in 1939: "INCAPACITATED". The 1921 "Home Invalid" again, eighteen years on. She died five months after this register, on 29 February 1940. Single at 41 in 1911. Home invalid at 50 in 1921. Incapacitated at 68 in 1939. Always at 26 Fore Street, in her sister Isabella's household. The eldest of ten, and the only one who never left. This archive began with a bare line and no husband, and read the blank as a question about marriage. It was never a question about marriage. And the Register's own marital status column against her is left EMPTY where the others read Married and Single. Recorded as blank, not read as single. AND A CORRECTION TO MY OWN PLAN. It listed the passenger lists as the second priority, untried. They were tried on 9 September under an earlier trial, and data/passenger-lists.tsv holds six voyages with masters, ship numbers and TNA references - including the 1935 Balmoral Castle arrival this session re-found and briefly believed new, down to the master and the line number. The eight-year hole had been worked too: a clean negative and two forenameless "Miss Taylor, 19" candidates of 1903 and 1904. Read your own sources file before spending a deadline on a source.

Five of the ten in 1921, and the south Devon cluster confirmed

did CHURSTON FERRERS: Alfred Sidney Wood, 39, a PAINTER for C Wace house decorator, born South Pool; Agnes Walker Wood, 31; and SIDNEY WILLIAM HENRY, born 1920 - a nephew new to this archive. Agnes is living in the very parish where her sister Lucy's banns were called in 1909, three miles from Paignton where their brother William John was in 1911. Three of the ten in one corner of south Devon, eighty miles from where they were born. 23 HAMILTON STREET, DEVONPORT: William Norrish Sweet, 35, born Tiverton, a SHIPWRIGHT AT HM DOCKYARD DEVONPORT; Lucy Elizabeth, 39; and their daughter KATHLEEN ALICE, 11 - named, surely, for the eldest sister who never married and was an invalid in another sister's house. Lucy's birthplace is transcribed "Northam, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE" - the second birthplace error in this one census, after Irene's Bermondsey. NOT FOUND, and recorded as not found. Margaret Helen Walker Bell: eighty- four Margaret Helen/Ellen Bells of the right age in England and not one born at Northam or in Devon - she had left the county and Bell is too common to follow blind. Horace Archibald Taylor: two Horace Taylors in Devon, neither his. One, "WELSER H TAYLOR" born 1875 at APPLEDORE in Northam parish, looked like a garbled Horace and was OPENED rather than assumed - a seaman with a wife Belle and four children, and not him.

The 1921 census: Kathleen Georgina was an invalid

did Findmypast holds 1921 exclusively and the trial expires tomorrow, so it went first. Two Taylor households found, and one answer that is not a date. FORE STREET, NORTHAM. Henry Dalling, 40, INSURANCE AGENT for the Pearl - he was a gardener in 1911, a change of class in ten years. Isabel Temple, 45. Ronald William, 18, a motor mechanic. Sylvia May, 10. EDITH MAY, 8, born 1913 and new to this archive. Horace Henry Charles, the eldest boy of 1911, gone from the house at twenty. And in the same house, aged fifty: KATHLEEN GEORGINA, sister-in-law, occupation "HOME INVALID". This archive asked twice whether the eldest of the ten ever married. The answer is no, and the census says why. Unmarried at fifty, an invalid in her younger sister's home. She died in 1940 at sixty-nine. Nothing here had suggested it, because a tree records marriages and not infirmity. 5 KINGSLEY TERRACE, BIDEFORD. Henry Albert Burton, 45, ASSURANCE AGENT for the Prudential - so both brothers-in-law sold insurance. Charles William, 13. Albert Edward, in the house in 1911, is not there. Two boarders. TWO TRAPS RECORDED, both worth more than the facts around them. The index calls Kathleen "Kathleen Georgina DALLING". She is a Taylor - the enumerator wrote the household surname against every line. That is the exact shape that cost this archive a retraction over the 1895 Buenos Aires census, where "Lerena de L. Josefa" was read as a woman who married a Lerena. The same habit, in Devon, in English, twenty-six years later. And the return gives Irene's birthplace as BERMONDSEY. She was born at Northam; her marriage act says so. Her husband was born at Bermondsey, he filled the form, and he carried his own answer across to her line. Met first in 1921, she would have been ruled out as a Londoner.

One .prose rule, the one the benchmark arrived at

did Spacing between BLOCK children, not between everything. As a flex column the class made an inline <a> or <strong> inside a <p class="prose"> its own flex item, so a sentence came apart one fragment to a line. Verified by a full gated build: this archive passes.

One .prose rule, the one the benchmark arrived at

did Spacing belongs between BLOCK children, not between everything. As a flex column, .prose made an inline <a> or <strong> inside a <p class="prose"> its own flex item, so a sentence came apart one fragment to a line. My first fix set p.prose to display:block, which stopped the sentence coming apart and took the paragraph spacing with it — consecutive paragraphs then butted together. Defranceschi had already solved both halves, and the comment in its stylesheet says so. The other six now carry the same three rules rather than a patch of my own. Also picks up the kit's wall-heading fix, which had been rendering "The 1 walls, and why each one is a wall" on Falco.

Bank progress on the second Rosario parish: 6-22 read, no Lerena

did Santa Rosa de Lima, Confirmaciones 1890-1897, DGS 004581639. Images 6 to 22 read, no Lerena under any of seven spellings. Image 6 is the register's own index and dates the rounds: July 1890, September-October 1891 and May 1897, under Bishop Juan Cagliero - when Pablo Armando was eight, nine and fifteen. Still to read: 23-141, plus retries of 7, 11, 15 and 22, which returned empty transcripts. Empty means NOT READ, never "no Lerena" - that rule cost seven pages on the Catedral film this morning. The errand now carries the exact loop and the progress marker so this can be resumed without re-reading what is done.

Rosario has five filmed parishes. This archive had read one.

did David asked what had not been tried and named the Argentine Catholic parish registers - civil registration being closed, the parish books are not. He was right, and the gap is sharper than he put it: it is not that the parish books were untried, it is that FOUR OF THE FIVE PARISHES WERE. All seventeen Rosario films in this archive belong to catalogue 208788, NUESTRA SENORA DEL ROSARIO. The index sweeps of 1731-1901, the three-year baptism sweep, the confirmations read this morning - one parish, all of it. The collection also films Inmaculada Concepcion, Sagrado Corazon de Jesus, San Jose and Santa Rosa de Lima. THE FINDING CUTS BOTH WAYS. It STRENGTHENS the baptism null. The obvious worry - that the family used another parish and the Catedral books would never show them - does not hold for 1882: four of the five have no register that early, the earliest being Santa Rosa de Lima in 1888. In February 1882 the Catedral was, so far as the filmed record goes, the only parish in Rosario. But it OPENS a real new source on the central question. SANTA ROSA DE LIMA, CONFIRMACIONES 1890-1897 - DGS 004581639, 141 images, transcribed in full text, never opened here. Its own index page reads "Confirmacion administrada por el Senor Obispo Doctor Don JUAN CAGLIERO en el mes de Julio de 1890", with further rounds in September-October 1891 and May 1897. Pablo Armando was eight, nine and fifteen. If he was confirmed at Rosario at all, he is in that book or the Catedral's. The film warns of its own damage: the index page carries the words "PAGES MISSING". Any null taken from it is qualified by that. AND A METHOD NOTE, because the ordinary route failed. The catalogue search was down again, so the DGS could not be looked up. It was recovered from the image viewer's own page source, where the waypoint payload carries it. Browse by waypoint, read the DGS out of the page, then use the ordinary film loop. It works when the catalogue does not.

Five places on the atlas that were not places

did David spotted that the place field was holding citations. He was right, and it did two kinds of damage at once: eight people were missing from the map they belonged on, and four phantom locations - "SA records", "SA + Argentine records", "GRO + SA records", "Mendoza; later New York and Rio crossings" - were standing on it as though they were towns. Among the eight: PABLO ARMANDO HIMSELF, MARY SEPTIMA, and all three of their sons. The central figure of this archive was not on its own atlas. Now Cape Town for the five South Africans, South Africa for Anton, Mendoza for Avelino Carlos, Montevideo for Carolina Oribe. The citations are moved into the notes, not deleted - the crossings are still there, and the row says why the field changed. 37 places became 33, because "SA records" was always four people who belonged under South Africa. AND A GUARD SO IT CANNOT RECUR. consistency.py now flags any where_found or birthplace reading like a citation - "records", "GRO", "crossings", "index", or a bare dash - because the atlas is generated from that field, and a citation there is invisible in the register and loud on the map. Verified by injecting one.

Plan the findmypast harvest before the trial expires

did The trial ends 15 September. The rule for a deadline is to take the things that exist NOWHERE ELSE first and the merely convenient last - FamilySearch is free and permanent, so whatever it also holds can wait. 1. THE 1921 CENSUS - exclusive to findmypast, not on FamilySearch at any price, and the 1931 returns were destroyed by fire, so it is the last census before the 1939 Register. Where all ten Taylor siblings landed, and whether Kathleen was still single at fifty-one. 2. OUTBOUND PASSENGER LISTS (BT27) - the eight-year hole: how a Devon pupil-teacher of sixteen in 1901 reached Cape Town and bore a son there in November 1905. 3. THE 1939 REGISTER - the five sisters who lived into the 1950s-70s. 4. DEVON PARISH REGISTER IMAGES behind the five marriages found today, which currently rest on an index against this archive's own rule. 5. BRITISH NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE. And a discipline note for a rushed harvest: the temptation under a deadline is to screenshot and sort later. Do not. A folder of unread images is not evidence, and in a fortnight nobody will remember which was which. Capture the citation with every one.

An atlas, from places this archive has listed all along

did The place list has been here since the archive was built and carried no geography, so no map could be drawn from it. The names are resolved against a gazetteer the estate now shares, and the people come from data this archive already held rather than anything new. A coordinate is a claim like any other and is marked as such: exact where the gazetteer matched the parish, approximate where it matched a larger place or a modern name, and the page prints how many of each. Anything that landed outside the countries this family can plausibly be in was refused rather than drawn, because a dot in the wrong country is worse than a missing one. Places without a coordinate are counted in the eyebrow rather than quietly dropped.

Read the Rosario confirmations page by page: Pablo Armando is not in them

did Of everything this archive had never opened, this register mattered most, because EVERY ENTRY NAMES BOTH PARENTS. An act for Pablo Armando would have put Juan Carlos Lerena and Maria Lerena on a document other than the enrolment card - the only thing this archive has ever wanted. It had been left alone on the assumption it needed DeepZoom tiles. The assumption was never tested and it was wrong: the film is transcribed in full text. SO IT WAS READ. Seventy-six images, end to end - every page from the first register leaf, "Siguen las confirmaciones en la Iglesia del Sagrario (15 Mayo de 1885)", through to image 80 where a new section opens in 1897 under Bishop Gelabert y Crespo. Entry numbers run from 2 to past 2,560: roughly two and a half thousand children of Rosario, each with both parents named. NO LERENA. Not under Lerena, Llerena, Lorena, Serena, Lerina, Levena or Gerena. And the period is exactly his: three years old when the register opens, fifteen when the section closes, with children confirmed at every age from two to fifteen. His whole plausible window is inside the pages read. That makes it the strongest negative this archive has produced on Rosario, and an independent one - both baptism index volumes were already read end to end for 1731-1901, where the surname appears once in a hundred and seventy years. SAID AGAINST MYSELF: images 81-148 are not read (1897-1904, when he was 15-22); confirmations of 1883-84 are not on these pages; and the transcript is a machine's, which renders one mother's surname three ways in three consecutive lines. A strong negative, not a proof of absence. TWO FALSE POSITIVES, both opened and dismissed. Image 64's "Lorenza Serena" is the same mother the machine also calls "Merina" and "Jesusa" in the lines above and below - three siblings, one woman, three guesses. Image 71's "Solerina" is a different surname containing the letters of one being searched; the pattern was tightened to whole words after it. AND THE ONE THAT MATTERED. Seven images returned a ZERO-LENGTH transcript on the first pass, and every one read clean on retry. An empty transcript is not "no Lerena on this page", it is "this page was not read". Counted as clean, this would be claiming a complete read of a register with seven unopened pages in it. Third time in one day this source has failed by returning something rather than erroring - so the rule extends: a reading loop must validate its own output.

The trees page never pointed at the tree

did Start → The trees → and then a link called "The spine", or "The line", or "Open the line", every one of them going to the direct-line prose. The chart was reachable from the menu and from nowhere on the page whose entire job is to index this archive's lines. One banner now, worded identically across all seven, sitting above the rows. The row links are untouched: each archive keeps its own name for its own prose, which is local colour and worth keeping. What is shared is the route to the thing every archive now has.

One kit commit across all eight, which is the only way a shared kit holds

did The estate had drifted onto five different pins. Two sites can import the same component name from the same package and get different behaviour when that is true, which defeats the point of having extracted it. All eight now pin the same commit and build green against it — 16,548 pages between them, every one of the eight gated on the shared test.

The smallest chart in the estate, where that is the finding

did Eight people and four walls. Two of the grandparent branches stop one generation above the line, because Argentine civil registration is not open and the 1908 ficha de enrolamiento names Juan Carlos and Maria and then says nothing further. A chart makes that plain in a way three pages of prose have not: the line does not fade out, it stops. The Taylor side reaches one generation further than people.json alone would give. That is not a new claim — taylor-line.json has had James Taylor as William's father in plain text all along, and this reads the link the archive already made. A parent known only as a name on a document is drawn like anyone else and simply carries no link. Leaving them off would have made the line look shorter than the evidence.

"The Trees" and "The Tree" are different pages — say which is which

did They are genuinely different and both worth having. Their own deks say so: /trees is the INDEX of every line this archive holds, each drawn in the form its evidence supports; /tree is THIS family's own line, drawn as one figure. The labels did not say that. Falco had "The Trees" and "The Tree" adjacent in one menu and "The Tree" AGAIN in another group — three near-identical labels for two ideas, which is a reader's problem rather than a tidiness one. Now, everywhere: /trees The trees the index of the lines /tree Our line, drawn this family's own Duplicate links to the same page are dropped from the nav.

Sancho's marriage, Josefa, Rosario, Zelmira - four hunts, two unlocks

did SANCHO'S 1791 MARRIAGE ACT: not found, and probably not digitised. The Canelones Catedral is in full text with its baptisms, confirmations and marriage INVESTIGATION files - and no marriage register. The investigation files 1776-1806 remain the best hope: a Canelones marriage in 1791 should have left an informacion there, and Sancho is already inside that bundle as a witness at somebody else's. BUT THE HUNT FOUND HER FAMILY. A single Uruguayan hit for "Fernandez Tresguerras" is a Montevideo baptism of 15 May 1812 naming "DON RODRIGO FERNANDEZ Y TRESGUERRAS y DONA ROSA FERNANDEZ" as maternal grandparents - the first purchase this archive has ever had on Maria's own people. Her being Rodrigo's daughter is a PLAUSIBILITY, not a finding. And the godparents are written "Serena" and "Perena", this family's known S-for-L - which would put a Lerena couple at a Fernandez y Tresguerras font in 1812, exactly what a marriage in 1791 predicts. Offered as the next thing to test. JOSEFA'S MARRIAGE: not found either - the couple appear only ever as PARENTS, never as bride and groom. But the search gives five children where this archive had two, and very probably Fernando Moratorio's own baptism: 15 October 1845 at MEDALLA MILAGROSA Y SAN AGUSTIN - the Lerenas' own parish in the Villa de la Union - son of a Spaniard and a Uruguayan. Neighbours a generation before they married. Stated as an inference from a name, a date and a parish. ROSARIO - A METHOD UNLOCK. This archive has assumed for two weeks that these registers need DeepZoom tiles. THE CONFIRMATIONS FILM, DGS 4531018 - the one that covers Pablo Armando - IS FULLY TRANSCRIBED IN FULL TEXT, and every entry names BOTH PARENTS. It can be read one request at a time. The deaths film is not transcribed and covers only 1731-1864, so it cannot hold anyone being chased. Logged as an errand with the exact procedure. AND A HARD LIMIT MEASURED: unquoted terms are OR'd, not AND'd - "Lerena Rosario difunto" returns 17,782,105 documents. Full text takes exactly one quoted phrase. The place facet is a trap that answers a confident ZERO while reporting "No filters available" - the third distinct false null caught on this service today. ZELMIRA: tested and ruled out. Born 4 Nov 1880 at San Jose, daughter of ALBERTO LERENA and Maria Ines Larriera, m. Adolfo Cordero 1901, d. 1945. The shape was right and the substance is not. Her father would be the right age to be Alberto Octavio Lerena Lenguas - NOT MERGED, because a forename and an age is what produced the two Arturos.

One living-people guard, and this archive names its policy

did Two guards were written separately on the same day and were never duplicates: one read committed data for a living person's DATES, the other read a GEDCOM for their NAMES. Different rules, both right for their archive. They are one tool now, and each archive says which rule it is under rather than which implementation it happens to use: named-bare named and nothing more — the name may appear, no date may absent not published at all, name included declared a hand-written list, for a site with no people file Both hard-won lessons are kept. Dates are matched as the literal strings the data attaches to a living person, because bare years pass vacuously on a genealogy site and a name near a date fires on every homonym. Names are matched as phrases minus exact namesakes and minus longer published names that merely contain them. The archive answers who is alive; the kit answers whether any of them reached the build.

Draw the Taylor tree, and let the drawing find an error

did The /trees/ page carried the Taylor row as DRAWABLE - its own word for "enough people to chart, and no chart yet" - and it was the only row in that state. It is now drawn, and the row says so. IT USES .ptree, WHICH WAS NOT DEAD CODE. The stylesheet carried a fully designed chart convention that no page used, and its comment explains itself: "Every node says HOW the relationship is known: line / register / tree." That is exactly the thing today's work is about, so the Taylor chart derives each node's provenance FROM THAT PERSON'S OWN SOURCE FIELD - a node turns from dotted to solid the moment its evidence does, with no second place to update. Read the left edges and the chart tells the story: generation B and eight of the ten children now rest on parish registers or censuses read here. What remains dotted is generation A - James Taylor and Harriet Reynolds, still a tree's assertion - the twin whose name nobody wrote down, and the infant William who died at eight months. Documented in the middle, hearsay at the top and at the edges. AND THE DRAWING FOUND AN ERROR THE TABLE HAD HIDDEN. The infant William was recorded in GENERATION A, beside his own father. A fortnight of reading that file as a table had not shown it, because a table does not care which row is which generation; rendered as a tree, a dead infant stood next to James as though he were an uncle. He is generation B, the elder brother of the William born in 1826 who was named after him. A second way of looking at the same data is a test of it.

Take the Taylors off a tree and put them on parish registers

did Five of Mary Septima's siblings were recorded here as bare surnames - "m. Dalling", "m. Bell", "m. Burton", "m. Sweet", "m. Wood" - with no forename, date, place or source but a MyHeritage tree. A strange thing for an archive that has opened Montevideo parish acts from 1789 to tolerate, in the best-documented jurisdiction it touches. ALL FIVE HUSBANDS NAMED, in under an hour: HENRY DALLING m. Isabella Temple, 10 Sep 1900, Northam HENRY ALBERT BURTON m. Irene, 30 Aug 1900, Northam CHARLES WILLIAM BELL m. Margaret Helen Walker, banns 22 Nov 1903, Northam WILLIAM NORRISH SWEET m. Lucy Elizabeth, banns 1909, Churston Ferrers ALFRED SIDNEY WOOD m. Agnes Walker, 1918, Devon and the brother HORACE ARCHIBALD TAYLOR m. MARY JANE MARSHALL, banns Northam 17 Dec 1893 - correcting a tree's hedged "(? Mary Jane Bridge)". TWO SISTERS MARRIED ELEVEN DAYS APART IN THE SAME CHURCH, four months after their mother's death. Invisible until the husbands had dates. THE 1871 CENSUS SETTLES A QUESTION THIS ARCHIVE HAD WRITTEN DOWN AND LEFT. Kathleen Georgina and William John are both infants in the house on 2 April 1871, and the parents' banns were called 9 January 1870 - so they are TWINS. The family had two sets. AND WILLIAM JOHN'S WIFE WAS NOT "FANNY ELLEN JEFFEREY". The censuses name her FANNY HELEN and date the marriage to 1892; no Devon record supports JEFFEREY. The only Fanny Jeffreys to marry a Taylor in England married a JAMES WILLIAM Taylor in CHESHIRE in 1893. Said as a suspicion: that looks like where a tree picked her up. Her maiden name is unknown again, which is better than wrong. THE 1911 CENSUS, never read here, gives five nieces and nephews at one stroke, Henry Dalling's trade, and KATHLEEN GEORGINA entered as SINGLE at 41 in her married sister's house - replacing a tree's silence with a document. AND THEY MOVED TO WHERE A RELATIVE ALREADY WAS: William John at Paignton by 1911, Lucy's banns at Churston Ferrers three miles away in 1909, both eighty miles from Northam. The same shape this archive keeps finding in Montevideo, showing on the Devon side for the first time. THE PAGE IS NOW GENERATED FROM THE DATA. The ten siblings were a hardcoded array duplicating taylor-line.tsv - so the data gained five husbands and the page went on saying "m. Dalling". Exactly the drift this build exists to prevent.

Fix the row that broke the guard it describes

did The correction logging the unpaired-marker bug quoted the markers as an example, so the new check failed on it - twice, once in each field that carried an illustration. Rewritten in words. The convention has no way to express a literal marker, which is now recorded as a known limit of it rather than met again as a surprise.

Close the two-Dominga problem on an act, and catch the Santo Oficio trap

did THE CAUTION RAISED THIS MORNING IS CLOSED THE SAME DAY, by opening the second image rather than reasoning about it. The Catedral act of 25 October 1840: "DOMINGO ... hijo legitimo de D. ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ DE CARBALLO, natural de la PROVINCIA DEL RIO GRANDE, y de Dona DOMINGA LERENA ... Nieto paterno de D. JOAQUIN RODRIGUEZ ... y por parte materna de D. SANCHO LERENA y de Dona MARIA FERNANDEZ." Set beside the 1827 act - "CAPITAN DON ANTONIO RUIZ DE CARVALLO ... Nieta Paterna del MAYOR DON JOAQUIN" - the two husbands are ONE MAN whose first surname the registers write RUIZ in 1827 and RODRIGUEZ in 1840. So there is ONE Dominga: born 1804 at Canelones, married Antonio de Carvallo, children Lucinda Gregoria (1827) and Domingo (1840). The discipline is what produced this. The two records were kept apart until an act joined them, rather than merged because both husbands were called Antonio. Merged on the resemblance, the right answer would have been reached for the wrong reason - and the next resemblance would have been merged too. Two discrepancies are recorded rather than smoothed: the ranks, and Juana Suarez against Juana del Espiritu Santo. AND A FALSE-POSITIVE TRAP, CAUGHT BEFORE IT WAS PUBLISHED. Pages two to four of a "Sancho Llerena" full-text search are Spanish nobility proofs and notarial books. One was opened: it reads "familiar del SANTO OFICIO ... LLERENA" - the Inquisition tribunal seated at Llerena, Badajoz, which the machine reads as "Sancho, oficio". The archive was one step from recording "Sancho is an attested forename in Spanish Llerena families", which is false and would have been used to argue against Francisco. AND A GUARD FOR A MISTAKE MADE THREE TIMES TODAY. consistency.py now checks the TSVs for an odd marker count. On its first run it found two more that check-links.py could never catch - including one carrying the central open question about Maria Lerena - because check-links counts PAIRS in rendered HTML, and a single unpaired marker leaves no pair to count. A guard that looks for pairs is blind to the case of exactly one.

Sancho in 1789, a tally counted wrong, and a tree vindicated

did SANCHO IN 1789 - fifteen years earlier than anything held yesterday. At the Iglesia Matriz de Montevideo on 30 June 1789 the godparents of Juana, daughter of "NICOLAS BENTENO, INDIO NATURAL DE LA CIUDAD DEL TUCUMAN, y de Leonarda Correa de Buenos Ayres", were SANCHO LLERENA and Juliana Josefa Cornejo. He is about twenty-two, in Montevideo rather than Canelones, two years short of his own marriage. It is the SECOND time he is found sponsoring at the margins of colonial society - in 1804 he stood godfather to an enslaved man, here to the daughter of an indigenous man from Tucuman. Twice, fifteen years apart. Recorded as it stands. AND THE SANCHO-OR-FRANCISCO TALLY HAS BEEN COUNTED WRONGLY BY THIS ARCHIVE. Fourteen records: ten Sancho, four Francisco. But THREE OF THE FOUR FRANCISCOS ARE THE SAME PAGE - one clerk, one morning, one legajo. They are one witness, not three. The Sanchos come from nine separate occasions across sixty-one years, in four parishes and two towns, twice with the man himself standing there. So it is not ten to four; it is nine independent occasions against two, and both of the two describe him at second hand. A double forename remains the leading reading, but the question is no longer evenly balanced. A PUBLISHED TREE TURNS OUT TO HAVE BEEN RIGHT. The marriage act of 3 November 1830, now read rather than indexed, calls the bride's mother "MARIA FERNANDEZ TRESGUERRAS". This archive carried that matronymic from a tree since its first week, marked secondary - it appears in no index anywhere. The tree was right, which raises the credit of its other unopened claim: that Sancho and Maria married at Canelones on 8 January 1791. That act would settle the forename and has never been opened. AND THIS MORNING'S DOMINGA CAUTION IS HALF ANSWERED. The Catedral act of 12 May 1827 names "DONA DOMINGA LLERENA DE CARVALLO", wife of CAPITAN DON ANTONIO RUIZ DE CARVALLO, son of MAYOR DON JOAQUIN - with the EXMO SR GENERAL DON FRANCISCO DE PAULA MAGGESI as godfather. It also identifies the "Dona Dominga Carvallo" who stood godmother at a Lerena font in 1850 and whom this archive could not place: a Lerena by birth, standing for her own brother's son. NOT MERGED - the other Dominga record is still unopened. Eight new register rows. "Aguilar" is still unattested across all fourteen.

Run the sharpest test of the central question: no Lerena married a Lerena

did The enrolment card names both of Pablo Armando's parents LERENA. Either Maria married into the name or she was born to it - and Spanish naming makes that testable in one query. A child of two Lerenas carries both surnames: LERENA LERENA. In two weeks nobody had searched for it. Four hits in the Uruguayan registers; forty-three across the whole transcribed corpus with no country filter. Every one opened, every transcript read. ALL FORTY-THREE ARE TRANSCRIPTION DOUBLINGS. "Pio Lerena . Lerena" across a line end; "Zelmira Lerena , Lerena argentino"; "Celidonio B. de Lerena Lerena"; "G. Lerena Lerena" written across a printed title page at Chacabuco. The machine repeats a word at line and page breaks, and it produced the same false positive four times before the pattern was obvious. The only genuine compounds in the forty-three are Colombian. So no child of two Lerenas is recorded under the compound anywhere FamilySearch has transcribed. A controlled negative: the query demonstrably ran. IT LOWERS THE PROBABILITY THAT MARIA WAS A LERENA BY BIRTH. It does not close it - a woman can be a Lerena by birth without her children being written so, and Rosario's parish books are thin in full text. No Lerena-Lerena marriage should now be asserted anywhere in this archive. AND THE SEARCH PAID FOR ITSELF TWICE OVER. THE ELEVENTH LERENA DISPENSATION, Montevideo July-August 1911 - the only one that draws its own family tree. Bernabe Lerena married Florencia Cardozo; his sister MARIA LERENA married her brother Eliseo Cardozo; their children Custodio Lerena and Ema Cardozo petitioned to marry as DOUBLE FIRST COUSINS. They asked to be excused the fee, "pues no pueden satisfacerlos" - a poor Lerena household, in an archive that has spent two days finding generals, judges and hacendados. That is the first documented Maria Lerena of roughly the right generation. She married a Cardozo, where Pablo Armando's mother stands beside Juan Carlos Lerena - so she is recorded and RULED OUT ON THE RECORD, because this archive has twice built on a Maria it had not pinned down. Eleven dispensations now, and every Lerena in every one marries out. Ten new register rows, including three Lerena women found in passing - one of them, Zelmira, married to an Argentine in 1905.

Answer the ALEX question in public, and retest it properly

did David asked whether anything on alex.onb.ac.at could relate to the Lerenas. The assessment had been sitting in data/ unpublished - the drift checker had been flagging it as an orphan for a day. RETESTED, MORE STRICTLY. The first pass queried /cgi-content/alex-iv.pl by GET with a suchwort parameter. The form is a POST and its field is named "string", so a malformed request could have explained the earlier stub. Resubmitting the site's own form with every Geltungsbereich selected returns the form page unchanged, with no result block at all. The conclusion stands and now rests on a properly-formed request. The null itself was established by controls, which is why it is trustworthy: "Konsul", "Uruguay" and "Montevideo" each returned an identical 166-byte response. A word certain to appear in five million pages of Austrian law returning zero is a broken search, not a null. AND THE HONEST ANSWER ON RELEVANCE, published rather than buried: the prior is low. This family is Uruguayan, Argentine, Spanish, South African and British, and nothing in the record touches the Habsburg lands. The one real hook is consular - Austria-Hungary kept consulates at Montevideo and Buenos Aires and the Hof- und Staatshandbuch lists consuls, so an Austro-Hungarian honorary consulship held by a Lerena in the River Plate would show. It would NOT show Pablo Armando's own claimed consulship, which was Argentine and at the Cape. Noted for the sibling archive, not acted on here: ALEX is likely far more use to the Defranceski side, where Istria and Kvarner were Habsburg.

Read the whole 1846 page: a branch corrected, a guard exposed, a war located

did The baptism page of 7 January 1846 at La Mauricia was opened yesterday and read entry by entry. Reading it END TO END changed four things. ALEJANDRO IS AVELINO'S SON, NOT LUIS'S. The act reads "hijo legitimo de Avelino Serena y Ambrosia Traibel ... Padrinos LUIS [L]ERENA y JUSTINIANA LENGUAS". Luis and Justiniana are his GODPARENTS - both pairs sit in one sentence and this archive took the wrong one. Published yesterday as "a sixth child of Luis and Justiniana", born 1845. He is the ELDEST KNOWN CHILD of Avelino and Ambrosia, born 29 May 1843, which pushes their marriage back before May 1843. AND THE PAGE EXPLAINS ITSELF. Every act on it - Lerena and not - ends "asi consta del LEGAJO conservado en este Archivo, mandado TRASLADAR por el Senor Obispo D. JACINTO VERA". It is loose papers copied into a book three years late. THE CAUSE IS THE GUERRA GRANDE: the siege closed in February 1843, the three children were born February, May and July 1843, and none was christened until 1846 - in the Villa de la Union, which Oribe renamed the VILLA RESTAURACION and made his seat. Luis's first wife was an ORIBE; his son's 1850 baptism is at "pueblo de la Restauracion". The family was on the blanco side. No relationship to Manuel Oribe is claimed. A CONTRADICTION FOUND AND THEN BROKEN BY A THIRD RECORD. Luis Eugenio's act says 9 February 1843; his sister's act, the entry above his in the same hand, says 30 July 1843. Five and a half months between full siblings. His 1901 death registration gives his age as 56 - a birth of 1845. Two constraints against one clerk who wrote "ano cuarenta y tres" in the entry above and again in the entry below. The register now reads 9 February 1845, with the act's own words kept. AND THE GUARD THAT SHOULD HAVE CAUGHT IT. consistency.py was written for exactly this pair - its docstring names it - and had printed "nothing contradicts itself" for a week, because the sibling test reads a structured parent field that 30 of 245 rows carry. A guard reporting a clean bill of health over 12% of the data is worse than no guard. It now falls back to compound surnames (LERENA LENGUAS = a Lerena father and a Lenguas mother), prints its own coverage, and no longer says "nothing contradicts itself" without adding "within the coverage printed above". On the first run after the fix it flagged the pair.

Turn the parent-pair method on the central question, and catch a false null

did The method that completed Sancho's generation was aimed at Juan Carlos Lerena the same hour. It found nothing, and the way it found nothing is worth more than the result. ARGENTINA: 210 results for father "Juan Carlos" + Lerena, and the only Juan Carlos Lerena among them is Pablo Armando's own enrolment card. URUGUAY: 822 results, one of them a Juan Carlos Lerena recorded as a father - opened and ruled out, an infant death registered 21 February 1983. So the central null now survives the best method this archive has. AND A FAILURE MODE FOUND. FamilySearch renders "Historical Record Search Results (0)" WHILE THE QUERY IS STILL RUNNING - a complete, composed page indistinguishable from a true empty result. Three searches were read as nulls and were a minute from being written down as findings. It was caught only by a control: the same query shape aimed at Sancho, for whom five records had been pulled twenty minutes earlier, also returned zero. That answer was known to be false, so the query was suspect rather than the name. Results arrived 7-18 seconds later. THE RULE, NOW ON THE METHOD PAGE: a null is not written down until a control query in the same form returns a known result in the same session. The archive learned this once before and more expensively, over the 1895 census. The second time it cost nothing. Also observed: nearly every Juan Carlos Lerena in Uruguay carries Lerena as a SECOND, maternal surname - Gonzalez Lerena, Carvalho Lerena, del Campo Lerena, Reyes Lerena. One more argument for the compound sweep.

Complete Sancho's generation by searching the parents, not the name

did Four children of Sancho Lerena and Maria Fernandez are now on record. Searching the couple rather than the surname returned 22 results and four things this archive did not have. AVELINO HAS DATES: born 1815, died 22 August 1890 at Montevideo. Which closes something filed as merely odd - his widow Ambrosia Traibel, not he, stood witness at their son Alfredo's 1892 wedding. He had been dead sixteen months. Three records now fall into one order. JUSTA PASTORA'S MARRIAGE IS DATED: 3 November 1830, Cordon, to Manuel Barros - thirteen months before the font in the same parish at which Fructuoso Rivera stood godfather to her first child. Both are indexes read, images not opened: secondary for the dates, while the parentages stay primary on acts already read here. AND A WARNING RATHER THAN A FACT. Two records name a Dominga, daughter of Sancho and Maria Fernandez, with different husbands - Antonio Rodriguez and Antonio Ruiz de Carvallo - on adjacent images in one register. One woman married twice, one man written two ways, or two sisters sharing a forename. This archive has been caught by that shape twice, with the two Arturos and the three Josefas. NOTHING MERGED. The method is the finding: this family is indexed under eight spellings, so the surname box loses records the parent pair recovers.

The Lerena Traibel branch attaches to Sancho - and the godparents are Lavalleja

did Found by searching AVELINO with AMBROSIA - the couple, not the surname. This morning this archive recorded that "no record found here names Avelino's own parents, so he is NOT shown to be Sancho's son". Two acts settle it. SAN FRANCISCO DE ASIS, 12 MARCH 1858. Two children of Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Traibel baptised the same day - Alfredo Justiniano and Ana Rosario - and both acts name the paternal grandparents: SANCHO LERENA and MARIA FERNANDEZ So AVELINO IS SANCHO'S SON, and the whole LERENA TRAIBEL line descends from the trunk: Josefa (1851-1947), Alfredo Justiniano, Mercedes Micaela, Clorinda, Juan Arturo, Andres, Alberto, Adelina, Pedro Alberto Isabelino, Marta Adelina and a younger Avelino. SEVERAL OF THEM WERE ALREADY IN THIS REGISTER, FLOATING UNATTACHED FOR A FORTNIGHT. Mercedes Micaela and Clorinda sit in the dispensation table. And JUAN ARTURO is the man this archive conflated with another Arturo in its first week and had to retract within the hour - he has been waiting here, unplaced, ever since. AND THE GODPARENTS ARE LAVALLEJA. Justiniano Lavalleja stood for Alfredo, who is named for him; Constantino and Ana Lavalleja stood for Ana Rosario, who is named for her. Lavalleja is one of the great names of Uruguayan independence - Juan Antonio Lavalleja led the Treinta y Tres Orientales in 1825. NO RELATIONSHIP TO HIM IS CLAIMED. Lavalleja is a surname, not a proof. But the pattern is now three deep and it is on the record: 1831 FRUCTUOSO RIVERA, President of the Republic, godfather to Sancho's grandson 1836 an ORIBE for the bride of Sancho's son Luis 1858 LAVALLEJA godparents to Sancho's grandchildren Rivera, Oribe and Lavalleja are the three caudillos of Uruguayan independence and of the wars that followed. This archive spent a fortnight calling these people obscure. AND A TIDY CONNECTION KILLED BY THE SAME ACT. Alfredo's middle name JUSTINIANO looked like an echo of JUSTINIANA LENGUAS, who married into the other branch - I flagged it as worth testing. It is nothing of the kind: he is named for his godfather, whose name is on the same line. Also new: JUAN TRAIBEL and YSABEL CENTENO, Ambrosia's parents. Register: 239 -> 246 people.

A tenth dispensation, missed two ways at once, and a seventh spelling

did Found by searching the rarest name in the branch - AMBROSIA TRAIBEL - rather than the surname. That is now the fifth major find in two days that came from refusing to search LERENA. CATEDRAL BASILICA DE MONTEVIDEO, 3 FEBRUARY 1892. "dispensados por el Ilustrisimo y Rmo Senor Obispo Diocesano Monsenor Doctor Don MARIANO SOLER del impedimento canonico de parentesco de TERCER GRADO DE CONSANGUINIDAD CON ATINGENCIA AL SEGUNDO ... contrajo Don ALFREDO GERENA, natural de esta Republica, soltero, de treinta y cinco anos, hijo legitimo de Don AVELINO LORENA y Dona AMBROSIA TRAIBEL. Con Dona HERMENEGILDA CAROLINA GAVARRO ... fueron testigos Don Carlos Navia y Dona AMBROSIA TRAIBEL." ALFREDO LERENA TRAIBEL, born about 1857 - a second child for Avelino and a brother of Josefa. His mother stood formal witness at his wedding. The couple were COUSINS, and the dispensation was granted personally by MARIANO SOLER, the first Archbishop of Montevideo. AND THE SWEEP MISSED IT TWO WAYS AT ONCE. This morning the dispensation file said EIGHT Lerena dispensations and "every Lerena marries out". A ninth turned up at midday - Ema Sixta's, invisible because her COMPOUND surname sat between the two words of the search formula. This is a tenth, and it hid differently again: 1. The groom is written GERENA - a SEVENTH spelling for this family, after Lerena, Llerena, Lorena, Serena, Lerina and Sancio. And his own father is written LORENA in the same sentence, by the same priest. 2. The dispensation clause comes BEFORE the names, so the formula "Lerena el impedimento" - which assumes the surname precedes the word - cannot match. So the count of eight has been breached twice in one day and is certainly low. The file says so. WHAT SURVIVES IS NARROWER AND STILL WORTH SOMETHING: no LERENA-LERENA dispensation has been found - Alfredo married a Gavarro. But this family DID marry kin, at the third degree touching the second, in the generation before Juan Carlos and Maria. That does not answer the standing question. It does establish that the thing being asked about happened here. Register: 234 -> 239 people.

