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Appears on: The Eleven
The Eleven
…the couple at the head of the American chart were an illegitimately-born mason from a village of four hundred people and a foundling from a Trieste institution, and between them they had thirteen children, eleven of whom grew up, and four of those went to America. , key: true , lab: Why this is published , text: Because it is true and because the parish priest wrote it without embarrassment in a book meant to be read by his successors. A family archive that quietly rounded these edges off would be doing something the people in it did not do. The entries are matter-of-fact: illegitima, illeg. Mariae, nata in Orphanotrophio. Nobody was hiding anything, and a hundred a…
A dossier is every mention of a name anywhere in this archive's data, gathered automatically and linked back to the page it appears on, with what the archive knows about the person set out at the top. **Identity here is by NAME, not by resolved individual**: where two people share a name they share a dossier, and the archive says so rather than guessing. Rebuilt from the roster, so every person the archive can name has a page — including the ones read straight off a register that no index anywhere contains.