Research
The workshop
How the study works, day to day. Search logs, harvest reports, briefs to the research agents and the changes made on other sites, kept because a negative search is a result too.
Reports, briefs and harvests
15 files- Variant-spelling harvest, FamilySearch historical records Read-only harvest of FamilySearch historical-record search results under the spellings that the original extract ( data/raw/familysearch-records.jsonl , exact surname… · 11 min
- The owner's direct Hegnauer line: status and gaps Jacob's first wife, Margreth Hartmann ( H1435 , m. 1715, d. 1724), is not in the direct line: Nuttin (1725) is Leta Gujan's son. · 5 min
- The owner's pedigree: goal, milestones and scoreboard Every known ancestor of the owner (56 deceased people on every line) is done . Done means five things: · 12 min
- M1 (Susanna Hirschi's Bernese family): visible changes Hirschi-19 Christian Hirschi: biography republished (parentage now proven; ten Swiss baptisms; 1850 bounty-land purchase; 1854–1880 records); birth date certain; mother… · 3 min
- Newspapers captured into the record index luzius-proposals-2026-09-27.md adds no image that is not already in the harvest file. · 7 min
- Proposals for Luzius Hegnauer and Anna Margreth Bernet, from Newspapers.com Status, 27 Sep 2026: §1–§3 have been applied to people/H0001.md and people/H0036.md (occurrences O06093 – O06097 from data/raw/newspapers-luzius-2026-09-27.json … · 14 min
- Proposals for Leonhard Hegnauer and Susanna Katharina Hirschi, from Newspapers.com Paste these under citations: . bdd1890 is copied from H0008 and lic1895 is not needed here (it stays on H0014 and H0052 ). · 59 min
- Mapping every Hegnauer (family reconstruction, offline) Goal (owner, 2026-09-27): map the Hegnauers first. Every bearer of the name (and variants: Hegnäuer, Hegnaüer, Hegnaùer, Hegnawer, Hegnaner, Hegnaver, Hegenauer… · 2 min
- FamilySearch research, 27 Sep 2026: Igis before 1744, Seengen, Elgg before 1695, the Familiennamenbuch Read this first — what "transcribed" means here. Every register this note needed (Igis, Elgg, Baden AG, the Aargau censuses, the Zürich Bevölkerungsverzeichnisse) is on… · 22 min
- Ancestry research, 27 Sep 2026: key links in the American Hegnauer map Probable, and stronger than before; not proven. (1) The state index reads the given name as Nutin , the Igis form of the name used for H0381 himself at his children's… · 17 min
- FamilySearch Full-Text search, 27 Sep 2026: Hegnauer in machine-read deeds, wills, court and other records How to read this note. Every quotation is the machine transcription as FamilySearch shows it (spelling and OCR errors kept, my readings in square brackets). Full-text… · 26 min
- Master-citation backfill tools/cited_records.py (new, read-only module). It pulls record identifiers out of master citations ( text , url , ancestry_url ) and normalizes them. The kinds are: · 3 min
- Elgg "spouse" entries: marriage or burial? Review of 27 Sep 2026 The Elgg founders' writer suspected that O04287 (Blesy Hegnauwer × Othilia Nussberger), filed as an undated second index of a marriage, was really Othilia's burial. It… · 24 min
- Old-tree records, triage section 2 (chunk 1): transcriptions and verdicts Browser pass, 2026-09-27, tab 1013502130. Input: sync/ancestry/old-tree-triage.md , section 2 ("Extra record citations on matched people"), "Records per person" for six… · 72 min
- Old-tree records, triage sections 3a and 3b: transcriptions and verdicts Browser pass, 2026-09-27, tab 1013502130. Input: sync/ancestry/old-tree-triage.md sections 3a (living flags) and 3b (record-backed facts). Each record was opened on… · 39 min
Notes and search logs, by source
10 files- Ancestry: notes on the source 1 min
- Ancestry: the search log 1 min
- FamilySearch: notes on the source 1 min
- FamilySearch: the search log 1 min
- Fold3: notes on the source 1 min
- Fold3: the search log 1 min
- Newspapers: notes on the source 1 min
- Newspapers: the search log 1 min
- WikiTree: notes on the source 1 min
- WikiTree: the search log 1 min