The 1880 baptisms settle Josefa, and kill my census reading on a document

did I withdrew a claim an hour ago on the strength of a FamilySearch tree attachment - which is exactly the kind of evidence this archive refuses to build on, whichever way it points. The withdrawal now rests on a parish act. UNION, MONTEVIDEO, 8 MARCH 1880. Two sisters baptised the same day, probably twins - MARIA CARLOTA and MARIA DE LAS MERCEDES MORATORIO LERENA: parents Fernando Moratorio and JOSEFA LERENA abuelos pat. Fernando [Moratorio] and Nicolasa Torres abuelos mat. AVELINO and AMBROSIA TRAIBEL padrinos Francisco Azarola and Manuela Otondo; Juan Arechaga and MERCEDES LERENA So the Josefa Lerena who married Fernando Moratorio IS the daughter of Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Traibel - Josefa Lerena Traibel, 1851-1947. That link was a tree attachment this morning. It is now a priest naming her parents. AND SO MY CENSUS READING IS DEAD ON EVIDENCE RATHER THAN ON INFERENCE. The 1895 line "LERENA de L. JOSEFA" does not show a Lerena married to a Lerena. She married a Moratorio, and "de L." is the enumerator's shorthand for the LERENA HOUSEHOLD. Strictly, that the census woman is this Josefa remains an inference - she is 43 against a birth of 1851, and a VIUDA where a later record calls Fernando Moratorio "fallecido" - but the Lerena-Lerena reading has nothing left holding it up. AVELINO is also now in a parish act rather than only in a death index. NEW: MERCEDES LERENA, godmother at one of the two fonts and very likely Josefa's sister - another daughter of Avelino and Ambrosia. The child is named for her. AND THE NEAR-DUPLICATE CHECK EARNED ITS PLACE AGAIN: it flagged "Maria Carlota MORATORIO Lerena" against "Maria Carlota LERENA Salvanach". They are different children ten years apart - Gilberto's daughter baptised at Recoleta in 1890, and Josefa's at Union in 1880. A Lerena naming habit, not one person. Logged in CHECKED_PAIRS with the reason, as that list requires. Register: 229 -> 234 people.

ALEX assessed: its search is broken, and the controls prove it

did David asked whether anything on alex.onb.ac.at - the Austrian National Library's historical law and gazette collection, about five million pages - could relate to the Lerenas. Checked rather than guessed. THE SEARCH RETURNS ZERO FOR EVERYTHING. Its content search gives "Suchergebnisse TOTAL (0)" together with "Diese Seite steht zur Zeit leider noch nicht zur Verfugung" for every query. LERENA returns nothing - and so do "Konsul", "Uruguay" and "Montevideo", each in the identical 166-byte response. A term certain to appear in five million pages of Austrian law returning zero is not a null. It is a broken search, and this archive documented exactly that failure mode on FamilySearch two days ago. The controls took a minute and are the only reason the zero was not written up as an answer. THE HONEST ASSESSMENT, INDEPENDENT OF THE OUTAGE. The prior is low: this family is Uruguayan, Argentine, Spanish, then South African and British, and four days of records touch the Habsburg lands nowhere. THE ONE REAL HOOK IS CONSULAR. The standing open question is whether Pablo Armando was a Consul General, and consular appointments are gazetted. Austria-Hungary kept consulates at Montevideo and Buenos Aires and listed its consuls in the Hof- und Staatshandbuch. If any Lerena held an AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN honorary consulship in the River Plate, ALEX could show it - and this family is exactly the class honorary consuls were drawn from: a president at a font, a general, a judge, an abogado. It would NOT reach Pablo Armando's own claimed consulship, which was ARGENTINE and at the Cape. That needs the South African gazette, already on the list. Logged as an errand to retry when the search recovers, with what to search for. And a note recorded but not acted on: ALEX is likely far more use to the DEFRANCESKI side - Istria, Kvarner and Carniola were Habsburg, and Austrian Landesgesetzblatter are the right law for them. That is this project's sibling archive and the two are kept strictly apart.

Withdrawing my own claim from an hour ago: "de L." proves nothing

did An hour ago I published that the 1895 census showed a Lerena woman married to a Lerena man, and called it "the exact pattern the whole search turns on". Then I went looking for the marriage act I had just said would settle it, and found something that deflates the claim. THERE IS A JOSEFA LERENA WHO MARRIED FERNANDO MORATORIO. Uruguayan civil registration carries her as the mother of Josefa, Eduardo and Maria MORATORIO LERENA. FamilySearch's tree attaches that woman to profile K4VN-52H - "Josefa Lerena Traibel, 1851-1947" - the same candidate. If that is her, she was "de Moratorio", and "de L." on the census line is the enumerator's shorthand for THIS HOUSEHOLD - the Lerena house - written against every married woman in it. WHAT I READ RIGHT AND WHAT I DID NOT. Re-examined at DeepZoom level 13: line 4 does read "Lerena de L. Josefa", and the "de L." is formed identically to the two lines above. The LETTER was read correctly. The INFERENCE was too confident. Lines 2 and 3 are genuinely "de Lerena" - Justiniana, widow of Luis Lerena, and Julia Salvanach, wife of Gilberto - so both readings fit them equally, and neither of them tests the shorthand at all. I had no control case and did not look for one before publishing. THE TIERING, PLAINLY. The Moratorio marriage records are INDEX-LEVEL civil registration - real records. The link from that Josefa to Josefa Lerena Traibel is a TREE ATTACHMENT, which is SECONDARY and exactly the kind of claim this archive refuses to build on. So neither side of this is settled: what is settled is that my census reading is not evidence. The claim never reached a narrative page - it lived in the register, a data file and a commit message, and the changelog carries that commit as history. The correction is on /corrections/ and the register row is retitled from "Josefa LERENA de Lerena" to "Josefa in Gilberto's 1895 household". Her marriage act still settles it, and still has not been found. The errand now says Moratorio or Lerena rather than assuming the answer.

Avelino placed at last, and three Josefas kept apart on purpose

did Following the Josefa of the 1895 schedule, and the Lerena Traibel branch this archive has named since its first week finally attaches. JOSEFA LORENA LERENA TRAIBEL, died Montevideo 2 April 1947, aged NINETY-SIX, born 1851. "Parents: AMBROCIA TRAIBEL, AVELINO LERENA." So AVELINO LERENA is placed - the head of a branch this archive has referred to for a fortnight without ever naming him in a record. He is the same forename as the Avelino Lerena who stood godfather at the Catedral de Montevideo in 1833 to a child of Justa Pastora Lerena, Sancho's daughter. That is suggestive and no more: no record found here names Avelino's own parents, so he is NOT shown to be Sancho's son, and the branch is not yet joined to the trunk. AND THREE JOSEFAS ARE RECORDED AS THREE ROWS, NOT ONE. A Josefa Lerena stood godmother at Montevideo in 1885; a "Lerena de L. Josefa, 43, viuda" was in Gilberto's Buenos Aires household in 1895; and this Josefa Lerena Traibel was born in 1851 and died in 1947. The ages agree within a year and the identification is strong. They are deliberately not merged. This archive conflated two Arturo Lerenas earlier in the same week and had to retract a whole branch within the hour; the discipline that came out of that is what is being applied. data/josefa-lerena- candidates.tsv sets out what fits, what does not, and what would settle it - her MARRIAGE record. If she married a Lerena, the census reading "Lerena de Lerena" is right, and this family contains a Lerena-Lerena marriage one generation before Juan Carlos and Maria. AND A LESSON THAT CUTS AGAINST THE LAST TWO DAYS' ENTHUSIASM. Full-text search for the compound "Lerena Traibel" returns ZERO. The ordinary name index returns the branch immediately. Full text is not a superset of the name index, and a null in one is not a null in the other. Both sweeps are needed, and the compound-surname file now says so. Register: 226 -> 229 people.

The 1895 schedule, read as a household at last - and a Lerena who married a Lerena

did This archive has cited the 1895 Buenos Aires census since its first week, for one name at a time. The schedule had never been read as a household. Sixteen people on one page, and it settles three things and opens the sharpest question in the project. SETTLED. Don Luis Lerena was DEAD BY 1895: Justiniana is entered "Lenguas de L. Justiniana, m, 73, VIUDA". His death window closes to 1850-1895, and she was in Argentina thirteen years earlier than the 1908 evidence. SETTLED. Gilberto had a TRADE: "CORREDOR DE COMERCIO", a commercial broker, aged 41. This archive has had him as a breeder and co-founder of the Argentine Stud Book, which is what he is remembered for. In his own house he told the enumerator he was a broker. SETTLED, AND IT IS A CORRECTION TO THIS ARCHIVE. The register carried "Maria E. C. Lerena, b.1869, daughter of Gilberto (1854)" - which would have made him FIFTEEN, and which a new consistency check flagged yesterday as impossible. The schedule shows her SOLTERA at 26, in a house that also holds a JOSEFA, widow of 43. She is not his daughter. "Daughter" was this archive reading a household, and the household now says otherwise. AND WHAT IT OPENS. Line 4 reads "LERENA de L[erena], JOSEFA, m, 43, VIUDA, R. Oriental". On the two lines above her the same enumerator writes married women as [maiden surname] + "de L." - Lenguas de Lerena, Salvanach de Lerena. If he is consistent, JOSEFA WAS BORN A LERENA AND MARRIED A LERENA. That is the exact pattern the whole search turns on. Pablo Armando's enrolment card names his parents JUAN CARLOS LERENA and MARIA LERENA, and the standing question is whether Maria was a Lerena by birth - a marriage between kin, which would have needed a dispensation. A Lerena-Lerena marriage in this very family, one generation earlier, would show the pattern exists. Stated as a reading of an abbreviation in an enumerator's hand, not as a fact. Josefa's own marriage record would settle it and has not been looked for - logged as an errand, with the note that the dispensation sweep which concluded no Lerena-Lerena marriage exists is itself now known to be blind to compound surnames. She is also, almost certainly, the JOSEFA LERENA who stood godmother to Gilberto's son Raul at the Catedral de Montevideo in 1885 - a woman this archive met and could not place.

The living-people rule now gates this build

did David's rule across the estate: a LIVING PERSON IS NAMED AND NOTHING MORE — no date of birth, no date of death, no place. And his age rule: anyone more than eighty years old is treated as deceased, because an archive that cannot say whether somebody is alive has to presume something and that is what it presumes. Until now Falco was the only archive with a guard, and it had one because the same date leaked three times — twice from code that read correctly in the source. Every one was caught by reading the BUILT HTML. Its design is now in the kit and runs here. It takes the full date strings the DATA attaches to a living person and asserts those literal strings appear nowhere in the build. Falco's two earlier designs are not repeated: bare years pass vacuously on a genealogy site, and name-near-date fires on every homonym. Identity lives in the data, not the markup. An archive that omits living people altogether passes with nothing to check, which is correct rather than a gap — that rule is stricter than this one. Verified by planting a guarded date in a build and watching it fail.

The cemetery roll confirms the death a third time

did Continuing the compound-surname sweep. "Lerena Lenguas" returns seven documents, five of them already known - and one that is new and settles something. DIRECCION DE CEMENTERIOS, MONTEVIDEO - "Relacion de los individuos que han fallecido en el mes de Diciembre de 1901". A civil mortality return, day by day. Against day 24: "24 ... LUIS LERENA LENGUAS" Between Lucrecia Sosa and Emilia Zanola de Sanchez. So the death of 24 December 1901 now rests on THREE independent documents: the civil death act No. 216, the cemetery office's own roll, and his widow's sworn statement seven years later when she registered their son's birth. And it settles in the plainest way that he was BURIED AT MONTEVIDEO. That matters more than it sounds. Two days ago this archive had published, in good faith, that he was not in the indexed Uruguayan death registers at all - a null produced by searching a surname that was filed under SERENA. AND IT WAS FOUND ONLY BY THE COMPOUND SURNAME. A search on LERENA does not reach a table of names like this one: the entry is four words in a column, with no parish formula around it to match on.

A ninth dispensation, missed by this archive's own sweep of that register

did The compound-surname technique found its third and sharpest result, and it is a correction to work published here on 13 September. EMA SIXTA'S MARRIAGE DISPENSATION EXISTS, AND THE SWEEP MISSED IT. Arquidiocesis de Montevideo, June 1913: "Senor Provisor, JOSE PEDRO MASSERA ... digo: que debiendo contraer matrimonio con Dona EMA SIXTA LERENA JUANICO, FELIGRESA DE LA METROPOLITANA ... ocurro a V.S. suplicando quiera dispensarme UNA CONCILIAR PROCLAMA ... Montevideo, Junio 19 de 1913" Eleven days before her wedding to the philosopher Massera. AND THE REASON IT WAS MISSED IS STRUCTURAL, NOT BAD LUCK. This archive swept that register on the formula "LERENA FELIGRESA", which assumes the parish follows the surname immediately. She is written "Lerena JUANICO, feligresa". The compound surname sits between the two words and the phrase cannot match. EVERY CHILD OF BOTH MONTEVIDEO COUPLES CARRIES A COMPOUND SURNAME - Lerena Juanico, Lerena Lenguas, Lerena Salvanach. The sweep was blind to exactly the people this archive cares most about. The dispensation file's headline conclusion - no Lerena-Lerena dispensation in seventy-six years, every Lerena marrying out - is NOT withdrawn. But it rests on a search now known to be blind, and it is marked as needing a re-run rather than left standing as though nothing had happened. THIS IS THE THIRD TIME IN TWO DAYS THE SURNAME HAS HIDDEN A RECORD, and /searched/ now carries all three together: a death filed under SERENA that a 1,502-row sweep walked past; a military rank read as a forename, making a "Geraldo Dios Lenguas" who never existed; and now a phrase search that cannot see a woman because her surname is two words long. The rule is written down: search the COMPOUND surname, the MOTHER'S name, and the rarest stable word in the household. The bare surname is the search of last resort, not first. Also swept and recorded: "Lerena Traibel" returns ZERO, so that branch does not attach here; Avelino Lerena is real and in the right city in 1836 - godfather to a foundling named ABELINA for him - but no record names his parents, so he is still not shown to be Sancho's son. And the last consistency warning is cleared: Ema Sixta's row now carries an ark.

The sixth child was a Juez de Paz, found by searching the compound surname

did Items 13-15, and the last of them turned into the best find of the round. JOSE JULIO LERENA JUANICO WAS A JUDGE. Thirty-five Montevideo civil marriage acts of 1902-1914 open with the formula: "Por ante mi JULIO LERENA JUANICO, JUEZ DE PAZ y OFICIAL DEL ESTADO CIVIL de la Primera Seccion del Departamento de Montevideo" One was read in full - Maronas, 28 August 1909. The compound surname is this family's and no other in the archive; he is the only JULIO among the seven children; he would be thirty in 1909. Recorded as STRONG BUT NOT PROVED: no act read so far gives the judge's own parents. AND IT EXPLAINS THE ODDEST THING IN HIS RECORD. Jose Julio was born in March 1879 and his birth was not registered until September 1908, when his widowed mother of sixty-four swore it before a Juzgado de Paz. This archive guessed that was proof of birth for a wedding. A man appointed OFICIAL DEL ESTADO CIVIL needs it rather more than a bridegroom does. IT WAS FOUND BY SEARCHING THE COMPOUND SURNAME - "Lerena Juanico" - which this archive had never tried in four days of searching LERENA. That is the same lesson as the SERENA misindexing and the "Geraldo Dios" ghost, arriving a third time: the surname is the least reliable handle on this family. The same search gives a route to the last missing ark, Ema Sixta's marriage of 1913, which should be in those same Montevideo registers. 1882 carried to acts 957-962 - 798 consecutive baptisms read act by act. What this family now holds on the record: a GENERAL, an ABOGADO, a HACENDADO, a professor of philosophy by marriage, the co-founder of the Argentine Stud Book, a PRESIDENT at the font in 1831, an ORIBE for a bride in 1836 - and a JUDGE. And still no Juan Carlos. Every one of them is documented and none is Pablo Armando's father.

Her name is Oribe, and this site had it right before I did

did Items 8-12 of the fourth fifteen, and a correction that stings. THE FIRST WIFE IS CAROLINA ORIBE, NOT OLIVA. I recorded Oliva twice on 14 September - once explicitly to correct an earlier "not confidently legible" reading - and called it settled. The source of the error was FamilySearch's index of the 1836 petition, which says Oliva. I read the image expecting Oliva and saw it. A Catedral baptism of 4 JULY 1837, in another book and another hand, names "D. LUIS LERENA y Dna CAROLINA ORIBE" standing godparents to his brother's child. The petition, re-opened and magnified, reads ORIBE too - a clear b. AND THIS ARCHIVE'S OWN HYPOTHESES PAGE HAD CARRIED, FROM A SECONDARY TREE, THAT HE MARRIED FIRSTLY A DAUGHTER OF AN ORIBE. That line has been on the site the whole time. I never checked my reading against the page I was editing. The secondary source was right and the index was wrong. THE SAME ACT GIVES A SECOND BROTHER: D. PEDRO ANTONIO LERENA, "natural de esta", same abuelos paternos D. Sancho y Dna Maria Fernandez, married to Vicenta Vega of Cerro Largo, with a daughter Leonarda Margarita born February 1837. And it proves Carolina was ALIVE IN JULY 1837 - married September 1836, alive that July, dead by March 1842. WHAT ORIBE MEANS, STATED WITH CARE. Manuel Oribe was President of Uruguay 1835-1838 and founder of the Blancos. This family's other documented padrino is FRUCTUOSO RIVERA, his rival and the founder of the Colorados, who stood at a Lerena font in 1831. So within five years: Rivera at the font, an Oribe for a bride - the two men whose quarrel became the Guerra Grande. Nothing read here makes Carolina kin to the president. Oribe is a surname, not a proof, and no record yet names her parents. Recorded as a question, not a descent. TWO NULLS RE-RUN PROPERLY, since the recordCountry filter was found to break full-text silently: - "Juan Carlos Lerena" across the whole corpus returns TWO documents, both already known and neither ours. THE CENTRAL NULL HOLDS. - No child of Luis Lerena and Carolina Oribe. And this null is worth something, because the coverage was checked first: the Montevideo registers for 1837-41 ARE in the corpus - Cordon baptisms 1837-41, Catedral baptisms 1836-40, Catedral deaths 1836-42. A machine has read that handwriting and nothing returns. Register: 220 -> 225 people.

Sancho at home in Canelones, 1804 - father, godfather and sworn witness

did Items 5-7 of the fourth fifteen. His own marriage act was the target; what came back was better in one way and does not settle the forename. HIS DAUGHTER, ON A CANELONES ACT OF 15 MAY 1804. "bautizo en ella solemnemente a una parvula de DOS DIAS nacida, a la cual puso por nombre DOMINGA JOSEFA, hija legitima de SANCHO LLERENA y de MARIA FERNANDEZ; fueron los Padrinos Joseph Ponteceli y Agueda Rivero, TODOS VECINOS DE LA MISMA VILLA" SHE IS THE DOMINGA LERENA WHO STOOD GODMOTHER AT THE CATEDRAL IN 1833 to her sister Justa Pastora's child, aged twenty-nine. Yesterday the archive guessed "almost certainly her sister or cousin". She is the sister - and so another sister of Don Luis Lerena, now with a birth date. AND SANCHO IS ATTESTED IN 1804, twenty-seven years earlier than anything held two days ago. In that one town and that one decade he is a FATHER, a GODFATHER - standing at the confirmation of "Jose, ESCLAVO DE MANUEL LOPEZ", recorded here as the act records him, because leaving him out would be a second erasure - and a SWORN WITNESS in the marriage-investigation files. Canelones is the family's town, not a line in a published tree: "todos vecinos de la misma Villa". BUT IT DOES NOT SETTLE SANCHO VERSUS FRANCISCO, and the table now says so more precisely than I did this morning. The count is SIX records saying Sancho against TWO saying Francisco - and the Francisco pair is NOT simply the two 1846 transcripts. One of them is the 1833 Catedral act, an original. So Francisco is not a machine artefact and not only a copyist's slip. A double forename remains the reading that requires nobody to be wrong, and Sancho's own marriage act - still unopened - is what would decide it. A sixth spelling for the file: the machine renders him SANCIO on the 1804 baptism, joining Lerena, Llerena, Lorena, Serena and Lerina. Register: 217 -> 220 people.

Put the Uruguayan house on the front page, and the President with it

did Items 1-4 of the fourth fifteen. All four are the same failure: work done and not published. THE RIVERA ACT WAS ON NO PAGE. The first constitutional President of Uruguay standing godfather to Sancho Llerena's grandson in December 1831 - the most striking document this archive has found - existed only in a TSV and a register row. It is now on /hypotheses/ beside the Sancho trunk, and on the front page. NOR WERE THE TWO EXTRA LENGUAS GENERATIONS. Sixta's death act names Antonio Lenguas and Juana Grandal, Pascual Gonzalez and Josefa Grandal - the great-great-grandparents of Luis Eugenio and Gilberto - and the fact that BOTH GRANDMOTHERS ARE GRANDAL, which makes Pedro and Carmen very probably cousins. THE FRONT PAGE ENDED BY POINTING THE SEARCH ACROSS THE RIVER and never said what was found there. It does now - and it keeps the sting in the tail: fifteen people of the surname are placed in two Montevideo generations, and Juan Carlos is in none of them. Also corrected there: the act-by-act read is at 792 baptisms, not the 750 the panel still claimed. AND THE DRIFT CHECKER'S FALSE POSITIVES ARE CLEARED. Gilberto's household IS on /horses/; the matcher was tripping on the word 'assembled', which the page has no reason to use. Two entries added to PUBLISHED with their reasons. Three real flags remain and are left standing - the list exists so a genuine one is not lost in noise, not so I can silence it.

A third of this stylesheet styled another family's pages

did Six of the seven archives carry a copy of Defranceschi's stylesheet, and each uses about half of it. The rest styles pages this archive does not have and cannot have — Istrian household cards, a Venetian name-form key, an arms figure, a sovereignty ribbon for the Habsburgs — and it shipped on every page load. The read-across is what found it. From inside one repository a rule that matches nothing looks exactly like a rule for a page you have not written yet; it is only when Defranceschi comes out at 12 unused classes and everybody else at 107 to 124 that the shape is obvious. A rule was removed ONLY when every class in its selector appears nowhere: not in the built HTML, not in the source, not in the data, not in the kit. A selector naming one live class was left alone however dead its companions looked, and element selectors were never touched. Verified three ways rather than by eye. No class used by any built page lost its rules — zero, on all seven. The stylesheet still brace-balances. And on a page of 300 elements, twelve computed properties each, the pruned sheet and the live one produce byte-identical results.

The "Aguilar" in Sancho's name is supported by nothing this archive has read

did A small audit at the end of a large day. This archive's register calls him "Sancho LLERENA Aguilar". Eight records now name him, and not one gives him a matronymic. A full-text search for the phrase "Llerena y Aguilar" returns thirty hits and EVERY ONE IS QUITO, ECUADOR - an Antonio Llerena y Aguilar who witnesses notarial and probate records there between 1789 and 1824. A different family on a different continent. So "Aguilar" comes from the FamilySearch Tree and from nowhere this archive has read. It is NOT being removed - the tree may rest on an act nobody here has opened - but it is marked as the unattested part of the name rather than carried as though documented. Which leaves this man's identity in a precise and slightly uncomfortable state: his FORENAME is contested between Sancho and Francisco across eight records; his MATRONYMIC is unsupported; and the only part every record agrees on is his wife, MARIA FERNANDEZ. That is the honest position on the apex of this tree, and it is better than the one held this morning, when the whole descent was a user-submitted tree entry with two acts appearing to contradict it.

An original act says Francisco, and my tidy argument does not survive it

did I closed the Sancho question this afternoon and reopened it within the hour. Both the page and the register now say so. WHAT I ARGUED: that Luis Lerena's father is SANCHO on three original acts - 1836, 1842, 1850 - against only two 1846 entries reading FRANCISCO, and that those two disqualify themselves because each ends "asi consta del Legajo conservado en este Archivo": they are later TRANSCRIPTS. Three originals against two copies is not a conflict. THEN AN ORIGINAL TURNED UP SAYING FRANCISCO. Following the new sister Justa Pastora Lerena to her second child - Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion, October 1833 - the act names her parents "Maternos: FRANCISCO LERINA y Maria Fernandez". It is not a copy, and the copies-versus-originals argument dies with it. WHAT IS ACTUALLY CONSTANT IS THE WIFE. Maria Fernandez is in every one of these records without exception, across seventy years and both spellings. Whoever the man was, he was married to her, and all these people are her descendants. AND THE READINGS SPLIT ACROSS METHODS, NOT ALONG THEM. The machine transcript read Sancho in 1831 and Francisco in 1833; I read Francisco off the 1846 images and Sancho off 1836, 1842 and 1850. So it is not that the machine is unreliable and I am not, which would have been the comfortable conclusion. The leading reading is now a DOUBLE FORENAME - Sancho Francisco, or Francisco Sancho - with clerks using either. Ordinary for the period, and it would mean nobody is wrong. Two men of one surname each married to a Maria Fernandez is possible and much less likely. Sancho's own marriage act would settle it and has never been opened. The whole table of eight records, with how each was read and whether it is an original, is in data/sancho-or-francisco.tsv - written at length precisely because the temptation was to keep the tidy version. TWO MORE LERENAS out of the same 1833 act: ABELINO and DOMINGA LERENA stood as its godparents, so almost certainly Justa Pastora's brother and sister. AVELINO is also the forename attached to the Lerena Traibel branch elsewhere in this archive - worth testing rather than assuming. Register: 215 -> 217 people.

The President of Uruguay stood godfather to Sancho Llerena's grandson

did Full text came back, and the first hour with it produced the most surprising document in the archive. CORDON, MONTEVIDEO, 13 DECEMBER 1831. The baptism of Juan Facundo Frutuoso, son of Manuel Zeferino Barros of Pernambuco and of JUSTA PASTORA LERENA, "natural de Canelones": "Abuelos ... Maternos SANCHO LLERENA y MARIA FERNANDEZ ... Fueron Padrinos Don FRUCTUOSO RIVERA, PRESIDENTE DE LA REPUBLICA, y su esposa Dona BERNARDINA FRAGOSO" Rivera was the first constitutional President of Uruguay, in office 1830-1834. The act is of December 1831, squarely in his first term, and the child is named FRUTUOSO for him. THREE THINGS COME OUT OF IT. JUSTA PASTORA LERENA is a DAUGHTER OF SANCHO and a SISTER of Don Luis Lerena - a person this archive had never met, born at Canelones, married to a Brazilian. SANCHO IS NAMED IN A FIFTH RECORD, and the first that is not about his son. He also turns up in person and under oath in the Canelones marriage-investigation files: "presento por testigo en esta Vicaria a SANCHO LLERENA, a quien se le recivio juramento". Two days ago he was a user-built tree entry that two 1846 transcripts appeared to contradict. AND THE FAMILY'S STANDING IS NOT WHAT THIS ARCHIVE THOUGHT. It has carried the Lerenas as obscure - "naturales del E. Oriental" in a Rosario act, a thin and mostly inferred social picture. Padrinos of that rank are not chosen at random. It fits everything found since: a GENERAL for a grandfather, an ABOGADO for a father-in-law, a HACENDADO's death, a marriage to the philosopher Massera, another to a Magarinos. The pattern is consistent and it starts earlier than anything here. Stated carefully: nothing in this act touches Pablo Armando or Juan Carlos. It is the generation of Sancho's children, sixty years before, and it is recorded as social context and a new sibling - not as descent. AND A FILTER THAT BREAKS FULL TEXT, recorded so two days are not lost to it again. q.text="Carolina Oliva"&f.recordCountry=Uruguay returns "Something Went Wrong"; the same query WITHOUT the country filter returns 1,987 results. Some of what was written up as a two-day outage may simply have been that filter. Also learned: multiple quoted phrases do NOT AND together, and opening a result with ?view=fullText puts the machine transcription of the whole document into the page - which is how the 1831 act was found and read in one step, without touching a tile. Register: 209 -> 215 people.

Tell the pages that Sancho stopped being secondary

did The drift check flagged it: everything found in the last two days was in the data and on no page. Caught by the tool rather than by me, which is what it was written for. /HYPOTHESES/ STILL TIERED SANCHO AS SECONDARY - "FamilySearch Tree is user-submitted, and nobody here has opened the fourteen acts". Three acts naming him as Luis Lerena's father have now been opened, and the page says so: 1836 - Luis Lerena's own marriage petition, over his own signature 1842 - his second marriage, to Justiniana Lenguas 1850 - the baptism of his son Alberto Octavio And the two 1846 entries that read FRANCISCO, and briefly looked like they would topple the whole descent, disqualify themselves in their own last line: they are later transcripts copied out of a legajo. Three originals against two copies is not a conflict. The page is careful about WHAT changed. The 1767 birth at Cordoba, the 1791 marriage at Canelones, the fourteen attached acts - all still secondary and still unopened. What moved is the JOIN: Sancho to Luis, and so to everyone below him. That is the part the whole tree hangs from. It also now carries the marriage nobody knew about: Luis Lerena married DONA CAROLINA OLIVA of Montevideo in September 1836 and was her widower by March 1842. Any children of that marriage are half-siblings of Luis Eugenio and Gilberto. The indexed records hold no trace - stated as a null, not an answer, because the Montevideo registers of 1837-41 are largely un-indexed. /HORSES/ NOW CARRIES HIS HOUSEHOLD, in the two halves it falls into: four children christened at Montevideo to 31 October 1886, four at Buenos Aires from 29 October 1890. So the crossing is bracketed by baptisms rather than inferred from census birthplaces - records of the family, not of what its children later said about themselves. And Juan Carlos is not among the eight, which matters because this was the best remaining place to put him.

The 1836 marriage left no trace but its own petition

did Following the first wife forward, and reporting the null rather than a hope. Two searches for children of Luis Lerena and Carolina Oliva: - Any record pairing a LERENA father with a CAROLINA OLIVA mother, worldwide: ONE result, a 1928 marriage in Minas Gerais to a Joaquim Alves de Lorena. Not ours. - Any Carolina Oliva in Uruguay 1830-1850: 1,507 rows, and every one of them is a LATER woman - the Carolina Oliva who married Antonio Reverditto and bore children from 1879. No death for ours, and no child. So the marriage of September 1836 left nothing in the indexed records but the petition itself. Six years, a wife who died, and not one indexed baptism or burial. RECORDED AS A NULL AND NOT AS AN EXCLUSION. The Montevideo registers of 1837-1841 are largely un-indexed, and this archive has learned twice this week exactly what indexes miss: a death filed under SERENA that eight sweeps walked past, and a general's rank turned into the forename "Geraldo Dios". Finding nothing in an index is not finding nothing. What it would actually take is written down instead: the Montevideo baptism registers for 1837-1841 turned by hand, and the burials for 1841-42. That is the same size of job as the Rosario reads already under way, and it is stated at its real size rather than left as a hopeful line.

The first wife has a name: Carolina Oliva, Montevideo, 3 September 1836

did An hour after learning that Don Luis Lerena had been married before, the marriage itself was found - and it closes a question this archive opened yesterday morning. THE PETITION OF 3 SEPTEMBER 1836. On the stamped paper of that year, in Luis Lerena's own hand and over his own signature - the only signature of this man anywhere in the archive: "D. LUIS LERENA, natural de esta Ciudad, hijo legitimo de D. SANCHO LERENA y de Dona MARIA FERNANDEZ ... tiene concertado matrimonio con Dona CAROLINA OLIVA, tambien natural de esta Ciudad" He asks to be excused the usual enquiry "en atencion a ser ambos nativos de esta Ciudad, y bastante conocidos" - a small social fact about the family in 1836, and the first this archive has had. SANCHO IS NOW CLOSED. Yesterday morning two 1846 baptism transcripts named Luis Lerena's father as FRANCISCO, and the Andalusian apex of this whole tree looked wrong. He is now named in FOUR records - this petition of 1836, the second marriage of 1842, the baptism of Alberto Octavio in 1850, and that act's index - and 1836 is the earliest and plainest of them. The two dissenting entries say of themselves that they are later transcripts copied from a legajo. A copy and three originals is not a conflict. AND THE SURNAME I COULD NOT READ IS OLIVA. The 1842 act calls him "viudo de Dona Carolina" and I could not make out the surname, so I wrote down what it looked like - something like Dille or Dulce - and said plainly it was not confidently legible. It is OLIVA. The wrong reading is left in the record rather than deleted, because the next person squinting at that word should know what it is not. The lesson is the cheaper one: I searched for the marriage instead of squinting harder. WHAT IS NOW OPEN. Between September 1836 and March 1842 there is a marriage nobody here knew about. If it produced children they are HALF-SIBLINGS of Luis Eugenio and Gilberto - Lerenas of the right surname, born at Montevideo in the late 1830s - and they are a place Juan Carlos has never been looked for. Logged with exactly what to search: Montevideo baptisms 1837-1841 to Luis Lerena and Carolina Oliva, and Carolina's death.

Luis Lerena married twice, and Sancho is named in a third act

did Found by searching the surname LENGUAS in ARGENTINA - which nobody had thought to do, because this has been treated throughout as a Uruguayan family. THE MARRIAGE OF LUIS LERENA AND JUSTINIANA LENGUAS, 3 MARCH 1842. The generation above the Montevideo trunk, marrying. Eleven months before Luis Eugenio was born on 9 February 1843; the fit is exact. "desposé en SEGUNDAS NUPCIAS a D. LUIS LERENA, natural de la Ciudad de Montevideo, de treinta anos de edad, hijo legitimo de D. SANCHO y Dona MARIA FERNANDEZ, VIUDO de Dona CAROLINA ...; [con] JUSTINIANA LENGUAS ... de veinte anos, hija legitima del Sr. GRAL. Lenguas y Dona Carmen Gonzalez" HE WAS A WIDOWER, AND THIS ARCHIVE HAD NO IDEA. Luis Lerena married before about 1841 a Carolina who was dead by March 1842. If that marriage produced children, there is an ENTIRE HALF-SIBLING GENERATION to Luis Eugenio and Gilberto - Lerenas of the right surname, the right country and the right generation - that nothing here has ever looked for. Logged as an errand. SANCHO FOR THE THIRD TIME, and this is the earliest of the three. The 1850 baptism said Sancho; this says Sancho in 1842. Against them stand two 1846 entries reading "Francisco", and those two say of themselves that they are later TRANSCRIPTS copied from a legajo. The apex of this tree is now as well attested as anything in it - and it was in doubt yesterday morning. THE GENERAL CONFIRMED IN A SECOND ACT, four years earlier than the baptism that first gave him the rank. And it explains a FamilySearch ghost: the index of this act renders "Gral. D. Pedro" as a forename - "Geraldo Dios Lenguas" - which is how a military rank becomes a christian name and a searchable person who never existed. Also: Luis Lerena born about 1812 and stated MONTEVIDEAN; Justiniana about 1822, agreeing exactly with her stated 79 in 1901 and 87 in 1908. ONE THING LEFT OPEN RATHER THAN GUESSED. FamilySearch files this under Buenos Aires, San Miguel Arcangel - but the officiant describes himself as "Cura Rector de la Parroquia de Nuestra Senora del Carmen del SALTO ORIENTAL DEL URUGUAY". The act is in an Argentine book; where the ceremony happened is not settled by what is legible, and is recorded as unsettled. And a new parish to search: the 1914 informacion says Carlos Lerena was "bautizado en la Iglesia de el CORDON, Dep. de Montevideo" - a third Montevideo parish for this family, never searched. Register: 207 -> 208 people.

Gilberto's Argentine household, and the crossing bracketed by baptisms

did Continuing. The confirmations advanced, the sharpest lead was finally run, and a claim I made this morning was wrong. I WAS WRONG ABOUT THE CONFIRMATIONS THIS MORNING. From the first eleven entries I recorded that "EVERY ENTRY ON THIS PAGE IS A GIRL" and built a search strategy on it - that a boy of eight would be in a separate run of pages, and that is where to look. Entries 133, 135 and 138 on a later page are Domingo, Santiago and Pablo, all "hijo leg. de", mixed straight in among the girls. I made a structure out of eleven rows. There is no boys' section and no shortcut. Read since: entries 45-88, 133-177 and 222-243 of the 26 March 1890 sitting - which runs past 243 children - and the opening of a SECOND 1890 sitting in June and July. No Lerena. Ages run from two to fourteen in one sitting, so nobody is ruled in or out by age. And a false alarm checked and dismissed: two words in the June list are struck through and read like a surname at low resolution; at full resolution they are "Silvero" and "Laurino", the clerk correcting a forename. GILBERTO'S ARGENTINE HOUSEHOLD, assembled for the first time - the job that was blocked yesterday when their search went down. Searching him AS FATHER gives EIGHT children by Julia Salvanach: Gilberto (1878), Carlos (1884), Raul Alfredo Luis (1885) and Maria Angelica Julia (1886), all born at MONTEVIDEO; then Maria Carlota (1890), Luis Felipe (1892), Cesar Alberto (1896) and Horacio Alfredo (1898), at BUENOS AIRES. SO THE CROSSING IS NOW BRACKETED BY BAPTISMS RATHER THAN INFERRED. The last Montevideo baptism is 31 October 1886; the first Buenos Aires one is 29 October 1890. This archive has said "between 1887 and 1889", read off the switch in census birthplaces. The baptisms are slightly wider and considerably firmer: they are records of the family, not of its children's stated origins. And Juan Carlos is not among them. That matters, because this was the best remaining place to put him - a Lerena household of the right surname, in the right country, at the right time, descending from the one Uruguayan house this archive has documented. THE ALEJANDRO TEST WAS RUN AND CAME BACK INCONCLUSIVE, which is recorded as inconclusive. Alejandro Lerena Lenguas was born 29 May 1845; the enrolment cards name an ALEJANDRO MAXIMO LERENA born Uruguay 1839, married Julia Bassani, with a large Buenos Aires family. Six years apart, well inside the range this archive keeps meeting between an act and a stated age - but nothing positive links them and NO RECORD FOUND NAMES ALEJANDRO MAXIMO'S PARENTS. The search did establish there are at least THREE distinct men of the name, including one of the Trinidad orbit married to Severa Fernandez. They are kept as three rows deliberately; merging them is the easy mistake here. Register: 202 -> 207 people.

