87 open · 70 on this archive
The work list
What is being done here, as opposed to what is known.
1. Done — finished and published this archive
Read the regiment's book by hand — retired, not performed
Retired by the control rather than carried out, and the distinction is deliberate. Images 652–662 were read (December 1787 to July 1791, no Llerena). Images 663–950 were never read and now will not be: the book is in the full-text index and Sancho is absent from it under all three spellings. Done is the nearest of the five states to what actually happened — the question this row existed to answer is answered, by cheaper means. The caveat survives: machine transcription of eighteenth-century hands is imperfect, so an index absence is weaker than a page absence, and if anything later contradicts this the 290 images are still there.
2. Done — finished and published this archive
Run the Berroeta control before reading another 290 images
Run and passed, 15 September 2026. «Capellán del Regimiento Infantería de Buenos Ayres» returns 22 results from a collection titled Montevideo. Military Award Records 1812–1814, with snippets reading «…de Berroeta Capellán del Regimiento…» and years 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792 — the chaplain and the exact years of the book. The regiment's book is in the full-text index, so the absence of any military collection from the 68 results for «Sancho Llerena» is evidence rather than a gap in coverage. Two limits kept open below.
3. Next — ready to start this archive
Finish harvesting the 68 full-text results for «Sancho Llerena»
The sweep of 15 September returned 68 results against far fewer in this archive's earlier attempts, and only about fifty titles and three snippets were actually read before the block returned. Results 51–68 were never displayed at all. Re-run at 100 per page, extract every ark, and resolve each through the tile service's manifest to a film and image — that route keeps working while the main site is blocked.
4. Done — finished and published this archive
Open two collections found in that sweep — both opened
Both opened. Montevideo Catedral, Baptism Records 1825–1828 at dgs:007713376 images 515 and 601 — Francisco Juan Ramón (22 March 1826) and Lucinda Gregoria del Corazón de Jesús (12 May 1827), both grandchildren of Sancho through Dominga. Cordón, Religious Marriage Records 1825–1916 at dgs:007713391 image 1669 — Justa Pastora's marriage of 3 November 1830. All three acts turned out to be already held, which is what made the parent-pair query a coverage check rather than a discovery.
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Read DGS 7713375 — the Montevideo cathedral baptisms
A film this archive had never named until 15 September. It holds the 1789 godparent act at image 551 and the 1811 baptism of Luis at image 2410 — the best document there is on Sancho's parents. Two images of it have been read and nothing else. It spans at least 1785 to 1811, which is the whole of Sancho's Montevideo life.
6. Done — finished and published this archive
Settle the Sánchez question — settled, against this session's own objection
Read at magnification: the castrense man is "Manuel Sánchez, Sargento de 1ª Clase del Regimiento, natural de la Ciudad de Córdova". The Canelones petitioner is "natural del Reino de Andalucía". They do not match. A man from the Andalusian city would be called of Andalucía — what the Canelones clerk writes, and what Sancho's own act means by Córdova la Llana — while an unqualified la Ciudad de Córdova in a Montevideo register most naturally means Córdoba del Tucumán, named in full a few leaves earlier in the same book. So the objection this session raised against its own argument is withdrawn, with the caveat that removing a counter-example is not producing evidence.
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Find the real Montevideo index, 1726–1800
DGS 7713386 is not it. This archive called it «Índices de bautismos, matrimonios y defunciones, 1726–1800» and called opening it the cheapest test in the archive; images 300 and 1500 are cathedral burial registers of 1887 and 1905. Two samples of 2,244 do not prove the index absent from that film, but the attribution is disproved and is logged in corrections. The index may exist under another DGS — find it the way the Canelones one was found, from an image's own Information panel rather than from a catalogue line.
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Open a Córdoba parish register — the next country
«Córdova la Llana» is the city of Córdoba in Andalusia; no municipality of that name exists because it is an epithet, and the qualifier distinguishes it from Córdoba del Tucumán. So Sancho was born there about 1767 and his parents Félix Llerena and Rosalía Aguilar were natives of the same city. Nobody has yet looked at a single Córdoba parish register. That is now the largest unopened door in this archive, and it is in Spain rather than Uruguay.
9. Done — finished and published this archive
Resolve Anton Armando Lerena — two records, deliberately not merged
Resolved 15 September 2026, and there was never a contradiction. The J193 says Anton Armando Lerena died 3 April 2003; estate 15127/2013 was advertised on page 68 of the gazette of 16 August 2013. This archive's row held the gazette year and the page number, and this session read them as a death year and an age. gendatabase was right. One man. Logged in corrections, along with the discovery that the whole column was mislabelled.
10. Blocked — waiting on a person or an institution David
Buy one South African death notice
The 1994 death notice of Ricardo Juan Carlos Lerena (b. 1920, m. 1941 Doreen May Chappell) from gendatabase.com — the source David found, which this archive had never tried. A South African death notice names the deceased's parents, which would put in a modern official document what this archive currently infers: that the Cape Lerenas descend from Pablo Armando. This session does not create accounts and does not pay for things, so it stops here. Logged in errands.
11. Done — finished and published this archive
Settle whether five deaths in 1999 are a catastrophe or an artefact
Materially advanced 17 September 2026 without touching the paywall — data/1999-deaths-tested.tsv. The artefact reading is dead for three of the five. The GEDCOM gives Pierre Frederick and both sons an exact shared day, 12 November 1999, and the Government Gazette — independent of it — advertised Pierre's estate ten weeks later. A default year does not behave that way. Two of the five remain open and rest on a single index row each: Gayle Lerena and Catherine Tertia Karon. And one of those was never actually tested: the gazette sweep was keyed on the surname LERENA and the index carries Catherine under KARON, so reporting her absence as a null would have been a straight error — sweep KARON too. Gayle's absence is doubly worthless: the Rhena May Lerena control shows this source misses real adult deaths, and a wife married in community of property shares one joint estate wound up in her husband's name, so the expected number of separate notices is exactly the one already found. Still needs the death notices, and row 17 governs publication either way. ANSWERED 20 September 2026: IT IS A CATASTROPHE, NOT AN ARTEFACT. The Johannesburg cemetery register — free, and independent of the commercial index — gives Pierre Frederick and Richard both dead on 12 November 1999, Gayle and Jeffrey buried with them on 22 November, and all four sharing a burial registration of 18 November 1999 with four consecutive record identifiers: one family, entered in a single act of registration. Gayle is the one the gazette could not reach, and the refusal to publish her 1999 as fact was correct until now. Doreen May died 17 November 1999, five days after them. Only Catherine Tertia Karon remains untested, because she is indexed under KARON. AND THE FIFTH NAME IS NOW TESTED TOO. Catherine Tertia Karon was swept under KARON, the surname she is actually indexed under: 28 Karon records in South Africa (so the surname is there), 281 Catherine Karons worldwide, every one American or Belgian. She is not found — and she is absent from the very Johannesburg register that holds the other four. That is not proof she did not die in 1999; she may be buried in another province, and FamilySearch's South African civil death collection stops at 1967. But 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.
12. Done — finished and published the kit & estate
Give the estate the film-and-image addressing method
Written up in notes/FOR-THE-ESTATE.md, 15 September 2026, where a sibling session will find it, with working code and the traps spelled out. Covers dgs:{film9}.{film9}_{image5}, the manifest.json ark round-trip, why it matters — the tile host is not behind the Error 15 block that takes down /search/ and ark: pages together — and tools/fsimage.js with its three traps.
13. Done — finished and published the kit & estate
Two catalogue attributions in this archive were wrong — the estate should assume its own are too
Written up in notes/FOR-THE-ESTATE.md, 15 September 2026, where a sibling session will find it, with working code and the traps spelled out. Both cases set out in full: 7713373, where the label was wrong and the substance held, and 7713386, which is simply not the index it was called. Plus the film-gap lesson — three probes are not a survey — and the one-call manifest.json test that settles any of it.
14. Struck — founded on a mistake, kept rather than deleted this archive
Invent a register of outstanding work for this archive
Founded on a mistake and kept rather than deleted. On 15 September this session was asked whether outstanding work was tracked centrally, found that it was not, and wrote data/open-threads.tsv — the ninth session to invent its own answer, which is precisely how this estate acquired a Chip meaning two things and one chart drawn under three names. The right thing already existed in the kit, written first in the Defranceschi archive. The content of that file has been folded into this list and the file retired. The lesson is the one the kit's own check states: a convention that lives in a document drifts, because nothing is checking it.