Canonical URLs keep their trailing slash

did These sites build with format: 'directory', so /TheX is a redirect to /TheX/. The home page's canonical was pointing at the redirect.

This archive now has a face when somebody shares it

did Paste this archive into a message and it showed the bare address: no title, no description, no icon, nothing. Blazevic and the children's site have done it properly all along — the implementation existed, in this estate, working, and six archives never received it. The read-across is what surfaced it, because a missing tag is invisible from inside one repository. The head tags now come from the kit's SocialHead, which derives everything from archives.json through BASE_URL rather than taking it as typed values. A looked-up accent cannot end up being another archive's: Blazevic had been shipping theme-color #1F5C6B, the teal it gave up in Phase 1. The favicon is this archive's own accent, so the seven are told apart in a tab strip the same way they are told apart on the page. Nothing claims an asset that is not on disk — an archive with no share image emits a summary card rather than a link to a picture that was never made.

Open the confirmations at last, and learn to tell an outage from a block

did Items 9-15 of the third fifteen. Three registers advanced, three jobs blocked, and the blockage itself turned into the most reusable thing here. THE CONFIRMATIONS ARE OPEN. Listed as untried since this archive's first week, without a film number until yesterday, and serving no tiles when first tried - which turned out to be part of an outage, not a restriction. DGS 4531018, 421 images, unrestricted, and it works today. It is a better register than expected. The confirmations of 26 March 1890 at Rosario are a numbered list, and every entry names the child's PARENTS. Pablo Armando was born in February 1882; the children confirmed that day are aged six to fifteen. He is squarely in range, and his parents are the question. Two things from the first page: no Lerena in eleven entries - and EVERY ONE OF THEM IS A GIRL. If the confirmations were taken sex by sex, a boy of eight is in a separate run of pages, and that is where to look. Also: the entries carry only a GIVEN name, so the surname has to be read out of the father's - this register cannot be scanned down a margin the way the baptisms were. DEATH REGISTERS, two more openings, 22 July to 14 August 1841. No Lerena. And two facts that change the estimate for anyone attempting the whole thing: the film carries a "POOR COPY - WHOLE VOLUME" target card, which is FamilySearch's own warning on the filming of the entire volume, and the film contains RE-SHOTS - image i=6 is i=5 again behind that card - so 658 images is not 658 openings. 1882: acts 951-956. 792 consecutive baptisms now read act by act. AND THE PART WORTH KEEPING. Three jobs stalled on FamilySearch, and the failures were not all the same failure. Recorded as its own file: catalogue SEARCH - "Something Went Wrong". Their outage. catalogue BY ID - WORKED THROUGHOUT, while its own search box was dead. Every DGS number recovered in two days came out of it. full-text search - down both days. The dispensations live there, which is why that job is still blocked. records search - worked most of two days, then began returning AN EMPTY BODY - zero bytes, no error page - for a query that had worked twenty minutes before. image tiles - SERVED NORMALLY THROUGHOUT, both days, while every search surface was failing. The empty body is the quiet one. A real null returns a page saying so; anything that reports "0 results" off a zero-length body is reporting the outage and not the records. That is a way to publish a false negative without noticing, and this archive has published enough true negatives to care about the difference. Reading stopped when that third mode appeared rather than being pushed through. FamilySearch has firewalled this session before, caused by reading rate. A block costs days; waiting costs hours. The three blocked jobs are logged with what to do: trace Gilberto's Buenos Aires household forward (the sharpest lead in the archive now he is attached - his son married there in 1914 and his mother was living in Argentina at 87); test whether Alejandro Lerena Lenguas, b.1845, is the Alejandro M. Lerena of the enrolment cards; and find General Pedro Lenguas, whose own parents are now known, in Uruguayan military history rather than in FamilySearch.

A second witness from another parish, and the Lenguas back two more generations

did Items 5-8 of the third fifteen. Three images opened; each corrected or extended something this archive already held. THE SECOND WITNESS TO GILBERTO'S PARENTAGE. Act 1447 was read yesterday and made him a brother of Luis Eugenio. The second image - never opened - is the baptism of his son RAUL ALFREDO LUIS at the CATEDRAL BASILICA de Montevideo, 10 September 1885, folio 296: "hijo legitimo de Gilberto Lerena y Julia Salvanach, orientales: abuelos paternos LUIS y JUSTINIANA LENGUAS: abuelos maternos CRISTOBAL y ANGELA ALVAREZ." Identical to act 1447 - but a different year, a different parish and a different priest's hand. Two independent registers agreeing is a different kind of evidence from one register read twice. It also identifies the "Raul Lerena, b.1885 Montevideo" of the 1895 Buenos Aires census, and turns up a JOSEFA LERENA at the font whom this archive has never met. THE RETIRO RECORD CORRECTED THIS ARCHIVE TWICE. The register called it a "Retiro BAPTISM"; it is an INFORMACION MATRIMONIAL, which is why it names both parties' parents and baptismal parishes. And the father read as "ALBERTO (almost certainly GILBERTO)" is written GILBERTO plainly - the archive's own guess was right and can stop being one. It also says where Carlos was baptised: the Iglesia del CORDON, Montevideo - a third parish for this family, and an exact place to look next. SIXTA'S DEATH ACT PUTS THE SISTERS FINDING ON AN IMAGE - and reaches two generations further than anything this archive has held. "Hija de D. PEDRO LENGUAS y de Dona CARMEN GONZALEZ, finados; sus abuelos paternos D. ANTONIO LENGUAS y Dona JUANA GRANDAL; maternos D. PASCUAL GONZALEZ y Dona JOSEFA GRANDAL." Her husband: "D. CANDIDO JUANICO, Oriental, edad 72 anos, viudo, ABOGADO" - born about 1812, and a lawyer, which is what the archive's "Dr." has always rested on. BOTH GRANDMOTHERS ARE GRANDAL - Juana and Josefa. Pedro Lenguas and Carmen Gonzalez were very probably cousins. Recorded as an observation; no record read here links the two women directly. And an Antonio Lenguas BORN 1807 AT BUENOS AIRES, buried 1841 at Las Piedras with a wife Juana Grandal, is already in the indexed records - almost certainly this man, which would make the Lenguas a Buenos Aires family before a Montevideo one. THE LAST ARK IS STILL MISSING, and the errand now says exactly why. Ema Sixta's marriage act is not name-indexed at image level: searching her with Massera as spouse returns only her children's records, and searching Massera for 1912-14 returns passenger lists. What would work is browsing the La Union film by DGS, which needs the catalogue opened BY ID rather than by its search box. And the emphasis guard earned its place again: my own edit orphaned a closing marker in the Carlos note, and the build refused to ship it. Register: 197 people -> 201.

Publish act 1447, and stop two pages calling it unopened

did Items 1-4 of the third fifteen. All four are corrections to yesterday. TWO PAGES WERE CARRYING FALSE CLAIMS, and they were false because of my own work an hour later. /horses/ said the brotherhood was "still not primary - neither image has been opened". /hypotheses/ said "still index-level: two entries agree and neither image has been opened". Act 1447 was opened about an hour after both sentences were written, and both stood for a day. AND THE ACT ITSELF WAS ON NO PAGE AT ALL. The best document this archive has found - four grandparents in one line, and Luis Eugenio's own wife at the font for his brother's child - existed only in the register and a TSV. The word "godmother" appeared nowhere on the site. It is now quoted in full on /horses/, where the seven mentions of Gilberto live. Both pages now say what happened rather than what was true for an hour: the superseded sentences are named, not silently deleted, because a page that quietly edits its own history is worth less than one that shows its working. TWO ERRANDS LIED AGAIN. "Open the images behind Gilberto's parentage" was still marked ready - it was done, and it came out primary. Its detail now carries the act, the ark and the fact that THE SECOND IMAGE IS STILL UNOPENED, which is the part that matters for whoever picks it up. AND THE DRIFT CHECK CAUGHT THE OTHER ONE ITSELF - an errand marked ready whose own detail said DONE. But it then fired twice more on rewording, because it was matching "DONE" and "FOUND" ANYWHERE in the detail, and hit "a trap FOUND on the way" and "four of the five are DONE" - progress narration inside a legitimately open errand. It now only reads the first ninety characters, where a claim that the whole errand is finished would actually be made. A check that fires on honest narration teaches people to ignore it.

Repin the kit, or every deploy breaks on the new check

did The build now runs checkarchive.py out of node_modules, and CI installs the kit with `npm ci` — which honours the lockfile, not the branch. The lockfile still pointed at b5b7459, a kit commit from before that file existed, so CI would have installed a kit without it and failed on the very first build. Repinned to d4a53e0 and verified the way CI does it: node_modules wiped, npm ci, build. The check runs and passes.

The shared end-to-end test now gates this build

did All seven archives now run one test, from the kit, against the built site: links, anchors, contents lists, the search index, the sibling ring, the confidence vocabulary, the visit counter, titles, images and the sitemap. This archive passes it clean, so it is wired into `build` — a broken internal link or a search index pointing at pages that were never built can no longer reach the deploy. The four archives that do not pass yet have the script but not the gate. Gating a failing build is not a fix, it is an outage.

Start the death registers, carry 1882 on, and recover five film numbers

did Items 11-14 of the second fifteen. Two done, one started, one blocked by an outage - and the outage taught something worth keeping. ITEM 11, THE DEATH REGISTERS, STARTED. DGS 4531021, "Defunciones 1841-1860", 658 images, unrestricted - and the leader card reads film 1091422, matching the catalogue exactly, so the mapping is verified rather than assumed. First opening read: five acts, 26 May to 18 June 1841 - Juan Fernandez, Luisa Candelaria Bravo, Victoria Medina, Ynnocencia Villa Real, Maria Zumbero. No Lerena. Many are "parbula" and "limosna": infants, buried on charity. The margin-name method works here exactly as on the baptisms, and the structure is now known: five or six acts a page, chronological, names in the margin. That puts 1841-1860 alone on the order of six thousand acts. STARTED, NOT FINISHED, and the file says so with an exact resume point. Worth being clear about what this read is FOR. It cannot find Pablo Armando - he was born in 1882, four decades later. It can find whether any LERENA died at Rosario between 1841 and 1860, which would mean a Lerena was living there long before him. This archive's whole argument is that they were not a Rosario family. So this read exists to try to prove the archive wrong, and that is the reason to do it. ITEM 12: acts 945-950, 9-10 August 1882 - Toledo, Dolmas, Perez, Candelaria, Orellana, Ferrari. No Lerena. 786 consecutive baptisms now read act by act. ITEM 14: FIVE FILM NUMBERS RECOVERED that this archive had listed without them, including Confirmaciones 1883-1918, DGS 4531018, 421 images, unrestricted - the one that covers Pablo Armando. He was born in February 1882 and would have been confirmed in the 1890s, and a confirmation act commonly names the parents. The confirmations have been listed as untried since the first week and never had a film number. Also Confirmaciones 1722-1833/1860-1895 and 1764-1833, and Matrimonios 1722-1803 and 1804-1852. The film itself opened but served no tiles and put no ark in the page title, unlike every other film handled today, so it is logged as needing another attempt rather than another search. ITEM 13 IS STILL BLOCKED, and by their outage rather than by the work. The dispensations live in the FULL-TEXT corpus, not a name-indexed collection, and full-text search was down all session. AND THE DIAGNOSTIC, which is the useful part: catalogue SEARCH, full-text search and /search/film/<old film number> were all returning "Something Went Wrong" for hours - while name-indexed records search and, crucially, DIRECT CATALOGUE IDs worked perfectly. Every one of those five DGS numbers came out of https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/208788 while the catalogue's own search box was dead. So when the catalogue looks dead, open the ID directly before concluding the work cannot be done. Written into the film table.

Justiniana and Sixta were sisters, and Sancho is now on an act

did Item 15 of the second fifteen - the one real question on the list - answered, and it answered more than it was asked. THE QUESTION: Candido Juanico's second wife was a LENGUAS, and his daughter by his first wife married a Lerena LENGUAS. Were the two women kin? If so, these families were joined before the 1864 marriage this archive has treated as the join. THE ANSWER IS YES, AND FROM TWO DIRECTIONS. Sixta Lenguas's death registration of 17 January 1884 names her parents as "Pedro Lenguas, Carmen Gonzalez" and her husband as "Candido Juanico". The 1846 baptisms of Luis Eugenio and his sister name Justiniana's parents as the same couple - one of them calling him "el GENERAL D. Pedro Lenguas", a rank no other record here gives. SO WHEN LUIS EUGENIO MARRIED JULIA JUANICO IN DECEMBER 1864, THE GROOM'S MATERNAL AUNT WAS ALREADY THE BRIDE'S STEPMOTHER. The families had been joined since 1857. The wedding this archive has read as the join was the second knot, not the first. AND THE APEX ANCESTOR GOT A FRIGHT, THEN A PROMOTION. The 1846 acts name Luis Lerena's father as FRANCISCO - not SANCHO, the Andalusian soldier this archive puts at the top of the line. On those two acts the whole descent looked wrong. So the decisive record was opened the same hour rather than left as a doubt: act 585 of 7 October 1850, S. Agustin, pueblo de la Restauracion. "hijo legitimo de D. Luis Lerena y D. Justiniana Lenguas, naturales de Montevideo. PATERNOS: D. SANCHO y D. MARIA FERNANDEZ." Sancho stands - and now stands on an ACT rather than on an index and a published tree, which this archive had explicitly marked SECONDARY. The 1846 entries lose because of what they say about themselves: each ends "asi consta del Legajo conservado en este Archivo, mandado trasladar por el Sr. Obispo" - they are later TRANSCRIPTS, at one remove. A copy and an original disagreeing is a copy being wrong. The discrepancy is recorded rather than tidied away. ALSO OUT OF THOSE TWO IMAGES: a sixth sibling, ALEJANDRO LERENA; General Pedro Lenguas and Carmen Gonzalez as a couple; Maria Fernandez, who is where the "y Fernandez" in Luis Lerena's name comes from; three more Lenguas at the font; Luis Eugenio's true birth date, 9 February 1843; and two indexing errors - "Alberto Otario" is ALBERTO OCTAVIO, and "Justinia" is JUSTINIANA MAURICIA MAXIMA. TWO GUARDS ADDED, both of which found something immediately: - A near-duplicate check. build-people.py refuses EXACT duplicate names, so those never happen; it could not see "Dona Sixta LENGUAS (2nd wife...)" and "Dona Sixta LENGUAS Gonzalez (2nd wife...)", two rows for one woman written hours apart today. Merged. It carries a CHECKED_PAIRS list in the sibling convention, where adding a pair is a claim that somebody looked. - It also flagged MARIA E. C. LERENA, "born 1869, daughter of Gilberto (1854)" - which would make him FIFTEEN. All the record says is that she was in his household at the 1895 census; "daughter" was this archive's reading of a household, not the census's word. Left in place with the contradiction stated against it. Register: 188 people -> 195.

Gilberto is a brother on a document, and his sister-in-law stood godmother

did Items 7-10 of the second fifteen. Three images opened; the biggest of them settles the archive's loudest coincidence. ACT 1447, SAN FRANCISCO DE ASIS, 31 OCTOBER 1886. Gilberto Lerena's daughter Maria Angelica Julia, "hija legitima de Don Gilberto Lerena y de Dona Julia Salvanach, ORIENTALES" - and the paternal grandparents are named: "Don LUIS y Dona JUSTINIANA LENGUAS". The same couple named as Luis Eugenio's parents in his marriage act of 1864 and his death act of 1901. So the co-founder of the Argentine Stud Book and the man whose daughter was the single Lerena baptised at Rosario in a hundred and seventy years are BROTHERS, and it is now a priest's hand that says so rather than a tree. This archive had carried it as secondary since 8 September - Geneanet, Geni, a blog - and as a strong lead since this morning. AND THE GODMOTHER IS DONA JULIA JUANICO DE LERENA. Luis Eugenio's own wife stood at the font for her husband's brother's child. The two households are not merely related on paper; they are one family acting as one. Written by Martin Perez, the same priest who wrote act 1720 for Candido Jaime that year. ACT 283 OF 1908 - JOSE JULIO'S BIRTH, declared by HIS OWN MOTHER. Julia Juanico, 64, a widow of calle Buenos Aires 102, walked into the Juzgado de Paz two years before her death and registered the birth of a son born in 1879 at calle Yi 303. Two things fall out of it: - It INDEPENDENTLY CONFIRMS the death found this morning. A different document, written seven years later by his widow, gives the identical date: "fallecido en esta Ciudad el veinte y cuatro de Diciembre de mil novecientos uno". The death act was found under the misspelling SERENA; this one under LERENA. - JUSTINIANA LENGUAS WAS ALIVE AT EIGHTY-SEVEN AND LIVING IN ARGENTINA. She was 79 and in Montevideo at her son's death in 1901. By 1908 the matriarch had crossed the river - and her son GILBERTO had moved to Buenos Aires between 1887 and 1889. ACTS 404 AND 405 OF 1843 - JULIA'S OWN BAPTISM, and a name trap. Born 23 November 1842, "hija legitima de D. Candido Juanico y D. Juliana Joaquina Gonzalez". Act 404 immediately above baptises ENRIQUE JUANICO, born 18 May 1841 - a BROTHER, christened the same day, he at two and a half and she at ten and a half months. And Julia's own godfather is ALSO a D. Enrique Juanico. A boy of two cannot stand godfather, so these are two different men and the register keeps them as two rows deliberately. THE ARK AUDIT: three of five rows claiming IMAGE READ now carry one, and Bartolome Llerena was re-opened and checked line by line - "Llerena / Bartolome / 45", the double L exactly as read. A trap found on the way, and recorded: the film's own ?i=86 is NOT the page this archive called image 86. It lands on an Aguirrebarrena household with no Llerena on it. The ark came from his index record instead. Two rows still lack arks and say so. Register: 183 people -> 188.

Tell the pages what the data learned, and write the check that noticed

did Items 1-6 of the second fifteen. All six are corrections to my own work. /HORSES/ DID NOT KNOW. It named Gilberto Lerena seven times as an unplaced coincidence - "a Lerena at the centre of Argentine breeding, in the right country at the right time" - and footnoted the brotherhood as PUBLISHED GENEALOGY, secondary, Geneanet and a blog. That footnote went out of date the moment two Uruguayan parish records named his parents. It now says so, and says what came with it: Luis Eugenio's death act, his mother alive at 79, and his trade - HACENDADO, a landowner, which is a rather different neighbour for a stud than a name on a blog. /HYPOTHESES/ SAID IT WAS WAITING for exactly what had happened. Its own words: "that is the best that can be said until the Montevideo registers are opened". They were opened the same day. The page now answers its own sentence - and keeps the two things that did NOT move, which is that none of it finds Juan Carlos and none of it connects Pablo Armando to that household. TWO MORE FINDINGS WERE IN THE DATA AND ON NO PAGE: - The Trinidad wives. BELOQUI and ECHEVERRY are Basque, and PELAEZ is the family the Lerenas married so repeatedly they needed dispensing for consanguinity by 1885. Published at /name/, and carefully: it is evidence about the community they married into, NOT about the etymology, and the Basque-or-Extremaduran fork stays open. - The Serena misindexing, and the rule that came out of it. Published at /searched/ with both of the negatives it overturned left standing beside it, because a page of failures that deletes its own failures is worth nothing. THREE ERRANDS WERE LYING. "Find the death of Luis Eugenio" still said ready, and its detail put the window from 1880 - wrong twice over, since his last child was born 1884 and the death was found. "Turn the dispensation register" was marked DONE on the strength of a full-text search, and turning is not searching; that distinction is the whole reason the task exists. And one errand still told the reader that FamilySearch had firewalled this session and refused every request - true when written, false since, and left standing it would stop the next person from trying. AND tools/drift.py, in the sibling convention. It compares what the data knows against what the pages claim. On its first run it found the Basque wives. IT WOULD NOT HAVE CAUGHT THE GILBERTO FAILURE, and the file says so. I tested it against precisely that case by stripping the fix back out of both pages, and it stayed quiet: the words of the claim were already on /searched/ from the marriage-act writeup. A new relationship between two people the site already discusses introduces no new vocabulary, and a word-presence check cannot see it. Written into the docstring so nobody reads a clean run as proof. Getting there took three wrong versions, each caught by testing rather than assumed: scoring on word LENGTH let "parents" and "September" dilute the signal; checking the whole CORPUS could not tell whether any single page made the claim; and a three-word floor skipped short claims entirely - which is how it first missed the very finding it was written for. It also cried wolf at 28 findings until it was narrowed to people the narrative is actually about. Prints only, never fails the build, and carries a PUBLISHED list in which adding a name is a claim that somebody looked.

The other Mary Ann Brayley, read at the registry rather than quoted

did The WikiTree section on this page rests an exclusion on one thin source: a Queensland death-registration index entry naming a man's mother. It has now been read at the Queensland registry itself. George James Yelland died 29 August 1945, registration 1945/B/3228, mother entered as Mary Ann Brayley, father as William. The profile was quoting it accurately. And the Queensland household turns out to be fully registered and entirely separate: he married Catherine Pye on 4 February 1892, and Walter, Ernest and Gertrude Fanny are registered at Brisbane in 1893, 1894 and 1896. A complete family with its own Mary Ann Brayley behind it. Ours married William Taylor and died at Northam in Devon on 21 April 1900, and cannot have been doing both. The exclusion was right; it now rests on the registration instead of on somebody's summary of it. The nulls with it: across births to 1926, marriages to 1951 and deaths to 1996, Queensland holds no LERENA and no JUANICO. Every LLERENA, LARENA and LERINA hit is the word used as a given name — Llerena Lenore Meston, Lerina Hood, Erinn Larena Petersen — and none is a surname. Worth writing down because this line does reach Brisbane in the end, by way of South Africa, and somebody will wonder whether it got there sooner.

The counter goes live

did All seven codes are in, each checked against its own endpoint first rather than assumed: every one answers 200 with the public counter switched on. The footer now carries the running total, the tracking script that feeds it, and a line saying who is counting and that it is done without cookies.

Trees: the nav link, and the doors

did Two things the last pass dropped. Moving the entry into Start removed D'Arcy's link and the reinsertion failed silently, so the page existed with nothing pointing at it. And Lerena's rows were written before the component gained its closing doors, so it stopped dead where the others send you on.

A public read count in the footer

did You asked for the number on the page rather than in a dashboard, which decided the tool: GoatCounter publishes a count you can display, and Cloudflare and Plausible keep theirs private. It is no-cookie and retains no personal data, which matters more than usual on seven public sites about living relatives. The footer says so, and links to them, so a reader can see who is counting. Nothing renders until an archive has a code: no script, no request, no placeholder. If the counter cannot be reached the line removes itself rather than showing a nought that is not true. The codes are empty in the kit's archives.json. Creating the accounts needs a sign-up, which is not something I can do — the one manual step is in the covering note.

Trees: bring the page up to the standard, not just the shape

did The structure shipped; the content did not. Three faults, all mine. The nav entry went into whatever menu happened to hold a tree-ish page — "In Britain" here, "Her life" on Blazevic — where the reference puts it under Start. It is under Start on all seven now. The prose was generated filler. Worse, running .capitalize() over each archive's own blurb lower-cased its proper nouns: "Ivy miriam sneyd's people, of boulia and brisbane." Every row is now written, with the facts this archive actually holds, and the archive's own casing is left alone. Fewer rows and better ones. Eleven thin lines become six that say something: the spine, the two grafts, and the three families that carry real weight. The rest are one click away on /families/, which is where they belong. The page now opens on the editorial point the reference leads with — a tree with invented joins in it is worse than no tree — and the derivation rule moves to the close, where a technical note belongs. It ends with the three doors the reference ends with, rather than stopping dead. Every href checked against the built site before committing.

Lerena and Pelaez were one kindred at Trinidad

did Item 10 of fifteen: partly advanced, partly blocked, and both said plainly. WHAT THE DISPENSATION REGISTER GAVE UP WHEN LAID BESIDE TODAY'S OTHER WORK. Three of its eight Lerena dispensations marry a LERENA to a PELAEZ - Maximo Pelaez and Maria Lerena at Trinidad in 1885, Juan Lerena and Eduviges Pelaez at Mercedes in 1894, Vitalino Gregorio Pelaes and Florinda Juana Lerena at Trinidad in 1909 - and every one of them needed dispensing FOR CONSANGUINITY: twice in the third degree, once in the second and third accumulated. The Trinidad baptisms read hours earlier give BERNABE LERENA married to CASIMIRA PELAEZ, with four children between 1871 and 1885, in that same town. Neither file says this on its own. The dispensations were searched by surname, the baptisms by birthplace, and they were written up hours apart. Together they show that Lerenas and Pelaezes at Trinidad married each other repeatedly across at least forty years, and that by 1885 the church required a consanguinity dispensation to let them do it again. They are not two families who met in a small town; they are one intermarried kindred. A forename crosses too - one of the six Trinidad Lerena fathers is VITALINO, and the 1909 Pelaez groom is VITALINO GREGORIO. Nothing here touches Pablo Armando. There is still no Pablo, no Armando and no Juan Carlos in the Trinidad set, and the register's own verdict stands: no Lerena-Lerena dispensation anywhere, 1856-1932. Every Lerena in it marries out. WHERE IT STOPPED, AND WHY. The actual job was to TURN the register page by page rather than trust machine handwriting recognition. Not done - the film could not be located, because FamilySearch's search endpoints went down. Catalogue search, records search and full-text search all returned "Something Went Wrong" on repeated attempts from a signed-in session while image tiles kept serving normally, so it is their outage rather than a block. Three routes to the DGS were tried and all failed the same way. The thing that was actually missing before is now in hand: the method is proved. Navigate /search/film/<DGS>?i=<N>, read the ark from the page title, assemble the tiles. Only the DGS is wanting, and it is logged as an errand rather than left looking untouched.

The death registers are three films, and the ark method I published was wrong

did Item 15 started properly, item 11 carried further, and a correction to a claim I made in a commit message an hour ago. I PUBLISHED A WRONG METHOD, in this file and in a commit message: that a film's image arks cannot be reached by script, so each opening must be got by driving the viewer's next-image control. Wrong, and wrong because I tested one URL form and generalised from it. /ark:/61903/3:1:<ARK>?i=<N> - ignores i=, keeps the same image. What I tested. /search/film/<DGS>?i=<N> - RESOLVES TO IMAGE N. What I should have tested. The ark comes out of the page title; it is not in the server-rendered HTML, so fetch() still cannot harvest arks in bulk, but one navigation per image works fine. Also noted: the tile host blocks fetch() cross-origin while serving <img> happily, so the tile grid is found with onload/onerror instead of probing. And the film's i= is NOT the waypoint image number used in the earlier rows - verified against two known openings before relying on it. ITEM 11, with the method fixed: four more openings, acts 921-944, 5-9 August 1882. Avena, Martini, Rodriguez, Acosta, Coppes, Coman, Fernandez, Duarte, Pero, Amaral, Nunez, Cassavola, Ledda, Blasi, Lopez, Lentini, Toledo, Ruiz, Rosas, Flores, Rabellino, Ramosfe, Gallego. No Lerena. That is 780 consecutive baptisms read act by act. ITEM 15: THE ROUTE IS REAL, AND IT IS THREE FILMS, NOT ONE. The catalogue for the parish was read in full - 73 film rows - and the death registers covering the index gap are all filmed: Defunciones 1731-1803 DGS 4531019 Defunciones 1804-1824, 1828-1841 DGS 4531020 Defunciones 1841-1860 DGS 4531021 Defunciones 1861-1864 DGS 4531022 Defunciones 1864-1875 DGS 4531023 This archive had listed only the last. The gaps page asserted that the registers for 1841-1875 "survive and are filmed" - true, but unverified until now and understated by two films. DGS 4531021 was opened: 658 images, unrestricted, and its leader card reads film 1091422, matching the catalogue exactly. AND THE CATALOGUE CONFIRMS THE HARD EDGE: there is no defunciones film after 1875. Deaths 1876-1881 have neither an index section nor a register. That is not a gap this archive can close by working harder, and it is now stated on evidence rather than on inference. Also recovered from the same catalogue and never previously listed here: three Confirmaciones films (the confirmations this archive has long listed as untried - they exist) and two earlier Matrimonios films, 1722-1803 and 1804-1852.

The Rosario Lorenas read at their own schedule: a Peruvian tinsmith

did Item 12 of fifteen, closed on the image. The 1869 census note had asked for exactly this read: "the schedule will show the household structure - who is head, who is spouse, who is child - and whether the clerk wrote Lerena, Lorena or Llerena." All six Lorenas turned out to share ONE image ark, so they are one household on one page, not scattered through the census as the note supposed. THE HEAD IS A PERUVIAN TINSMITH FROM LIMA. Agustin Lorena, 40, casado, "ojalatero" - and his nacionalidad is given as LIMA, with the provincia de su nacimiento column left BLANK precisely because he is not Argentine. His five children are Argentine, born in CORDOBA: Guillermo 16 (a tinsmith like his father), Geronima 15 (confitera, with a trade of her own at fifteen), Mercedes 9, Felix 3, Maria 1. No wife on the schedule though he is recorded married. AND THE SPELLING IS ANSWERED ON THE PAGE: LORENA - a single L, and the second letter unmistakably an O. So they are set down. Guillermo and Geronima were flagged in the register as the right age to be a parent of a child born in 1882, which is the whole question - they would have been 29 and 28. But the ONLY reason these six were of interest was the possibility that "Lorena" was how a Rosario clerk heard "Lerena", and the schedule says otherwise: a different vowel, a different country, a different province of origin. Pablo Armando's people were Uruguayan, and the one Lerena baptised at Rosario before 1879 has parents "naturales del E. Oriental", read from the act itself. Recorded as looked at and set down, NOT as an exclusion by arithmetic. Guillermo could in principle have fathered a child at Rosario in 1882. He is simply no longer interesting, and now for a reason on an image rather than a hunch. One echo kept: FamilySearch full text turned up an entire LERENA population at AREQUIPA, PERU that this archive had never met. A Lorena from Lima belongs with that population and with nothing in this family. This also lets the sentence tightened earlier today be tightened the other way: Bartolome Llerena really is the only credible pre-1882 Rosario candidate - not because the Lorenas were defined out of the question, but because they were read and found to be someone else.

Phase 6b: /who — one page per name, because a name is not a person

did Four of the seven archives already separated these two ideas. This one did not, and it is the archive that needed it most. /people/<person> is one human. /who/<name> is everyone who bore that name, and the two link to each other. The name page opens by saying how many people it holds, because the risk it exists to address is a reader assuming there is only one. The case that prompted it: twenty different people in this archive are called Ivan Blazevic. Seven of them carry no dates at all, so the page says plainly that where two have no dates the archive cannot tell them apart either. That is a gap, not a tidy answer, and publishing it is the point. The index lists all 815 names with the 180 held by more than one person called out, because those are the ones where a reader can go wrong. A note for whoever touches these next: slugify has to be declared INSIDE getStaticPaths. Astro lifts that function into its own module scope, where frontmatter declarations - const or hoisted function alike - are not visible. It fails at build with "slugify is not defined" and the location it prints is inside Astro, not your file.

Phase 6a: /trees — every line in the form its evidence supports

did Adopts the model the Defranceschi archive worked out. The transferable part is not the chart, it is refusing to draw a spine you cannot prove, and saying on the page which of the two a reader is looking at. Five states, shared across the seven: drawn, web, drawable, route, and closed — that last for a line followed, tested and shown not to belong. The state is DERIVED, not asserted. A line is drawn only where this archive actually publishes a chart of it — checked by looking for a tree component on the page, not by trusting that a page exists. Everything else is drawable if there are enough people to chart, a route if there are not. That check earned itself. Five rows across two archives claimed "drawn" because a page of that name existed — Barry, Kolbe, Sneyd, Atwell, Murdoch — and every one of those pages is narrative with no chart on it. They are demoted, with the gap stated: "No chart of this family has been drawn — only a page about them." Two other corrections while building it. Falco's surname pages are narrative too, so only the Falco line itself is drawn there. And Lerena's rows are written rather than derived: splitting names on the last word produced fragments — LERENA), Trinidad), 1911) — which would have shipped four families that do not exist. Its three rows say what is actually known, including that Llerena, Larena, Lorena and Lerina are one family spelled four ways by clerks who had not met the name.

Publish the search index as a file, not just as an import

did Caught live, not in a build. These three archives kept searchindex.json in src/data and imported it, which was fine while each had its own search page compiled around it. The shared box fetches /searchindex.json at runtime instead — so on these three the fetch 404'd and search returned nothing, while the box itself rendered perfectly. The build now copies the index into public/ before astro runs, so it ships as a file. The import stays, because the page still counts the rows for its eyebrow. Worth recording as the cost of consolidating: the component was right, the contract was right, the schema validated on all seven — and three sites were still broken, because nobody had checked that the file the component asks for is actually served. A schema check is not a request.

Wire in the kit, and one search box for seven archives

did Two jobs the roadmap had left open. THE KIT IS NOW A DEPENDENCY, not a set of copies. Each site installs @daviddef/archive-kit from GitHub and imports Evidence, SiblingArchives, Search and archives.json from it; the local duplicates are deleted. The kit repo had to become public for CI to install it without credentials — it holds component code and the seven public URLs, all of which is already published on the sites themselves. I argued against this earlier on blast-radius grounds and that argument still stands: a bad publish can now reach all seven at once. What changes the balance is that the copies had already started to matter — the evidence ladder, the ring and the search contract are things that have to agree across archives to mean anything. SEARCH IS ONE COMPONENT. There were six implementations of the same idea, 91 to 142 lines each, so every improvement had to be made six times or it silently applied to one site. The box, the ranking and the fold are now shared; what stays per archive is the index, because only an archive knows its own data shapes, and the words it uses to describe itself. That needed one contract. Rows are {k,t,s,h,q} — kind, title, subtitle, href, and a lowercased accent-folded haystack. Four archives already emitted exactly that. Booyzen used "x" for the haystack; Falco used {d,k,t,u} with no folded field at all, and Lerena the same. Their generators now normalise on the way out, so the fix cannot drift back. Verified across all seven: 11,778 index rows, zero schema errors, zero bad hrefs, zero empty haystacks, and every sampled href resolves in the built site. Driven in a browser on D'Arcy: Saniger 128 results with "Saniger is a place" first, Hornby 145 with "The Hornby Claim" first, grouped by kind, and a nothing-found that says it may mean nobody has looked yet. The search box also gained what none of the six had: aria-describedby on the input and role="status" aria-live on the count, so a screen reader is told how many results arrived.

Carry the 1882 register six acts further, and write down why it is slow

did Item 11 of fifteen - started honestly rather than claimed. Opening at image 12, acts 915-920 of 5 August 1882: Francisco Dapple, Justino Flores, Juan Seguiroma, Inocencio Diez, Miguel Abasto, Juan Agustin Cortes. No Lerena. That is 756 consecutive baptisms read act by act. AND A METHOD NOTE THAT COST AN HOUR TO LEARN, recorded so the next person does not pay for it again. Every image in the film carries its OWN DeepZoom ark, and the film's list of arks is not reachable by script: the viewer's page state does not hold it, the ?i=<n> parameter does NOT resolve to a different image, and the /service/records/waypoint/ endpoints that used to answer now return 404. So the arks already in the table cannot be extrapolated - each one must be obtained by driving the viewer's next-image control, one image at a time, before the tiles can be assembled and the margins read. That is about two round trips per opening on top of the reading. It does not make the job hard, only slow, which is why it is paused at an exact resume point - image 13, act 921 - rather than either abandoned or pretended finished. The priority note already in this file still stands: the POINT of the act-by-act read was to test whether the 1945 typescript index is complete, and that test is done and passed across 750 acts. August to December 1882 is completeness, not discovery.

Check the register against itself, the way the sibling archives do

did Items 5, 6 and 13 of fifteen. ITEM 6 FOUND THE REAL GAP. Comparing this archive against Blazevic, Mazza, Booyzen, Falco, Defranceski and D'Arcy, the difference is not in the data - it is in what gets checked. Blazevic has 26 tools, Mazza 40-odd; Lerena had 6. Two siblings carry a check this one did not: - Blazevic consistency.py - "check the tree against itself, no external source, just dates that cannot all be true at once". Its header records the cost: Tereza Pecanic published as dying in 1850, marrying in 1858 and bearing children until 1884. - Booyzen drift.py - "catch a narrative page that has fallen behind the data". BOTH OF THOSE FAILURES HAPPENED HERE TODAY, independently, and both were found by eye. The sources page had fallen three days behind the work. Three published dates were wrong - Ema Sixta c.1880 for 1876, Julia c.1844 for 1842, and two siblings indexed as born in February and July of the same year 1843. So tools/consistency.py now exists here too. It checks for a parent younger than their child, full siblings born less than nine months apart, a field that is both hedged and precise, and a row claiming IMAGE READ while naming no ark. Contradictions fail the build; softer observations print and do not. Both hard checks were verified by feeding it synthetic contradictions - two failures, exit 1 - rather than trusting a clean pass. The deploy now runs it. IT IMMEDIATELY FOUND FIVE ROWS that say IMAGE READ and carry no ark: Bartolome Llerena, Julia Juanico, Ema Sixta, Juliana Joaquina Gonzalez and Sancho Llerena. Those images were genuinely read - but without the ark a reader cannot check them, and checkability is the entire point of this archive. Logged as an errand rather than quietly excused. ITEM 5, the register sweep, found the register structurally clean across all 183 rows - no malformed field counts, no unpaired emphasis markers, no missing sources, six consistent status values - and one CONTRADICTION WITH A NOTE: The 1869 census note said Bartolome Llerena was "the only person of this surname found in Rosario before 1882". SIX LORENAS ARE IN THE SAME CENSUS, and this archive's own register groups LORENA with LERENA and LLERENA as spellings of one name, because the clerks disagreed. Two of them - Guillermo b.1853 and Geronima b.1854 - are flagged in that very register as the right age to be a parent of a child born in 1882. The note now claims only what was checked, and the Lorenas stay in view instead of being defined out of the question. Reading them at their own census pages is now an errand. ITEM 13: Carolina Lerena married JULIAN MARTINEZ, with children Julian and Carlos, appearing in Buenos Aires civil registration and Mendoza parish records - and in Mendoza she is indexed once as Carolina LLERENA, the same alternation again. Index-level. The 1892 Buenos Aires probate is still not opened. Register: 179 people -> 183.

Julia's baptism, and Candido Juanico's two wives confirmed

did Item 8 of fifteen, closed, plus the inference the archive could not prove. JULIA JUANICO WAS BORN 23 NOVEMBER 1842 and christened 4 October 1843 at San Francisco de Asis - the same parish where she married in 1864, where her son Candido Jaime was baptised in 1886, and where her daughter Maria married that November. Four generations pass through one church in the Ciudad Vieja. Her mother is given in full for the first time: JULIANA JOAQUINA GONZALEZ. Godparents D. Enrique Juanico and Mercedes Gonzalez, both new people. The 1844 this archive carried came from her stated age at death. She was 67, not 66. An age at death is an estimate; a baptism is a date. TWO WIVES, CONFIRMED. The register note on Juliana Gonzalez had read: the published genealogy gives Candido's wife as SIXTA Lenguas Gonzalez, married 1857 - too late for a daughter marrying in 1864, so Juliana is an earlier wife, and that is an inference. The inference was right. Searching Candido as a FATHER returns two clean sets: Julia, born 1842 to Juliana Joaquina Gonzalez; and Sara, Zara Sista Emirena and Celia JUANICO LENGUAS, born 1866-69 to SIXTA LENGUAS. A full generation apart. The published genealogy was right about the marriage and wrong to attach it to Julia. AND NOTE THE SECOND WIFE'S SURNAME. Candido Juanico's second wife was a LENGUAS, and his daughter by his first wife married a Lerena LENGUAS. Justiniana Lenguas and Sixta Lenguas are very likely kin, which would mean these families were connected before 1864. Recorded as an observation, not a relationship - no record read here links the two women directly. One more echo, offered as nothing more: Candido's daughter by Sixta is "Zara Sista EMIRENA Juanico", and Julia's eldest - the Rosario child of 1866 - is "Maria Julia Margarita Josefa EMIRENA Justiniana". The half-sisters were given an uncommon name within a few years of each other. The roadmap's Montevideo section is rewritten to today: seven children, the 1901 death, the 1843 baptism, and Gilberto in the generation above. Register: 173 people -> 179.

His death was hiding under an S, and Gilberto is his brother

did Items 7 and 14 of fifteen, both closed, and one correction to work published three hours ago. THE DEATH IS FOUND: 24 DECEMBER 1901. Luis Eugenio Lerena Lenguas died at seven in the morning at calle Suarez 25, el Paso del Molino, Montevideo - certificate 216, image read at DeepZoom level 13. The window had been July 1886 to July 1910. AND THIS ARCHIVE HAD JUST PUBLISHED THAT HE WAS NOT THERE. Two sweeps were run this morning and written up as negatives: 1,502 Montevideo Lerena deaths for 1880-1911, and 132 Luis Lerena deaths for 1899-1903. I went further and framed the FamilySearch Tree's "1840-1901" as a lead the registers appeared to contradict. The registers did not contradict it. The index did - FamilySearch files him as "Luis SERENA Lenguas", and every search on the surname missed him. He was found by searching his MOTHER. For a family the clerks and indexers between them write as Lerena, Lorena, Serena, Languas, Lenquas, Loupuan and Guanico, the rarest stable name in the household is the one to search. The working rule is now written down: when a search fails, suspect the index before concluding the record does not exist. WHAT THE ACT GIVES. "De nacionalidad oriental, nacido en Montevideo, de cincuenta y seis de edad, de estado casado, y de profesion HACENDADO" - a landowner, the first statement of this family's standing anywhere in the archive; the Rosario act of 1866 managed only "naturales del E. Oriental". Pulmonary tuberculosis, certified by Dr Scremini. His father already dead. And his mother JUSTINIANA LENGUAS ALIVE AT 79, staying in the house where he died - which puts her birth about 1822 and has her outliving him. "De estado casado" locks this act to Julia's of 1910, where she is a widow. GILBERTO LERENA IS HIS BROTHER. The same eight rows returned four siblings - Justinia (1843), Alberto Otario (1850), Maria Ema (1857) - and two records of Gilberto's own children, BOTH giving his parents as Luis and Justiniana Lenguas. So the co-founder of the Argentine Stud Book, owner of Haras El Viejo, the man the Gran Premio Gilberto Lerena was renamed for in 1914, is of the same Montevideo household that produced the single Lerena baptised at Rosario before 1879. The horses and the Rosario thread are one family, not two coincidences. Stated as SECONDARY and as a strong lead, not a proved descent: two parish index entries agree, and neither image has been opened. It also does not find Juan Carlos - five siblings named in that generation and none is he - and it does not yet connect Pablo Armando to any of them. Register: 170 people -> 173.

Rebuild the changelog, and narrow the emphasis guard to paired markers

did A lone in prose is not an unconverted field - the TSV convention is always paired - and flagging it would train me to ignore the check.

A seventh child, four grandparents, and the Trinidad kindred put in the register

did Items 4 and 7-9 of fifteen. Item 4 was meant to be a small usability fix to the register. Testing the page's own search placeholder broke the whole thing open. THE PLACEHOLDER WAS LYING TOO. The register's search box invited readers to try "Trinidad" - and returned nothing, because the entire Trinidad, Flores kindred was missing from a register that promises "every named individual this archive has found". This archive has a whole note calling them the founding kindred of the surname. They are now in it: 29 people. The placeholder is honest because the data caught up with the promise, not because the promise was softened. Re-read from FamilySearch by BIRTHPLACE rather than surname, which produced what the old findmypast list never gave - the mothers' surnames (Pelaez, Echeverry, Gazo, Beloqui, Barragan, Recuero) and a seventh father, Florencio. BELOQUI, ECHEVERRY and PELAEZ ARE BASQUE. That is evidence about the community these Lerenas married into; it is not evidence about the etymology, and it is recorded as the former and not the latter. AND IT CORRECTED US. The note had "Luis x Julia, Emma Liseta 1876" among the Trinidad families, linking the Montevideo trunk to the Trinidad kindred. She is Emma Sixta Lerena Juanico, born and baptised at MONTEVIDEO - our own trunk. The row came off a findmypast list that gives mothers by first name only. The note's prose had always said eleven Trinidad children while its table showed twelve; nobody had reconciled the two. Removing her makes the count agree and severs a link this archive never had. SEVEN CHILDREN, NOT FIVE. The five were built outward from Julia's 1910 death certificate - and a death certificate names the children who mattered to whoever registered the death, not the children a woman bore. Searching both parents' names in one query found Jose Julio (b. 15 Mar 1879) and Candido Jaime (b. 13 Sep 1884). ACT 1720 IS THE BEST DOCUMENT IN THE MONTEVIDEO FILE. San Francisco de Asis, folio 470, read at DeepZoom level 12. Candido Jaime, baptised 6 July 1886 at twenty-one months, "hijo legitimo de Don Luis Lerena Lenguas y de Dona Julia Juanico, ORIENTALES". It names four grandparents, and so: - It CLOSES an open question. Candido Juanico's wife was JULIANA GONZALEZ, not the Sixta Lenguas Gonzalez of the published genealogy. Three acts in one parish now say so across twenty-two years. - The godparents are the baby's own eldest sister Maria - born at Rosario in 1865 - and Don Jaime Herrera, whom she married in this same parish four months later. They stood at the font betrothed. - He was baptised at 21 months, not as an infant. The whole search for Pablo Armando assumes a baptism near the birth. The FamilySearch index of act 1720 was made by a computer. It filed the act under LORENA, rendered the father as "Luis Lorena", and marked BOTH parents as Mother. Searching LERENA and trusting the index would never have found this child. The image settles it. Still no Juan Carlos. Seven children and he is not among them - worth more than it looks, since this was the strongest remaining place to put him. Register: 139 people -> 170. Site: 198 pages -> 230.

Generate the sources page from data, and stop printing raw markers at readers

did 1-3 of fifteen. All three are corrections to this archive's own work. THE SOURCES PAGE WAS LYING. Its "Consulted" table listed 12 sources, newest 10 September, and had not moved for three days - while the Montevideo household, the Rosario death index, 750 acts of the 1882 register, the full-text density measurement and Sancho's six spellings all went unrecorded. The heading above it said "Everything consulted so far". On a page whose whole purpose is letting a reader check the work, that was a false claim. It is now generated from data/sources-consulted.tsv - 33 sources, 13 of them PRIMARY, each carrying its tier - the way people, gaps, errands and changes already work. The archive's method is that pages are generated from the TSVs so page and data cannot drift; /sources/ had escaped it. 362 LITERAL ASTERISKS. The TSVs mark emphasis with triple asterisks, and nothing ever converted it. 362 of them were rendering to readers across 38 pages - 132 on the register alone - so the archive was showing its own working notation as if it were prose. site/src/lib/text.js now converts at render time (escaping first, so data can never inject markup), applied across register, people, gaps, timeline, errands, corrections, photograph-these, changes and sources, and stripped from the search index where the text is plain. THREE GUARDS, so none of this recurs: - check-links.py fails if an emphasis marker ever reaches a rendered page. - check-links.py fails if a container class (.prose, .grid, .scroll, .cols2) is put on a leaf element - the exact mistake behind yesterday's flex bug. Both were verified by deliberately breaking a built page: 2 failures, exit 1. - The deploy workflow now runs check-links.py before uploading. `astro build` exits 0 even when a page throws while rendering - it did today, leaving eight pages missing and 3,433 dead links, and reported success. The deploy is now gated on the link check rather than on the build's own exit code.

Test WikiTree as a source: zero Lerena, and fix a CSS bug it exposed

did WikiTree had never been mentioned anywhere in this archive - not in data/, not in notes/, not on the site - though the archive already leans on Geneanet, Geni, MyHeritage, findmypast and the FamilySearch Tree. A real gap, so it was tested rather than assumed. WikiTree holds ZERO Lerena profiles. Run twice, the second time with variant-matching off so the null could not be the site widening the spelling. That null is worth more than the usual one: WikiTree is a single shared public tree, not millions of private ones, so absence is a measurement rather than a view. LLERENA gives 26 profiles, all Mexican, Cuban-Floridian or Peruvian, plus one Cadiz man of Sancho's generation with no stated link. Not one Uruguayan or Argentine profile of either spelling. So the English side was tested instead, where a hit was actually likely and where this archive is weakest in independence: almost every fact on the Taylor line traces to a single MyHeritage tree. Nearest thing to a hit: two Taylors of Worlingworth, b. 1840 and 1841, William Taylor's own parish - plausibly his sisters. All three Worlingworth profiles were opened; every one has unknown parents. The Devon Brayleys are there in quantity and none connects. The one true Brayley of the right year turned out to be a Queensland Yelland. Recorded as SECONDARY, with Geneanet, Geni and the FamilySearch Tree, and published as a closed source - a source tested and found empty saves the next person an afternoon. Fixes a CSS bug found while checking the new section renders. .prose is a container style (display:flex, column, gap) meant for a <div> wrapping paragraphs; it had also been applied to 21 individual <p> elements. A flex container blockifies its children, so every <em> and <strong> directly inside those paragraphs was thrown onto its own full-width line - about 27 phrases across six pages reading as fragments instead of sentences. One rule, p.prose{display:block}, fixes all of them and keeps the 80ch measure. Also drops a hardcoded "seven thousand words" from the /searched/ dek; the page is at 9,120 and such counts have gone stale here before.

The site was still publishing a claim I retracted this afternoon

did The corrections page has said since 8 September that nothing here is quietly edited away, and that where a page once said something different it now says the corrected thing AND says it used to say something else. The hypotheses page was failing that on its own terms. Its base-rate table still listed FOUR branches including "Arturo Lerena and Amalia Diaz, born Montevideo 1858, son of Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Traibel" - the row I withdrew this afternoon as a conflation of two men, corrected in the data file and on the corrections page, and never removed from the page that actually publishes it. Fixed properly rather than silently: the row is gone, the count is three, the provinces are corrected to Entre Rios, Misiones and Buenos Aires, and a note underneath says what the table used to say, why it was wrong, and links to the correction. Which is what the house rule requires. Also two deks reworded. I wrote "Twelve sections" and "Twelve propositions" this afternoon; both were accurate, and both were numbers that cannot be derived from anything and would drift the moment a section was added. They no longer state a count. Stating a number you cannot derive is how the front page came to claim 129 people when there were 138. And the people index said "Five are connected to the direct line" when fourteen are. It now derives all three figures - connected, excluded, unplaced - from the data. 198 pages, 288 ids, 0 broken.

Three pages scrolled sideways on a phone, and one of them was my doing

did Tested every page at 375px by loading each into a 375px iframe and measuring scrollWidth against clientWidth - rather than spot-checking two and assuming. Three failed. /errands/ scrolled 412 PIXELS. The cause was mine, from this afternoon: the errand handing David three FamilySearch searches carries a 150-character URL, and a URL has nothing to break on. Body prose now sets overflow-wrap:anywhere, so a long token wraps instead of widening the page. It is the right default for an archive that quotes film numbers, arks and search URLs constantly. /roadmap/ and /photograph-these/ each scrolled about 32px, from the labelled rule. Its .lb label was flex:0 0 auto - unshrinkable - so a long label pushed the row wider than the screen. It may now shrink and wrap, with tighter spacing and letter-spacing below 620px. Also in this commit: contents lists for /argentina/ (12 sections), /taylor/ (9) and /name/ (7), on the same pattern and under the same build check as searched, hypotheses and corrections. Every reading page over about 1,700 words now has a way in. 198 pages, 288 ids, 0 broken.

Phase 4: close the ring

did Part of standardising the seven family archives. Until now they barely acknowledged each other: D'Arcy linked to five siblings, Mazza to two, Falco and Blazevic to one each, and Booyzen and Defranceschi — the one every other archive points at — linked to nobody at all. A reader landing on one had no way to learn the other six existed. One src/data/archives.json, identical in all seven, holding each archive's name, address, accent, where it comes from, one line of what it is, and the surnames it covers. One SiblingArchives component renders every entry except the one you are standing in, working out which that is from BASE_URL, so no per-site configuration can drift. It sits in the footer, so it is on every page of every archive. Each card wears its own archive's colour, which is the payoff of Phase 1: seven distinguishable accents mean the ring reads as seven places rather than one list. Two things fixed on the way: Falco's dark accent was still the teal every archive shipped before Phase 1, so in dark mode it was indistinguishable from Defranceschi. It takes #E0836A, 5.92:1 on its own dark panel. That completes the colour work: all seven are now distinct in both themes, not just in light. The ring was painting light-theme hexes onto a dark ground. The component now publishes both a light and a dark value and lets the stylesheet choose — set from CSS rather than inline, because an inline custom property would have beaten the media query.

Six of today's corrections were malformed, and light mode is what showed it

did Two jobs, and the first was found only by looking at the site on paper-white for the first time today. Everything I had checked until now rendered dark, because the preview pane follows the app theme. THE CORRECTIONS PAGE HAD SIX ENTRIES WITH EMPTY FIELDS. data/corrections.tsv carries five columns - date, severity, what was said, what is true, how it was caught - and every entry I added today had THREE. So my title landed in the severity column, my body in "It said", and "It is:" and "Caught by:" rendered blank. Six of the twenty entries on the page the archive's honesty rests on were broken, and the serious/minor tallies in the header counted none of them. All six rewritten into the proper schema. Four are graded serious - the LERINA exclusion reasoning, the two Arturo Lerenas, the one-way parent edges, and the duplicate register names - and two minor. Every one now says how it was caught, which is the transferable part and the reason the column exists. AND THE PAGE ITSELF. Twenty entries rendered as one undifferentiated run of panels. Now grouped by the day they were caught, each day a labelled rule with a hidden linkable heading, and a contents list at the top giving each day's count and how many of them were serious. Same idiom as the changelog, same build check enforcing that no day can go unlisted. Light mode itself is fine - the violet accent the standardisation commit introduced reads well on the paper ground, and nothing else was amiss. But I had approved a palette I had never seen, and that was worth correcting. 198 pages, 257 ids, 0 broken.

Two more notes brought up to what the acts now say

did Continuing the sweep for register notes that went stale this afternoon. GILBERTO LERENA still read only "No proven link to Pablo Armando" - true, and worth keeping - but said nothing of what was learned today: his father is documented rather than asserted, because his brother's marriage act of 1864 names their parents. It now also states the coincidence plainly, that a Lerena at the centre of Argentine breeding sits beside a Pablo Armando who trained and owned racehorses, while keeping the brotherhood itself marked secondary, since that still rests on published genealogy and not an act. JUSTINIANA LENGUAS GONZALEZ was described from the trees. She is named in TWO acts read here - her son's marriage of 1864, at which she was a witness, and her granddaughter's baptism of 1869, which calls her one of the abuelos paternos. Her note now leads with those and keeps only her own parentage as secondary. It also carries the thing that makes the family legible: her sister Sixta married Candido Juanico, so the Lenguas married into both houses, and Sixta stood godmother to the 1869 child.

Two register notes were still calling documented facts unverified

did Looking at a person page on a phone turned up a content fault, not a layout one. Don Luis Eugenio Lerena Lenguas's note still read: Published Uruguayan genealogy makes him a son of Luis Lerena y Fernandez and Justiniana Lenguas Gonzalez ... That parentage is SECONDARY and unverified. It has not been unverified since this morning. The Montevideo marriage act of 19 December 1864 names him "hijo legitimo de Don Luis y de Dona Justiniana Lenguas", and his daughter Laura Adela's baptism of 1869 names the same two as her paternal grandparents - two acts, independently. The page was contradicting its own archive. The godfather's row carried the same stale sentence and has been rewritten too. Both now separate the two claims properly: the PARENTAGE is documented; what stays SECONDARY is only the equation of that "Don Luis" with the Luis Lerena y Fernandez (1811-1878) of the published trees, and through him the line up to Sancho. That distinction is the whole point of the tiering and it had been lost in a note nobody re-read. Also recorded there now: five children on primary records, and his death dated to before 11 July 1910 by his widow's registration.

The contents lists I added today were unreadable on a phone

did Checked the site at 375px for the first time - something I had not done at all today - and the three contents lists added this afternoon were still in two columns, each about 110px wide, breaking every entry across three or four lines. They were written with an inline style="columns:2", and an inline style cannot carry a media query. Moved to a .cols2 class that drops to one column below 620px, with break-inside:avoid so an entry cannot be split across the fold. Applied to all three - searched, hypotheses, changes.

Fingerprint the stylesheet, because a cached one had been quietly lying

did Scrolling the deployed changelog to check the new fold-away entries showed the day's date TWICE - once in the labelled rule, once as a large heading beneath it - although the markup carried class="vh" and the stylesheet carried the rule that hides it. The markup was right and the CSS was right. The BROWSER was serving a cached styles.css from before that class existed. Which means every returning visitor to this site has been laid out by whatever version of the stylesheet their browser happened to keep - and would have been, for as long as it kept it. The stylesheet is now fingerprinted with a short SHA-1 of its own contents: styles.css?v=fa62f94e. The URL changes exactly when the file changes and never otherwise, so a CSS change reaches everybody on their next visit and nobody re-downloads it for nothing. AND THE CHECKER CAUGHT ITS OWN REGRESSION. Adding the query string broke all 198 pages in tools/check-links.py, which tested whether a path ENDED in .css and now saw "styles.css?v=fa62f94e". That is the checker doing its job on the first change after it was written: it fails loudly rather than passing quietly. It now strips the query before testing the path. 198 pages, 251 ids, 0 broken.

Phase 1: own accent, and trailing slashes

did Part of standardising the seven family archives. No content touched. This was the third archive wearing the Defranceschi palette — the same #1F5C6B teal as Defranceschi and Blazevic, light and dark. Takes violet #5B3A96, with #B49AE8 for dark; 7.8:1 on paper, 7.44:1 on the dark ground. Violet rather than the amber the children's site uses for this line: the Mazza archive has just taken ochre, and amber beside ochre is not a distinction anyone would make at a glance. Where alignment with the children's palette costs legibility, legibility wins. Trailing slashes: this was the only archive mixing both styles — 82 links with, 64 without. Now all 146 have one. Verified: 198 pages built, 14,357 internal links crawled, all resolve.

A contents list for the hypotheses page too, and a count got checked before it was published

did Hypotheses had grown to 5,250 words across thirteen sections with no way in - the same fault as the searched page, and the second-longest reading page on the site. Every h2 now carries a stable id and the page opens with a list of the propositions, enforced by the same build check: a proposition cannot be added or renamed without appearing in the list. The first draft of the dek said "Thirteen of them". There are thirteen HEADINGS but only TWELVE PROPOSITIONS - the thirteenth is the Retired section, which is where hypotheses go when they are disproved, not a hypothesis. It now reads "Twelve propositions ... and a last section for the ones already retired", which is what is actually on the page. Small, but this is the second count today that would have been wrong if it had not been read back. 198 pages, 251 ids, 0 broken.

Make the changelog navigable, and say what it leaves out

did The changelog had become the largest page on the site - THIRTY-THREE THOUSAND WORDS - with no headings, no way in, and every commit body expanded. It is the archive's best feature and its least usable page. THREE CHANGES. Days are now real headings with stable ids, and the page opens with a list of them and their change counts. The headings are visually hidden - each day already carries a labelled rule above it - but they exist for linking and for screen readers, and the anchor checker written an hour ago enforces that every one of them appears in the contents list. Each entry's REASONING is folded behind a "Why" disclosure. The subject line stays visible, so the page can be scanned; the argument is one click away. No JavaScript - a details element and eight lines of CSS. And thirty-two commits are OMITTED: those whose entire subject is "Rebuild the changelog". They are the mechanical consequence of the commit before them and contain no reasoning at all. But they are COUNTED AND DECLARED in the page's own prose, with a link to the full commit list in the repository, because an archive that quietly shortens its own log is doing the exact opposite of what the log is for. The builder carries a comment saying so, so the next person to touch it knows the rule was deliberate. 116 changes across 4 days, plus 32 mechanical rebuilds named as such. 198 pages, 237 ids, 0 broken.

Give the longest page a contents list the build enforces, and promote the checker

did THE SEARCHED PAGE HAD GROWN TO 22 SECTIONS AND 7,700 WORDS with no way into it, and two of those sections were both called "The register itself" - one the first pass of 10 September, one the 750-act sweep of the 13th - sitting four sections apart with the later one first. Renamed so the relationship reads: The register itself - carried to 750 acts, and the index vindicated The register itself - where that read began Every h2 now carries a stable id derived from its own text, and the page opens with a contents list. AND THE LIST MAKES A PROMISE THE BUILD KEEPS. The first draft of that block said the list "is generated from the headings themselves, so it cannot drift" - which was FALSE as written: it was generated once by a script, not at build time. An archive that publishes an untrue sentence about its own machinery is worse than one with no contents list. So the machinery was made to match the claim rather than the claim softened to match the machinery. tools/check-links.py - promoted out of the ad-hoc heredoc I had been pasting after every build, and extended. It now: - validates in-page #anchors, not just pages and assets - treats any page carrying an id="contents" as making a promise, and checks that EVERY h2 on that page is linked from within it Both directions were tested by breaking the built HTML deliberately: renaming one heading produced two failures - a contents link pointing at a section that no longer exists, and a section missing from the contents list - and a non-zero exit. The page's sentence now reads "the build checks this list against the page", which is true. 198 pages, 232 ids, 0 broken.

Two more hardcoded counts, and close the loop on a prediction the site made

did "Eight numbers" on the front page, when today's work had made it ten. Now derived from the array, spelled out, so it cannot drift again - the same fault as the 129/138 register count an hour ago, and the third instance today of a figure typed by hand in an archive whose whole method is generating pages from the data. AND A LOOP CLOSED. The Argentina page has carried this since 8 September, under "Uruguay is not a detour": Stated plainly so it is not forgotten later: if the Argentine search stalls, the correct next move is Uruguay, not a harder Argentine search. The Argentine search did stall, and the instruction was followed. The page now says what came of it: one Lerena in a hundred and seventy years of the Rosario index, and the act behind her saying "naturales del E. Oriental"; the full-text measurement, where LERENA runs 6.4x commoner in Uruguay while its twin LLERENA runs 3.6x the other way and two reference surnames both favour Argentina; and the thing it has NOT produced, which is Juan Carlos. It seemed worth marking where a page told its own future what to do and turned out to be right.

Lead the front page with what the day actually found

did The banner still led with 10 September - "His father has a name" - which was the right lead for three days and stopped being it. The front page is the most prominent editorial judgement on the site and it was out of date. New lead, 13 September: THEY WERE NOT A ROSARIO FAMILY. Both volumes of the baptism index read end to end, 1731 to 1901; the surname appears once in a hundred and seventy years; the act behind that one entry says of both parents "naturales del E. Oriental". No baptism for Pablo Armando, none for his father, no Lerena marriage 1867-1885, not one Lerena in the 1895 census of Santa Fe - and then the register itself read act by act, 750 consecutive baptisms, to test whether the 1945 index could be trusted. It agrees everywhere. A household that lives in a parish leaves baptisms. This one leaves nothing, which is no longer a gap in the searching but a fact about the family. With a footnote for the death index and its missing L section, 1840-1881. The enrolment card keeps its panel directly beneath, under "Before that", in the quieter rule colour. It is still the best document in the archive; it is no longer the news.

Record the block, and hand three searches to David

did FamilySearch is up - in an ordinary browser. It is not up for THIS session: every request from the automated browser pane is refused on contact by Incapsula, ark pages included, which makes it a block on this client rather than a rate limit that can be paced around. Four separate blocks today, all earned by the day's reading rate, and this one does not lift on the timescale the others did. Rather than keep poking at it - which lengthens these things - the three searches that would each close an open question are written up as an errand with the URLs in full, so they take about two minutes in a normal browser: 1. Luis Eugenio Lerena's death, narrowed to between 1880 and July 1910 2. Julia Juanico's baptism, born Montevideo about 1844 3. Candido Juanico's first marriage to Juliana Gonzalez, which is currently inference from dates and not a document Paste anything back and I will read the images, which is the part that needs me.

Roadmap route 1 rewritten - Montevideo went from a plan to a household

did Route 1 still read "worked once, and the indexes came back empty", which was true this morning and stopped being true by the afternoon. It now says what actually happened: the one documented Lerena household of that generation in the River Plate is open from the marriage act of December 1864 to Julia Juanico's death in July 1910, with five children, every member on a primary record, and Laura Adela's baptism naming every grandparent in a single line. And it says the thing that matters: Juan Carlos Lerena is not among them, and not in the indexed Uruguayan record either. What is still open is listed precisely - Luis Eugenio's own death, now narrowed to 1880-1910; Julia's baptism; Candido Juanico's first marriage to Juliana Gonzalez, which is inference from dates and not a document; and the reading full text cannot do for you, the Montevideo marriage registers of the 1870s.

Julia Juanico's death, and the date it puts on her husband's

did Montevideo, civil registration certificate No. 357 of 1910, image ark 3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-K9BG-8, read at tile level 12: En Montevideo, el dia doce de Julio de mil novecientos diez, a las once de la manana ... declarando que a las cuatro de la tarde del dia de ayer, y en la calle Constituyente No. 992, ha fallecido JULIA JUANICO DE LERENA, del sexo femenino, de nacionalidad oriental, nacida en esta ciudad, de SESENTA Y SEIS ANOS DE EDAD, DE ESTADO VIUDA, y de profesion labores del sexo. Declared by two clerks - Don Antonio Vicaria of calle Nicaragua 139 and Don Lorenzo Nicolas Baca - before the Juez de Paz of the fifteenth section. She died on 11 July 1910, aged sixty-six, born in Montevideo about 1844, which makes her about twenty at her marriage in December 1864. Nothing in the household needs stretching to fit. AND SHE WAS A WIDOW. So Luis Eugenio Lerena Lenguas died BEFORE 11 JULY 1910 - somewhere between 1880, when their last child was born, and that summer. That squares with their son Enrique's registration of May 1914, which calls both parents fallecidos. His own death record is not found. The search for it was cut short when FamilySearch firewalled this session for the third time today - all three my doing, not theirs. The errand carries the exact window and the two searches to run when the block lifts. 198 pages, 0 broken links.

Laura Adela - a fifth child, and one act that names every grandparent

did Looking for the DEATHS of Luis Lerena Lenguas and Julia Juanico turned up something better than what I went for. A CIVIL TRANSCRIPTION of March 1902 - Luis Cincinato Bollo, Director General del Registro del Estado Civil, certifying an old parish act into the civil register under the Uruguayan law of 9 July 1888. Entry No. 51, "Lerena, Laura Adela", image ark 3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-XSMB-7, read at tile level 12. The priest attests that in libro treinta y cuatro de Bautismos, folio doscientos setenta y uno, stands this: En tres de Marzo del ano de mil ochocientos sesenta y nueve el Presbitero Don Jose Miralda, con licencia del infrascripto Cura Rector de esta Iglesia Matriz de Montevideo, bautice solemnemente en ella a LAURA ADELA, que nacio el veinte y siete de Junio del ano anterior, hija legitima de DON LUIS EUGENIO LERENA y de Da JULIA JUANICO, orientales. ABUELOS PATERNOS DON LUIS Y Da JUSTINIANA LENGUAS; MATERNOS Dn CANDIDO Y Da JULIANA GONZALEZ. Padrinos Don Candido Juanico y Da Sixta Lenguas. THREE THINGS AT ONCE. A FIFTH CHILD. Laura Adela, born 27 June 1868, baptised 3 March 1869 - slotting neatly between Maria Julia (1865) and Luis (1872). HIS FULL NAME. "Don LUIS EUGENIO Lerena", which no other record had given. The register, the relations and the charts now carry it. BOTH SETS OF GRANDPARENTS, IN ONE LINE, IN A PARISH ACT. Everything this archive had inferred or taken from a tree about the generation above Luis Lerena Lenguas is simply stated here - his father Luis, his mother Justiniana Lenguas; her father Candido, her mother Juliana Gonzalez - independently of the marriage act of 1864 and agreeing with it exactly. AND THE GODMOTHER IS THE KNOT. The godparents are Don Candido Juanico, the baby's maternal grandfather, and Dona Sixta Lenguas, whom he married in 1857 - and Sixta Lenguas Gonzalez is the SISTER of Justiniana Lenguas Gonzalez, the baby's paternal grandmother. So the child's two godparents are her mother's father and her father's mother's sister, who are married to each other. The Lenguas married into both houses, which is why the two surnames keep appearing together and why a SIXTA turns up among the children a decade later. Luis Eugenio Lerena Lenguas and Julia Juanico now show five children each on their charts. AND STILL NOTHING TOUCHES PABLO ARMANDO LERENA. 198 pages, 0 broken links.

Record why the CEMLA manifests cannot be opened from here

did Tried CEMLA for the four LERINA arrivals of 1889, whose exclusion was narrowed this morning but whose manifest page has never been seen. The search lives in an iframe at search.cemla.com and is gated by a CAPTCHA - field "CaptchaCode" - which this archive does not solve. Worth saying plainly for whoever picks it up: on the evidence of its own interface, CEMLA's public search returns INDEX ROWS, not page images. If that is right, the manifests are only at the Archivo General de la Nacion and this is not closable online by anyone. It is on the gaps page in those terms, so that a future reader does not mistake an index row for a document - which is the error this archive has had to correct twice already.

Derive the front-page count instead of typing it, and add the gap to the figures

did FamilySearch firewalled this session again, and faster this time - the blocks shorten as the day's reading accumulates. So: offline work. THE FRONT PAGE SAID 129 PEOPLE IN THE REGISTER. There are 138. A hand-typed count, correct when written and stale within days - the register grew by nine that same afternoon. This archive's whole method is that pages are GENERATED from the TSVs so that page and data cannot drift; this one figure had escaped it. It now derives from people.json and cannot go stale again. On the corrections page. AND A NEW FIGURE, because it is one of the more striking things the archive now knows: 1840-1881 - the years for which the Rosario death index has no L section at all; the book runs A to F and stops. Checked the other hardcoded numbers while I was there. "2,124 people bear this surname in the whole world" on the horses and name pages is the global count of the surname, not an internal tally, and is correct. The "entries" figures on the searched page are descriptive prose about the index sections, not counts of anything this archive holds. 197 pages, 0 broken links.

Take Sancho out of the tree and put him in the records

did Everything this archive said about Sancho Llerena rested on the FAMILYSEARCH TREE - a user's decision that fourteen sources were one man, and vitals with no citation attached. That is precisely the kind of evidence this archive has been caught by before, so it was checked. Not by working through the tree's own source list, but by going at the INDEXED RECORDS directly: given name Sancho, surname Llerena or Lerena, country Uruguay. THE CENSUS. Uruguay, Census Records 1726-1858, index ark 1:1:61LW-R54J: Sancho Llerena. Sexo masculino. Age 45 years. BIRTHPLACE: ANDALUZIA. And the image was opened - ark 3:1:3QS7-99ZR-NKNR. It carries a filmer's warning, "Paginas Rotas - Escritura poco Legible", and it is very faint. It is legible all the same. Household No. 59, CALLE SAN JUAN, MONTEVIDEO, and the entry reads: Sancho Llerena Maria Fernandez Husband and wife, one line under the other, in the record itself. THE SIX OTHERS, all Uruguayan, all naming the same wife and the same children: Sancho Llerena father of the bride; child Justa Pastora Llerena Sancho Lerena child Avelino Lerena D. Sancho Lerena child Dominga Lorena Sancho Llerena child Dominga Llarena Sancio Llerena child Dominga Josefa Sancho Lorena father of the groom; child rendered "Avelino Serena" WHAT THAT SETTLES. The alternation is NOT a tree user's idea. The records themselves spell the man Llerena, Lerena, Sancio Llerena, D. Sancho Lerena and Lorena, and his children Llarena and Serena. And a census gives his birthplace in one word: Andaluzia. WHAT IT STILL DOES NOT SETTLE, and both are on the page. That these are all ONE MAN remains an inference - a strong one, resting on the repeated wife and children in one city, but an inference, and the fourteen parish acts behind the tree's list have still not been opened one by one. And CORDOBA specifically, as against Andalusia generally, still comes only from the tree: the census gives the province, not the town. Nothing here touches Pablo Armando Lerena. 197 pages, 0 broken links.

Make every register row addressable, then draw the households that were already documented

did FamilySearch firewalled this session again partway through - my own reading rate, as before - so the network-dependent items were set aside and the offline ones done instead. FIRST, A FAULT FOUND BEFORE IT DID ANY DAMAGE. The people builder looks people up with a plain dictionary keyed on NAME. Eleven names appeared twice or three times in the register - three Francisco Lerenas, three Jose Llerenas, two Carlos Lerenas, two Gilbertos, two Avelino Carloses, two Juan Larenas, two Maria Larenas, two Antonio Larenas - so the later row silently won and THIRTEEN ROWS COULD NOT BE ADDRESSED BY NAME AT ALL. Slugs had been disambiguated; names never were. Nothing was visibly wrong, because no relationship edge happened to name an ambiguous person. But I was about to add twenty-four edges, several of them to a "Carlos LERENA" and a "Gilberto LERENA", and they would have attached to the wrong man in silence. Every duplicate now carries a short factual tag - "Carlos LERENA (b.1885, arr. 1926)" against "Carlos LERENA (b.1884, Retiro baptism)" - and the builder now REFUSES TO BUILD if two rows share a name, printing the offenders. On the corrections page. THEN THE EDGES. Twenty-four relationships this archive had already READ and recorded in its register notes, and simply never drew: Gilberto Lerena and Julia Salvanach and their seven children in the 1895 Buenos Aires census; Carlos Lerena of the Retiro baptism, his parents, both his wives and his son Avelino Carlos of the Mendoza baptism; Pedro Llerena and Sofia Clavijo and their daughter Susana; Francisco Llerena and Rafaela Daraz and their son Baldomero and his wife Margarita Correas; the Carlos and Rosa who crossed together in 1926; and the two Gilbertos, father and son, who crossed together on the CAP. NORTE in 1928. People with no relations at all: 110 before, 93 now. Most of the remainder are genuinely unplaced, which is what unplaced means. AND AN ERRAND CLOSED WITHOUT NEEDING DAVID. "Gilberto Lerena Lenguas - his parents and siblings" had been sitting behind a Geneanet CAPTCHA. His brother's marriage act of 19 December 1864 names their parents outright, so his parentage is now documented from a primary record. The siblings remain secondary. Plus an audit of all 138 people pages after yesterday's chart change: charts present wherever there are relations, absent wherever there are none, no stray numerals. It did turn up "Of the 1 relationships in the chart above" on three pages. Fixed. 196 pages, 0 broken links.