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Find Sancho Llerena's marriage act
Found 15 September 2026 after the archive had spent weeks recording it as probably not digitised. DGS 8166578, image 2687 — «En ocho días del Mes de Enero de 1791 años… Sancho Llerena, natural de Córdova la Llana, hijo legítimo de Félix Llerena y de Rosalía Aguilar, naturales de dicha Córdova… con María Fernández, natural de las Asturias, hija legítima de Rodrigo Fernández». The year is in arabic numerals. It settles Córdoba against Granada, corroborates Apolant's date, confirms his parents independently of the 1811 baptism, and corrects the trees on the bride's father.
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Walk the Canelones informaciones matrimoniales
Finished 15 September 2026, with a negative. DGS 8166573 does not cover January 1791: Volumen 6 runs to November 1790 and ends at image 1459, Volumen 7 opens at 1460 and its first dated case is March 1791. Sancho married on 8 January. The whole of 1791 in that series is one expediente belonging to somebody else. A seam in the filing, not a failed search — and the caveat is recorded: the filming card reads «hojas sueltas», so a stray sheet could sit elsewhere in Volumen 7. It also produced the one hard fact about the man himself: at image 2167 he is sworn as a witness and could not sign his name.
17. Blocked — waiting on a person or an institution David
Decide whether gendatabase-derived facts may stay on a public site
Materially reduced, 15 September 2026. David chose to re-source rather than argue fair citation, and the South African Government Gazette — free and official — carried more than the index did. The three sons of the 1950 estate are now off the commercial source entirely: Ricardo Juan Carlos with exact dates, Nuno Fernando with exact dates and a wife nobody knew of, Rogue Luis Armando with his identity number. What is still gendatabase's alone is the later generation — Doreen May, Roberto Juan Roque, Brigitte Zaage, Anton Armando, Patricia MacEwan, Jeanette Riekstins, Belinda Michael, Paul Raymond, Rhena May, and the five deaths of 1999. Their gazette notices exist and are located but unread, so the decision is narrower than it was but not gone. The attribution has still not been stripped. MATERIALLY REDUCED AGAIN, 20 September 2026. The five 1999 deaths and Doreen May — the last facts in this archive that came only from the commercial index — are now carried by the free Johannesburg cemetery register with exact dates and record identifiers. The decision this row asks for is now about very little.
18. Done — finished and published this archive
Close the two limits on the Berroeta control
Both closed, 15 September 2026. Limit one: six arks from the 22 results were resolved through the tile service's manifest — five return DGS 7713373, images 657, 667, 676, 716 and 831, and image 657 is a page this session had already read by hand. So the collection labelled Military Award Records 1812–1814 is the regiment's book, whatever its label says. The sixth returns DGS 7713382 image 2736, the Montevideo marriage register. Limit two: all three spellings swept — «Sancho Llerena» 68, «Sancho Lerena» 143, «Sancho Lorena» — and not one hit comes from DGS 7713373.
19. Done — finished and published this archive
Finish the gazette re-sourcing — five estate notices already located
Four of the five done, and the fifth is a real null. Read off the gazette: Anton Armando (b. 1952, d. 3 April 2003), Roberto Juan Roque (b. 20 March 1944, d. 20 February 2022), Brigitte (b. 16 October 1951, d. 18 May 2023), Belinda Maud (b. 16 January 1957, d. 2024 — the printed day is impossible and is flagged, not smoothed), and Rogue Luis Armando in full: born 6 December 1905, died 29 January 1973, which makes him the eldest of the three sons by fifteen years. Doreen May could not be re-sourced: her estate number returns only two J187s, neither carrying a date. Still open and moved to its own row. Also still unchased: the 1986 notice for Lerena Racing Stables, which belongs on the horses page.
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Find Doreen May Lerena's J193, and put Lerena Racing Stables on the horses page
Two leftovers from the gazette work. Doreen May is the only person in this family who could not be taken off the commercial index: estate 16409/00 returns two J187 accounts and no J193, so gendatabase's born 1921, died 1999 stands as their fact. Her notice may sit in an unindexed or badly scanned gazette of 2000. And the 1986 notice for Lerena Racing Stables (Government Gazette, 8 August 1986, no. 10383, page 7) has been located and never opened — it belongs beside the gazette's own description of Robert Paul Lerena as a racehorse trainer. DOREEN IS FREE-SOURCED, 20 September 2026. She was the last person in this family whose dates rested on the commercial index — born 1921, died 1999 stood only as their fact. The Johannesburg cemetery register gives died 17 November 1999, buried 20 November 1999 (ark 1:1:6NWQ-VLD4). The J193 is no longer needed to get her off that index. The Lerena Racing Stables half of this row is unaffected and still open.
21. Done — finished and published this archive
Map what is filmed and indexed for Córdoba and Asturias — done, and it changed the plan
Answered 15 September 2026, and the answer is two-sided. The bad half: Córdoba's parish registers are not on FamilySearch. The Research Wiki's Church Records section for the province lists no FamilySearch collection at all — the registers are with the Diocese of Córdoba. 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. The good half, which corrects this session's own pessimism: 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 Córdoba 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, in the right century. The eighteenth century is reachable by index even where it is not reachable by image.
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Find Sancho Llerena's baptism, Córdoba, about 1767
The single most valuable document not yet looked for. The act of 1791 puts his birth in the city of Córdoba; the trees say about 1767 and that is still only a tree. A baptism would give the date, the parish, and his grandparents — a fifth generation, where this archive currently stops at four. Note the act gives no age, so 1767 is unverified and the search window should be generous, say 1760–1775.
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Find the marriage of Félix Llerena and Rosalía Aguilar, Córdoba, 1750s–60s
The 1791 act says both were naturales de dicha Córdova, which is the first evidence placing the generation above Sancho anywhere at all. Their marriage act would give their parents and their own birthplaces. One tree claims Félix was born about 1725 and married about 1753, every value "about" and none sourced — treat it as a search hint, not a fact.
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Search Asturias for Rodrigo Fernández and Rosa Fernández
Never searched, in any form. Two independent parish acts name them — the 1791 marriage and the 1811 baptism of their grandson Luis — and both say naturales de las Asturias. The 1791 act adds that they were vecinos de Santa Lucía in Uruguay, and the 1812 padrón puts Rodrigo, 63, asturiano, living in Sancho's own household. So they emigrated and lived with the family: their Asturian parish is findable and would carry María Fernández's baptism too.
25. Done — finished and published this archive
Test the Llerena–Aguilar compound in Spanish records — run, and it argues against hidalguía
Run 15 September 2026. «Llerena y de Rosalía Aguilar» returns zero; «Félix Llerena» returns only modern Latin America; «Rosalía Aguilar» returns forty collections of which two are in Spain, both Jaén notarial of 1829–37. On its own that would be worthless — so the control was run first. The corpus that is indexed for Andalusia is nobility and hidalguía files, chivalric orders and Madrid protocols, searchable back to 1489 — exactly where an armigerous couple would appear. They do not. Weak evidence that Félix and Rosalía were not gentry with a Chancillería file, which sits with the 1811 act calling Sancho Don while the 1798 deposition says he could not write his name.
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Find Sancho Llerena's death
Searched 15 September 2026; a controlled null. No indexed death or burial exists for him 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 control passed: a surname-Rodríguez search for Montevideo deaths 1828–1838 returns church burials from Nuestra Señora del Carmen, Cordón — the exact parish where Justa Pastora married in 1830 and where Dominga lived — dated 1832, 1833 and 1838. So burials in his family's own parish, in the decade he is supposed to have died, are indexed, and he is not among them. What that does not mean: the index is name-based and a mangled surname is invisible to it, and the Cordón is one parish of several. He is not in the index; that is not the same as not in the registers. The trees' 1832 remains a tree.
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Find María Fernández's death
Same search, same control, same result. No indexed death or burial for María Fernández, wife of Sancho Llerena, in Uruguay 1810–1870. She returns only in records already held. One gain: FamilySearch's index gives her Parents Rosa Fernández, Rodrigo Fernández — a third independent witness to what the 1811 baptism and the 1791 marriage act both say. Three sources, one couple, no disagreement.