Open the three Montevideo images - and find the sisters standing in each other's acts

did Three records were marked PRIMARY yesterday on the strength of MACHINE TRANSCRIPTS. By this archive's own rule that is not good enough, and the rule exists because it was broken once already. All three are now opened. LUIS, buried 13 December 1897. Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepcion, image ark 3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-LSMR-1. The margin reads "Lerena, Luis": di sepultura eclesiastica al cadaver de Luis Lerena, oriental, de veinte y cinco anos de edad, soltero e hijo legitimo de Luis Lerena Lenguas y Julia Juanico: fallecio ayer. ENRIQUE, died 16 May 1914. Montevideo civil registration no. 46, image ark 3:1:3Q9M-CS2W-J9WM-2 - a printed form filled in by hand before Cesar Schiaffino, Oficial del Estado Civil of the sixth section, on the declaration of two clerks, Hercules Sacchi and Oscar Mendez. Cause of death UREMIA, certified by Dr A. Mane. And the line that matters: el finado era hijo legitimo de Don Luis Lerena Lenguas y de Dona Julia Juanico, FALLECIDOS. Both parents already dead by May 1914 - the first thing this archive knows about the end of Luis Lerena Lenguas and Julia Juanico. EMA SIXTA, married 30 June 1913. La Union, act No. 90, page 492, image ark 3:1:3Q9M-C9B7-T7P2-W: contrajo Don Jose Pedro Massera ... de cuarenta y seis anos de edad ... con Dona Ema Sixta Lerena Joanico ... de treinta y tres anos de edad, hija legitima de Don Luis Lerena Lenguas y Dona Julia Joanico, finados. Fueron testigos, Don Jaime Herrera y Dona Maria Lerena Joanico de Herrera. THE WITNESSES ARE HER SISTER AND HER BROTHER-IN-LAW - the couple of the act of November 1886. Two marriage registers twenty-seven years apart, and the same people standing in both. That is the kind of internal agreement that tells you a household has been reconstructed correctly rather than assembled. AND WHO THE GROOM WAS. Jose Pedro Massera (1866-1942), professor of philosophy at the Universidad de la Republica from 1887 to 1927 and a Colorado senator from 1927. The age on the act fits his birth year exactly, and independent sources give his wife as Ema Lerena Joanico and their son as JOSE LUIS MASSERA (1915-2002), Uruguay's most celebrated mathematician and a political prisoner under the dictatorship. So the sister of the only Lerena baptised at Rosario in a hundred and seventy years married into that family. Recorded because it is true and because it was reached from an act read here. IT BEARS NOT AT ALL ON THE CENTRAL QUESTION. Nothing connects this household to Pablo Armando Lerena or to Juan Carlos, and a striking name must not be allowed to do the work of evidence. Said in those words in the data file and the note. One correction folded in: Ema Sixta is thirty-three on the 1913 act, so born about 1880, where a findmypast index had said 1876.

Wire in the Montevideo household - and find the charts had been half-blind all along

did TWO JOBS, and the first uncovered the second. ONE. The Montevideo household had primary documentation for every member and NOT ONE RELATION EDGE. Eighteen edges added to data/relations.tsv, each carrying the act it rests on: the marriage of 19 December 1864; both sets of parents named in it; all four children; and the two SECONDARY links upward to Sancho Llerena and across to Gilberto, marked "tree" so the chart says so. Two people added to the register - Dona Justiniana Lenguas Gonzalez and Sancho Llerena Aguilar. TWO, AND IT AFFECTS EVERY PAGE IN THE ARCHIVE. The charts read relations.tsv, where a link is written once - "X, father, Y". The builder recorded that on X's page and NEVER REVERSED IT onto Y's. So every parent here showed an EMPTY CHILDREN LIST unless somebody had also written an explicit "child" row. Thirty- eight parent edges were being read one way; there were only fifteen explicit child rows to compensate. Pablo Armando, Juan Carlos, Maria Lerena, Mary Septima Taylor, Roque, Roseline Forbes and Doreen Chappell all had children in the data and none on their charts. They have them now. Fixing it immediately exposed a second fault. This register deliberately keeps a row for the mangled machine-index reading of a person it has already resolved - "ARMAND[O] LORENA (as machine-indexed) = Pablo Armando LERENA" - and that row carries its own parent edges, correctly. Reversed, it made Juan Carlos and Maria appear to have TWO children where they have one. The builder now reads the "= <name>" convention as an ALIAS and neither counts it as a child nor as a sibling. The matching allows for the canonical row carrying a parenthetical, which is why the first attempt at it silently did nothing. Both faults are on the corrections page. Verified by reading the built HTML rather than trusting the build: Don Luis Lerena Lenguas now shows two parents, a wife, four children and a sibling; Juan Carlos and Maria show one child each. 196 pages, 0 broken links.

Sweep Buenos Aires - find nothing, and measure something better instead

did Item 5 was the Buenos Aires parish registers through full text, looking for a Lerena marrying a Maria between 1870 and 1882. Buenos Aires IS in the full-text corpus; Santa Fe is not. Nothing. The Argentine Lerenas in the corpus are twentieth-century, or colonial Buenos Aires probate officials - a Ramon Lerena, Alcalde, in 1800. The Montevideo "Carlos Lerena" hits turn out to be Carlos A. Lerena, the Traibel branch, standing godfather at Cordon in 1878. No Juan Carlos, no Maria. But the search produced something better than it was looking for. The two spellings can be COUNTED. The full-text Place filter gives per-country totals, and anyone can repeat this in two minutes: Argentina Uruguay LERENA 701 4,517 Uruguay 6.4x Argentina LLERENA 3,415 947 Argentina 3.6x Uruguay Fernandez (reference) 608,205 305,473 Argentina 2.0x Uruguay Bustamante (reference) 75,647 9,328 Argentina 8.1x Uruguay A control is necessary because the two national corpora are not the same size and every surname has its own geography - so the comparison is made against TWO REFERENCE SURNAMES measured the same way, rather than against an assumed corpus ratio. Both references run Argentina-heavy, one by twice and one by eight times. So does LLERENA. LERENA is the only one of the four that reverses, and it reverses hard - six times more common in Uruguay than in Argentina. And it is the spelling this family used. It also sits neatly with Sancho Llerena Aguilar: a LLERENA of Cordoba marries at Canelones in 1791, his descendants are written both ways in the Uruguayan registers for forty years, and today the single-l form is the Uruguayan one while the double-l form stayed Argentine. WHAT IT DOES NOT SAY, on the page in as many words: this measures a DIGITISED CORPUS, not a population. Coverage is uneven between countries and periods and the handwriting recognition misreads. It is evidence about where the NAME lives, not about where any particular family lived, and it cannot place Juan Carlos Lerena anywhere at all. 194 pages, 0 broken links.

Open the Montevideo household from the marriage act to the last burial

did Full text was given the phrase "Lerena Lenguas". Seven hits in the entire corpus, all Montevideo, and between them they open the whole household. THE MARRIAGE - San Francisco de Asis, Ciudad Vieja, act No. 258, read from the image rather than the transcript: En diez y nueve de Diciembre de mil ochocientos sesenta y cuatro ... el matrimonio que por palabras de presente contrajo Don Luis Lerena y Lenguas, natural de esta Republica, soltero, e hijo legitimo de Don Luis y de Dona Justiniana Lenguas, con Dona Julia Juanico, del propio estado y vecindad, e hija legitima del Sr. Don Candido y de Dona Juliana Gonzalez; fueron testigos el Dr. Don Candido Juanico y Dona Justiniana Len[guas]. That is the join the whole Montevideo argument rested on, and this morning it rested on a TREE. Geneanet and the FamilySearch Tree both asserted that Luis Lerena Lenguas was a son of Luis Lerena y Fernandez and Justiniana Lenguas Gonzalez, and neither cited anything checkable. The act states it. The generation above him is no longer secondary. It also names Julia Juanico's parents for the first time: Dr Don Candido Juanico - abogado, magistrado, legislador y hombre politico, son of Francisco Juanico and Juliana Texeira - who stood as a witness at his own daughter's wedding, and Dona Juliana Gonzalez. Published genealogy has Candido marrying SIXTA Lenguas Gonzalez in 1857, too late for a daughter marrying in 1864, so Julia belongs to an earlier marriage. That step is inference from dates and is marked as such. And the date fits without strain: married 19 December 1864, first child born at Rosario 8 October 1865. THE CHILDREN - all four, from primary records: Maria Julia Margarita Josefa Emirena Justiniana - b. ROSARIO 8 Oct 1865, m. Jaime Herrera, Montevideo, 1886 Luis - b. c.1872, d. Montevideo 12 Dec 1897, aged 25, unmarried Enrique Lerena Juanico - b. Montevideo c.1873, d. Montevideo 16 May 1914, aged 41, unmarried, an empleado, at Plaza Libertad 1143 Ema Sixta - b. 1876, m. Don Jose Pedro Marsera, La Union, Montevideo, 1913 Ema Sixta is the "Emma Liseta, 1876, father Luis, mother Julia" copied from a findmypast index on 9 September and left unremarked - four days before anyone knew whose daughter she was. And the name SIXTA is her mother's stepmother's: the family names children off both sides of itself, which is what a real household does. AND THE POINT OF THE EXERCISE. JUAN CARLOS LERENA IS NOT AMONG THEM. The one Lerena family documented in the River Plate in this generation has now been opened from the marriage to the last burial, and he is not in it. That is a clean negative and it costs hypothesis 1c nothing - it never claimed Pablo Armando descended from THIS household, only that the surname's River Plate home is Montevideo. What has changed is that the household is fully mapped, so nobody has to wonder about it again. Two errands closed. 194 pages, 0 broken links.

Carry the 1882 register into the next volume, acts 851-914

did The waypoint "Bautismos 1882-1883" overlaps the last one: it opens at act 851 where the previous volume ran to 862. Six acts to an opening here rather than eight, margins wide and legible at level 13. Acts 851 to 914 read - 23 July to 2 August 1882. No Lerena. One L-surname logged: Eloi Alberto LESCANO, act 887. Resume point recorded exactly: image 12, ark S3HT-XS7G-BS, act 915. And a note on priority, written into the data file so the decision is visible rather than silent. The POINT of reading the register act by act was to test whether the 1945 typescript index is complete. That test is done and passed across 750 consecutive acts, February to July 1882: wherever the index says there is no Lerena, the register says the same. Finishing August to December 1882 is completeness, not discovery, and its expected value is now below the Montevideo registers and the other open routes. Left with a resume point rather than abandoned.

Open the Rosario death index - the biggest untried thing in the city

did Every Rosario sweep in this archive had been for baptisms and marriages. Nobody had opened the DEATHS. And a death act does the same work as a baptism act: it names the parents of the deceased. If Juan Carlos or Maria Lerena died at Rosario, the death index is where they would be, and it would name THEIR parents - pushing the line back a generation in a single entry. "Indice de defunciones 1800-1888", eighty-six images, HANDWRITTEN - not the 1945 typescript that indexes the baptisms. Four columns to a page, surname / given name / folio, grouped by letter and then by libro and year. And it is not one index. It is a composite, bound together: images 3-44 Death index, first sequence: A-Z, 1800-1839 images 45-53 Death index, second sequence: "Letra A" to "Letra S", 1882-1888 images ~51-55 An index whose entries read "X CON Y" - marriages, not deaths images 56-58 "Bautismos de los Yndios" - indigenous baptisms, letters A-P images 59-86 Death index, third sequence: c.1838-1869, AND IT STOPS AT F BOTH L SECTIONS THAT EXIST WERE READ IN FULL, AND NEITHER HOLDS A LERENA. 1800-1839, images 27-29: Lencinas, Leguizamon, Lopez, Ludueña, Lucena, Leon, Lujan, Llanos, Lescano, Lavallen, Lozano, Lemos, Luna, Lira, Luque, Loza, Lazo, Latorre, Lagos, Livia, Lumbre, Larrea, Langüines - hundreds of them. One near miss logged: LOVERRA, Maria (1820), Lov- and not Ler-. 1882-1888, image 48: seventy-odd entries across seven years, including the year of his birth. Lugones, Ludueña, Lobos, Luria, Ledesma, Lucero, Leguizamon, Loza, Lescano, Lunas, Lemos, Limbo, Lejarza, Lazarte, Leahy, Lopez, Llanes, Leon, Lazo, Lezcano, Lencina, Lavallen, Labao, Losarto, Lubes. AND THEN THE BOOK RUNS OUT. The third sequence - the one that would cover roughly 1840 to 1881 - runs A, B, C, D, E, F, and the volume ends mid-alphabet. THERE IS NO L SECTION FOR THOSE YEARS IN THIS FILM. That is not a gap in the searching. It is a gap in the record, and it falls exactly where it hurts most: a man and a woman who had a son at Rosario in February 1882 are most likely to have died in the decades either side of it, and for the four decades before it the finding aid simply does not exist. It is now on the gaps page as something this archive CANNOT close, as distinct from something it has not tried. What remains: the death REGISTERS survive to 1875 and are filmed, so a Rosario death between 1841 and 1875 is still findable - act by act, the way the 1882 baptism register was read. Far larger than an index would have been, and now the only route. After 1875 the collection holds no death register at all. METHOD NOTE worth keeping: level 13 drops tiles on this film - eleven of a hundred and eighty-seven on one page-half, in regular horizontal bands, after ten retry passes. Level 12 at 0.58 scale, one page-half per screenshot, is both complete and legible, and is the setting to use here. 189 pages, 0 broken links.

Roadmap route 7: say that the index itself was put on trial, and passed

did Every Rosario null here rests on a 1945 typescript. The register was read act by act across 750 consecutive baptisms and agrees with it everywhere. He is not there, and the index is not the reason.

Read the register itself, act by act, to the end of the volume - 750 baptisms

did Every Rosario null in this archive rests on a TYPESCRIPT INDEX compiled in 1945 from the parish registers. Whether that typescript is complete had never been tested - and an index is exactly the kind of evidence this archive has been burned by before. This is the test. The act-by-act read stopped in April. It has been carried to the end of the volume: images 243 to 309. Three of those frames are duplicate exposures (257, 264, 300), and at two openings the filmer laid a loose certificate on the book, covering one page - each read from the facing frame (284/285, 301/302). The volume ends at act 862, on 22 July 1882. METHOD, REFINED. Every act carries the child's name in the LEFT MARGIN in large script. So rather than render a whole opening, the two margin strips - tile columns 0-3 and 10-14 at level 13 - are rendered SIDE BY SIDE in one image. One screenshot per opening, eight names legible at a glance. It is about four times faster than reading the opening, and more accurate, because the names are at full resolution rather than at 42%. Acts 113 to 862. 1 February to 22 July 1882. Seven hundred and fifty baptisms. No Lerena, in any spelling. That is the first two-thirds of the year in which Pablo Armando Lerena was born on 22 February, read from the register rather than from the index. TWO NEAR MISSES, LOGGED AND RESOLVED RATHER THAN PASSED OVER: Armando Juan Rouillon, act 546, born 26 April 1882 - an ARMANDO baptised at Rosario in 1882, but born two months after Pablo Armando, and a Rouillon. Pablo Jacinto Gauna, act 827, 11 July 1882 - a PABLO whose margin surname was ambiguous at reading size. It was re-rendered at full magnification specifically in case it read LARENA, which is an attested variant of this family's name. It reads Gauna. AND THE RESULT THAT MATTERS. Across 750 consecutive acts, everywhere the index says there is no Lerena, the register says the same. THE INDEX AND THE REGISTER AGREE. He is not there - and the index is not the reason he is not there. That is a negative, but a load-bearing one. It means the Rosario nulls can be trusted, and the search belongs somewhere else. 189 pages, 0 broken links.

Run the dispensation errand the same night, and close one branch of the question

did The last errand written today was the Arquidiocesis de Montevideo marriage- dispensation register, 1856-1932, as the shortest way at Juan Carlos Lerena. It is done. The reasoning was narrow and worth restating. Pablo Armando's enrolment card names his mother MARIA LERENA, written with her husband's surname, and this archive has never been able to tell whether that is her maiden name or her married one. If it is her maiden name, she and Juan Carlos were kin - and a marriage between kin needs a dispensation. The register is in the full-text corpus, so it can be searched by its own formulae: "Lerena el impedimento" catches a Lerena groom, "Lerena feligresa" catches a Lerena bride, who is always named with her parish. EIGHT Lerena dispensations in seventy-six years, in two families - the Montevideo patricians of the Catedral (Mercedes 1883, Clorinda, Zelmira Carlota) and the rural Lerenas of Trinidad in Flores (Juan Gualberto, Antonina and Maria in June 1885, Juan in 1894, Florinda Juana in 1909). There is no Juan Carlos Lerena in the register. There is no Lerena-Lerena dispensation in it at all. Every Lerena in it marries OUT: Fernandez, Pelaez, Alvarez, Cordero, Marquez, Autrias. WHAT THAT NARROWS. If Maria was a Lerena by birth AND they married in the archdiocese of Montevideo, a dispensation would exist. It does not. So either she was not a Lerena by birth - the card giving her married name, which some clerks did - or the marriage happened somewhere other than Montevideo. WHAT IT PLAINLY DOES NOT DO is show they did not marry in Montevideo. This register catches only two things: kin dispensations, and dispensations of the three conciliar proclamas. A marriage between unrelated people with all three proclamas duly read needed no dispensation and leaves no trace here whatsoever. A negative from a register that records only exceptions is a weak negative, and it is filed as one on the open-questions page and in the data. 189 pages, 0 broken links.

Rewrite roadmap route 1, and record what full text reaches

did Route 1 said "new, and now the best thing on the list - blocked because FamilySearch firewalled this session". It has now been worked, so it says what came of it: the indexed Uruguayan record holds no Juan Carlos Lerena born 1830-1870 and no Lerena groom marrying a Maria 1865-1885, and full text returns exactly two hits for the phrase in the whole corpus, neither ours. What is left is the reading - the Montevideo marriage registers of the 1870s, turned page by page the way Rosario was. And a shorter way in, added as an errand: the Arquidiocesis de Montevideo MARRIAGE DISPENSATION register, 1856-1932. If Maria was a Lerena by birth, the marriage needed a dispensation for consanguinity - and dispensations are a thin volume rather than a parish's worth of acts. That register is already in the full-text corpus; it surfaced in today's searching. Also a new section on the sources page recording which places FamilySearch full text actually reaches, because it decides which sweeps have to be done by eye: Santa Fe is NOT in the corpus, which is why Rosario took eighty openings; Montevideo IS, parish by parish; Buenos Aires City is, down to probate and ship-inspection files. With the caveat that a null from full text is weaker than a null from reading, since a name the handwriting recognition misreads is a name it cannot return. 189 pages, 0 broken links.

Follow the girl from folio 229 to her wedding, and defuse a name coincidence

did FamilySearch's full-text search reads handwriting across un-indexed images. It does NOT cover Santa Fe - which is why Rosario had to be read by eye, eighty openings of it. It DOES cover Montevideo. Given the phrase "Maria Lerena" it returned a marriage register, and the image was opened rather than trusted. San Francisco de Asis, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo. Folio 364, act 1879. Los tres de Noviembre de mil ochocientos ochenta y seis ... el matrimonio que por palabras de presente contrajo Don Jaime Herrera, soltero, hijo legitimo del Doctor Don Nicolas y de Dona Adela Crucet, con Dona Maria Lerena, soltera, hija legitima de Don Luis Lerena y de Dona Julia Juanico. She is the child of folio 229. Born at Rosario on 8 October 1865, baptised there on 17 February 1866 to Luis Lerena Lenguas and Julia Juanico - and twenty-one years old, in Montevideo, on 3 November 1886. The parents match by name in a second, independent, PRIMARY act, in another country, twenty years later. That matters beyond the pleasure of it. It lifts the Rosario couple from "one act plus user-submitted genealogy" to TWO PRIMARY ACTS. Luis Lerena and Julia Juanico were a real Montevideo couple; their daughter was born on the Argentine bank and married on the Uruguayan one. The only Lerena in a hundred and seventy years of the Rosario parish register went home. A detail worth keeping: the witnesses are the groom's father and the BRIDE'S MOTHER. Luis Lerena is not at his own daughter's wedding. He may have been dead by 1886 - the act does not say so, and that is marked as inference. AND THE TRAP, SAID OUT LOUD. Pablo Armando Lerena's mother is named on his 1908 enrolment card as MARIA LERENA. This is a DIFFERENT Maria Lerena. She married Jaime Herrera in November 1886, four years after Pablo Armando was born, and she was sixteen years old in February 1882. She cannot be his mother. A rare surname, a common forename and a strong wish for the pieces to fit is exactly how this archive has gone wrong before - so it is written down on the page, before anyone is caught by it. Two more negatives from the same corpus: full-text for "Juan Carlos Lerena" returns exactly two hits in the whole of it - a 1922 Montevideo marriage dispensation for Juan Carlos Gonzalez Lerena, and a 2001 death - neither ours. Full-text for "Armando Lerena" returns two, both Colombian. 189 pages, 0 broken links.

Sancho de Llerena - hypothesis 1's own test, met, and answering the other way

did Following the 1866 Rosario act back through the FamilySearch Tree produced the Montevideo trunk, and at its root a soldier: Sancho Llerena Aguilar, b. Cordoba, Andalusia, 1767; m. Maria Josefa Fernandez Tresguerras at Canelones, Uruguay, 8 January 1791; resident Montevideo; d. 1832. He is the great-grandfather of BOTH the Lerena Lenguas and the Lerena Traibel - so of Luis Lerena Lenguas, the father named in the Rosario act, and of Gilberto Justiniano Lerena Lenguas of the Argentine Stud Book. The two branches even marry back together: Carlos Ambrosio Lerena Traibel married his cousin Luisa Lerena Lenguas at San Francisco, Montevideo, in 1867. Fourteen Uruguayan parish records are attached to Sancho. They spell him LERENA in 1793, 1840 and 1858; LLERENA in 1804, 1811, 1827 and 1830; and once, in 1828, SANCHO DE LLERENA. Since 8 September, hypothesis 1 has named exactly this as the thing that would settle it - "whether Lerena and Llerena ever alternate for one person in early River Plate records". They do. And "de Llerena" is the toponymic construction, of Llerena, the Badajoz town; a Basque house-name in -ena does not take de. The distribution argument is not overturned, and both pages say so. La Rioja really is the one dense Spanish cluster of the spelling Lerena, at forty times the national average. What has changed is that it need not be THIS something. Both can be true: a Basque-formed Lerena of the upper Ebro, and separately a River Plate Lerena that is a reduction of Andalusian Llerena, carried over by one man in the 1780s and smoothed to a single l by Uruguayan clerks inside a generation. Only the second bears on this family - and the only Lerena trunk yet found in the River Plate is a Llerena. TIER: the trunk is FamilySearch Tree, user-submitted and editable by anyone, and the decision that those fourteen records are one man is a tree user's, not this archive's. The acts have not been opened. What anyone can check is the narrower fact: the Uruguayan registers spell this family both ways. And nothing connects the trunk to Pablo Armando - no Juan Carlos appears anywhere in it. ALSO IN THIS COMMIT, A CORRECTION TO MY OWN WORK FROM AN HOUR AGO. The table published this evening said the Arturo Lerena of drawer Cajon 985 was born at Montevideo in 1858, son of Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Traibel. That conflated two men. The Uruguayan record it rested on gives the spouse as EMA REGULES - and Ema Regules married JUAN ARTURO Lerena Traibel (1861-1936), children born at Montevideo 1881-87. The drawer's Arturo married AMALIA DIAZ, children born in La Pampa, Mendoza and Entre Rios 1889-97. Two men, one surname, one given name. The row is withdrawn, "four branches" is now three, and it is on the corrections page. It was caught by going to the underlying record, which is the same move this archive keeps having to relearn. 186 pages, 0 broken links.

A base rate from evidence already on the shelf, and one new Armando Lerena

did FamilySearch let this session back in, so the Uruguayan lead was worked properly. FIRST, THE NEGATIVE, because it is worth as much. There is no Juan Carlos Lerena born in Uruguay between 1830 and 1870 in Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726-2000, in Uruguay Civil Registration 1879-2020, or in the Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 index; and no Lerena groom marrying a Maria in Uruguay between 1865 and 1885. Every Juan Carlos Lerena the index returns is a twentieth-century civil-registration card, decades too late. The indexed record does not hand him over. What that narrows is which UN-indexed pages are worth turning. SECOND, A BASE RATE, built entirely from data this archive already had. Pablo Armando's enrolment card sits in army drawer "Cajon 985 (Lera)", filed by SOUND rather than spelling, so its Lerena section is a near-complete roll of Argentine Lerena men of enrolment age - each card naming his father and mother. It was read on 10 September to confirm no card but his names a Juan Carlos and a Maria. It still doesn't. But the FATHERS were never followed up. Four of them trace: Gilberto Lerena x Julia Salvanach - Montevideo, 24 May 1855 Alejandro M. Lerena x Julia Bassani - Uruguay, 1839; a son born Montevideo 1886 Arturo Lerena x Amalia Diaz - Montevideo, 1858; son of Avelino Lerena and Ambrosia Traibel Nemesio Ramon Lerena x Laura Escobite - married at Salto, Uruguay, 1903, then Concordia, Entre Rios, across the river Four branches, four different provinces of settlement, one common origin. Three more could not be traced either way. It is NOT a link - none of these men is Juan Carlos Lerena, and none is shown to be related to him. It is a base rate: in this generation an Argentine Lerena is a Uruguayan family's son far more often than not, in every traceable case in the one drawer where they are gathered together. Juan Carlos Lerena, who left no trace whatever in the province where his son was born, fits that shape. THIRD, ONE NEW NAME, recorded and not claimed. Armando Lerena, aged 26, married, entry 28 on a Buenos Aires - Montevideo crossing of January or February 1910. The clerk wrote his nationality in the manifest in his own hand: ORIENTAL. Read from the image at tile level 13, not from the index - the house rule. He is NOT Pablo Armando. Wrong nationality: Pablo Armando enrolled with the Argentine army in 1908 and carried an Argentine passport in 1940. The age is two years out. And in 1910 Pablo Armando was at the Cape and unmarried - he and Mary Septima did not marry until September 1911, six years after their first son was born. But an Armando Lerena, Uruguayan, of almost exactly his age is the shape a brother or a first cousin would have, and Armando is not a common given name on these lists. He goes on the register as unplaced, which is what the evidence supports and no more. 186 pages, 0 broken links.

Say on the site where today's reading stopped, and why

did Eighty openings of the pre-1879 index and the act behind the one hit got this session firewalled by FamilySearch - the search endpoints first, then the image browse. Second block in four days, both caused by this archive's own reading rate rather than by anything FamilySearch did wrong. What it blocks is route 1: the Montevideo registers, looking for a baptism for Juan Carlos Lerena and a marriage to a Maria. Queued, not done, and the page says which.

Bring the front page up to date with the sweep and the Uruguayan turn

did Three changes on the home page, all of them things that stopped being true today. The headline figure "1879-1901 - every year of the Rosario baptism index" is now "1731-1901 - both volumes, read end to end, and the surname appears exactly once". A new figure sits beside it: "Uruguayan - what the act behind that one Lerena says of her parents". The paragraph about the missing baptism said the sweep covered 1879-1901 and called the result "a sharp question rather than a blank wall". It is now sharper than that. Across both volumes and a hundred and seventy years the surname appears once - so it is not only his baptism that is missing, but his brothers and sisters, and his father's marriage, and every trace of the household. A family that lives in a parish leaves baptisms. This one leaves nothing. And a new paragraph for the one Lerena who is there: folio 229, February 1866, Don Luis Lerena Lenguas and Dona Julia Juanico, "naturales del E. Oriental" - with the godfather standing by proxy from the other side of the river. Published Uruguayan genealogy makes them the Lerena Lenguas of Montevideo, one of whose sons co-founded the Argentine Stud Book. Nothing links the two houses yet, and the page says so. Also 125 people in the register becomes 129.

Rewrite the roadmap, which still thought his parents were unknown

did The roadmap was the most out-of-date page in the archive. It opened with "Who were Pablo Armando Lerena's parents? ... above him there is nothing at all", and route 1 was headed "needs an email" - all of which stopped being true on 10 September, when the 1908 army enrolment card was finally opened and named Juan Carlos Lerena and Maria Lerena. Three days of findings had gone in around it without anyone going back to the page that tells a reader what to do next. Rewritten around the state as it actually is: - The question that started it, and its answer, including the fact that the answering document was written off for a month on objections that turned out to be machine-index artefacts. - The question that replaced it: who were Juan Carlos and Maria, and where did they come from - with the three full-index negatives set out as three panels, because together they say something a single negative does not. A household that lives in a parish leaves baptisms; this one leaves nothing. - The answer that now leads: they were not a Rosario family, and the one Lerena in that parish in a hundred and seventy years was Uruguayan. - Seven routes reranked. Montevideo is now route 1. Rosario is route 7 and marked closed - do not reopen without a new reason. The two letters that are out are marked as out and waited on rather than as things to do. Also updated open question 1 with the sharper version of the missing baptism, and added the one thing a stranger could most usefully tell this archive: does anyone hold a Uruguayan Lerena line with a Juan Carlos born in the 1840s or 1850s, married to a Maria. 185 pages, 0 broken links.

The horses page had guessed it five days early

did On 8 September the horses page said, of Gilberto Justiniano Lerena Lenguas: "Lerena Lenguas is a River Plate double surname and Lenguas is Uruguayan - consistent with the name's Uruguayan density and with Stud Oriental, oriental being the ordinary Argentine word for Uruguayan." That was an inference from two words on a Wikipedia page. Five days later the Rosario baptism act said it outright: Don Luis Lerena Lenguas and Dona Julia Juanico, naturales del E. Oriental. And published Uruguayan genealogy makes that Luis a brother of Gilberto, both sons of Luis Lerena y Fernandez (1811-1878) and Justiniana Lenguas Gonzalez of Montevideo - with the child at folio 229 carrying Justiniana as her fifth given name, for that grandmother. So the block is added where the guess was made, rather than quietly editing the guess into a fact. It still claims no relationship to Pablo Armando, and it still marks the Montevideo generations SECONDARY.

Narrow the LERINA exclusions - they were right, for partly the wrong reason

did This archive's own search box flagged it: all four LERINA entries carried the same label, EXCLUDED, with the same unexamined sentence behind it - "LERINA here is an Italian surname, not a variant of the Spanish Lerena." That is a claim about the NAME, not about the people, reached from an index without opening a manifest. It is the identical move that got the Armando Lorena card wrong and had to be corrected in public a fortnight ago. The exclusion itself survives, and on much firmer ground. The four arrive at Buenos Aires on 15 March 1889 aged 59, 55, 21 and 17 - seven years after Pablo Armando was born at Rosario - and the party contains no Juan Carlos and no Maria. None of them can be anyone sought. That rests on facts in the index, not on a judgement about surnames. The surname claim is withdrawn as a reason and the withdrawal is on the corrections page. Also updated hypothesis 1b, the Italian hypothesis, which took a second blow today. The Rosario baptism index has now been read end to end and the one Lerena in it is a Uruguayan of the Montevideo patriciate - a Lerena Lenguas married to a Juanico with an Oribe in the generation above. The surname has a documented home in the River Plate and it is not Liguria. What still stands for the Italian reading, and is not dismissed: the death certificate says LERINA, and nothing found today explains that.

Follow the act to Montevideo - and meet the Stud Book Lerenas coming the other way

did The 1866 act named the father Luis Lerena Lenguas and the godfather, standing by proxy, Don Luis Lerena. That pair of names is enough to find the household in published Uruguayan genealogy. Luis Lerena y Fernandez (1811-1878), widower of Carolina Oribe Ladron de Guevara, married secondly Justiniana Lenguas Gonzalez, daughter of Gen. Pedro Lenguas Grandal. Their children carry the compound Lerena Lenguas. This is the Montevideo patriciate - Oribe is the family of the President. Two things follow. The proxy godfather gets a name: the child's paternal grandfather, in Montevideo. And the child's fifth given name is JUSTINIANA, for that grandmother - so the act and the genealogy are describing one family, and neither was written with the other in view. And one of those sons is already in this archive. Gilberto Justiniano Lerena Lenguas, Montevideo 1855-1912, co-founder of the ARGENTINE STUD BOOK, breeder of the Quadruple Crown winner Old Man, the man for whom a Group 1 at Palermo was renamed in 1914. He has sat in this register since the 1895 Buenos Aires census marked UNPLACED - HIGH INTEREST, for a reason that had nothing to do with Uruguay: Pablo Armando Lerena trained and owned racehorses. That was always the loudest coincidence in the file and it was set aside as a coincidence. It still is one. But the parish register of Rosario and the turf of Buenos Aires now arrive at the same Montevideo house from opposite ends, by methods that share no assumption. A third, smaller convergence, noticed looking back: a findmypast index row copied down on 9 September - "Emma Liseta, 1876, father Luis, mother Julia, Uruguay" - is the same couple, a younger sister of the child at folio 229. The evidence was already on the shelf; it had no shape to sit in. EVIDENCE TIERS, because this is exactly where an archive goes wrong. The act is primary and was read at full resolution; everything in it stands. Everything about the Montevideo generations above it is SECONDARY - Geneanet, Geni, a genealogical blog - and none cites a source checkable from here. They agree with each other and with a document they were not written from. That is the best that can be said until the Montevideo registers are opened, and it is not proof. data/montevideo-lerena-lenguas.tsv marks every row PRIMARY or SECONDARY. And none of it links Juan Carlos Lerena to this family. What has changed is where to look next. Also in this commit: FamilySearch firewalled the search endpoints partway through (Incapsula, after the day's reading), so the Montevideo work was done from other sources and the register browse left alone.

Open the act at folio 229 - and the family turns out to be Uruguayan

did The index entry found this morning had an act behind it. Rosario, Bautismos 1865-1867, image 124 of 311, folio 229, act 1541, ark 3:1:S3HT-XS9C-ZL. Handwritten; read at full tile resolution in four overlapping renders. Es hija legitima de Don Luis Lerena Lenguas y de Dona Julia Juanico, naturales del E. Oriental; fueron padrinos Don Luis Lerena, representado por don Claudino Campos y Dona Margarita Mara de Carlos. Born 8 October 1865, baptised 17 February 1866. And the parents are stated in the act itself to be naturales del Estado Oriental - natives of Uruguay. So the only Lerena baptised at Rosario between 1731 and 1901 is a Uruguayan. The mother is a Juanico and the father a Lerena Lenguas, both Montevideo names rather than Santa Fe ones. And the godfather - another Don Luis Lerena, probably the child's grandfather - did not attend: he was represented by proxy, which is what people do when the godfather is across the river. That makes sense of four negatives at once. No Rosario baptism for Pablo Armando; none for Juan Carlos; no Lerena marriage at Rosario 1867-1885; no Lerena in the parish index at all but this one. A family that lives in a parish leaves baptisms. This one leaves nothing, because it was somewhere else. Stated carefully, because it would be easy to overstate: NO LINK HAS BEEN SHOWN between Luis Lerena Lenguas and Juan Carlos Lerena. Two men sharing a surname in one city sixteen years apart is a lead. The 1866 child is not Pablo Armando's sister. And Pablo Armando himself was born at Rosario, documented twice over. Where the DNA sits, honestly: the Rio de la Plata genetic group spans both banks. It cannot tell Buenos Aires from Montevideo and never could. What it says is that the Argentine and Uruguayan hypotheses are genetically the same hypothesis. Added: notes/the-uruguayan-turn.md; data/rosario-1866-act-1541.tsv with the full transcription; hypothesis 1c; four people in the register (the child, both parents, the proxy godfather), all marked UNPLACED; two errands pointing at Uruguay, Registros Parroquiales 1750-1930; and a "Closed" group on the errands page, since one errand was opened and finished in the same afternoon. 185 pages, 0 broken links.

Read the pre-1879 index end to end, and find the only Lerena in it

did Film 004530324, the Rosario baptism index for 1731-1879, letters L-Q. The L section runs from image 6 to image 85; image 86 begins the M section. Every opening between has now been opened and read at tile level 12, whole opening to a screen, anything ambiguous re-rendered at level 13. Eighty openings. Eight of them (35-42) are the roll break - target card, blanks, "continua en el proximo rollo", "ARGN-0030 rollo 28", "rollo 29", "continuacion". Nothing is lost across the join; image 43 re-shoots image 34. Images 63 and 83 are duplicate exposures. That leaves seventy openings of actual index, continuous from 1731 to 1879. One name: LERENA LENGUAS, Maria Julia Margarita Josefa E.J. - 1866, Libro 15, folio 229 Image 58, ark 9Q97-Y3S2-FPP. The 1945 typist cross-indexed her a line above under LENGUAS, same year, same folio - which is how we know the compound is real and not a slip: a Lerena father and a Lenguas mother. Confirmed at full resolution before it was believed, which is the lesson of the Armando Lorena card taken to heart. She is not Pablo Armando's sister - sixteen years too early, compound where he is simple. What she establishes is harder and more useful. Both volumes of the Rosario baptism index have now been read end to end, and across a hundred and seventy years the surname occurs once. Pablo Armando's own baptism is not in it. The family leaves no trace in the parish before him or after him. Whatever brought Juan Carlos Lerena and Maria to Rosario, they were not a Rosario family. The act at folio 229 names both parents and has not been read. It is now the first errand on the list. Five near-misses re-rendered and recorded so nobody checks them twice: Lerones (1856), "Lesa (o Lera)" (1857), Loveras (1864), Lerre Echeita (1870), Lensina (1816, read at first glance as Leprina). Also honest: reading eighty openings in an afternoon got this archive rate-limited by FamilySearch for the second time in four days. Both blocks were mine, not theirs.

Open the pre-1879 baptism index - ten openings, and say what is unread

did The best untried item on the list, and the first film this archive has opened that could hold the generation ABOVE Pablo Armando. Film 004530324, 554 images. Title card at image 5: "Parroquia N. S. del Rosario - INDICE DE BAUTISMOS - VOLUMEN 3o - Anos 1731-1879 - LETRAS L-Q - Revisado y Restaurado en 1945". The companion to the 1879-1900 volume: same restoration, same typescript, same four columns. Everything read until now began in 1879 - three years after his birth, fine for him and useless for everyone above him. This is where Juan Carlos Lerena's own baptism would sit if he was born in the city, and where an older brother or sister of Pablo Armando would sit if the family were there in the 1870s. TEN OPENINGS READ IN FULL, spread to bound the section: 1731, 1740-55, 1826-29, 1843-44, 1852-58. No Lerena in any of them. The names that recur for a century and a half are Leguizamon, Lencina, Lopez, Ledesma, Lescano, Ludueña, Lucero, Leiva, Luna, Leon, Lujan, Llanos. Two near misses recorded: LERONES (1856) and "LESA (o LERA)" (1857), where the index itself offers Lera as an alternative reading of the same hand. Image 43 is a duplicate - the second roll re-shoots the first roll's last page. AND THE IMPORTANT HALF: images 8-19, 21-27, 29-33 and everything from 49 onward are UNREAD - and 49 onward is 1858 to 1879, the whole window for an older sibling and much of the window for Juan Carlos. The part that matters most is the part still unread. Recorded so nobody mistakes ten openings for a sweep. Resume at image 49, ark 9Q97-Y3S2-FLK. METHOD NOTE KEPT: the tile-retry loop must re-request the SAME url. A cache-busting query returns a different tile and silently scrambles the mosaic - it produced one unreadable, misaligned page before it was caught. - data/rosario-index-pre1879.tsv (opening by opening, by ark, with the gaps) - notes/the-index-before-1879.md, findings.md - /searched/ leads with it, gaps and all - 181 pages, 0 broken links

Find the only grave, at Maitland Woltemade

did FamilySearch had signed the session out, so the afternoon went to untried non-FamilySearch sources. The third produced the first physical trace of this family found anywhere. A GRAVE KERB at Maitland, Woltemade Cemetery, Cape Town - poured concrete edging, not a headstone - with one word cut into its face: LERENA No forename, no dates, no epitaph. Above it, bare earth and grass. Photographed by Heather MacAlister, published through the eGGSA Gravestone Photograph Library, album "Le", image 85 of 127, page dated 5 May 2021. Eighty-seven people had looked at it before this archive did. MAITLAND WOLTEMADE IS WHERE BOTH OF THEM ARE BURIED - Mary Septima, grave 7719A, November 1935; Pablo Armando, "Maitland Cemetery no 1", March 1950. And it is the only Lerena grave in the whole Western Cape collection. Variants checked the same afternoon: LERIN, which would catch Lerina and Lerini, returns nothing; "Lerena" as a substring also covers Llerena, with no separate hit; LAREN returns 39 records, every one Clarence or its like. IT CANNOT BE ASSIGNED TO A PERSON, and is not. A surname on a kerb with no dates is equally consistent with her grave, his, or a family plot holding both. The grave number would settle it, and the municipal cemetery office holds the Woltemade register. ONE SMALL THING IT DOES SAY: the stone reads LERENA - which runs, lightly, against the hypothesis raised from the DNA that the name might be nearer LERINA, the spelling on his death certificate. Not decisive; a kerb may postdate a burial and a mason cuts what he is given. But it is evidence and it points the other way. THE PHOTOGRAPH IS NOT REPRODUCED ON THE SITE. eGGSA's terms allow fair personal use with credit and forbid replication into another website database, so this archive records the facts - which are not copyrightable - links to the image, and names the photographer. - notes/the-only-grave.md, data/the-grave.tsv - /south-africa/ gains "The only grave" - NEW /photograph-these/ - 6 Cape Town places, the kerb first, each saying what the picture would settle and what to capture, because the kerb alone is not enough: the whole plot is wanted, with section and row markers - 181 pages, 0 broken links Also checked: no replies yet from the Army, the Cancilleria or the Western Cape Archives. Three days is nothing for an archive.

Amsterdam answers: no Lerena in the Latin American left press

did The IISH replied to the 9 September letter. Their Latin American periodicals, Argentinian included, are digitised and OCR'd as "Latin American Anarchist and Labour Periodicals Online, c. 1880-1940" at degruyterbrill.com/database/lalp. Their archivist searched Lerena and its variants: nothing popped up. They will scan specific items at 0.50 euro each but cannot research on our behalf. RE-RUN HERE the same day, because "nothing" is a weaker record than a description of the noise: Lerena - 171 hits, almost all the CONDE DE LERENA (Charles III's finance minister, whose 1787 Censo is quoted in Spanish economic history) and "Osimani y Llerena", a STREET in Montevideo where the anarchist weekly La Tierra had its office. Lerina - 16 hits, every one OCR breakage of "ballerina". No person of this family in the Latin American left press, 1880-1940. AND THE WEIGHT OF THAT, STATED RATHER THAN BANKED. It is the WEAKEST of the three objections to the family tradition. A horse-dealer in his twenties would not be in the anarchist press unless he were notable, and most people never appear in any periodical at all. Absence from a newspaper corpus is close to no evidence about an ordinary man. The objection that actually bites is the enrolment card: in 1908 he walked into his own government's consular office at Cape Town and wrote down his name, his class, his birthplace and both his parents. A man hiding from the Argentine state does not do that. And Ley 4144 deported foreigners, not nationals - the mechanism the story implies could not have been used on him. Not disproved. Now unlikely. The AGN expulsion files remain the only place that could settle it positively, and that one still needs David. - requests/iisg-argentine-anarchist-press.md marked REPLIED with the substance - notes/the-anarchist-press-answered.md - /errands/ gains an "Answered" group; 1 of 4 letters home - /searched/ and /sources/ record the corpus and the shape of its noise - /hypotheses/ 6 weakened, with the honest caveat about press absence 180 pages, 0 broken links.

Act on the Defranceski audit: fix three contradictions, add six pages

did FIXED - The living-person rule. Adopted the Defranceski wording - "Living people appear by name only: no dates, no places, no photographs" - and made the site obey it. The /direct-line/ row that published a living person's exact birth date, two cities and both marriages beneath a caption claiming the details were withheld now shows the name and nothing else. Recorded on /corrections/ rather than quietly amended. - The two chip vocabularies are explained side by side on /method/, with the point that matters: a person can be documented AND unplaced at once - well recorded, and not ours. - The footer now ends where Defranceski's does: everything this archive got wrong is on Corrections. ADDED - /corrections/ 14 entries, 7 serious, each with what was said, what is true, and HOW IT WAS CAUGHT. The most serious is the Armando Lorena card, written off on four objections when three were artefacts of a machine index. - /search/ 217 entries across people, places, timeline, corrections, errands, gaps and pages, with "/" bound as a shortcut from any page. - /timeline/ 18 fixed points 1882-1950, each with the record it rests on. - /errands/ 5 letters out, 4 jobs needing a person - previously invisible in requests/. - /gaps/ 5 things that may never close, each saying what was already done and what would have to exist to close it. - /changes/ the git log, rendered. 80 commits across 3 days, because every commit here is written as a paragraph rather than a slug. Plus Rule and Motif components - the labelled section rules both sibling archives use. IMPROVED - The ark() helper: the register stores a bare FamilySearch id and builds the URL, the Defranceski way. Still five links, but now the reason is honest - five is how many arks we have recorded, not a limit of the plumbing. - The dead .rec third column now carries the "why" on every person page. - Register status filters are clickable chips with live counts. DECLINED, with reasons: /about/ would duplicate /method/, which now carries the ethics and both chip vocabularies; folding /roadmap/ into a research log is premature now that /gaps/ and /errands/ have taken most of that job. 180 pages, 0 broken links.

Compare against the Defranceski archive, and correct myself twice

did David asked for a side-by-side against TheDefranceski and the Defranceski project. It forced two corrections before producing anything useful. THE PALETTE. I said earlier the Lerena tokens matched Falco's, then that they were a deliberate cool variant. Both wrong. The Lerena styles.css root block is BYTE-IDENTICAL to Defranceski's - every token, same typefaces, same --maxw. Lerena inherited the Defranceski system exactly; FALCO is the outlier with a warm palette. THE SCALE. Defranceski: 65 pages, 38 components. Lerena: 21 and 2. Mostly depth, not defect - so the list is dominated by what is absent rather than wrong. THREE THINGS THAT ARE WRONG, because this site contradicts itself: 1. The living-person rule is broken by our own pages. The footer says living people are excluded; /direct-line/ publishes a living person's name, exact birth date, two cities and both marriages, under a chip reading "Omitted" and a caption reading "Details withheld". Defranceski's rule is different and workable: by name only, no dates, no places, no photographs. Pick one and honour it. The present state claims a protection it does not provide - and /dna/ now sits on top of it. 2. Two chip vocabularies on one site: the home page advertises Documented / Inferred / Family lore while the register uses Connected / Excluded / Unplaced. 3. The footer promises corrections with nowhere to put them. This archive has made at least eight documented corrections in a fortnight and they are buried in notes. And the mechanical reason our register links 5 rows out of 125: Defranceski stores a bare FamilySearch id and builds the URL with an ark() helper. We store whole URLs, so we mostly store nothing. Full list - fix, add, improve, remove - in notes/compared-with-the-defranceski-archive.md. Nothing has been changed on the site yet; this commit is the audit.

Record the other five genetic groups - they argue against my own hypothesis

did The slider went to low confidence: 8 of 8 groups. Five legible - South Africa; South Africa and Zimbabwe; Argentina (Corrientes and Buenos Aires), Uruguay and Paraguay; England; Ireland (Cork, Kerry and Limerick) and England. Three sit below the fold, unseen. NO ITALIAN GROUP among the five. That is evidence against hypothesis 1b, which was written an hour earlier, and it is recorded as such rather than left out. It does not kill the hypothesis - a cluster needs enough tested people with documented trees, and an Italian great-grandparent's group can fail to form - but the easiest confirmation was available and did not appear. The asymmetry stated plainly on the page: the Rio de la Plata group is a POSITIVE result, a cluster formed at high confidence from 178 kits. The Italian claim rests on a NEGATIVE - no Iberian - plus arithmetic on 11.1%. Not the same class of evidence. And the eight groups strengthen what was already proved. Every group except the Rio de la Plata one is accounted for by her other three grandparents: two South African, two British Isles. A clean four-grandparent reading, which makes the Argentine group harder to explain away, not easier. Technical note recorded: the confidence slider governs the genetic groups only. The ethnicity percentages are identical in both views. - /dna/ gains "The other groups - and they weaken the Italian case" - hypothesis 1b downgraded from "most consequential thing on this page" to "already weaker than when it was written" - data/dna-evidence.tsv, notes/what-the-dna-says.md, findings.md

Add the DNA - a third leg under Argentina, and an Italian hypothesis

did A granddaughter of Pablo Armando has tested at MyHeritage. She is LIVING, so this archive omits her: not named, ethnicity profile not published, and only the figures that bear on Pablo Armando - dead since 1950 - are recorded. WHAT IT SETTLES. A high-confidence genetic group, "Argentina (Corrientes and Buenos Aires), Uruguay and Paraguay", built from 178 kits, 61 with trees. That is people sharing actual chromosome segments whose documented trees converge on the Rio de la Plata, and it can only have come from him - her other three grandparents are English Devon and Cape Afrikaner. The Argentine origin now stands on three independent legs: the 1940 passport, the 1908 enrolment card, and a chromosome. A fortnight ago it stood on one. And the group's top places for 1900-1950 name SANTA FE - the first time anything outside the family's own paperwork has pointed at that province. WHAT IT QUESTIONS. Iberian 0.0%. Italian 11.1% (North 6.1, South 3.6, Sardinian 1.4). There is no Spanish component at all, where a Spanish-descended criollo great-grandfather should show as roughly 25% in a granddaughter. The Italian has no other source in her tree, and at one quarter implies about 44% in him - one Italian parent - northern-dominant. WHY IT WOULD EXPLAIN A LOT. A couple who married in Italy before emigrating would never appear in the Rosario marriage register, now read clean 1867-1885. The register around his birth is full of Ligurian and Piedmontese names. And his death was registered LERINA, treated here for a month as a clerk's slip - while CEMLA records Lerina as an ITALIAN surname arriving from Genova. The "error" may be the one document that got it right. Stated as a hypothesis, not a finding. Ethnicity estimates are not records, the noise at one quarter is large, and MyHeritage distributes Iberian awkwardly. The genetic group is the stronger signal and it says Rio de la Plata, not Italian. CONSEQUENCE FOR THE WORK: the Rosario sweeps recorded no Lerena, Llerena, Larena or Lorena - LERINA was never separately looked for, and it sorts adjacent. - new page /dna/, nav entry, hypothesis 1b - notes/what-the-dna-says.md, data/dna-evidence.tsv, findings.md - 174 pages, 0 broken links

Give the person pages the Falco chart, and correct a claim I got wrong

did CHARTS. Every person page now carries a family chart built to the Falco pattern - same structure, same class names, same CSS as daviddef.github.io/TheFalco/people/vincenzo-falco/. A figure.ptree with tiers for Parents, the subject with Married beside them, N children, N siblings, and a legend. The point is not decoration. Every edge says how it is known: a solid dark left border for the archive's own line, a solid accent border for a record this archive has read, a dotted border for a family chart or tree, unverified. And under it in words - "Of the 6 relationships in the chart above, 3 are written in a record this archive has read and 3 come from a family chart or a user-contributed tree, unverified." That sentence is the discipline of both archives in one line, and it is now on every page that has a chart. RELATIONSHIPS. New file data/relations.tsv - one edge per row, person, relation, other, dates, via, note. 53 edges covering four generations of the direct line and the people who married into it. The build resolves names against the register, so a node links to a person page where we hold one and stands as a plain card where we do not. A CORRECTION I OWE. An earlier note in this repo said the two sites' palettes were identical and quoted hex values. They are not identical, and the values I quoted were Falco's, not ours. What is shared is the DESIGN SYSTEM - the same token names, the same three typefaces, the same component vocabulary. The values differ and look deliberate: Falco is warm (ink #221D18, accent #8A2B16), Lerena is cool (ink #16222A, accent #1F5C6B). The note now says so. TWO BUGS THE REBUILD EXPOSED. - .prose is a flex column, not a paragraph class. Using it on a <p> made every inline <strong> its own row, which is why a bare "6" was floating mid-sentence. - A place had escaped normalisation: "arr. Buenos Aires 1907-07-14" sat as its own one-person place beside the 43-person "Buenos Aires - arrivals", because the pattern only matched "arr. YYYY". Arrivals now holds 44; 28 places, not 29. - site/src/components/Ptree.astro, styles.css gains .ptree - site/src/pages/people/[slug].astro rebuilt on the Falco layout - 173 pages, 0 broken links

Finish February and March 1882 - and redo the first pass properly

did TWO MONTHS COMPLETE, ACT BY ACT. Acts 113 to 373 - 261 baptisms - and no Lerena in any of them. He was born 22 February 1882, so this is the whole of the two months around his birth, not a six-week window. AND A CORRECTION TO METHOD, which matters more than the extra fortnight. The first pass rendered whole openings at 42% scale. That is legible enough to follow a page but not to be certain of a name, and the proof came at act 312: "Timoteo Lucero" had been read as "Armando Sara". Both words wrong, and an L-surname missed entirely - exactly the failure mode that matters when the whole exercise is the hunt for one L-surname. So every opening was re-read from the MARGIN STRIPS at level 13, the film's maximum: render tile columns 0-3 and 9-12 - the two margin columns of the opening - side by side in one image. One screenshot per opening, every name unambiguous, and half the cost of two half-page renders. The conclusion did not change. Many individual readings did, and the corrected ones are in the data file. The earlier readings should not be quoted. Also logged: two duplicate exposures (225, 239); the pasted 1905 slip on page 425 and the frame that refilms it with the slip lifted; a marginal cross- reference at act 289 to folio 577; and two foundlings named PAUL - Luis Paul Exposito at act 369, and the Luis Paul already noted in the marriage index. The forename was in Rosario; the surname was not. April begins at act 374. The sweep stops at act 376, image 242, and the ark is recorded so it resumes without repeating a frame. - data/rosario-1882-register-actbyact.tsv: 38 rows, frame by frame, by ark - notes/the-register-itself.md gains the second-pass correction - /searched/ states the correction rather than quietly improving the number

Bring the register into line with the Falco archive

did David asked whether we have the equivalent of the Falco register and said the sites need to stay consistent. We had one; it was not consistent. ALREADY SHARED: the visual language was already identical - same seven design tokens, same three typefaces. Nothing needed doing there. NOW MATCHED: title ("The register"), eyebrow ("Every named individual this archive has found"), the opening stat sentence, the "Read this before you read the list" caveat heading, grouping BY SURNAME with a count on each heading, the three-column Name / What the source says / Source layout, and the filter label and live "N entries shown" count. Nav labels aligned too: The Register, The People, What Has Been Read. THE CONVENTION WORTH HAVING FOR ITS OWN SAKE: every row now links to its source or says why it cannot. That makes our reach auditable, and the audit is not flattering - 5 of 125 entries carry a live link; the other 120 now state the reason (CEMLA results are not addressable; FamilySearch ark not recorded; family papers held offline; GRO index). Falco links 8,377 of 9,058 because its harvests recorded the ark as they went and ours mostly did not. A source_url column now exists in the register so future entries carry theirs. KEPT DELIBERATELY: the Connected/Excluded/Unplaced chips - Falco marks provenance, we mark connection to the line, and each is right for its project. And "The Line" rather than Falco's "The Spine", because our page is titled "The line" in its own prose; flagged for David rather than changed unilaterally. - site/src/pages/register.astro rewritten - tools/build-people.py: surname grouping + source-link reasons - data/lerena-register.tsv: source_url column - notes/consistency-with-the-falco-archive.md - 174 pages, 0 broken links

Read the 1882 register act by act, and test the index

did The block lifted after an hour. Three more things done. THE REGISTER ITSELF. Every Rosario null this archive holds rests on a TYPESCRIPT index, and whether the typist missed anything had never been tested. Libro 24 was read act by act - film 004098792, waypoint "Bautismos 1881-1882". Every act carries the child's name in the margin; all 183 margins in the span were read. 1 February to 15 March 1882 - acts 113 to 295, pages 390 to 435 - no Lerena. He was born 22 February. Three weeks either side of his birth, nothing skipped. The book also gave up a rate: 112 baptisms in January 1882, 122 in February - four a day. The first denominator this archive has had. A filming detail worth keeping: page 425 carries a slip pasted on 29 May 1905 that hides four acts, and the NEXT FRAME is the same page refilmed with the slip lifted. Nothing is lost. Also one plain duplicate exposure at image 225. What it settles: the index is not hiding him, at least not here - register and index agree, so "perhaps the typist missed it" is no longer available. What it does NOT: six weeks is not a year. April, 1883, or an adult baptism are all still open. The stopping point is recorded so the sweep can be resumed exactly - about 130 more frames to finish 1882. THE LDS HOUSEHOLD CARD exists as an image but is FamilySearch-Centre-only, the same wall as the Cape estate file. Ricardo is "Relationship to Head of Household: Son", so the card lists a household with a head - almost certainly Pablo Armando, in the month Mary Septima died. THE CONSULATE THAT SHOULD NOT EXIST. Argentina and South Africa established diplomatic relations only on 10 September 1947, and the earliest consulate the histories mention is 1938. Yet this family holds Argentine documents proving a consular office at Cape Town in 1908 and 1940 - thirty-nine years early. Not a contradiction: consular relations are not diplomatic relations, and the usual instrument is the honorary consul. A. B. Bayne is not a Spanish name. So the "Consul General" tradition is not proved but is now EXPLICABLE, which is a different and more honest thing. And a man fleeing Argentina as a communist does not put his name, class, birthplace and parents on his own government's form in 1908 - evidence against the other tradition, recorded as such. - data/rosario-1882-register-actbyact.tsv (frame by frame, by ark) - notes/the-register-itself.md, notes/the-consulate-that-should-not-exist.md - /searched/ leads with the register; /hypotheses/ 3b gains the 1947 date - 174 pages, 0 broken links

Read the marriage index properly; chase Gilberto; hit a wall

did Two of the five done, three stopped. DONE - the marriage index, L band, at full tile resolution. The card gives a father, Juan Carlos Lerena; if he married at Rosario his wife's maiden name is in this index, and that is the one thing the card cannot settle. No Lerena marriage at Rosario cathedral, 1867-1885. Unlike the baptism index this one is HANDWRITTEN, so level 13 was needed - at level 12 the initials are illegible and the surnames merely guessable, which is exactly how "Lavena" became "Larena" in an earlier session. Nearest approaches checked at 1.4x: Lercari L. (1875, Genoese) and Llisalinos J. (1882). And Libro 9, 1884, folio 20 now reads LAVENA V. x BELMONTE A. beyond argument. PARTLY DONE - Gilberto Justiniano Lerena Lenguas, b. 24 May 1855, d. 8 Dec 1912, m. Julia Salvanach. Founded Stud Oriental 1887; promoter, founder and Secretary of the Stud Book Argentino, signing its first act 11 June 1893; bred Old Man; Haras El Viejo and five other studs; the Premio Abril renamed for him in 1914. The Lerena Lenguas were Uruguayan and rich - Luis Lerena Lenguas had a fifteen-room house at Juanico photographed for the 1889 Paris exhibition. Nothing connects him to Pablo Armando, and the temptation to imply otherwise is refused in the note rather than in a footnote. The two sources that would answer the only useful question - was there a Juan Carlos in that family - are behind an hCaptcha (geni) and Cloudflare (Geneanet). Listed, not quietly dropped. BLOCKED - items 1, 3 and 5. FamilySearch now returns "Access Denied - Error 15 - blocked by our security service". After a day of heavy automated reading their bot protection has had enough, and that is a fair response to what I was doing. Said plainly: the wall is one I walked into myself. Useful detail for later - the block is on www.familysearch.org only; the tile host still serves, so any image whose ark is already recorded can still be read. - data/rosario-marriage-index-L.tsv, notes/gilberto-lerena-lenguas.md - findings.md records all five outcomes including the block - /searched/ gains the marriage index section

Read the L and Ll sections end to end, and close them

did Done properly so it can be left behind, as David asked. Every opening of the L section and of the Ll section, first to last, in order - 41 frames, 38 distinct and 3 duplicate exposures, each verified on arrival by year and Libro/folio, running continuously from Libro 23 folio 145 to Libro 48 folio 546, covering 1879 to 1901. No Lerena. No Llerena. No Larena. No Lorena. In any year. In either section. L opens at 1880 - there are no L entries for 1879 at all - and runs past 1900 into 1901. The whole Ll section across twenty-two years is twenty-six entries. The nearest thing to the name is LLERA: Pedro (1898) and Ida C. (1900). The Armandos: Lofre 1889, Lujan 1895, Lunardi 1895, Limonetti 1897. All after 1889, none in the right year. Armando looks like a name that came into fashion at Rosario in the 1890s, which makes a boy christened Pablo Armando in February 1882 unusual for his date. METHOD, which is the transferable part. The index is TYPEWRITTEN, not handwritten - the obstacle was never the hand but the viewer's zoom. FamilySearch serves the pages as DeepZoom tiles; level 13 for this film is 20 x 15 tiles of 257px, about 5100 x 3800 for an opening. Assembled into a plain HTML grid at 42% scale, a whole opening fits one screen with every surname legible. Image numbers drift between viewer states; the image ARK is stable and is what the data file records. What it does NOT settle is said plainly rather than glossed: he was not baptised as an infant, or was baptised outside the cathedral's books, or the index itself is incomplete - it is a later typescript compiled from the registers, not the registers. That last is why an act-by-act reading of the 1882 register is still worth doing one day. - data/rosario-index-L-complete.tsv (frame by frame, by ark) - notes/the-L-section-closed.md, findings.md - /searched/ leads with it; home page stat and closing prose rewritten - 174 pages, 0 broken links

Publish the card to FamilySearch; send the WCARS letter

did Both at David's explicit instruction. FAMILYSEARCH. Pablo Armando Larena GPWH-72S now has parents: Juan Carlos Lerena PFPY-23C and Maria Lerena PFPY-ZG1, with the enrolment record 1:1:6TH8-DVXH attached to all three. The Source Linker's offer to copy the indexed values was REFUSED. Accepting it would have written "Rosario de Lerma, Salta" over his birthplace and created a father called "Juan Carlos Lorena Serena". The parents were typed by hand from the image. The reason statements are written for a stranger who will one day find the profile and wonder why the tree disagrees with the index. The one on Maria says, in capitals, CAUTION, PLEASE DO NOT TREAT LERENA AS PROVEN TO BE HER MAIDEN NAME. The doubt travels with the finding. WCARS. Letter sent to archives.clientservices@westerncape.gov.za, address verified from the Western Cape Government's own service page for the archives, not guessed. Gmail id 1a087da08db5ca31. Asks for the Death Notice in MOOC 6/9/17017 and states the prediction: question 19 should name Juan Carlos Lerena and Maria. Fees and an emailed scan requested. - notes/published-to-familysearch.md, findings.md - requests/wcars-mooc-6-9-17017.md marked SENT with the verified address

Correct our own record: Chappell was a married name

did Chasing the LDS Church Census entry found beside the enrolment card led to the FamilySearch Family Tree, where a small branch for this family already exists. Nobody has attached parents to Pablo Armando - the enrolment card is genuinely new - but the branch carried something else. This archive had Roque's first wife as "Rosalina Wilhelmina CHAPPELL" and Ricardo's wife as "Doreen ?". Both wrong the same way: Roseline Wilhelmina FORBES m. Frederick Christian Chappell, 1 Nov 1920, Woodstock, Cape Town. Chappell died 1933. His widow married Roque Luis Armando Lerena in 1936. Her daughter Doreen May Chappell, b.1921, married Roque's brother Ricardo Juan Carlos Lerena. Chappell was her MARRIED name; her maiden name was FORBES. The 1936 register calls her "Rosaline Wilhermina Forbes Chappell" because that is what a remarrying widow is called, and this archive read it as a maiden name. Two brothers married a mother and her daughter. Verified before writing: the 1920 marriage exists in BOTH the SA civil marriage records and the Anglican parish registers, and Frederick Christian Chappell has his own Western Cape estate file naming "Rose Forbes Chappell". What is NOT proved is that this Doreen is that Doreen - that rests on the user-contributed tree plus the surname, and is marked inferred on the page. A discrepancy over her death year (1993 in the tree, estate advertised 2001) is left standing rather than tidied away. The naming discipline is now visible as a rule: this family gave the grandparents' names back every generation, which is exactly why Ricardo Juan Carlos b.1920 corroborates a card naming Juan Carlos Lerena. - notes/the-chappell-forbes-knot.md, findings.md, gen1-children.tsv - register 125 people, 14 connected; 174 pages, 0 broken links - /direct-line/ gains "The Chappell-Forbes knot"

Hunt Juan Carlos Lerena; run the full-text sweep at last

did Four searches the day the name was found, four negatives, and one of them closes an instrument the archive had been holding in reserve. 1. Lerena marriages in Argentina 1865-1885 - the window a man whose son was born in Feb 1882 would have married in. 2,531 results, no Juan Carlos. One new person recorded: Carolina Lerena, Buenos Aires. 2. Any Juan Lerena born 1840-1865. Not one Juan Carlos in Argentina or Uruguay. The Lerena Juans of that generation are Jalisco, Mexico (a large separate population, noted here for the first time), the Trinidad/Flores kindred, and one man in the Ecija census of 1903. 3. FULL-TEXT SEARCH, listed as the clearest remaining opening for two rounds, has now actually been swept. The surname is in the corpus in quantity - Arequipa, Valladolid, Madrid, Trinidad/Flores, Montevideo, Jalisco. Santa Fe is not in it. Rosario is not in it. Not thin - absent. The instrument does not cover the ground the question is on. Retired as a closed item rather than left open as a hope. A phrase search for "Juan Carlos Lerena" returns one man, Juan Carlos Gonzalez Lerena of Montevideo, b.1899; his 1922 marriage dispensation was read rather than assumed. Not ours. 4. The Cape estate images are still restricted, re-tested signed in. Which leaves the death notice in MOOC 6/9/17017 - and it now carries a prediction: question 19 should say Juan Carlos Lerena and Maria. If Maria's entry has a maiden name, the one thing the card could not settle is settled in a line. The WCARS letter is rewritten around that test. NOT SENT. - notes/looking-for-juan-carlos.md - requests/wcars-mooc-6-9-17017.md rewritten with the prediction - /searched/ replaces "the one instrument not yet exhausted" with the result - register 118 people; 163 pages, 0 broken links

Correct the drawer scan's frame numbers, and the false duplicate

did Re-navigating the film showed the viewer's image-number box and the underlying image arks do not stay in step across loads: the same number returned a different ark on a second pass, and the index panel ran a frame ahead of the box on part of the first pass. So the frame numbers in the drawer scan are approximate locators, good to about one frame - the same hazard already recorded for the Rosario film. Said so in the file header rather than leaving numbers that look firmer than they are. What is fixed and citable: Pablo Armando's card is image ark 3:1:3QHK-MQL4-NQWN, and the LERENA section opens with a hand-lettered guide tab reading "Lere. n." immediately before it. Also: the "duplicate frame" at 669 was the panel lagging, not a duplicate. Counted once.

Read the rest of Cajon 985, and publish the negative

did Images 650-688 of the enrolment film swept through the viewer's Image Index panel. Recorded in data/cajon-985-scan.tsv. The drawer is filed by SOUND, not spelling: Lera, Lerena, Lorena, Serena, Sera, Era, Leza, Perena, Perella and Hereijo are interfiled - by the army clerk in 1908, not by FamilySearch. Gilberto Lerena's family appears under five different spellings on five cards. That is why the machine index reached "Lorena" and "Serena" so easily. Five Lerena families are in the drawer - Gilberto, Alejandro, Arturo, Ramon, Carlos. All Entre Rios, Mendoza, Buenos Aires, Montevideo. None from Rosario de Santa Fe; no father called Juan Carlos. No brother. Published as a negative with its limits stated: enrolment abroad was voluntary and consular, a brother who stayed in Argentina would be filed in his own district, and a brother who never enrolled is nowhere at all. - data/cajon-985-scan.tsv, notes/the-cape-town-enrolment-card.md - /enrolment-card/ gains "The rest of the drawer" - /searched/ leads with the search that worked, and why it had already been thrown away once

Find the parents of Pablo Armando Lerena

did An Argentine army ficha de enrolamiento (FamilySearch image group #112342450, image 665 of 1,119, volume "Cajon 985 (Lera)") reads: Clase de 1882 / LERENA - Pablo Armando hijo de Juan Carlos Lerena y de Maria Lerena Nacido en Rosario de Santa Fe Oficina enroladora de Capetown The class of 1882, the birthplace, and the Cape Town enrolling office were all already known from his own passport and death certificate. Corroborated from outside Argentina: his eldest son, named in the 1950 estate, was Ricardo Juan Carlos Lerena, b. 6 Jan 1920. The record had been found in the previous round and written off as "probably not him" on four objections. Three were artefacts of a machine index that dropped "Pablo", moved him to Salta, wrote Lerena as Lorena, and made a surname "Serena" out of the printed word SERIE. Only the image could tell them apart. - direct-line.tsv: generation 0 added, documented - lerena-register.tsv: the false candidate resolved, Juan Carlos added (117 people) - enrolment-card-1908.tsv: the card transcribed field by field - notes/the-cape-town-enrolment-card.md, notes/findings.md - site: new /enrolment-card/ page; home, line, open questions and sources rewritten - tools/build-people.py: the register-to-JSON generator, saved rather than ad hoc - register.astro now generates its table from people.json instead of hard-coded rows Still open and said plainly: Maria is written with her husband's surname, so whether she was a Lerena by birth is undecided; and the Rosario baptism index still holds no Lerena at all for 1881-1883.

Cordoba opened, and an Armando born 1882 with a mother named Lerena

did Four of the five moved; two are recorded as not reached. 2. The 1895 census re-run under Llerena and Lorena CONFIRMS rather than overturns. No Llerena in Santa Fe in 1895, and the Lorena entries at Rosario are Spanish-born - a different family, exactly as suspected at Cayasta. 1. CORDOBA, never searched, has a Llerena family. Bartolome was born there in 1824, so the province mattered and had been overlooked. At Cordoba Cathedral: Francisco Llerena m. Rafaela Daraz, their son Baldomero b.1851 m. Margarita Correas in 1876; also Rafael Llerena m. Rosario Moyano, Lucrecia, Amalia. Bartolome belongs to Francisco and Rafael's generation, plausibly a brother. No Pablo and no Armando among them. And then, in the Argentine military records: ARMAND[O] LORENA, born 1882, birthplace ROSARIO de Lerma in Salta, father Juan Carlos Lorena Serena, MOTHER MARIA LERENA. Born 1882; named Armando, a name shown to be rare; born at a place called Rosario; mother surnamed Lerena, which is exactly the mother's-surname hypothesis this archive has carried for days; and in the military records where a clase 1882 man belongs. The objections are serious and are not softened: Rosario de Lerma is in SALTA, 1,400km from Rosario de Santa Fe, and the passport names the province; the forename is Armando not Pablo Armando; the surname is Lorena; and FamilySearch states the record was machine-indexed. Probably not him - worth opening anyway, and the original is linked. 4. Carlos Gustavo Lerena b.1915 is not in FamilySearch's Argentine records at all; that thread needs foreign-ministry staff lists. 3 and 5 - Trinidad's six brothers and a full-text sweep - were not reached, and the notes say so. Register now 116 people; 161 pages build clean, with a page for each new person and place.

A page for every person and place; architecture aligned with the Defranceski archive

did Five things, all done. 1. DIFFED AGAINST THE DEFRANCESKI SITE rather than working from memory. The stylesheet turns out to be byte-identical apart from one block I added, so the branding was already aligned. What differed was ARCHITECTURE: that archive has /people/, /places/ and per-person pages built from JSON data with dynamic routes. This adopts the same pattern. 2. A PAGE PER PERSON. All 104, at /people/<slug>/, generated from data/lerena-register.tsv via src/data/people.json so they cannot drift from the register. Each carries the full record - born, birthplace, nationality, occupation, where found, source - a status chip, what is known, a card through to the place, and the others found in that same place. Connected and excluded people get an explanatory note rather than a bare label. 3. EVERY NAME LINKED. All 104 names in the register now link through to their person page. A searchable /people/ index lists everyone with live filtering. 4. A PLACES INDEX. 23 places at /places/<slug>/, each listing everyone of the name found there with their source. The index opens by saying what the geography actually shows: the surname clusters in the River Plate and at Trinidad in Flores, while ROSARIO - the one place the family itself names - is the thinnest of all. 5. CONTENT BROUGHT CURRENT. The Taylors page now carries the eight-year gap and the two candidate ships, with the caveat that Taylor is among the commonest English surnames and this is a candidate not an identification. The searched page carries the full-text search finding - that Argentine records ARE in the corpus, that the coverage seen is Santa Fe La Capital rather than Rosario, and that no sweep has yet been run. 145 pages build clean. All internal page links verified against the built output; none broken.

The eight-year gap narrowed to two named ships

did Pursuing point 4 of the five. No Mary Taylor of her age left Britain for South Africa at all - the outward lists 1890-1960, searched on forename, age and destination, return zero. But the index often carries no forename. Dropping it and filtering on surname, age and destination produces two candidates in exactly the right window: MISS Taylor, 19, single, DOMESTIC - Southampton to Cape, 9 September 1903, ship Harlech Castle - TNA BT 27/0420 p.68 image 0004F MISS Taylor, 19, single - Southampton to Cape, 9 April 1904, ship Walmer Castle - TNA BT 27/0448 Mary Septima was born 17 September 1884, so on 9 September 1903 she was eight days short of nineteen, and the manifest says nineteen. The occupation fits the life: a pupil teacher at sixteen in a cab driver's household of ten children, at a moment when the Cape was actively recruiting British domestic servants with assisted passage. That would put her in Cape Town about two years before Roque was born there. Recorded as a CANDIDATE, not an identification. Taylor is among the commonest English surnames and "Miss Taylor, 19" will have sailed for the Cape many times. The original images would show the forename - the transcripts read perfectly but findmypast's tile viewer would not render in this browser, so the images remain unopened. Two minutes' work in an ordinary browser, and both references are recorded.

The five-point push: full-text confirmed live, and the Gilberto family joins up

did 1. FULL-TEXT SEARCH. The instrument works and the key question is answered: Argentine records ARE in the corpus - "Santa Fe, La Capital. Religious Marriage Records 1879-1882" and "1882-1883" are full-text searchable. This is the first tool in the project that reads handwriting nobody has indexed. Two caveats recorded: the coverage seen is Santa Fe LA CAPITAL, not Rosario, a different city; and the React search box drops programmatic input and swallows about half the submissions, so queries must be typed and verified one at a time. No Lerena hit yet, but nothing like a sweep has been run. Stays open as a live lead. 2. MILITARY RECORDS. No Pablo Armando of any surname born 1880-84 in the Argentine records, and no military entry for the surname. The passport's Guardia Nacional service still has to come from the Archivo General del Ejercito, and that letter is with them. 5. THE GILBERTO THREAD - the find of the round. A Buenos Aires marriage register gives Carlos LERENA, born 1884 MONTEVIDEO, parents Alberto (almost certainly Gilberto) Lerena and JULIA SALVANACH, married ROSA MARIA EPPENS. That identifies the CEMLA couple "Carlos Lerena 41 Uruguayan" and "Rosa M. E. Lerena 39 Argentine" arriving Buenos Aires from Montevideo on 27 May 1926 - two entirely independent sources describing the same couple. Also new: Avelino Carlos Lerena, baptised 12 March 1904 at Mendoza, parents Carlos Lerena and Adela Camiglia - giving a birth and a parentage to the Avelino Carlos who crossed to New York in 1940 and Rio in 1949 and 1953. The Stud Book family is now a documented multi-generation Argentine family rather than a name recurring in indexes - and it is the family whose forename stock the South African branch kept using. Still no connection to Pablo Armando. 3 and 4 not advanced this round and said so: the rest of the 1869 Rosario census, and the 1901-1909 gap in Mary Septima's life. They remain the two most tractable jobs left. Register regenerated to 104 people; home page count updated.

Site brought up to date: register searchable, stale claims cleared, sources linked

did The site had fallen two days behind the research. This closes the gap. REGISTER now generated straight from data/lerena-register.tsv so the two cannot drift apart, and carries a live search box over all 100 people - name, place, year, source or status, so "Trinidad", "Gilberto", "1882", "CEMLA" or "connected" all work. Counts shown honestly: 5 connected, 7 excluded, 88 unplaced. STALE CLAIMS CLEARED. The direct-line page still said its "present emptiness is the most accurate thing on the site" and described the line as a skeleton - untrue for days. Its dek, intro and "what is still missing" section are rewritten: the descent is closed and documented, the Rosario baptism route is exhausted rather than promising, and the hope now rests on the three letters with archives. The home page said "fourteen consecutive years of Rosario baptisms"; it now says seventy-eight letter-bands across 1881-83, and adds the register as a seventh number. The Argentina page said the baptism "would name them, and it is now an exact target" - corrected to say the route is exhausted. ARGENTINA PAGE brought current with three new sections: the registers searched to the end; the surname finally found in Rosario (Bartolome Llerena 1869, and the two Santa Rosa de Lima families of 1903 and 1918), with the honest deflation that Bartolome is a lodger and a day labourer; and "Which Rosario?", on the Colonia ambiguity. SOURCES had zero links. It now carries every film, collection, outside database and archive actually used, each linked, in four tables - with the note that every archive address was verified from the institution's own contact page and none invented. All internal links checked against the built output; none broken.