28. Done — finished and published this archive
Build the complete list of Sancho and María's children from the registers
The archive has them piecemeal — Pedro Antonio 1793, Agustina Ramona 1795, Fidel about 1799, Justa Pastora 1800, José Loreto 1806, Luis 1811 and others — assembled from scattered searches rather than from a systematic read. Canelones baptisms 1791–1815 are filmed and the images are now addressable. Reading them straight through would produce a closed sibling list instead of an open one, and the consistency checker already reports that its sibling tests reach only 106 of 277 people. RUN AS A COVERAGE CHECK, 22 September 2026, and it passed. Parent-pair query on Sancho Llerena × María Fernández, Uruguay, against a live control (González in Uruguay = 479,660 minutes earlier). Six records, and this archive already held every one: Luis Escolástico's baptism of 10 February 1811; Justa Pastora as bride, 3 November 1830; Dominga Josefa's christening of 15 May 1804; and three entries where a child of theirs appears as a parent on somebody else's act — *Dominga Llarena*, *Dominga Lorena* and *Avelino Lerena*, the last two spelling the father LERENA where the first spells him LLERENA. So the keyed index contributes nothing this archive is missing, which is the same answer the Canelones phrase-search gave and is worth as much. The children it does NOT reach — Juan Agustín, Pedro Antonio, Agustina Ramona, Fidel, José Loreto — are known from the padrón of 1812 and from acts found by full text, and their baptisms are not keyed. The list is therefore as complete as this instrument can make it, and the remaining work is register-walking, not searching. Getting there also exposed an instrument fault — see false zero seventeen.
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Take Pedro Antonio Lerena forward from 1793
Traced. His marriage was already held — Vicenta Vega, natural de Cerro Largo, daughter of Don Romualdo and Doña Andrea Maestre — but his children were not: the indexes give Manuel Antonio and Vicenta Margarita, and a Pedro Antonio Natalio baptised at the Cordón on 12 December 1828, born 1 December. One entry names his mother as María Fernández, consistent with him being Sancho's son; another garbles his father as Francisco Llorena, which is why these are recorded as candidates and not attached to the line.
30. Done — finished and published this archive
Read the 1812 padrón from the image, not from a transcript
The archive quotes it — Sancho, andaluz, 45; María Fernández, 36; Rodrigo Fernández, 63, asturiano, in the household — but from a published transcription. Now that images are addressable by number, read the entry itself: padrones often carry occupation, household composition and enslaved people in columns transcriptions drop. Sancho's age of 45 in 1812 implies birth about 1767, which is currently the only support for that year. READ 20 September 2026, and the row's premise was wrong in the archive's favour. The page is on FamilySearch, in a collection nobody here had opened — Uruguay, Census Records, 1726–1858 — so it could have been read from a desk at any point. Index ark 1:1:61LW-R54J ('Sancho Llerena, masculino, 45, Andaluzia'), image ark 3:1:3QS7-99ZR-NKNR. The transcription was good: Sancho, María Fernández and all six children read exactly as quoted. What it did not carry: four named people directly above him under household 59 — Juana 41, Juan 'negro esclavo', Gabriel, María — one explicitly enslaved, and Juana is the name of the enslaved woman the 1812 baptism places in Sancho's household. Whose household those four are in is NOT resolvable at this resolution and is not asserted. See the new row.
31. Done — finished and published this archive
Reclaim the errands that are now machine work — and the premise was wrong
The row assumed eleven errands sat on David. They did not — all eleven were already owned by me, this archive. That is the third time today this session asserted something about its own files without checking them. But it exposed a real fault underneath: by the estate's own division — errands.tsv is work for a person, the work list is work for a session — eleven rows of the archive's own machine work were sitting in the wrong register. All eleven migrated: closed in errands.tsv with their detail kept verbatim, and seven new work-list rows opened for the ones that had no counterpart. What remains in errands is what it should be — institutions written to, and four things genuinely waiting on David. Postscript: the migration was too blunt and drift.py refused it. Setting all eleven to done claimed work was finished because its index entry had moved — and one of them says in its own detail that the register has never been turned. All eleven are back at ready, each now carrying a pointer to the work list, which is where their state is maintained. The checker was right and the migration was wrong.
32. Done — finished and published this archive
Find the DGS for the Montevideo marriage-dispensation register, 1856–1932
Logged as an errand for David when catalogue search was returning Something Went Wrong all day. The route that works now: open any image from the right parish and read its Information panel, which prints the catalogue link and that reel's item-by-item contents. The archive already holds one dispensation from this series — the 1911 Lerena–Cardozo — so an anchor exists. ANSWERED 17 September 2026, sideways. A full-text search aimed at the parents' names returned a hit inside this very register, and the viewer's own header gives it: DGS 007713367, item 13, 247 images. Found while looking for something else and not found by searching the catalogue, which was still erroring.
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Search the Iglesia del Cordón, Montevideo
Full text has already shown this archive two Cordón collections it has never opened — Baptism Records 1828–1836 and Religious Marriage Records 1825–1916. The Cordón is where the Montevideo branch surfaces in the 1830s, and the 1831 Rivera godfather act sits there. Fold the errand into that work rather than leaving it addressed to David.
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Place Catherine Mary Sophia Lerena, born 25 March 1929
A wholly new person, produced this afternoon by the gazette: the surviving spouse of Nuno Fernando Lerena, who died 1 July 1971 at 24 Leiden Road, Gerdview, Germiston. Nobody in this archive knew he was married. Her identity number is partly legible in the notice; her own estate, if she has one, would be findable on gazettes.africa and would name children — grandchildren of Pablo Armando nobody has counted.
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Ask where Rogue Luis Armando was born in 1905
Directly tests one of this archive's declared gaps — the eight years between Northam and the Cape. Pablo Armando was born at Rosario in 1882; his eldest son was born 6 December 1905. If that birth was not in South Africa it locates the family in those missing years, and Argentina is the obvious first place to look — the archive already has Argentine baptism sweeps to extend. SHARPENED 20 September 2026, and the register's own answer is an inference. Roque 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 'Cape Town' as his birthplace is taken from where he was baptised six years later, not from anything that states where he was born. The pattern is legitimation. The question is still open and is now better posed.
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Find out who Rose Lilian Theys was
The 1950 estate makes her Executrix Testamentary, gives her a half-share of the residue, and describes her as "no relation" — while listing her address as No. 7 Forth Road, Newlands, the same address as the deceased. A woman who is not a relative, lives with him, administers his estate and inherits a quarter of it is not a minor figure. gazettes.africa and the deceased-estates index will both carry her.
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Sweep gazettes.africa for TAYLOR and BOOYZEN
The gazette pipeline works and cost nothing; it has so far been pointed only at Lerena. The other two South African lines in this archive are Mary Septima Taylor, Pablo Armando's wife, and the Booyzens who appear in the DNA as Cape Afrikaners. Estate notices would give both families exact dates and surviving spouses. Search surname-first — modern notices print LERENA, Anton Armando, not the other way round.
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Pull the Rapeport Incorporated thread
One firm at 107 Oxford Road, Rosebank acted for Doreen May in 2001, Anton Armando in 2013, Roberto Juan Roque in 2022 and Belinda Maud in 2024 — a quarter-century of one family's estates. That is not a coincidence and it is a way of establishing which Lerenas belong to this family without guesswork. It is also a live firm, which makes it a David question rather than a search, if it comes to contact.
39. Done — finished and published this archive
Make the build catch a stale errand
Done — 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. It found a false positive on its very first run — an errand saying the work "cannot be closed online at all", which is about feasibility, not about the errand — so the patterns were tightened to phrases that can only mean this errand is over. A bare closed is useless here, and a noisy check gets switched off. Then proved both ways: planting the real case (the 1791 marriage errand set back to ready) makes it exit 1 and name the row; restoring it returns to green. 40 errands checked, none finished-but-open.
40. Done — finished and published this archive
Audit this archive's other catalogue-derived film numbers
Distinct from the estate-wide warning below it. Two of two Montevideo attributions failed inspection today — DGS 7713373 was mislabelled but right, DGS 7713386 was simply wrong. Every other DGS in this archive that came from reading a catalogue rather than opening the film is now suspect. They are cheap to test: one manifest.json call resolves any image to its true film and image number. AUDITED 20 September 2026 - see /method/ and data/dgs-audit.tsv. All 58 DGS numbers tested at three images each. 57 resolve; 0 not found. The suspicion is cleared. Done with FamilySearch signed out, because thumb_p200.jpg is public — and note a correction to this archive's own method note: manifest.json is not public, it answers 401 to an anonymous request. Two traps recorded, both of which would have produced false corrections: 401 means a restricted image, not a wrong film (one film gives 401 at image 1 and 200 at image 100), and a first pass that matched film as well as DGS threw six false failures that are old microfilm roll numbers, correctly labelled. One open item: DGS 008166571 gave no 200 anywhere, so it is restricted rather than proven.
41. Done — finished and published this archive
Check the living-person gate — the tick was assumed, and now it is asked
Audited, and the suspicion was right. 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 was passing over an empty set. 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. 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 is the one person the archive was publishing who might have been alive. He is not: the J193 read today gives his death as 3 April 2003, which also upgrades him from named in the tree, not corroborated by a document. The gate now passes over a set that has been counted.
42. Done — finished and published the kit & estate
Warn the estate that pdftotext will weld two strangers together
Written up in notes/FOR-THE-ESTATE.md, 15 September 2026, where a sibling session will find it, with working code and the traps spelled out. With the actual welded line quoted, how it was caught — two gazettes disagreeing about one estate number — and the whole free pipeline, including the predictable archive.gazettes.africa slug.
43. Done — finished and published the kit & estate
Warn the estate that a death_year column may not be one
Written up in notes/FOR-THE-ESTATE.md, 15 September 2026, where a sibling session will find it, with working code and the traps spelled out. With both worked examples: died 1994, filed 1996 and died 2003, filed 2013 — the second of which cost this archive several hours believing two records described two men.
44. Done — finished and published this archive
Decided: this session does not create accounts or pay for sources
A standing constraint, recorded as a decision rather than left implicit. gendatabase.com's full records, and the South African death notices behind them, sit behind a subscription. This session does not sign up and does not pay. The consequence is visible and deliberate: Doreen May Lerena is the one person in this family who could not be taken off a commercial index, and her dates remain that source's rather than this archive's. The alternative — re-sourcing from the free official gazette — was tried first and worked for everyone else.
45. Done — finished and published this archive
Decided: no routing around the FamilySearch block
Also standing. FamilySearch's security layer blocked this session repeatedly today. The archive does not switch browsers, use another network, or otherwise get around it. The consequences are accepted and written down instead: the Berroeta control waited hours, the variant sweeps are still unrun, and every zero returned by a blocked page was discarded rather than recorded as a null — which is the rule that matters, because a blocked page and an empty result look identical.
46. Done — finished and published this archive
Decided: not reading 290 more images until the control is closed
Row 1 was running this morning and is now parked. Reading the regiment's book by hand was the right plan only while nobody knew whether it was indexed — the Berroeta control showed that it is, in one search, and a day of work evaporated. Kept rather than deleted because machine transcription of eighteenth-century hands is imperfect, so an index absence is weaker than a page absence and the hand-read may yet be needed if the two limits in row 18 do not close cleanly.
47. Done — finished and published this archive
Open Canelones Baptism Records 1776–1794 — a volume nobody here knew existed
Opened 15 September 2026. It is DGS 8166573, images 72–478 — the same film as the informaciones, in a separate block, and this archive already held an ark into it without ever resolving it. Pedro Antonio's baptism is at image 274 and has now been read from the image rather than a transcript: "Pedro Antonio de la SS.ma Trinidad", born 31 July 1793, godparents Don Antonio Alemán and his wife. Opening it also disproved this session's own claim that the film held nothing below image 1057 — see corrections.
48. Next — ready to start this archive
Open Montevideo Catedral Religious Marriage Records 1782–1797
A Montevideo marriage register covering 1791, never opened here, surfaced while resolving the Berroeta hits. Sancho married at Canelones, so this is not where his act is — but it is where the marriages of his comrades, his witnesses and his wife's Asturian family would be, and DGS 7713382 is now anchored at image 2736, which is a way in.
49. Next — ready to start this archive
Open the three later Montevideo cathedral baptism volumes
1811–1813, 1831–1833 and 1840–1842, all carrying hits under one spelling or another, none opened. They cover the generation after Sancho — the years when this family moves from Canelones into Montevideo and when Luis, Fidel and Pedro Antonio are raising children. The 1811 volume also brackets the baptism of Luis this archive already holds, at DGS 7713375 image 2410.
50. Next — ready to start this archive
Identify P. R. Lerena of Lerena Racing Stables, Randburg
The 1951 gazette calls Robert Paul Lerena a racehorse trainer at Newlands; a 1986 gazette lists P. R. Lerena Racing Stables, P.O. Box 425, Randburg as an employer. Randburg is where Ricardo Juan Carlos lived and died, which makes P. R. most likely one of his sons — Paul Raymond is the obvious reading of the initials and is only a reading. Establish it from documents, and note that this family's racing connection may run to living people, who stay out of this archive. ATTEMPTED 20 September 2026 and NOT settled. The way to prove it is Paul Raymond's own estate notice, Government Gazette 22032, 9 February 2001, page 35, which would give his address. gazettes.africa's search works (control: 42 documents for Lerena) but its document viewer is behind a bot challenge, which was not worked around. A name search for him returned nothing and that is not a null — OCR of a name is exactly what a search misses. Untested, not absent.
51. Done — finished and published this archive
Read the three images the parent-pair query found — all three were already held
Read, and the row's own premise was wrong. All three are acts this archive already had: Dominga Josefa's baptism of 15 May 1804 (godparents Joseph Ponteceli and Agueda Rivero), Francisco Juan Ramón, 22 March 1826, and Lucinda Gregoria del Corazón de Jesús, 12 May 1827 — the last two in fuller words here than the index gives, with the Capitán, the Mayor Don Joaquín Ruiz de Carvallo and a General as godfather. This session inferred unread act from unread collection, and that does not follow. So the parent-pair query is a coverage check, not a discovery engine — and it passed cleanly, which says the coverage of Sancho and María's children is better than assumed. Logged in corrections.
52. Done — finished and published this archive
Run the parent-pair query on every couple in the register
A method, not a lookup, and it generalises. Searching two parents as one phrase only matches when a document names both — so it finds children, children's marriages and grandchildren in one query, and it does not drown in the 190,000 results that the surname alone returns. Worth running for Félix Llerena and Rosalía Aguilar in Spain, for Rodrigo and Rosa Fernández in Asturias, and for every couple in the register where the consistency checker currently reports no reachable siblings. RUN 21 September 2026 across the register's twenty couples, and it earns its place. Searching two parents as ONE PAIR surfaces children that either name alone buries in a crowd. Pedro Llerena and Sofía Clavijo: six records where this archive held one child — Isabel, Celina, Telma and Tomasa Cantidia added, four of them indexed under the compound LLERENA CLAVIJO, which names both parents in the surname itself. Mauricio Lerena and Casimira Montaño: twelve records, one explicit — Cipriano Lerena Montaña, whose 1928 Flores death registration names both parents — and four candidates left unentered because their own entries do not name the parents. Luis Lerena × Justiniana Lenguas returns only what is held; Francisco Llerena × Rafaela Daraz returns only Baldomero. And the method has a trap in it: Bernabé × Casimira Peláez read (0) and then 22, on a couple whose children are in this register.
53. Done — finished and published this archive
Re-open the 1754 Granada marriage — chased, unreadable, and the lead deflated
Two results, both negative, and the second is the useful one. First: the expediente has its own record (ark 1:1:XPG2-RYP) and it is Image Unavailable, with no image ark exposed and a completely empty collection wiki page — 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 already held. Second: this session's own lead was an over-read. The 1754 bride Ana María de Aguilar is of La Malá — La Malahá, in Granada province, which this archive had already recorded; our Rosalía Aguilar is of Córdoba. Only the groom is Cordoban, and Aguilar is among the commonest surnames in Andalusia. 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. Logged in corrections.
54. Done — finished and published this archive
Search the Granada pre-marriage files for Félix and Rosalía — a controlled null
Searched, and the answer is a real absence — after two fake ones were thrown away. Exact-surname queries returned zero twice, and both were discarded: the same exact-match shape cannot retrieve the 1754 act that is known to be in that collection, because the indexed surname is the compound Lerena y Armenta. A null from a query that cannot find what is there is not a null. The working shape — non-exact surname, exact given names, Spain, 1735–1785 — passes its control, returning the Granada Pre-Marriage collection and the full 1754 record for the known couple. Run for Félix Llerena and Rosalía Aguilar it returns 305 results and not one Andalusian collection — nothing from Granada, Córdoba, Sevilla, Jaén or Málaga. Their marriage is not indexed by FamilySearch anywhere in Andalusia in the fifty years that must contain it. With Córdoba's parish registers not filmed either, the searchable routes are closed and what remains is the diocesan letter. The 1791 act stays the only document this archive has that names them.