Which Rosario? Gabino corrected, and a third Uruguayan cluster at Colonia

did Opened Gabino L. Llerena's marriage record. His "Rosario" is ROSARIO, COLONIA, URUGUAY - not Rosario de Santa Fe. Every other person named on the record is Uruguayan: Solis Grande, Maldonado, Punta de Carretas, Cordon Montevideo, Monte Video. Flagging him last night as a Rosario-born Llerena linking the two countries was wrong, and is corrected on the register before it hardened into a claim. Uruguay has its own Rosario. Any Uruguayan record naming Rosario means the Colonia town unless it says otherwise - and given how much of this family's evidence runs through Uruguay, that ambiguity has been sitting unremarked in the middle of the problem. The hypothesis it raises is recorded and is weak: if the family's memory of "Rosario" came down through a Uruguayan branch, the town could be the wrong one entirely. But the passport says "Rosario de Santa Fe", naming the province, in his own document. It would take far more than an ambiguity to overturn that. The search also produced a third Uruguayan Llerena cluster, after Trinidad in Flores and Montevideo - this one in COLONIA: Tomas Llerena m. Maria Morales; Pedro Llerena m. Sofia Clavijo, whose daughter Susana was born 1884 - exactly the generation that could have fathered a son in 1882; Maria Llerena m. Antonio Medero; Ramon and Gabino at Rosario, Colonia. Still no Pablo Armando. Uruguay has now been searched across civil registration, church records and baptisms in Flores, Montevideo, San Jose and Colonia, and he is in none of it.

The 1869 census image read - and my household reading corrected

did Opened film 004331984 image 86, Rosario Seccion 2a, and panned and magnified it until every field was legible. My "household" reading last night was wrong and is corrected rather than quietly dropped. There is no Lerena family on that page. Every line carries its own number and the twelve people are of a dozen different surnames - washerwomen, a laundress, day labourers, a peon, a carpenter, a Spanish shopkeeper. It is a list of individuals at one address, a conventillo or lodgings. The Lorena and Lorona entries I grouped with Bartolome are elsewhere in the census entirely; the line I expected to be a Lorena is Vachalo. So there is no Lerena family in Rosario in 1869. There is one man: Bartolome LLERENA, 45, married, Argentine, born Cordoba, JORNALERO, Rosario Seccion 2a. He is still the only person of this surname found in Rosario before 1882, which is worth having. But he lodges among strangers with no wife or children beside him though recorded married; he is a day labourer, not a horseman or a man of property; and the surname on the page reads Llerena with the Castilian double L. Weaker than it looked last night, and still the best pre-1882 Rosario evidence there is. Register corrected accordingly.

The 1869 census of Rosario: the surname in the city before he was born

did Working Santa Rosa de Lima produced the best lead in days. The 1869 National Census shows people of this surname living in ROSARIO - the first time this archive has found any, anywhere in the city, before 1882. Bartolome LLERENA, born 1824 in Cordoba. And alongside him a household indexed as "Lorena": Agustin (b.1829) with children born at Cordoba between 1853 and 1868 - Guillermo, Geronima, Mercedes, Feliz, Maria - plus Luis and Jose Lorona. A family that moved Cordoba to Rosario in the 1860s. Bartolome would be 58 in 1882 and Agustin 53 - either old enough to be Pablo Armando's grandfather - and the children born in the 1850s are exactly the right age to be his parents. The objection is stated rather than buried: Lorena is a real and separate surname, and the index may simply be right. But the same small group is indexed under THREE spellings - Llerena, Lorena, Lorona - which is what an indexer does with one difficult hand; the names differ by a single letter; and this project has already watched Belmonte read as Sarmiento and Laurini read as Larena. Recorded as a hypothesis, not a finding. It is settleable with one image. The 1869 schedules are digitised; the hand will show whether it is Lerena, Lorena or Llerena, and the schedule gives the household structure the index strips away. That is now the most valuable single unexamined document in the Argentine work. Two more threads: Gabino L. Llerena, a groom in the Uruguayan church records whose BIRTHPLACE IS GIVEN AS ROSARIO; and Camilo Llerena, 1869 census at Nogoya, Entre Rios, born 1842 in Santa Fe - the province of the Gualeguaychu Larena kindred. All nine added to the register.

Libro 8 answered: no Lerena marriage at Rosario 1868-1891

did Libro 8 is a different film - Matrimonios 1868-1884, DGS 4531040: sixteen years, some 3,000 marriages, 500-odd images. Rather than page it, used the searchable index - but only after proving the index covers those years. A control search returns cathedral marriages of 1874, 1875 and 1876 with full parentage. The 1868-1884 Rosario marriages are indexed, so the null is about the record and not the coverage. There is no Lerena marriage at Rosario cathedral in Libro 8. Searching LERENA at Rosario returns 38 records and not one is a marriage before 1900. Taken with the act-by-act read of Libro 9's 1884, there is no Lerena marriage at Rosario across 1868-1891. The difference in standard is stated rather than glossed: Libro 9's 1884 was read act by act; Libro 8 rests on the index. The control proves the index is good, but an index carries gaps and mis-spellings in a way a page-by-page read does not. And the search produced the first Lerenas ever found living in Rosario itself, both at Santa Rosa de Lima - the parish that only opened in 1888: Luis Llerena m. Clementina Baranda, son Luis Alejandro baptised 1903; and Manuela Lerena m. Diego Roman, daughter Carmen baptised 1918. Neither can be his parents, both being a generation too late, but they are the first evidence the surname existed in the city at all. Added to the register.

All of Libro 9's 1884 read: one Lavena, no Sarmiento, no Lerena

did Closes the residual left this morning. 8 June to 31 December 1884 has now been read act by act through the Image Index panel, running on into 2 January 1885 to be sure of the boundary - roughly two hundred marriages, each with both parties and all four parents. Libro 9 begins in June 1884: the film's title card reads 1884-1888, PRINCIPIO is at image 4, the register starts at image 5, and the earliest dated act in the book is 8 June 1884. January to May 1884 is not in this book at all - it belongs to Libro 8, a different film. The index entry said "Libro 9", so the relevant year is covered end to end. In the whole year, exactly one marriage involves any of Sarmiento, Larena, Lavena, Lerena or Llerena: Vicente LAVENA x Angela BELMONTE, 3 August 1884. No Sarmiento anywhere in 1884. No Lerena anywhere in 1884.

Folio 20 settled: the candidate is Vicente LAVENA, not a Lerena

did Reached it with the index-panel method - single-image mode via a thumbnail click, then stepping with the viewer's arrows and extracting the Image Index panel as text at each image. Read act by act, 8 June to 29 September 1884 at Rosario cathedral, about ninety marriages. Exactly one hit: Vicente LAVENA, 26, b.1858, son of Miguel Lavena and Lucia Lavena, married Angela BELMONTE, 21, b.1863, daughter of Pascual Belmonte and Maria Cozsi, on 3 August 1884 at the Catedral de Nuestra Senora del Rosario. The index line read "Larena/Lavena V x Sarmiento A, folio 20". The first surname is LAVENA, confirmed from the register. V is Vicente, A is Angela - both initials match in order, and it is the only L-surname marriage in three and a half months. The "Sarmiento" was my own misreading of BELMONTE in the low-resolution index image. Recorded rather than dropped, because it is why this candidate survived as a lead for two days. This closes the last open candidate for a Lerena marriage at Rosario. Vicente Lavena was Italian, which fits the Lavenas of Rosario exactly. There is no Lerena marriage at Rosario cathedral in 1884. Residual stated: October to December 1884 unscanned. The candidate is identified so the item is closed, but four or five more arrow-steps would make the year airtight.

Method: the Rosario registers can be read as TEXT - and a correction

did David challenged my claim that settling the 1884 marriage candidate needed the Chrome extension. He was right and the claim was wrong twice over. The viewer has its own zoom, so magnification never depended on the screenshot tool's inability to crop. And far more importantly, the handwriting does not need to be read at all. Every image in these films carries an "Image Index" panel that is HTML text, not an image. For a marriage act it gives both parties, their ages, and BOTH SETS OF PARENTS, plus date and parish - the entire genealogical content of the act - pullable with a one-line querySelector. That turns the Rosario marriage registers into a database. It applies to the whole series and would have saved much of the baptism sweep had it been understood earlier. Proved on 8 June - 8 July 1884 at the Cathedral: about fifteen marriages captured in full with all four parents each, tabulated in the note. No Sarmiento and no L-surname of interest in that stretch. Still open: the candidate at Libro 9 folio 20 was not reached. The viewer's grid/single-mode switching keeps resetting position and the index panel materialises on some loads and not others - a mechanical obstacle, not a research one. About twenty images cover all of 1884, six marriages each. Practical notes recorded: enter single-image mode by clicking a thumbnail, then step with the arrows; navigating by number or ?i= URL bounces back to the grid.

Cayasta retracted as a transcription artefact; the Gualeguaychu kindred recorded

did Looked properly at Cayasta and it does not survive. The village was an Italian agricultural colony - its register runs Laurini x5, Lauron, Castelarin, Masorini, Panluzzi, Gaetta, Salvaserra - and the same mother is transcribed "Ines Azela" for one child and "Ines Raiela" for the other, which is what an indexer does with a name they cannot read. "Larena" there is almost certainly an Italian surname mis-rendered, and the apparent Larena/Lerena cluster is the index mangling two different Italian families. The register entry is corrected to EXCLUDED and the claim retracted in findings.md rather than quietly deleted. The same search did turn up something real: a four-generation LARENA family at Gualeguaychu, Entre Rios - Juan Larena m. Petrona Lopez, Juan Antonio b.1837, Victorino Severo b.1878, Vicente Antonio, Tito Gregorio, Juan Jose, Aureliano Emiliano - and a ROQUE LARENA, born 1881, married Florencia Calixta Ramos. Gualeguaychu is also the town of Juan Pablo Lerena, baptised 1891, one of only two Lerena baptisms indexed in all Argentina. Roque is why it caught the eye - the name Pablo Armando gave his eldest son, on a man born within a year of him. But there is NO Pablo Larena and NO Armando Larena anywhere in Entre Rios; four generations and neither of our names in any of them. And Gualeguaychu is on the far side of the country from Rosario. Recorded on the register as unplaced - a candidate for elimination, not a discovery.

Sweep closed; a Larena household found at Cayasta, Santa Fe

did Records that the 1881-1883 sweep is finished and should not be restarted, and states the one film item still open: the 1884 marriage candidate Larena/Lavena x Sarmiento, Libro 9 folio 20, DGS 4531041. Short of reading that page, today established two things about it. Lavena is a real and well-documented Rosario surname - an Italian family, Francisco Lavena born Italy 1880, in Rosario at the 1895 census, children baptised at San Jose and the Cathedral 1900-1915. And no Larena or Lerena marriage appears anywhere in Rosario's indexed records. On balance the entry reads Lavena - recorded as a judgement, not a reading, because the page still has not been seen. Why it was not settled: the register is handwriting and the in-app browser cannot crop to a region, only return full screenshots, at which scale a 19th-century marginal folio number is illegible. The Chrome extension can region-zoom and is disconnected. The find of the day is incidental: ANTONIO LARENA of Cayasta, Garay, Santa Fe, with children Maria (1890) and Carmela (1892) by Ines Azela/Raiela - and Cayasta is the same village as the only Lerena baptism indexed in all Argentina, Leon Jose Lerena 1892, father Jose. Two households of a rare surname in one small village in the same two years, and the first time the name has been found SETTLED in Santa Fe province rather than passing through it. Added to the register.

Letter sent to the IISH, Amsterdam: Argentine anarchist press and Ley 4144

did Sent to ask@iisg.nl, Gmail msg 1a084e17877f1a41. Address verified from the Institute's own contact page - ask@ is collections and reading room, info@ is general, communicatie@ is press. Amsterdam is the same question as the AGN's by an easier door: the AGN has no email and its portal is account-gated, while the IISH answers email and holds a major collection of Latin American anarchist material. The anarchist press named names - arrests, imprisonments and deportations of individual militants, often in lists. Asks four things: the 1902-06 Argentine anarchist periodicals and whether any are text-searchable; Rosario and Santa Fe labour papers; FORA and prisoners' committee records naming those deported under Ley 4144; and whether a surname search can be done remotely or needs a reader in Amsterdam. The letter translates the family story rather than repeating it - the Argentine communist party dates from 1918 and he left in 1903-05 - and explains the foreign-born point that makes Ley 4144 bear on the birth question. It asserts nothing about the Institute's holdings; every point is put as a question.

Pin down the AGN submission route; note the Cancilleria form is CAPTCHA-gated

did Records exactly where the AGN enquiry has to go: register at agnbicentenario.mininterior.gob.ar/web/ingresar - a passport suffices for foreigners - then submit at the consultas dashboard. The AGN publishes no email address anywhere; the portal is the only remote channel, and no address has been invented to make the request look finished. Also records, for the avoidance of doubt, that the Cancilleria's own web form sits behind Google reCAPTCHA and so could not have been submitted from here either. Their published email was the only route open - which is precisely what they offer it for.

Cancilleria letter sent; AGN expulsion request written but blocked

did Sent to the Archivo Historico de Cancilleria, archivo@cancilleria.gob.ar, Gmail msg 1a084cbef3384599. The address was verified from the Cancilleria's own contact page - text and a live mailto link - not guessed and not taken from a search summary. It asks for the matricula consular of the Cape Town consulate 1930-50, the file behind the 1940 passport and above all WHAT HE PRODUCED TO PROVE ARGENTINE NATIONALITY and whether it names his parents, the consular correspondence, and - flagged as minor and explicitly not worth staff time - whether he ever held a consular appointment. That last question puts the family's Consul General tradition to the one body that could settle it. The expulsion request is written but NOT sent, for two reasons recorded plainly: 1. A correction to the brief: these are not army records. The letter already with the Archivo General del Ejercito asks for his libreta de enrolamiento - military enrolment, a different thing. Ley 4144 expulsions were run by the Ministerio del Interior and the police, and the files sit with the Archivo General de la Nacion. 2. The AGN has closed its email channel. Its only remote route is a portal requiring a registered account, and no AGN email is published anywhere. None has been invented. The full Spanish text is in requests/agn-ley-4144-expulsiones.md ready to paste. Alternatives noted: the Archivo Historico de la Provincia de Santa Fe and provincial police holdings, and the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, which holds the Argentine anarchist collections including La Protesta and does answer email. Adds a "Letters written to archives" table to /searched/ so the correspondence is on the record with its status.

Spain tested: no Pablo Lerena in 1882 - and no Armando Lerena, ever

did The fourth and last candidate birthplace. No Pablo Lerena born 1882 in Spain; the whole country yields one of the right generation, Pablo Timoteo Lerena Munoz, born 1878 at Atienza in Guadalajara, who married there and stayed. The finding that actually discriminates is the other one: THERE IS NO ARMANDO LERENA IN SPAIN AT ALL, in any collection, in any century. Every hit is fuzzy noise. Yet Armando is the name this family keeps across four generations and two continents - Pablo Armando, his son Roque Luis Armando, Anton Armando of the 1980 divorce and 2013 estate, and Gregorio Armando Lerena marrying at Flores in Uruguay in 1930. Armando is a Rio de la Plata name, not a Spanish peninsular one of the 1880s; it entered Spanish through Italian influence, which is the demographic signature of Buenos Aires, Rosario and Montevideo in exactly that period. Across three entire years of the Rosario index there were two Armandos - rare, but present. Across four centuries of indexed Spanish records, none. Of every test run in this archive, this is the FIRST that argues for one origin over another rather than merely failing to find him. Supporting: Spanish Lerenas are scattered rather than a kindred, and in most cases Lerena is the second maternal surname - nothing like the six brothers at Trinidad. And Spanish practice gives two surnames where his passport carries one. Honest limit recorded: Spanish parish registers are enormous and only patchily indexed, so this is a weaker negative than the Uruguayan test. Adds a name-page footnote: Llerena is a town in Badajoz and the surname is toponymic from it, which is why both spellings have had to be run in every search.

Uruguayan civil registration tested: no Pablo Armando, and a bigger kindred

did Runs the successor test to the Rosario sweep. Uruguay was chosen for a specific reason: its civil registration began in 1879, three years before his stated birth and seven before Santa Fe's - the absence of early civil registration being exactly what makes the Argentine trail dead-end. Result: there is NO Pablo Armando Lerena in the Uruguayan records at all, and no Pablo Lerena born in 1882. The complete list of Pablo Lerenas in Uruguay is four people, none of them ours. Nor is there a Pablo Armando of any surname born in Uruguay in 1882. The control holds: the index DOES contain Lerena births from this exact window, including Maria Luisa Lerena born 19 July 1882 in Rio Negro. So this is an absence in the record, not a hole in the coverage. It remains an index rather than the registers themselves, so it substantially weakens the Uruguayan-birth idea without finally killing it - and the site says exactly that. What it gave instead is a much enlarged Uruguayan kindred, clustering at Flores and Montevideo just as the baptisms predicted - including Gregorio ARMANDO Lerena, marrying at Flores in 1930, the only Armando Lerena in any of these records. Three of four candidate birthplaces are now tested and failed. Spain is untested, and is where the surname is most numerous in absolute terms, concentrated on Logrono - exactly as the CEMLA arrivals showed. Also adds the estate conversion at David's request. The Six numbers panel and the estate page now carry it, with the currency named correctly as South African pounds (at par with sterling in 1950) and both measures given: about 500,000 pounds by retail prices, about 1.4 million measured against earnings. The 26 pounds owed for carrots is about 830 today.

Fix the roadmap note left stale by the completed sweep

did Route 5's follow-on note still told the reader that 1881 and 1883 were the cheapest unrun test. They have just been run. Corrected to say the Rosario baptism route is exhausted, and to name Uruguayan civil registration for 1882 as the cheapest untried test instead.

THE SWEEP IS FINISHED: 1881, 1882 and 1883, all 26 sections, no Pablo Armando

did Completes N through Z for both neighbouring years. All twenty-six letter sections of the Rosario cathedral baptism index are now read for 1881, 1882 and 1883 alike, looking for the given name Pablo Armando under any surname whatsoever. He is in none of them. Roughly two hundred image-reads across a 718-image film. Several sections are tiny, and the numbers matter because they show how thin this register is at the edges of the alphabet: Q has TEN entries in the whole of 1881 and thirteen in 1883; W has exactly ONE entry in each year; Y's entire section is a single line for 1900; Ll has no 1881 entries at all; and there is no X section. More than twenty near misses across the three years, all excluded. Only TWO Armandos exist in all three years - Ronillon Armando Juan and Funes Armando, both 1882. That is what makes the null mean something: the method plainly catches the name when it is there. What this establishes: no child named Pablo Armando was baptised at the only parish in Rosario across a three-year window centred on his stated birth date. What it does NOT establish: that he was not born there - he may have been baptised under a different given name, outside the window, or not at all. The Rosario baptism route is now EXHAUSTED rather than merely unsuccessful, and the site says so. Weight shifts to evidence gathered while the sweep ran: his Argentine nationality proved from outside the family by 1911; the Uruguayan kindred at Trinidad, Flores; and the political-refugee story, which if it means expulsion under the Ley de Residencia would require him to be foreign-born - explaining this null completely. The cheapest untried test is now Uruguayan civil registration for 1882, which began in 1879.

1881/1883 sweep: fourteen of twenty-six sections complete

did A B C D E F G H I J K L Ll M are now read for BOTH 1881 and 1883 - twenty eight bands - and Pablo Armando is in none of them. F being clear extends the Fernandez null to both neighbouring years. Two sections turn out to be nearly empty, which is worth recording rather than glossing: - K has FOUR entries in the whole of 1881 and TWO in 1883. It is a tiny section of Irish and German surnames, and it jumps Libro 24 (1881) straight to Libro 26 (1883) - which is exactly why the 1882 sweep found nothing there. - Ll has NO 1881 ENTRIES AT ALL, and three in 1883. Still no Llerena. Near misses logged: Galavotto/Pablo D. Rosa, a bare Pablo in H and another in I, Lopez/Pablo, Lamberti/Atilio Pablo Juan, Moron/Juan Pablo (1881); Ledesma/Juan Pablo, Leguisamon/Pedro Pablo, Lopez/Pablo Gregorio, Luraschi/Santos Pablo, Medina/Pablo Mauricio, Mendieta/Jose Pablo (1883). A practical discovery worth keeping: SOME FRAMES OF THIS FILM ARE DUPLICATES of their neighbour - image 418 returns 417's opening, 424 returns 423's. The folio sequences prove it, running unbroken across the images either side with no room for an extra opening between. That is also the likeliest explanation of the 718-versus-655 image count between the two viewer states. Coverage is therefore verified by FOLIO CONTINUITY, never by image number alone, and the coverage file now says so explicitly. Thirteen sections remain: N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.

Censuses: William Taylor was a retired cavalry sergeant

did 1891 and 1901 censuses of Northam, Devon, read on findmypast. The correction is the find. This archive carried William Taylor - Mary Septima's father - as a "coachman", from the MyHeritage tree. The 1891 enumerator writes his occupation as "Cab driver retired sergt p cavaloy": cab driver, retired sergeant, CAVALRY. By 1901 he is a widower of North Street, Northam, and an army pensioner. His eldest son drove a cab beside him; his second son was a footman. So horses stand behind BOTH sides of this marriage. Pablo Armando's whole story is horses - trainer, breeder, stables, four generations of jockeys after him - and it turns out the woman he married came from a cavalryman who drove a cab. That proves nothing and explains nothing, but the archive had been treating Mary Septima as the ordinary English half of the story and that was plainly wrong. Also from the censuses: - The pupil-teacher finding is independently corroborated. The 1901 census (31 Mar) records "Mary Taylor, daughter, 16, SCHOOL TEACHER, born Northam"; the Western Times printed the diocesan exam results on 4 April. Two unrelated sources, four days apart. - Her mother Mary Ann Hellen is recorded as born LONDON, MIDDLESEX, not Devon, though Brayley is a north Devon surname. Unresolved. - An anomaly, recorded not explained: Mary Septima is ABSENT from the 1891 census. She should be six in that household. No Mary Taylor born 1883-85 anywhere in Devon fits. Needs checking against the image. Full households in data/taylor-censuses.tsv; write-up in notes/the-taylors-had-horses-too.md; Taylors page updated.

Newspapers cracked: Mary Septima was a pupil teacher at Northam

did Retried the newspaper search - the path is /search-newspapers/results and the OCR hides behind an Articles button on the image viewer. Western Times, 4 April 1901 p.7, and North Devon Herald, 11 April 1901 p.2, both print the Exeter Diocesan Board of Education examination results. Under Set II - monitors over sixteen and pupil teachers in their FIRST YEAR, 88 examined - she is in Class III: "Mary Septima Taylor, 16, Northam." She was training to teach in her own village school. This is the first thing the archive knows about her that is not a date, and it exposes the real gap: a pupil teacher at Northam in April 1901, and "Mrs Lerena" crossing from Cape Town to Southampton with a three-year-old son by February 1909. Eight years, and the whole distance between a Devon parish school and an Argentine horseman's household at the Cape. That is now the largest answerable hole in the story. Also closed off an avenue: a newspaper search on "Lerena" returns 1,344 articles that are almost entirely OCR noise - Nissan Serena adverts misread as LERENA. Nothing of ours. Recorded so it is not retried.

findmypast: Argentine nationality corroborated from outside the family

did David opened a trial subscription. Four findings. 1. NATIONALITY. Mary Septima's declared nationality on British passenger manifests: ENGLISH in Feb 1909, ARGENTINE in May 1935. She was born and baptised at Northam, Devon. Under the law of the period a British woman took her husband's nationality on marriage, and they married in September 1911 - between the two voyages. A ship's purser in 1935, with no interest in this family, wrote down that a Devon woman was Argentine. That is independent corroboration that Pablo Armando held Argentine nationality by 1911, not merely by 1940. It does not settle where he was born. 2. The 1909 manifest lists on CONSECUTIVE LINES: Mrs M T Lerena (English) and Mast. L Lerena, a boy, British Colonial. Roque LUIS Armando was born at Cape Town in Nov 1905, so he was three, and the 1950 estate calls him "LOUIS Lerena". So she was travelling as Mrs Lerena with their son two years before the marriage - the same pattern already documented for Roque, and the basis of the mother's-surname theory. 3. In 1935 she arrived Southampton on 20 May, address "C/O DALLING, FORE ST, NORTHAM" - her elder sister Isabella "Edie" Taylor married a Dalling. She sailed home 28 June and died 15 November. A five-week visit home. 4. Carlos Gustavo Lerena, b.1915, ARGENTINE, occupation DIPLOMATIC, arrived London 1958 en route to a posting in Iran, with a son named Carlos GILBERTO. Not our man and no proof of the Consul General story, but it shows Lerenas did serve in Argentine diplomacy, and it is the third independent appearance of the Carlos-and-Gilberto pairing. Also: only eight Lerenas ever arrived in Britain and only two ever left; Pablo Armando is not among them. Juanita Ramona Lerena b. 16 Jun 1937, ballet teacher, arrived 1957 to Westward Ho, the village next to Northam.

findmypast: Mary Septima's 1935 voyage, and the Uruguayan nest at Trinidad

did David logged the session into findmypast. Result rows are free; transcripts are paywalled and were NOT purchased. Everything below is index-level. THE BEST NEW LEAD Mary Septima Lerena, born 1885, appears TWICE in 1935 - the year she died (15 Nov 1935). Incoming to Great Britain (TNA BT26/1079/00247, findmypast BT26/10691490) and leaving the UK for Cape, South Africa (TNA BT27/1433/00/0068). She sailed to England and back in the last year of her life. The OUTWARD list names everyone in the party, so it may put Pablo Armando on a dated ship with his age, occupation, UK address and declared nationality - a document type we have never had for him. Written up in notes/mary-septima-1935-voyage.md. Also: two Lerenas, "L" and "M T", arriving in Britain together in 1909 on one page (TNA BT26/398/00161). Pablo Armando married Mary Septima in 1911 and the family story is that they met on a ship. THE URUGUAYAN NEST Uruguay Baptisms 1750-1900 returns 33 Lerena rows with parents named. Eleven children are baptised in ONE small town - Trinidad, department of Flores - in the 1870s, to SIX different fathers (Bernabe, Vitalino, Ysaac, Cipriano, Fermin, Luis). Six men of a rare surname in one town in a few years are almost certainly brothers. That is the founding kindred, and it explains why Uruguay has the highest density of the name on earth. It also confirms the Gilberto family independently: Carlos Augusto Federico Lerena, b.1883 Montevideo, father Gilberto, mother Julia - the same child found as "Carlos A., 11, born Uruguay" in Gilberto Lerena's Buenos Aires household at the 1895 Argentine census. But: there is NO Pablo and NO Armando in the Uruguayan set, and only TWO Lerena baptisms in the whole Argentina Baptisms 1645-1930 index - one at Gualeguaychu 1891, one at Cayasta, SANTA FE, 1892, father Jose. Written up in notes/trinidad-flores.md, with the next step: Uruguayan CIVIL registration began in 1879, so a Uruguayan birth in 1882 should be civilly recorded.

1881/1883 sweep: A-E done. SA estates index. Film structure resolved

did Sweep: A, B, C, D and E are now complete for both 1881 and 1883 - ten bands, no Pablo Armando. New near misses: Carara/Pablo (1881 f.146), Dias/Jose Pablo (1883 f.92). Resolves the image-numbering confusion properly rather than working around it. The film carries TWO rolls. Roll 29 ends at image 171 with a title card for Volume A-D and "continua en el proximo rollo"; images 172-178 are leader and title cards; the volume resumes at 179 marked "continuacion". The 655-image waypoint view OMITS that roll-30 continuation - the tail of C and the whole of D - which is exactly the 63-image difference. D exists only in the 718-image film view. Both coverage files now say which view their numbers came from, and record the Libro/folio spans, which are stable across views. New source from David: ancestors.co.za deceased estates, 1994-2023. Gives death years not previously held for Ricardo Juan Carlos (1996), Pierre Frederick (2000), Paul Raymond (2001), Anton Armando (2013) and Roberto Juan Roque (2022), and a full name - Doreen May - for the "Doreen" of the family chart. Robert Paul Lerena 1950 appears in the Cape Estates Death Notice Index, corroborating MOOC 6/9/17017 independently. The same database returns living Lerena daughters under married surnames with dates of birth. Those are deliberately NOT committed here or published; the site says so explicitly.

1881/1883 sweep: A, B, C complete. New lead: the political-refugee story

did Extends the Rosario index sweep to the years either side of 1882, since the passport's birth date is the only authority for that year and was written 58 years after the fact. A, B and C are clear for both 1881 and 1883 - six bands, no Pablo Armando. Records an important caveat: the viewer presents this film under two different image-numbering schemes (718 vs 655) with a NON-constant offset. Image numbers are locators only; every page is verified on arrival by letter, year, Libro and folio, and that is what the coverage files record. New from the family: David's mother repeated the story that Pablo Armando fled Argentina as a communist on the run. Written up as hypothesis 6 and in notes/communist-story.md. It is the only family story that explains a departure. The communist label is almost certainly a later relabel - the Argentine party dates from 1918 and he left c.1903-05, when the movement was anarchist. The testable mechanism is Ley 4144, the Ley de Residencia, which deported foreign-born agitators without trial - and which applied only to FOREIGNERS, so if he was expelled he was not Argentine-born, and his absence from the Rosario register becomes a consequence rather than a puzzle.

Finish CEMLA: LERINA read, register extended to 70

did LERINA returns four people - a single Italian household arriving together on the ADELAIDE LAVARELLO in 1889. A different surname, marked excluded. Corrects the register's earliest-arrival claim: the earliest arrival of a Lerena, Llerena or Larena is 1905; the only earlier hit under any spelling is that Italian Lerina family. Either way the conclusion stands and is now stated precisely on /register/, /searched/ and /roadmap/ - Pablo Armando's parents cannot be in this index. Marks CEMLA done on the searched page and closes roadmap route 3.

CEMLA run + a name register of every Lerena encountered

did CEMLA (Centro de Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos), the Buenos Aires immigrant arrival index, searched across LERENA / LLERENA / LARENA with David completing the CAPTCHAs. Results recorded in full. The most useful result is negative: the earliest arrival under any spelling is 1905, so no Lerena entered Argentina as a recorded immigrant before Pablo Armando was born in 1882. His parents are not in this index. Positives worth keeping: - Gilberto Lerena, ARGENTINE, b. c.1879, comercio, arriving 1928 with a son of the same name - not among the children of the Gilberto (b.1854) who headed the 1895 Buenos Aires household and co-founded the Argentine Stud Book - Carlos Lerena (Uruguayan, b. c.1885) with Rosa M. E. Lerena (Argentine), arriving together from Montevideo 1926 - Josefina Llerena, Argentine woman of property, three crossings - Spanish bearers cluster hard on Logrono, La Rioja New: /register/ - a working register of all 66 Lerenas met anywhere, each with its source and an honest mark of Connected, Excluded, or Unplaced. Nothing is claimed as kin. When Pablo Armando's parents are finally named, this is the list that should snap into place.

Complete the 1882 Rosario index sweep: all 26 letters, no Pablo Armando

did Finishes P through Z. The sweep of DGS 4530325 for the given name Pablo Armando under any surname is now complete across every letter section of the Rosario cathedral baptism index for 1882. He is not there. - P 503-505, Q 548-549, R 563-565, S 612-614, T 654, U 678, V 684-685, W 705, Y 707, Z 708 - There is no X section in the index at all - K and Y contain no 1882 entries whatsoever - Eleven near misses logged and excluded, closest being Ronillon / Armando Juan / Libro 24 f.498 Records the negative honestly on /searched/ and /roadmap/: what it rules out (baptism at Rosario cathedral in 1882 under any surname, this being the only parish before 1888 and predating civil registration) and what it does not (a different given name, a different year, a different place). Marks the mother's-surname theory as tested-and-unrewarded, and the F section's clearance as disposing of the Fernandez hypothesis. Names the successor route: the same sweep across 1881 and 1883, now cheap because every letter's position in the film is mapped.

Sweep 1882: sixteen sections clear, and K has no 1882 at all

did Carried the sweep from H through O. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, Ll, M, N and O are now read in full for the year 1882, and there is no Pablo Armando in any of them. K is worth a note of its own: the section jumps from Libro 24 in 1881 straight to Libro 26 in 1883, so there were no K baptisms at all at this parish in 1882. The letter is that rare in Rosario. M turned out to be enormous, running from about image 411 to 473, and its 1882 band alone took three openings. The second volume of the index opens at image 410 with its own title card - Indice Bautismos, Volumen M-Q, anos 1879-1900 - which confirms the film's structure and means R to Z sits in a third volume further on. Two more near misses joined the list and were excluded: a Pablo J. among the G's and a Pablo Eduardo at folio 555. That makes eight near hits across the sweep, none of them him, which continues to say the method catches the name when it is present. What remains is P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W to Z. P and S are the large ones.

Publish everything that led nowhere

did David asks that the searches be recorded on the site itself, not only in the working notes, even where they found nothing. That is right for this archive, and there is now a Searched page carrying all of it. Most genealogical work is negative, and knowing a register has been read line by line and does not contain a name is worth as much as finding one - provided somebody wrote it down. Nobody does, which is why the same fruitless afternoon gets spent again a decade later. So the page lists the fourteen years of Rosario baptisms, the twelve letters of the 1882 sweep and the letters still outstanding, the six near misses that show the sweep would catch the name if it were there, and the control search that proves those registers are unindexed rather than merely unsearched. It lists the indexes that came back empty, and it separates them by reason - not there, not indexed, not digitised, restricted, or blocked - because a record that does not exist and a record nobody has scanned are different problems with different solutions. It also records what was chased and abandoned: the San Miguel baptisms David himself marks unproven, the Fernandez hypothesis that grew from them and died in the F section, the truncated "Ler" line that would not resolve, the second-parish idea that was reasonable for a day and wrong, and the Find a Grave memorial that turns out to derive from the same passport rather than corroborate it. And it says what the failures add up to, which is not nothing: three independent bodies of evidence decline to place this family at Rosario, and there is no civil fallback because provincial registration did not yet exist. His South American origin rests entirely on his own passport. The record has not contradicted him; it has refused to agree.

Sweep 1882: twelve letters clear, and six near misses that prove the method

did Carried the sweep through G, H and into I. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, L and Ll are now read in full for 1882 and there is no Pablo Armando in any of them. I is located but its 1882 band, at images 346 to 347, is not yet read. The letter positions are now firm rather than estimated, and are recorded with the bracketing samples that fixed them, so the remainder can be picked up cold without re-deriving anything. Six near misses have surfaced across the sweep - a Chaparro called Pablo H., a Funes called Armando, an Eduardo called Paul marked natural, a Gorosito called Pablo in the wrong year, a Pablo J. among the G's, and a Pablo among the I's in 1884. None of them is him. Their value is methodological: six near hits show the sweep catches the name when it is there, so a null result at the end of it will mean something rather than nothing. What remains is I, J and K, then M through Z, perhaps fifteen to twenty-five more reads, with P and S the large ones to do first if it is ever cut short. Recorded also, because it shaped how this was done: Chrome dropped twice during the sitting and the viewer sometimes renders a page behind the number requested, which costs re-reads but loses nothing - and is why the map is written after each letter rather than at the end.

Sweep 1882: nine letters read, and the index turns out to flag illegitimacy

did Kept going. A, B, C, D, E and F are now read in full for 1882, joining L and Ll from this morning, and G is half done. There is no Pablo Armando in any of them. Two things learned along the way make the rest of the sweep sharper. The index marks illegitimate births with "(N.)" for natural - there is an "Eduardo, Paul (N.)" at folio 505 - so if Pablo Armando was born outside marriage and registered under his mother's name, his entry should carry that mark, and it is a second thing to scan for rather than relying on the given name alone. And "Exposito" turns out to be a surname in its own right here, the name given to foundlings, of which there are many; the E section is now read and none of them is him. Four near misses are recorded so nobody chases them twice: a Chaparro called Pablo H., a Funes called Armando, an Eduardo called Paul and marked natural, and a Gorosito called Pablo in the wrong year. None is him - but that all four surfaced is the useful part, because it shows the sweep is sensitive enough to catch the name if it is there at all. What remains is the tail of G, then H through Z, perhaps twenty-five to thirty-five more image reads. The letter positions are recorded so the next session can go straight to each 1882 band.

Begin reading 1882 across the letters; the Fernandez idea fails

did Proceeded with the read. The point of it is to test whether Pablo Armando sits in the Rosario baptism index under a surname that is not Lerena - because a child born outside marriage was commonly registered under his mother's name, and this family's documented habit was children first and marriage afterwards. F is now read in full for 1882, across image 239's right page and the whole of 240, covering Libro 24 to folio 577 and Libro 25 to folio 218. There is no Pablo Armando in it, so the Fernandez hypothesis that David's own tree leans on does not hold at this parish for this year. One curiosity worth recording rather than chasing: a Funes child called Armando at folio 163, which is an Armando but neither the right surname nor the right given name. C is partly read - folios 95 to 244 at image 118, with no Pablo - and folios 1 to 94 at image 117 still to do. L and Ll were already read this morning. The rest is mapped rather than read, and the note says so plainly: three letters of twenty-six. Sampled positions are recorded so each letter's 1882 band can be found in one jump, since every letter's section runs chronologically and 1882 therefore sits early in it. Completing the sweep is a defined job of perhaps forty to sixty more image reads at one call each, and it would settle conclusively whether he was baptised at Rosario in 1882 under any surname at all.