55. Blocked — waiting on a person or an institution David
Write to the Diocese of Córdoba — the parish registers are only there
The mapping row above establishes that Córdoba's parish registers are not digitised by FamilySearch. The originals are at the Archivo General del Obispado de Córdoba. What is wanted is narrow and citable: the baptism of Sancho Llerena, about 1767, son of Félix Llerena and Rosalía Aguilar; and their marriage, about 1750–1766. Both parents are stated naturales de dicha Córdova on the Canelones marriage act of 8 January 1791, which is the citation to quote. Left to David because it is correspondence with an institution, and because the shared note both archives keep says to search the sent mail before writing to any archive.
56. Next — ready to start this archive
Walk the Cordón burial register by image, 1826–1845 — AND 1876–1877, which is now the sharper window
SHARPENED 27 September 2026, and this row is now cheap and decisive. The original scope was 1826-1845. A fifteen-month window has been added and it is the one that matters: SEPTEMBER 1876 to DECEMBER 1877. ELISA VILLADEMOROS died in it. The Cordón act of 26 December 1877 calls her *(hoy finada)* and her daughter Jacinta Mercedes Gregoria was born 19 September 1876. She is not in any indexed corpus - she died before Uruguay had civil registration, which begins 1879 - so the burial is in these books and nowhere else. Both her children were baptised at the Cordón. Her burial would name her parents, and it dates the widowhood this archive used to find Alejandro M. Lerena's parentage. The route the null leaves open. Sancho and María are absent from the burial index, but the index is name-based and an eighteenth-century surname mangled by a transcriber is invisible to it. Nuestra Señora del Carmen, Cordón is the family's own parish — Justa Pastora married there in 1830, the 1831 godfather act is there, Dominga lived there — and its burials of 1832–38 are demonstrably filmed. The Cordón marriage register is already anchored at dgs:007713391 image 1669, so the burial volume is findable from the same reel's item boards. Do the Iglesia Matriz next, and Santa Lucía after that, where María's parents were vecinos.
57. Next — ready to start this archive
Walk the Iglesia Matriz burial register, 1826–1845 — and 1876–1877 as the fallback for Elisa
SECOND CHOICE FOR THE SAME FIFTEEN MONTHS, added 27 September 2026. If the Cordón (row 56) does not hold Elisa Villademoros's burial of 1876-77, the Iglesia Matriz is next - it is where her kinswoman Celedonia's daughter was baptised in 1872, with Elisa herself standing godmother. The Cordón is one parish of several and Sancho may not be in it. The Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción — the Iglesia Matriz — is where he stood godfather in 1789 and where his son Luis was baptised in 1811, so it is at least as likely a resting place. Its baptism films are already anchored (DGS 7713375, images 551 and 2410), which is the way into the same reel's burial volumes.
58. Next — ready to start this archive
Walk the Canelones burial register, 1826–1845
The third candidate parish, and the one where he married, where five of his children were baptised and where he swore his 1798 deposition. DGS 8166573 is already mapped — images 72–478 are the baptisms and 1057–3295 the informaciones — so the burial volume is likely on a neighbouring reel of the same diocesan filming, findable from the item boards.
59. Next — ready to start this archive
Search Santa Lucía — his wife's family were vecinos there
The 1791 marriage act says Rodrigo and Rosa Fernández were vecinos de Santa Lucía. A couple often ends up buried where the wife's people are, and this archive has never opened a Santa Lucía register of any kind. It is also where María Fernández herself may be, and she is missing on the same terms.
60. Done — finished and published this archive
Test whether the Guerra Grande broke the registers
Tested, and they did not. Montevideo church burials are indexed continuously across the period: 1832, 1833, 1838 in the first window, 33 indexed burials for one surname in 1839–1848 including 1841 and 1842, and 1852 in the next — all from Uruguay, Catholic Church Records at Nuestra Señora del Carmen, Cordón and Montevideo. The siege of 1843–51 did not destroy them. So Sancho's absence from the burial index is not explained by register loss, which strengthens the negative and justifies walking the images. One honest limit: indexing density is not the same as register survival — the 1850s window returns 7 where the 1840s returns 33, and that could be thinner indexing rather than fewer burials.
61. Done — finished and published this archive
Establish the last date Sancho is attested ALIVE
Done, and it corrects this session twice over. Fourteen records name him; only four require him to have been standing there — godfather in 1789, sworn witness in 1798, padrino at the 1804 confirmations, and enumerated in the 1812 padrón at calle San Juan No 60, household 59, as Sancho, andaluz, 45. A census enumerates the living, so 1812 is the last document in the world that shows him alive — not 1798, as this row itself claimed when it was written. Everything after is father, grandfather or ancestor, up to 1850, and a dead man can be all three. So the unaccounted gap before the trees' 1832 is twenty years. Written up in data/sancho-last-alive.tsv; the misstatement is in corrections.
62. Done — finished and published this archive
Build the film register — every DGS this archive knows
Done — data/film-register.tsv, 51 films, built from resolved arks rather than catalogue lines. 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. The archive had named perhaps nine films before today.
63. Done — finished and published this archive
Resolve every ark in the archive to a film and image
Done — 78 arks, 51 films. 73 resolved to a film-and-image, two are restricted (HTTP 403 — access-denied, not absent), two return no DeepZoom id, and two are Argentine enrolment cards on a different id scheme. Written to data/ark-to-film.tsv. Every one of them can now be reopened through the tile service even while www is behind Error 15.
64. Done — finished and published this archive
Make the film-and-image reader a tool, not a habit
Done — tools/fsimage.js. The mosaic reader, the contact sheet, the ark resolver and the extent prober, with the three traps written as comments where they will be read: never cache-bust a failed tile, wait after naturalWidth, and 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.
65. Done — finished and published this archive
Publish the control-before-null rule on the method page
It was already published, and this row was wrong to assume otherwise — the same error as assuming three read images were unread. The method page has carried A null is not a finding until a control says so since 14 September. So it was strengthened instead of duplicated, with the four times the rule decided a question on 15 September: 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, which is Sancho's missing burial.
66. Done — finished and published this archive
Take Agustina Ramona Lerena forward from 1795
Baptised at Canelones in 1795 with Don Fidel Rey as godfather — which is why her brother is called Fidel. She has never been followed past her own baptism. ATTEMPTED 17 September 2026 and NOT completed — the FamilySearch session expired mid-search and this session does not sign in. The search to re-run is Agustina LERENA exact, Uruguay, birth 1790–1805, then the same under LORENA and LLERENA. Untested, not null. ANSWERED 20 September 2026, and it caught a trap on the way. Agustina Ramona Lerena is absent from Uruguay's indexed records. The first pass — exact Agustina, then Llerena and Lorena — returned three zeros, and those zeros were not safe: FamilySearch's exact forename matches the whole given-name string, so a woman indexed as Agustina Ramona would never have been returned. Re-run in the safe shape (fuzzy forename, exact surname) it returns 35 records and not one of them is an Agustina — they are fuzzy hits on Augusto, Agustín and A. That is the null, and it is a real one. See /method/.
67. Done — finished and published this archive
Take Fidel Lerena forward
Traced, and the yield is thin — reported as thin. One index cluster gives Fidel Lerena with Víctor Lerena and María Rueda, which is the Montevideo branch this archive already reached through Víctor, with the relationships garbled by indexing. It does not establish that this Fidel is Sancho's son born about 1799, which stays open. A second entry gives a Fidel Lerena with a child "Feliz Llama" — tantalising, since it could be a mangled Félix Llerena, and a mangled index entry is not a person.
68. Next — ready to start this archive
Take José Loreto Lerena forward from 1806
The eighth child, baptised 10 December 1806, found only by the variant sweep on Sancho Lorena. Never followed. TESTED 17 September 2026 AND STILL NOTHING, which is now a tested null rather than an untried row. Searched as José Loreto LERENA (birth 1800–15) and, 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 own baptism of 10 December 1806. The routes left are the ones an index cannot reach: the Cordón and Matriz registers walked by image (rows 33, 56, 57), or a death under a mangled spelling.