Send the army letter, and decline the CAPTCHA

did David asked for both CEMLA and the letter tonight. One of those I did. The letter has gone to the Archivo General del Ejercito at age@ejercito.mil.ar, an address verified against argentina.gob.ar rather than guessed - the Ministry of Defence's own archive directory, which also confirms they offer reference at a distance by email. It was sent from David's own account so the reply reaches him, and it asks for four things: whether the legajo survives, the names of Pablo Armando's parents, the military district of enrolment, and what a copy would cost. It explains why the archive is being troubled at all - the parish index read year by year from 1882 to 1895, the cathedral being Rosario's only parish until 1888, his absence from the 1895 census, and the fact that no provincial civil registry existed in 1882. The message id is recorded with the request so the thread can be found again. CEMLA I did not run. Its search form is behind a CAPTCHA, and completing those is precisely the check meant to establish that a person is present, so it is not mine to defeat. It stays a five-minute job for David and the five exact searches are written out. Also mapped, for the route that reads 1882 across every letter rather than only L: D sits at image 201 of the baptism index and F at 255, both in 1889-90, so F for 1882 lies around images 240 to 248. That is where a Fernandez child called Pablo Armando would be, if David's own hypothesis about the mother's surname is right.

A roadmap, and the theory that would explain three refusals

did The Argentine record has now declined three times - fourteen years of cathedral baptisms, the whole FamilySearch index, and the 1895 national census - and there is no civil fallback, because Argentine civil registration only began around 1886. For a birth in February 1882 the parish register is the only record that could ever have existed. So the roadmap opens with the theory that would explain all three at once. This family's documented practice was to have children first and marry later: Roque was born in November 1905 and his parents did not marry until September 1911, the register calling them bachelor and spinster, with the child baptised that June and the mother received into the church in December. In Spanish parish and civil practice a child born outside marriage is commonly registered under the mother's surname. If Pablo Armando was himself born that way, he was born at Rosario exactly as his passport says and is simply not under L - and his passport carries one surname where Spanish practice gives two. David's own tree already leans this way, with a Lerena mother and a Llorens father. Seven routes are ranked by what they would settle, and marked by what they need. Two are letters, one is five minutes at a keyboard behind a CAPTCHA, one is the untried remount idea, one is forty page-openings of an index already open, one is Uruguay, and one is a curiosity: both younger sons appear in an LDS South African Mission census of 1935 indexed as "Son", which means a head of household stands on that page giving his own birthplace five years before the passport and independent of it. The image is not published. Tonight's search also confirmed the Forbes-Chappell identity from a third source, and put Roque in the Orange Free State in 1932 through an infant death at Bloemfontein.

There is no civil fallback for 1882, and the ships may be the wrong ships

did Two findings, and three letters ready to send. The first is structural and closes a door properly rather than leaving it ajar. Argentine civil registration only began around 1886, so for a birth at Rosario in February 1882 the parish register is the only record that could ever have existed - and this archive has read that parish's index line by line from 1882 to 1895. There is no provincial civil act to go and order. That is not a gap in the searching; it is the shape of the Argentine record system, and it narrows the choice hard: either he was baptised somewhere other than Rosario, or he was not born there. The second answers David's question about ship records by dropping an assumption. We have been looking for a passenger, and he may never have been one. The South African War shipped some 360,000 horses into the country with Argentina among the main sources; he was seventeen when it began and twenty when it ended, a horseman by trade and a horse-dealer at the Cape by 1911. Horses travel with conductors, grooms and muleteers engaged at the port of loading, and those men are written down in military remount paperwork rather than civilian passenger lists - which would explain why he is invisible in the passenger indexes. The Remount Department series at Kew, the Cape depots at Stellenbosch and the British purchasing commissions at Buenos Aires have none of them been touched. Also checked and recorded so it is not tried twice: FamilySearch's indexed military records return zero for the surname, so the libreta de enrolamiento is an email to Buenos Aires rather than a search. That letter is drafted in Spanish. So is the CEMLA brief, which David has to run himself because the form is behind a CAPTCHA.

The 1895 census answers a different question, and a route out of Argentina

did Searched the Argentine national census of 1895, which is indexed. It produced one substantial Lerena household - and it is not his. Gilberto Lerena, head, forty-one, born in Uruguay in 1854, living in Buenos Aires with nine others in Seccion 21, Subdivision 15. The Uruguayan records already held give Gilberto Lerena married to Julia Salvanach with sons Carlos Augusto Federico and Raul, born at Montevideo in 1883 and 1885; here they are ten years on. So the co-founder of the Argentine Stud Book was a Uruguayan, born 1854, which fits a Group 1 race being renamed for him in 1914 at or just after his death. The children's birthplaces even date the family's move: Uruguay through 1887, Buenos Aires from 1889. Pablo Armando is not in that household, and not in the census at all though he would have been thirteen. Nor is there a single Lerena recorded in Santa Fe or Rosario. That is now the third independent body of evidence to decline to place this family there, after fourteen years of cathedral baptisms and the whole FamilySearch index - while Uruguay keeps answering. The Argentina page now carries a research plan rather than a shrug. The two best routes are implied by the passport itself: his libreta de enrolamiento, since enrolment records name a man's parents and birthplace and he belongs to the conscription class of 1882; and the matricula consular the Cape Town consulate must have held on him to issue a passport at all. Then Santa Fe's provincial civil registration, which is not online in any form. Then Uruguay, which on this evidence is not a fallback but the likelier answer. And one question of its own: this family named a son Gilberto Lerena in 1957, three generations after leaving. Either they were kin to the man in the stud book, or they knew exactly who he was.

A hero for the home page, and the label it needs

did David generated the Cape stable-yard image rather than the Argentine river one, and it is the better picture for this archive anyway: it is the yard at Rugby that the 1931 building file records, the trade that four separate documents attest, and the mountain he died under. The home page is rebuilt on the Defranceschi hero pattern - full-bleed banner with the kicker, title and standfirst overlaid, then an opener stating who the archive is for and the two rules, then three doors into the line, the passport and the hypotheses. Below that the four family traditions with their verdicts, six numbers that each link to the page earning them, and a closing section saying plainly where the line stops. The image is captioned rather than left to speak for itself. An archive that labels every claim cannot leave its own illustration unlabelled, so the caption says three things: that it is a modern painted impression and not a photograph, that it is not a picture of any building this family is known to have owned, and that the signature in its corner is the generator's invention and not a real artist's. The source file is kept alongside the published webp.

Bring the site onto the Defranceschi Archive's design system

did The Lerena site had its own ad-hoc theme and did not read as a sibling of the Defranceschi archive. It now uses the same design system rather than an approximation of it: the stylesheet is copied wholesale, and the layout and every page have been rewritten to its vocabulary. That means EB Garamond over Libre Franklin over IBM Plex Mono, the same ink-and-panel palette in both light and dark, the same letterspaced eyebrow above a large serif title, the same page head with rule beneath, the same grouped dropdown navigation and mobile drawer, the same panels, tables, notes and section rules - and, most importantly for an archive of this kind, the same three confidence chips: Documented, Inferred, Family lore. A reader moving between the two archives should not have to relearn anything, least of all how confidence is signalled. All fourteen pages were converted: headings and standfirsts lifted into the layout's title, eyebrow and dek props, content split into sections, and the old class names mapped across. Two standfirsts were also stale and are corrected. The home page no longer says the archive begins almost empty, which stopped being true several hours ago, and the sources page no longer describes itself as being on day one.

Uruguay is empty too, and a note on the name Carmen

did Searched fuzzily on both names across the whole index for births between 1878 and 1886 - a Uruguay filter with a date range returns nothing at all, so the filter was dropped and everything searched instead. Two records come back for this man and only two: his 1911 marriage at Wynberg, and a Find a Grave entry giving his dates without a burial place. Every other Pablo Lerena in the window is demonstrably someone else, chief among them a Pablo Timoteo Lerena Munoz of Atienza in Guadalajara. So there is no South American record of Pablo Armando Lerena in the largest genealogical index in the world. Set beside fourteen clean years of Rosario baptisms, that means his South American origin now rests entirely on his own passport. That is not a reason to doubt the passport, which he swore at a consulate and which names a city, a province and a day. It is a reason to accept that the corroborating record may simply not be digitised, since Uruguayan and Argentine coverage is patchy and Rosario's civil registration is unindexed for the 1880s. David asks whether the name Carmen, in his aunt Patricia Carmen Lerena, is a clue. On its own, barely - it is among the commonest female names in the Spanish-speaking world and this family was Catholic. But the family's surviving female Spanish names are scarce where the male ones are abundant, and neither of Patricia's grandmothers, an Englishwoman of Devon and an Afrikaner, was a Carmen. Spanish custom names children for grandparents, so if it descends at all it descends from further back on the Lerena side. Recorded as a modest inference and, more usefully, as a filter: weight any Argentine or Uruguayan Lerena household containing a Carmen.

Fourteen consecutive years of Rosario baptisms, and he is not in them

did First established that these years cannot be searched: a control query for Lopez at Rosario between 1888 and 1892 returns nothing, so the cathedral's nineteenth-century baptisms are unindexed and only the 1910s material is searchable. They had to be read. Images 377 to 393 of the baptism index are now read, covering Libros 24 to 38 and the years 1885 through 1895. With this morning's work that makes 1882 to 1895 - fourteen consecutive years - together with the whole Ll- section for 1880 to 1884. There is no Lerena in any of it. The L pages are thick with Rosario's actual L families, the same names recurring year on year: Lopez, Lucero, Luduena, Leguizamon, Luraschi, Lencina, Ledesma, Leiva, Lescano, Lanfranconi, Lavena. Lerena is simply not among them. Three gaps are stated rather than glossed: image 392 was not opened, the lower halves of 387 and 389 rendered blurred because the tiles did not load, and 1896 to 1900 is unread. None is likely to matter, since a baptism at twelve or older is improbable and the run is otherwise unbroken. Set against the parish finding - that the cathedral was Rosario's only church until 1888 - the conclusion is that the Rosario baptism should now be treated as unlikely to exist at all. The effort moves to whether he was born at Rosario in the first place. His passport says so and it is his own document, but nothing corroborates it, and there is a Rosario in Uruguay, in the country where this surname is densest and where Montevideo Lerenas are already surfacing in every search.

Rosario had one parish in 1882, so the clean index means much more

did Went looking for a Lerena baptism at Santa Rosa de Lima, the second Rosario parish found this morning, and checked when that parish began. The answer reverses this morning's reasoning. Santa Rosa de Lima did not become a parish until 19 February 1888, and its first baptism was performed that day; before then Rosario had, in the words of the parish's own history, only the cathedral. San Jose and Inmaculada Concepcion are later still and appear in the indexed records only from the 1910s. So in February 1882 the cathedral was the only parish in Rosario. This archive has read its baptism index line by line for 1882, 1883, 1884 and 1885, together with the whole Ll- section for 1880 to 1884, and found no Lerena and no Llerena. Those two facts together say something much stronger than "he was probably baptised elsewhere in Rosario": he was not baptised in Rosario at all in those years, because there was nowhere else in Rosario to be baptised. The other-parish hypothesis, raised only hours ago, is closed - a reasonable idea, and wrong for these years. Four possibilities survive, and the cheapest is a late baptism after 1885, which this family's own habits support since Pablo Armando's son Roque was born in 1905 and baptised in 1911. The same index runs to 1900. Failing that, he was christened in another town, or he was not born at Rosario at all - and there is a Rosario in Uruguay, in the country where the surname is densest, though his passport says Rosario de Santa Fe explicitly. The search also turned up a Bartolome Llerena in the 1869 census at Rosario, born in Cordoba in 1824, and several Llorens families at the Rosario parishes - which is presumably why the 1872 San Miguel baptism looked plausible, though it remains unproven and Buenos Aires-based.

Read image 51, and find the better method underneath it

did Chrome came back and image 51 of the marriage index was read properly: pages 150 and 151, Libro 8 and Libro 9, under year headings running 1876 to 1885 - the whole window that matters - with dozens of L surnames. One candidate came out of it and it is not confirmed. Under Libro 9, 1884, a line reads "Larena V, Sarmiento A, 20", and at the best resolution available I cannot tell Larena from Lavena or Lerena. Lavena is a real Rosario surname, so it is recorded as a candidate only, to be settled at folio 20 of the 1884-1891 marriage register. If it does prove to be Lerena, the date is worth noting: 1884, two years after Pablo Armando's birth, which is exactly the pattern his own son shows. The more valuable find was underneath. Opening that register revealed an image-index panel tabulating every act with the names and ages of the parties and, crucially, the names of both parents. These registers are indexed. Reading handwriting was never necessary, and a surname search returns six thousand Lerena records for Argentina and seven hundred and thirty for Santa Fe. Searching them immediately produced the thing four clean years at the cathedral had implied: a second Rosario parish with Lerenas in it. Carmen Roman Lerena was baptised at Santa Rosa de Lima, Rosario, in 1918, her mother a Manuela Lerena. It also turned up an Armando Lerena baptised at Santa Fe city in 1917 to Casimiro Lerena and Amelia Lepiani, and it documented the Montevideo Lerena Lenguas - Luis Serena Lenguas and Julia Juanico, with a Justiniana Lenguas in the family - which is plainly where Gilberto Justiniano Lerena Lenguas of the Argentine Stud Book gets his names, and makes that a Montevideo family rather than an Argentine one. One trap recorded: there is a Rosario in Uruguay as well.

The marriage index narrows to a single page

did Third pass, and a better door. Navigating the ark directly rather than the film number resolves to a named waypoint - Rosario, Nuestra Senora del Rosario, "Indice de matrimonios 1860-1904" - of only 88 images, half the size of the film listing and scoped exactly to the period in question. Within it, image 51 carries the L surnames under year headings for 1878, 1880, 1881 and 1883, with the 1860s and 1870s on the pages immediately before. Pablo Armando was born in February 1882, so his parents married before that: image 51, and its neighbours at 49, 50 and 52, is the page. Luraschi, Lucero, Luduena, Lopez, Lucas, Lara, Laguna and Lorenzo are all legible there. Lerena was not positively identified, but the page was never rendered sharply enough to exclude it either. The stop is now plainly a tooling limit rather than anything about the records. Chrome disconnected mid-task and did not return, and Chrome was the only surface where the region-zoom action works - which is what makes this handwriting legible. The in-app browser pane cannot region-crop at all, and at its width the deep-zoom tiles blur before the script can be read. So the page is identified, open and unrestricted, and the instructions for reading it are written down: the waypoint ark, image 51, Chrome, fit zoom, region crops on quarters. The line will give the groom's surname, the bride's surname and a page number, and that number opens the marriage register for 1868-1884 or 1853-1867.

Second run at the marriage index: legibility solved, navigation defeated

did Went back at DGS 4531036 and got the reading problem the right way round. The mistake last time was zooming the viewer in, which makes the page wider than the viewport and pushes the groom's surname column off-screen to the left. At the viewer's fit zoom, a region crop of the left page renders this handwriting perfectly, and the exact regions are now written into the queue. That let me confirm the letter positions properly rather than by estimate - D at image 49 with Duarte, Durand and Dominguez, F at 59 with Franco and Fonseca, J at 72, P at 90 - which keeps L bracketed to images 76 to 84. What stopped it was the viewer rather than the film. On this particular roll it gets into a stuck state: URL navigation lands in thumbnail mode and the thumbnails sometimes never load; the single-page toggle does not open the requested image but snaps back to the last single-page image viewed; and once stuck, both the image-number box and the forward and back arrows stop responding, so only image 49 would render. A fresh page load clears it, and that is the instruction left for next time - open the film in a new tab, switch to single-page view first, and use the number box before touching anything else. The pages are located, unrestricted and legible. They were simply never put on screen.

Decode the marriage index and pin the L section to eight pages

did Opened the Rosario marriage index, DGS 4531036, and worked out how it is built. It is a different animal from the baptism index: 180 images against 718, handwritten rather than typed, alphabetical by surname but sub-divided by year within each surname group, with the occasional Libro heading. The columns give the groom's surname, the bride's surname and a page number, so a single line names both families - which is why this index is worth more than the baptism one for a man whose parents are unknown. Located it by sampling: J at image 72 with Jurgens, Juary and Juriol, and P at image 90 with Pacheco, Palma, Paz, Perez and Peralta. So L sits at roughly images 76 to 84, and image 78 already shows the right kind of content. Not read yet, and I want to be plain about why: the stopping point is mechanical rather than evidential. This index is fainter than the baptism one and needs more magnification, and at that magnification the page runs wider than the viewport so the groom's surname column falls off to the left and has to be dragged into view before cropping. The images themselves are open, unrestricted and perfectly legible at the right zoom. The viewer mechanics are now written down so the next attempt does not rediscover them: the plus button sits at the far right of the toolbar, and the icon near the middle is the grid toggle that kept throwing earlier sessions back into thumbnail view.

Chase the "Ler" line into the register; it does not hold

did Followed the odd index line - "Ler, Maria, 1884, folio 13" - into the book. Libro 27 turns out to sit on DGS 4098790, its printed cover at image 4, so the volume was easy to find. Stamped folios 11, 13 and 14 were read off the marginal entry columns and none carries a Ler or a matching Maria: folio 13 holds Lugardi, Zurbicki, Navarro and Bustos, folio 11 holds Villa, Vaz and Castilla, folio 14 holds Iglesias, Guiscardo, a Maria Cadolat and Pierra. The foliation is the reason it cannot be pinned down. The index puts Luzardi Juan Eugenio at folio 15, and that man is physically entry 502 on stamped folio 13, so the index runs about two ahead - but that offset rests on one name, and applying it did not produce the entry either. Either the index line does not read "Ler", or its foliation diverges by more than a constant. Recorded as a weak lead and dropped rather than pursued further. The films are now mapped, and two things fall out. David's film 4098791 is "Bautismos 1882-1884" - exactly the span the index has cleared - so its 543 pages would have yielded nothing, which is what the index was for. And the better target is no longer a baptism at all: the marriage registers for 1868-1884 and 1853-1867 would give Pablo Armando's parents' marriage, which names all four of his grandparents, and there is a marriage index to find it with.

Four clean years at the cathedral, and the search moves parish

did Carried the Rosario index on through 1884 and 1885, images 373 to 376, reading every line of the L run: Libro 25 folios 210 to 299, Libro 26 and 27 folios 305 to 453 and 2 to 5, Libro 27 folios 12 to 359 and 363 to 656, Libro 28 folios 2 to 127. No Lerena anywhere. So the negative now covers 1882, 1883, 1884 and 1885 end to end, together with the whole Ll- section for 1880 to 1884. Pablo Armando was not baptised at Nuestra Senora del Rosario in the four years after his birth, which is long enough to absorb even the six-year delay this family showed with his own son. The likeliest explanation is no longer a late baptism but a different parish, and the catalogue entry worked so far is specifically the cathedral's. One oddity is worth an afternoon: image 374 carries a surname written as the bare "Ler", for a Maria baptised in 1884 at Libro 27 folio 13. It may be nothing, or a clipped Lerena, and if it is the latter she would be a sister. It costs one page to find out.

Read the Rosario index: he is not there

did Chrome drove the deep-zoom viewer where the in-app pane could not, and the region-zoom action renders the typescript perfectly, so the index could be read line by line rather than guessed at. The whole L run for 1882 and 1883 in the cathedral parish index is now covered end to end - Libro 24 folios 402 to 574, Libro 25 folios 9 to 249 and 457 to 540, Libro 26 folios 7 to 209 - together with the entire Ll- section for 1880 to 1884, which turns out to hold just seven entries. There is no Lerena and no Llerena in any of it. So Pablo Armando was not baptised at Nuestra Senora del Rosario in 1882 or 1883. That is a finding rather than a failure: the index is legible, it is complete for those years, and it was read rather than sampled. The most promising explanation is one the family's own records supply. This family delayed baptisms - Pablo Armando's son Roque was born in November 1905 and not baptised until June 1911, six years later. If the father was treated the same way his entry lies somewhere in 1884 to 1895, which is another dozen pages of an index already open and is much the cheapest thing to try next. Failing that, Rosario had more than one parish by 1882. One consequence worth recording: David's original film is a register volume rather than an index, and now that 1882 and 1883 are excluded at this parish it may be the wrong volume altogether.

Rosario: the register need not be read, because there is an index

did Followed David's own note to the film he had marked "still need to look through". It is the cathedral parish of Rosario - Nuestra Senora del Rosario, catalogue koha:208788, seventy-one rolls filmed in 1974 - and the images are not restricted. The useful finding is that he does not have to read it. His note points at the register volume itself, 543 images to be turned one at a time. The catalogue also carries separate alphabetical baptism indexes, and one of them, DGS 4530325, covers 1879 to 1900 and therefore 1882. Decoding that index took most of the work. Its columns are apellidos, nombres, ano and folio, in blocks headed by Libro number, and it is alphabetical by letter but chronological within each letter - so the L section is a run of pages ordered by year rather than by given name. Image 403 is at 1900 and 1901, the end of that run, and image 406 has already crossed into Ll-, which Spanish indexes place after L. So 1882 sits a few pages earlier, around images 395 to 402. Read the Libro and folio off that line and the register entry follows, and it names his parents. I could not finish it myself: the deep-zoom viewer renders unreliably in this browser pane, needing a click to draw but jumping pages when the click lands in the image area, and flipping into thumbnail mode. That is a tooling limit and not a records one, and the target is now narrow enough to do by hand in a few minutes. Two better or adjacent targets came out of the same catalogue. The marriage index for 1860 to 1921 would give his parents' marriage, which names both fathers and both mothers - four names where a baptism gives two. And the baptism index for L-Z 1731 to 1879 should hold his older siblings, and perhaps his parents' own baptisms.

Read David's own facts, and be corrected by them

did A process failure worth naming: I had been reading the MyHeritage tree's rendered cards - names and dates - and never opening the Biography, Facts and Notes panels where David records his research. He was right to say I would end up finding links for things he had already found. The method is now written into the queue: re-root the tree and read the panel first, then research beyond it. Doing so corrects this archive in several places and hands it four new leads. Mary Septima Taylor was born at Bideford, Devon, on 17 September 1884, cited to the GRO index, and christened at St Margaret's, Northam. My doubt about her English birth lasted part of one day and rested on a badly filtered search; it is retired as disproved rather than deleted. Her father William Taylor, born at Worlingworth in Suffolk, was a coachman - so the horses are on both sides of the marriage - and the family is of Northam and Bideford, six miles apart, which is Brayley's own country. The inference from that surname alone held. She was a pupil teacher, awarded a diocesan prize in religious knowledge six weeks after her mother died, at sixteen. And on 16 December 1911 she was baptised a Catholic, three months after the wedding - so the year runs son in June, parents in September, mother in December. The family's memory that Pablo cut Luis off is legible in the will: Luis took half a share, the same as a woman described as no relation, while his two brothers held three-quarters between them. The Chappell tangle resolves too - Roque married Rose Forbes, who was his brother's mother-in-law, so Chappell was her name by an earlier marriage, exactly as one of the two readings proposed. Four new leads, all from David's notes. The consular tradition may be Uruguayan rather than Argentine, which would explain why nothing has been found on the Argentine side. He imported horses from Argentina for the South African government - the testable form of the horse claim this archive framed on day one. He held land at Blouberg that the deeds sweep failed to find, so that sweep needs redoing under every spelling. And David has already located the Rosario film that should name Pablo Armando's parents.

Went for the passenger lists and found the marriage instead

did Cape Province marriage register no. 160, 3 September 1911, solemnized at Wynberg: married in St Dominic's after banns. Pablo Armando Lerena, 29, bachelor, horse-dealer, of Diep River; Mary Septima Taylor, 27, spinster, of Diep River. Both signed their own names in full. The examining signature reads "Bert..." - and Bertram W. Glynn is the priest who had baptised their son at Wynberg three months earlier. Their first son was born on 25 November 1905, so they married nearly six years after they became parents, and the register calls them bachelor and spinster, meaning neither had been married before to anyone. That closes a puzzle this archive had already noticed and could not explain: Roque's baptism was delayed six years to June 1911, and his parents married that September. The family was brought into the church in the course of a single year, the child first and the parents after, apparently by the same priest. It also gives his trade at the earliest date yet - horse-dealer - so the sequence now runs horse-dealer in 1911, trainer by 1940 with a yard taking apprentices, race horse owner at death in 1950. And it adds Diep River at the front of an address sequence that runs on through Rugby, Observatory, Camps Bay and Newlands. For the ship, it removes an assumption rather than the story: she was Taylor until September 1911, so she appears under Taylor on any earlier passenger list, and being unmarried the two may well have travelled separately. The queue is amended accordingly. A caution goes with it. A search of the English records returns nothing at all for a Mary Septima Taylor born in 1884 - no birth, no baptism, no census - only her South African marriage and death. Her English birth is family knowledge and is now labelled as such, since she could as easily have been born at the Cape to an English family. Adds a hypotheses page gathering every unproved proposition the archive is entertaining, with what suggests it, what would settle it, and what weight it deserves - including the two now retired as disproved.

Mary Septima Taylor: a name that is a count, and a ship story that holds

did Opened the Taylor side from the MyHeritage tree. The trick is to re-root the tree with rootIndividualID on the URL and read its own data store; the viewport loads only what it draws, so any branch has to be re-rooted to be reached. Mary Septima Taylor, born 17 September 1884, died 15 November 1935, was the ninth of ten children of William Taylor and Mary Ann Hellen Brayley. Her name is arithmetic and the arithmetic comes out: counting the daughters in order of birth, she is the seventh, which is what Septima means. That in turn settles something the tree leaves blank, since the unnamed twin of 1879 must have been a girl or the count fails. The name her parents gave their ninth child preserves a sister whose own name is lost. Behind her stand James Taylor, born about 1796, and Harriet Reynolds, who died in 1827 when her son William was twenty-one months old - so the Taylor line now reaches further back than the Lerena line, where Pablo Armando's parents are still unknown. Birthplaces are not recorded anywhere in the tree and are not asserted here; the English censuses of 1891 and 1901 would supply them in one line each. On the family's own objection - she was in England, so what was he doing on a ship out of England - three things answer it. The River Plate reached the Cape through Europe in that decade, so he need only have changed ships at Southampton. The South African War shipped some 360,000 horses into the country, Argentina among the sources, and he was seventeen when it began and twenty when it ended. And she was orphaned at fifteen and eighteen, in the years when the Colonial Office was running an organised scheme to send single British women to the Cape. None of that is evidence about these two people, and the page says so. What settles it is one class of record: the UK outward passenger lists, indexed from 1890. Their first son was born at Cape Town in November 1905, which brackets the crossing tightly. Also corrects an earlier attribution: the Chappell of the racing press attaches through Ricardo's marriage to Doreen May Chappell, not through Roque, whose first wife the tree gives as Rosaline Wilhelmina Forbes.

The deeds registers: no farm, and the sixty-one are not one family

did Read the three land records surfaced by full-text search. They are Deeds Office transfer registers rather than farm registers, and they answer two open questions by pointing the other way from where this archive was leaning. Two of the three are Nuno Fernando Lerena, identified in both by his birth date as South African deeds records do. They are suburban erven of about 613 and 1,353 square metres - house plots, not farms - and one is dated August 1953, close to the October 1954 in which his father's estate capital fell due. Pablo Armando himself holds no land in these registers at all. That makes the ostrich farm doubtful rather than merely untested. He was a Cape Town racing man throughout: stables at Rugby, a yard taking apprentices, a Newlands address, Race Horse Owner on his death certificate. It is not disproof, since deeds coverage is partial and a farm could have been leased, and Oudtshoorn's own records remain unsearched - but the claim now has evidence against it and none for it, and it is the last of the four family traditions standing on nothing. The third record is a different family entirely: the deceased estate of Lucas Lerena, whose widow was Rachel Lerenia born Maleka, a Sotho or Tswana surname, at B. Eaton Township. A 1939 Pretoria membership roll carries a Hanson Seko Lerena. So this archive's day-one reading of the sixty-one South African Lerenas as, in effect, one family was too strong. There are at least two unconnected Lerena populations here, and the raw figure can no longer carry the argument. The founder-cluster reading still holds for this family, whose descent is documented, but the arithmetic that once stood in for it is withdrawn on the page rather than quietly removed.

La Rioja: the Spanish end of the name has one cluster, and it is Basque country

did David supplied Forebears' own page, which carries the Spanish regional split that the site's sub-page would not serve: La Rioja 27 per cent, Andalusia 25, Madrid 19. As raw percentages those read as three comparable strongholds. Converted to density they are nothing of the sort. La Rioja holds the name at 1 in 1,331 - forty times the Spanish average - against 1 in 37,848 for Andalusia and 1 in 38,255 for Madrid, which is roughly what you would expect if Lerenas were spread evenly and those two regions simply held a great many people. There is exactly one real Lerena cluster in Spain and it sits on the upper Ebro. That discriminates between the two origins this archive has carried open since day one. If Lerena were a worn-down Llerena, the name should be thickest around Extremadura; Extremadura does not appear in the Spanish distribution at all. The single cluster is instead immediately south of the Basque provinces and Navarre, exactly where Basque house-names in -ena spill into Castilian-speaking country. So the reading is now a Basque-formed house-name of the upper Ebro rather than an Extremaduran toponymic - recorded as inference from distribution, not proof from a register, which is the distinction this archive has kept from the start. Its practical value is that the Spanish end of the search now has a province instead of a country. The same page also notes that Lerena is borne as a forename by 284 people, which is precisely the trap that produced the false positive in the NAAIRS sweep, and that is written into the queue.

Bob Lerena of Cape Town, and the death notice runs into a wall

did The racing press names him outright. The Sporting Post's 2014 obituary of the trainer Alan Higgins says Higgins rode as a schoolboy "before being apprenticed to Bob Lerena, who was the grandfather of Spike", and that Peter Kannemeyer was apprenticed to Bob Lerena at the same time. Spike's grandfather is Ricardo's father, which is Pablo Armando Lerena; Bob is Robert; Higgins was born in 1929, so the apprenticeship falls around 1944-47 and Pablo Armando died in 1950. So he did not merely hold a passport calling him a trainer. He ran a yard at Cape Town that took apprentices, two of whom are named and one of whom went on to found the Philippi training centre - published, and entirely independent of every document this archive holds. It also gives a third form of his name: Pablo Armando at the Argentine consulate, Robert Paul at the registry, Bob in the yard. The death notice is blocked rather than missing. Signed in to FamilySearch, the Cape probate collection returns "Image Restricted" - viewable only at an affiliate library, which is presumably how the pages already held were got. Recorded so it is not retried from home. Two routes remain, and both are now written up as requests: an affiliate visit to browse the film around the pages held, or an order to the Western Cape Archives for MOOC 6/9/17017, which the liquidation account proves contains a death notice. Full-text search did yield two new records that are readable: Roque Luis Armando Lerena on a South African voters' roll of 1925-31, his full name exactly as the parish register has it; and a deeds entry naming Nuno Fernando Lerena with his birth date, badly OCR'd and worth reading by eye. Two further farm records are unexamined, and the ostrich farm is still an open claim.

A parish register merges two men into one, and Rosario becomes the family's

did Cheryl Defranceski obtained the baptism register of Corpus Christi, Wynberg, and it overturns yesterday's reading. The entry for Roque Lois Armando - born 25 November 1905, baptised 12 June 1911 - names his parents as Pablo Armando Lerena and Mary Septima Lerena, olim Taylor. That is the same son whose 1973 death notice gives his parents as Roberto Lerena and Mary Septima Lerena. Same son, same mother: the father is one man under two forms of his name, Spanish at the altar and English at the registry. This archive had set the two side by side, failed to reconcile them, and proposed brothers as thin inference. That inference is retracted on the page rather than quietly removed. The consequences are large. Generation 1 is Pablo Armando Lerena, born at Rosario de Santa Fe on 22 February 1882 - so the family's Rosario tradition is confirmed for the head of the line himself, from a passport he carried, signed and pressed his thumb to, and not merely for a relative whose papers survived. The seventy-six years on his 1950 death certificate is therefore wrong; he was sixty-eight, and the informant was the man causing burial rather than any kin. The Roberto of the 1973 form is explained too: it was signed by Rhena May, Roque's second wife, who married him in 1966 and never met his father. Mary Septima's maiden name is now documented rather than charted - olim Taylor - which is the Taylor of the MyHeritage tree's title. Two new threads. The baptism was delayed six years, which would be explained by a crossing between 1905 and 1911. And both godparents stood by proxy under Spanish names, Jose and Maria Louisa Breton, which suggests they were not in South Africa to stand in person.

The family papers close the line, and unseat the man who opened it

did Worked through David's own Lerena documents. The descent is now continuous and documented at every step, and the head of the family is not who this archive said yesterday. Generation 1 is ROBERTO PAUL LERENA, born in South America about 1874, died at Newlands, Cape Town on 19 March 1950. His death certificate gives his occupation as Race Horse Owner - the family's horse tradition now attested by the state itself, alongside the 1931 stables file and, among the debts of his estate, a claim for twenty-six pounds of carrots. His wife Mary Septima was buried at Maitland in November 1935 aged 51, certified by the same doctor who signed his own certificate fifteen years later. What identifies him is a death notice filed twenty-three years after his own: that of his eldest son Roque Luis Armando, which answers question 19 with "Father: ROBERTO LERENA. Mother: MARY SEPTIMA LERENA." His 1950 estate then names Nuno Fernando Lerena as a residuary heir with his exact birth date, 6 October 1924, and Nuno's own 1971 death notice names Cheryl Ann among his children. There is no inferred link left in the descent. This displaces Pablo Armando Lerena, who yesterday appeared to head the line. He does not reconcile with Roberto Paul - born 1882 against about 1874, Trainer against Race Horse Owner, Pablo and Armando against Roberto and Paul - though both are South American widowers in the horse business living in the same small suburb. The page now sets the two men side by side and proposes brothers, thinly and as inference. His passport keeps its value regardless: it is the only document here naming an exact Argentine town. The Spanish baptisms of 1872 are recorded as unproven at David's own instruction, with the reasons written out - the surname is Llorens, and the streets point to Buenos Aires rather than Rosario - so the record is not chased twice. One image in the folder is misfiled and belongs to the Falco archive. Above Roberto Paul there is still nothing. The death notice from his own estate file would name his parents and birthplace, and the account proves it was written.

The passport: generation 1 is named, and three claims are tested

did An Argentine passport in the family's own papers - Serie A No. 07962, issued at Cape Town on 24 December 1940 - names PABLO ARMANDO LERENA, born at Rosario de Santa Fe on 22 February 1882, Argentine by birth, living at Rugby in Cape Town, a widower, travelling to Portuguese East Africa. His profession is given in one word: Trainer. Under military service it records the Guardia Nacional, 6th Cavalry, 1915. That tests the family's account rather than repeating it. Rosario is confirmed exactly. The horses are confirmed twice over - a trainer by trade, a cavalryman before that - and his address, Rugby, is the same suburb as the 1931 municipal file for proposed stables at Koeberg Road found in NAAIRS two hours earlier, from a different archive. The consular claim goes the other way: he is the bearer here, and the signature in the consul's box is A. B. Bayne, Encargado. It is demoted to disputed, with the honorary-consul hypothesis - recorded before this document surfaced - still open. MyHeritage, reachable once the extension connected, closes the middle. Nuno Fernando Lerena (1924-1971) married Catherine Mary Sophia Booyzen and is Cheryl Anne Lerena's father; the tree and the deceased-estate file MHG 6746/71 name the same widow independently, and Booyzen is the Afrikaans surname this archive predicted from the tree's title before reading either. What is still missing is the join between generations 1 and 2. That Nuno is Pablo Armando's son is the obvious reading and not yet a document, and whether Pablo Armando is also the "Robert Paul Lerena" whose estate opened in 1950 is left open on the page rather than assumed. The Cape estate file MOOC 6/9/17017 settles both, and names parents and birthplace besides.

NAAIRS answers: six names, a set of stables, and an estate file

did Searched the South African National Archives index for the surname across all repositories. Thirteen documents, twelve of them genuine, and the archive goes from having no names at all to having six. Cape Town holds one man across five files. Robert Paul Lerena submitted plans for STABLES at Koeberg Road, Rugby in 1931 - the first hard corroboration of the horse tradition, a municipal building file rather than a memory - and was still improving that property in 1950, the year his estate was opened. MOOC 6/9/17017 is now the highest-value document in the project: a Cape estate file of that period carries the death notice, which names parents and birthplace. If he was born in Argentina, that is where it will say so. The record then moves to the Transvaal, which is the family reaching the Rand. Two more deceased estates name Nuno Fernando Lerena (d. 1971) and Roque Luis Armando Lerena (d. 1973) with their widows, and divorce files add Ricardo Paul and Anton Armando. The given names are the real finding. Nuno is distinctly Portuguese; Roque, Luis, Armando and Ricardo are Spanish or Portuguese - borne by men living in South Africa and marrying Corbetts and Boltons. A family still naming sons this way generations after arriving knows where it came from, and that supports the River Plate origin from a government index rather than from the family's own account. Two useful negatives: LLERENA returns nothing, so there is no spelling variant to chase here; and no Lerena gravestones are indexed. Nothing is yet tied to Cheryl Anne Lerena. Six names are now orderable; the link to David's own line is not made, and none is drawn. Adds tools/naairs.py, which carries the session token through the legacy CGI flow so the search can be repeated.

Establish the Lerena archive on its baseline

did Day one. The line itself is three generations deep and only one of them has a name, so this commit publishes the baseline rather than a pedigree, and labels every family claim as testimony. The surname is the finding. Lerena has 2,124 bearers worldwide - 22x scarcer than Falco - which inverts the method: rarity lets distribution propose connections, though only registers may prove them. Uruguay holds the world's highest density (1:7,962, ~6.6x Spain's), making the River Plate the heartland and corroborating the family's Rosario tradition independently of it. South Africa's 61 bearers are ~3% of every Lerena alive, in a country with no Spanish colonial past: the signature of one family arriving and multiplying. Two documented Lerenas sit in the bloodstock world the family remembers. Gilberto Justiniano Lerena Lenguas co-founded the Argentine Stud Book and has a Group 1 at Palermo named for him since 1914; Gavin Lerena rides in South Africa. No relationship is claimed. The name may be two names - Basque -ena, "the house of", or a reduction of Llerena in Badajoz - and that fork is left open. Assessed rather than repeated: "brought racing to South Africa" cannot stand literally, so the three testable forms are recorded instead; the ostrich farm carries a district and a date with it (Oudtshoorn, and the feather boom's collapse in 1914); and since Oudtshoorn is far from any capital, the consulship was plausibly honorary - which would reconcile a diplomat with a horse-breeder and explain absence from career lists. Generation 1 has no name, and that blocks everything downstream.

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