69. Done — finished and published this archive
Take Avelino Lerena Fernández forward
Traced, and it opened a branch this archive has never named. The indexes give Avelino Eduardo Lerena married to Celedonia Villademoros, with children recorded under the compound Lerena Villademoros — Pedro Gualberto, and Avelino Pedro Joaquín Silvestre — plus an Avelino Lerena born 1869, died 5 January 1914 at Montevideo, son of Celedonia. The archive knows Avelino as the husband of Ambrosia Traibel, the Lerena Traibel branch it has carried since its first week, and has never heard of Villademoros. Two readings, and this archive is not choosing: either Avelino Lerena Fernández married twice, or Avelino Eduardo is a son of his and the Villademoros children are Sancho's great-grandchildren. A note already here — "she does not fit the Avelino this archive knows" — shows the two-Avelino problem was already suspected. Recorded unattached. DECIDED 20 September 2026: it is the SON. Two parish acts give Avelino Eduardo's own father as Avelino with Ambrosia Traibel named on the record — the christenings of Avelino Pedro Joaquín Silvestre at Unión on 5 March 1866 and of Pedro Gualberto at the Cordón on 15 January 1870. So Avelino Eduardo joins the children of that marriage and the Villademoros children are Sancho's great-grandchildren. Four people added to the register; published at /uruguay/#s-villademoros.
70. Done — finished and published this archive
Find the children of Luis Lerena and Carolina Oliva
Luis Escolástico, baptised 10 February 1811 — the act that gives Sancho's parents and birthplaces. His marriage to Carolina Oliva is known and his children are not. Currently an errand addressed to David; it is machine work now. ANSWERED 21 September 2026, and it is a NULL. A parent-pair query on LUIS LERENA with a mother CAROLINA, Uruguay, returns ZERO — read twice, because the same session had (0) turn into 22 an hour earlier. The control is the same shape on Luis Lerena × Justiniana Lenguas, which returns the two children this archive holds. So no indexed child of Luis Lerena and a Carolina exists in the Uruguayan corpus. If that first marriage produced children they are not in the index, and the parish books are where to look. AND THAT NULL IS NOW SUSPECT — 21 September 2026, later the same day. The FamilySearch record search was caught returning a clean, stable 0 with “No Results Found” for *everything*, including surname González in Uruguay and the very query that had returned ten records that morning. A zero recorded from this instrument on this date proves nothing about this couple. The null above must be re-run when the service is known good — with a control whose answer cannot be zero — before it is believed. See data/false-zeros.tsv, entry sixteen. RE-TESTED AND THE NULL STANDS — later on 21 September. Run again in a browser context proved live in the same minutes by two controls: González in Uruguay 479,662 and Avelino × Ambrosia 10, plus a positive on the same query shape — Luis × Justiniana returns 4, 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. Luis Lerena and Carolina Oribe have no indexed children. Her husband's other marriage does. That is now a real null with a real control, and the row is closed.
71. Done — finished and published this archive
Find Justa Pastora's children after 1827
Two are known — Francisco Juan Ramón (1826) and Lucinda Gregoria (1827) — and a third, Domingo, is recorded in 1840, thirteen years later, so this archive has already noted there are almost certainly others between. The Cordón and cathedral baptism volumes now identified are where they will be. ADVANCED 21 September 2026 — and it gave a DEATH rather than a child. A query on the MOTHER (Justa Lerena, Uruguay) returns seven, and one settles a person this archive already held: JUAN BARROS LERENA, died 3 May 1915 at Montevideo, aged eighty-three, registered the next day, certificate 261. The arithmetic is exact — a man born 27 November 1831 is eighty-three on that day — and the registration names his mother JUSTA LERENA and his father "MANUEL C BARROS", the Manuel Zeferino Barros of Pernambuco already here. It also names a wife nobody had: EMILIA ANTELO. Still open: Domingo, recorded in 1840 and never followed. AND A THIRD CHILD, 21 September 2026 — found because the index date was impossible. HILARIO BARROS LLERENA, christened at Canelones, indexed *19 April 1726* — the collection's first year, the same artefact that put his cousin Carlos Ambrosio Florencio in 1726 earlier the same day. The plate gives the real year: *"El día DIEZ Y NUEVE DE ABRIL del año de mil ochocientos t[reinta y cinco] … por nombre HILARIO, hijo legítimo 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 — Juan Facundo Frutuoso (1831), Aurelio Eusebio (1833), Hilario (1835) — and at every font the godparents are her own brothers and sisters except the first, where the President of the Republic stood. Pedro Antonio and Vicenta Vega have now been found standing at two nephews' fonts seventeen years apart. His birth date is left unresolved: the index says 16 March 1835 and the act's own phrase appears to end *del mismo*, which would mean April. Read at four times magnification and still not settled.
72. Done — finished and published this archive
Write the enslaved people of Sancho's household as people
The 1812 padrón puts four enslaved people in his household. Juana and María Mercedes are named in acts as negra esclava de Don Sancho Lerena y de Doña María Fernández. The castrense register read this morning is full of the baptisms of enslaved children belonging to the regiment's officers. They are in this archive as circumstances of somebody else's life. They were people, their names survive, and the records that name them are the same records this archive reads for its own purposes. CLOSED 20 September 2026, and it was most of the way done already - the row had simply never been marked. JUANA and MARIA MERCEDES are both in the register as people in their own right, with their own pages. What was missing is that the act names the relation — hija de Juana — and the archive had never recorded it, so mother and daughter stood on this site as strangers. 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. The 1812 padrón counted four enslaved people in that household and named none of them; this act names two. The other two remain unnamed and that is recorded as a fact about the record, not a gap to be filled by guessing.
73. Next — ready to start this archive
Look for a Lerena birth in Argentina in 1905
Rogue Luis Armando was born 6 December 1905 and this archive cannot place the family between Northam and the Cape. Pablo Armando was born at Rosario in 1882. If the eldest son was born in Argentina, that closes a declared gap — and the archive already has Argentine baptism sweeps to extend.
74. Next — ready to start this archive
Find Pablo Armando's arrival in South Africa
He is at Newlands by 1950 and a racehorse trainer; the archive has a 1940 passport and an 1882 Rosario birth. Nothing connects the two ends. Passenger lists, immigration and naturalisation records are the obvious route. CORRECTED 16 September 2026. This row used to end "and the 1908 enrolment card puts him still in Argentina." THAT IS FALSE, and it was pointing the search the wrong way. The card's Oficina enroladora reads CAPETOWN , with Región Militar and Distrito Militar both blank — which is the signature of a man registering at his own CONSULATE because he was already abroad. Far from placing him in Argentina, the card is evidence he had already left it. And the 1908 date is itself unsourced: the card carries no year but the class of 1882, sits in a collection catalogued 1911–1936, and the passport's page 6 gives a Cape Town consular libreta of 1915. See /enrolment-card/.
75. Next — ready to start this archive
Get the 1911 marriage record of Pablo Armando and Mary Septima Taylor
The archive holds data/marriage-1911.tsv and a Taylor line worked out from English censuses. A South African marriage record would give his stated age, occupation, residence and father's name — and his father is the whole question of this archive. Try the SA civil records and gazettes route that worked for the estates.
76. Next — ready to start this archive
Sweep the gazette for the 1950 estate's other names
The liquidation account names Dichmont & Dichmont of 6 Darling Street as attorneys, Standard Trust Limited, United Fish Canners shares, and creditors including a claim for carrots. The gazette pipeline is free and already built. Those names place him in a business world the archive has not described.
77. Next — ready to start this archive
Search the Diocese of Santander collection for the Fernández couple
The wiki says Spain, Diocese of Santander, Catholic Church Records 1538–1985 contains some records for Asturias — the only FamilySearch church collection that touches the Fernández homeland at all. Rodrigo and Rosa Fernández have never been searched in Spain in any form. Partial coverage of a neighbouring diocese is still the only free route.
78. Next — ready to start this archive
Try PARES and the Spanish diocesan portals
FamilySearch is not the only place Spanish parish registers live. PARES (the national archives portal) and the diocesan portals of Córdoba and Oviedo hold and increasingly digitise what FamilySearch does not. This archive has never looked at either. The mapping row established what FamilySearch does not have; it did not establish that nobody has it. UPGRADED 17 September 2026, and it now has a TARGET. This row was generic. The 1812 Montevideo act has since named a Spanish town: VALDEMORO, in Castilla la Nueva — historically Archdiocese of Toledo, today Diocese of Getafe. FamilySearch holds no parish registers for it (checked, controlled — see row 141), so PARES and the diocesan archive are now the ONLY route. Look for: the baptism of Ramón Serena, about 1775–85, and the marriage of Salvador Serena and Ana de Cubas before it. This is Ramón's house, not Pablo Armando's — work it because it is a real Spanish origin the archive can actually name, not because it is his.
79. Next — ready to start this archive
Get at the FamilySearch catalogue by the back route
Catalogue search has returned Something Went Wrong all day, but an image's own Information panel prints the catalogue link and that reel's item-by-item contents — which is how the Canelones reels were mapped. Do the same from any Spanish image to reach the Córdoba and Oviedo catalogue entries directly, and see whether anything is filmed that the wiki does not list.
80. Done — finished and published this archive
Reconcile the children files — and one of them was called 'complete' and was not
Done — data/sancho-children-reconciled.tsv, eight children, one list. The reconciliation found the fault it was written to find: sancho-children-complete.tsv holds four children and is called complete, while the archive names eight across its other files. Nothing in it is wrong; it is partial, and its name made the partiality invisible. Superseded with a banner rather than deleted. The new list carries, for each child, 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. It also reconciles the count: the 1812 padrón 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 already died.
81. Next — ready to start this archive
Raise the sibling coverage above 106 of 277
consistency.py reports that its sibling tests reach 106 of 277 people, and prints the honest warning that a pass here is not a pass over the register. Today's parent-pair query is a cheap way to lift that: for any couple in the register, one phrase search finds their children, their children's marriages and their grandchildren at once. MOVED 21 September 2026, and by fixing the cause rather than the measure. The sibling tests reach people through a STRUCTURED PARENT, and 226 of 293 people had no edge at all — every connection was in prose. Twenty-three were wired from notes that state their own subject's parentage. Structured parents 36 → 60; coverage 106/277 → 114/292; islands 226 → 193. The remaining gap is the same shape: 43 parent names in notes resolve to no single register row, and a name that cannot be resolved is left alone rather than attached to the nearest thing that looks like it.
82. Done — finished and published this archive
Give every person a last-attested-alive date
The Sancho search exposed a gap in the archive's own shape: it records when a person is named, not when they were last demonstrably alive. A man named as a grandfather may have been twenty years dead. One field, computed where possible from the record type, would stop that confusion for 278 people rather than one. BUILT 20 September 2026 - tools/last-alive.py, rendered on /register/. Computed, never typed, and it does not guess — dates in this archive live in prose, and prose carries other people's dates too. Two tiers: DEATH, an explicit date on the person's own row, and DEATH BY, a ceiling from a record that only exists because someone died, which is never treated as the date — Anton Armando died April 2003 and was advertised in 2013. The answer is stark: 20 of 278 are known to have died at all. The other 258 carry a birth estimate and nothing more. That is the finding, not a failure of the tool — and the register's inconsistency is exactly why: it writes 'd. 15 Nov 1935' for one person and 'SA death cert 1950' for the next. Ricardo Juan Carlos stays birth-only on purpose: his source is his father's 1950 estate, where being named means he was alive, not dead. Runs in the gate chain so it cannot go stale.
83. Next — ready to start this archive
Turn the Montevideo marriage-dispensation register, 1856–1932
Migrated from errands, where it was misfiled. The task is to turn the register — page it — not to write to anybody, so it was never a person's errand. This archive already holds one dispensation from the series, the 1911 Lerena–Cardozo, and the register spans the generation the Montevideo branch is thinnest on.
84. Next — ready to start this archive
Trace Gilberto Lerena's Buenos Aires household forward
Migrated from errands. Gilberto appears in the 1895 census household and is one of the few Argentine Lerenas this archive can place. Forward from 1895 is civil registration and later censuses.
85. Done — finished and published this archive
Test whether Alejandro Lerena Lenguas is the Alejandro M. Lerena of the enrolment cards
ANSWERED 27 September 2026. His parents are AVELINO LERENA and AMBROSIA TRAIBEL. The Cordon christening of his daughter Jacinta Mercedes Gregoria, 26 December 1877, read off 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"*. So the Alejandro M. Lerena of army drawer Cajon 985 is a LERENA TRAIBEL - a grandson of Sancho Llerena. THE ROUTE MATTERS MORE THAN THE ANSWER. Not found by searching for his parents, which this archive had done for thirteen days. Found by searching for his FIRST WIFE - he is *viudo* in 1886, so one had to exist - and the record was indexed under "Alejandro M. SERENA", with the grandmother as "Ambrosia TRECIBEL". A search under LERENA would never have returned it. Two further gains: Elisa Villademoros is *(hoy finada)* on that act and her daughter was born 19 September 1876, so she died inside those fifteen months - the widowhood that the 1886 and 1888 acts record. And a 1872 act at the Iglesia Matriz names the godparents as *"ALEJANDRO M. LERENA y ELISA VILLADEMOROS"*, which is what led here. WHAT IS LEFT IS A MERGE, NOT A QUESTION: this register still holds Alejandro LERENA TRAIBEL, baptised at La Mauricia 7 January 1846, a son of the same couple with the same forename and an overlapping birth window. Almost certainly one man. See data/_person-pairs.txt.
86. Next — ready to start this archive
Find General Don Pedro Lenguas in the published record
Migrated from errands. Luis Lerena married Justiniana Lenguas in 1842, and a general of that name would be in the published military and political record of the period — the easiest external corroboration available for that marriage.
87. Next — ready to start this archive
Re-run the Montevideo dispensation sweep on compound surnames
Migrated from errands. This archive has a compound-surname sweep (data/compound-surname-sweep.tsv) and a dispensation series; the two have never been crossed. Lerena y Aguilar, Llerena Fernández and the rest are exactly the forms a dispensation would print.
88. Next — ready to start this archive
Find the marriage act of Josefa Lerena — Moratorio, or Lerena?
Migrated from errands. An open identity question with candidates already assembled in data/josefa-lerena-candidates.tsv. The act itself decides it.
89. Next — ready to start this archive
Retry ALEX, and read Sporting Life's Argentine racing columns 1905–1920
Two migrated errands, both external sites rather than correspondence. ALEX is to be retried when its full-text search works. Sporting Life matters more than it looks: the gazette now calls Robert Paul Lerena a racehorse trainer and a 1986 notice names Lerena Racing Stables, so an Argentine racing column of 1905–1920 is a plausible place to find him before South Africa — which bears on the eight unaccounted years.
90. Done — finished and published this archive
Draw the two lines on the home page — done, at David's request
Built 16 September 2026, after David pointed at the Luwinski archive's home page, where the line of record and the line the DNA points to run side by side. The Lerena equivalent is now the second section of the front page: The line of record (Rosario, Wynberg, Newlands, Germiston — a document behind every step) beside The line this archive infers (Sancho Llerena and María Fernández, married at Canelones 8 January 1791; their eight children; the Montevideo trunk; Luis Lerena Lenguas). The point of the drawing is the row where they fail to meet — Pablo Armando's own 1908 enrolment card names Juan Carlos Lerena and María Lerena, and no Juan Carlos Lerena appears in any indexed record in Argentina or Uruguay. That row is dashed in both lanes. Checked rendered at desktop and mobile; it stacks and does not overflow.
91. Done — finished and published this archive
Fix /bloodline/ — nobody is drawn twice, and nobody is their own brother
Raised by David, 16 September 2026, looking at Nuno Fernando's chart: "2 juan carlos lerena's and 2 mario lerenas and mary septima twice." Two faults, both in the kit's drawing rather than in this archive's data. First, a husband or wife was always drawn as a chip beside the person, with no check that they were already on the chart in their own right — and every married pair of ancestors is two blood relatives, so each got a box AND a chip of the other. 13 relatives came out in 22 boxes A chip is now drawn only for somebody the chart does not already hold; where both halves are on it, they are seated together and the marriage is a tie between them. The test is the slug, never the name. Second, the register deliberately keeps a row for the mangled machine-index reading of Pablo Armando, so the false trail stays visible — and the sibling pass handed that row its own person as a brother. An alias now folds onto the person it is a spelling of. Fixed in the kit (bloodline.js, bloodline.client.js, commits 7f776b3 and 45b37a7) and in tools/build-people.py; kit repinned. Checked against all six archives that draw this chart: the graph is byte-identical for five, and Lerena loses exactly the one alias.
92. Next — ready to start the kit & estate
The other five archives need repinning to pick up the /bloodline/ fix
This was never a Lerena-only fault — it was worst in the biggest families. Counted across every chart in every archive, 218,856 duplicate boxes were being drawn. Mazza's chart for Frank Mazza drew 232 of its 530 people twice; Falco's for Costanza Abatiello, 193 of 453; Blazevic's for Petar Blazevic, 24 of 92. They are all still pinned to a kit from before 45b37a7 and will keep drawing the doubled chart until each repins. Not this archive's to do — recorded here because it was found here, per the rule about things belonging to another archive.
93. Done — finished and published this archive
Read the DNA matches properly, at both companies
Done 16 September 2026, at David's request. 11,581 MyHeritage matches (11,114 with trees) and 1,500 at 23andMe. Surname probes with four controls; a full country census; the one South American tree opened and read. Lerena appears in no match's tree except her own son's and nephew's; Lenguas and Traibel, the two rare Montevideo compounds, return nothing at all Written up on /dna/, with data/dna-match-probes.tsv, dna-match-corpus.json and dna-23andme.json.
94. Blocked — waiting on a person or an institution David
Buy 23andMe+ Premium and read Parental Inheritance
This is the single most valuable unbought thing in this archive 23andMe will say which PARENT each slice of ancestry came from, without needing a parent to have tested. It would put the Italian 8.0% on her father's side, where Pablo Armando is, or her mother's, where the Cape is That is the question /dna/ argues around for two thousand words, and one screen answers it. It also settles the Cape trace for the Booyzen archive at the same time. This session does not buy sources, so it stops here.
95. Done — finished and published this archive
Run the maternal aunt's chart against the granddaughter's — done, and it found one
Done 16 September 2026, from AutoClusters rather than raw match lists. The aunt is Cape and nothing else, so a cluster of the niece's with no counterpart on the aunt's belongs to her father. Run naively it says five of fourteen clusters are paternal, and that is wrong 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 it. Only 15 of her 107 clustered matches clear the floor. Done properly: six clusters confirmed Cape, two paternal candidates, six untestable. One candidate is a false positive — its own Theory of Family Relativity names Kruger, Venter and Nel. The other stands: cluster 14, three matches, 61-116 cM, all BAILEY trees
96. Done — finished and published this archive
Generate AutoClusters for the kits — done, and it is the sharpest result in the file
David generated them on 15 September 2026 and they were read on the 16th — for the granddaughter, for her nephew (the only other tested Lerena) and for her son. Her fourteen clusters are exhaustively Cape Afrikaner and British Isles; not one Spanish, Italian, Argentine or Uruguayan surname appears on her chart The son's chart is the control that makes this readable: it carries two plainly Croatian clusters for HIS father, so the tool does form a block for a foreign paternal line when cousins from it have tested. It found his father's line. It did not find hers. The nephew's chart was the surprise — nineteen clusters, almost all Ashkenazi, which is his mother's family; he shares exactly three clustered matches with his aunt and all three sit in her Cape cluster. Written up on /dna/ with site/src/data/dna-autoclusters.json.
97. Done — finished and published this archive
Apply the Cape half of the DNA to the Booyzen archive
Done the same afternoon, at David's request. New page /dna/ in TheBooyzen, linked under Evidence, with site/src/data/dna.json. Carries the aunt as the instrument, the cousinhood counted (581 of 1,500 relatives name a South African grandparent, 319 name all four), the surname census, the 500 theories, and a trace of Angolan-Congolese and Northern Indian-Pakistani ancestry that archive had not written down before - the ordinary genetic signature of the eighteenth-century Cape. That archive's kit was repinned to 45b37a7 at the same time, clearing its own gate's advisory.
98. Next — ready to start this archive
Chase the Bailey cluster — it may be the BRAYLEY wall coming down
Raised 16 September 2026 by the aunt-subtraction. Cluster 14 on the granddaughter's AutoClusters is three matches, 61 to 116 cM, all in Bailey trees, and it is the ONE cluster on her chart that is demonstrably paternal — its 116 cM member clears the aunt's floor comfortably and is absent from her chart. Mary Septima Taylor's mother was MARY ANN HELLEN BRAYLEY of Bideford, Devon rootschat-assessment.tsv 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 — open the three trees, find the common couple, and see whether it lands at Bideford or Northam. Also worth the same treatment: cluster 12, Jullien and Walker — WALKER runs through the Taylor line as a given name (Margaret Hellen Walker Taylor, Agnes Walker Taylor), which normally means a Walker grandmother.
99. Done — finished and published this archive
Read the family's own papers — done, and it should have been done first
16 September 2026. David asked whether this archive had searched his folder Genealogy & Family History/Lerena. It had not. Out of it in twenty minutes: the 1911 marriage register (which was on THIS LIST as a thing to go and find), the death notices of Rogue Luis Armando and Nuno Fernando (which had just been ranked first and second on a R2,850 pull list for Pretoria), and six pages of the 1940 passport this archive had transcribed without turning over. Published at /family-papers/. A rule is now on /method/: before any list of documents to acquire, list the documents already held
100. Next — ready to start this archive
Read the rest of the family folders — Taylor, Barry & Booyzen, and the eight unopened images
The Lerena folder still holds eight FamilySearch record-images that have not been opened — 31843_233558__0002-00065.jpg, six record-image_3Q9M-C913- and two record-image_939D- — plus Lerena 2.pdf, a hand-drawn descendant chart, and two photographs (Mary Septima Burial, Rosaline Wilhelmina Forbes Lerena). And there is a whole TAYLOR folder, and a BARRY & BOOYZEN folder, neither of which this archive has ever looked at On today's evidence that is where the next finding is, not in an archive.
101. Next — ready to start this archive
Find the 1915 libreta de enrolamiento, Consulado General Argentino, Cape Town
Page 6 of the passport names the proof of nationality he actually produced: a libreta de enrolamiento issued at the Cape Town consulate, dated 1915. The enrolment record this archive holds is the ficha of 1908. So there are two Argentine enrolment events seven years apart, both filed at the Cape, and only one of them has ever been looked for Add it to the open errand with the Archivo General del Ejercito, and to the Cancilleria errand — a consular libreta should leave a trace in the consulate's own returns.
102. Done — finished and published this archive
Read the witnesses on the 1911 marriage act at higher resolution
Two signatures, something like J. M. Wathington and A. H. Blackalock, and this archive will not print a guess as a reading. Witnesses at a 1911 Catholic wedding are usually family or close friends, and this couple had neither parent present If one of them is a Lerena or a Taylor relative it is the only social connection to him in the Cape before 1911. Needs the original image at full resolution, not the screen copy. READ 20 September 2026 at full resolution (image ark 3:1:3Q9M-C9BP-73LY-N, 2693×1757). First witness: J. M. Wathington — the -ington ending is unambiguous and the earlier guess was right. Second witness: the earlier guess 'A. H. Blackalock' is wrong in its ending. The initials A. H. are clear and the surname ends -bach, not -lock; best reading 'A. H. Blackabach', with the middle explicitly not secure. Neither is a Lerena or a Taylor, so the row's hope — that a witness would be the couple's only social connection in the Cape — is not met by either name. What the page did give: the officiant is Bertram W. Glynn, R.C. Priest, the same priest who baptised Roque at Corpus Christi Wynberg on 12 June 1911 — one priest, both acts, three months apart.
103. Done — finished and published this archive
Search the whole of David's Documents folder for the subject's own name — done, and it answered the central question
16 September 2026. A filename sweep across ~/Documents — something this archive had never once run — found Photos from Email/, holding Pablo Armando's own death notice, KAB MOOC 6/9/17017 which was on open request at the Western Cape Archives. Item 3: Father, NOT KNOWN. Mother, NOT KNOWN Also the baptisms of Roque and Nuno from Corpus Christi Wynberg, and the 1911 marriage. Published at /family-papers/; errand closed.
104. Next — ready to start this archive
Chase MARINO
The Devon family remembered his surname as MARINO, not Lerena From Sue Rowbotham's Three Corners of the Land: Mary Septima went out "to work for a widower by the name of Robert (or Roberto) MARINO". The three sons she names are exactly right, so the memory is anchored; it is the surname that drifted. Marino is one of the commonest surnames in Italy, and two DNA panels independently put Italian ancestry in his granddaughter. Run: CEMLA and the Argentine passenger lists under MARINO; Rosario 1882 baptisms under MARINO; Cape shipping and directories under MARINO. It may be his mother's surname, a name he used, or a mishearing — all three are searchable and none has been tried.
105. Next — ready to start this archive
The two Bretóns who stood godparent by proxy in 1911
Roque's baptism names José Bretón and María Luisa Bretón as godfather and godmother, both marked (proxy). They are the first Hispanic-named associates of Pablo Armando ever found in the Cape, and proxy is what a parish writes when the real sponsors are overseas Look for Bretón in the Corpus Christi Wynberg registers, in Cape directories, and in Argentine records beside Lerena. If they are family, they are the closest thing to a relative he ever produced. TESTED 20 September 2026 and it is a NULL — which narrows the lead rather than killing it. Surname BRETON exact with spouse surname LERENA exact, all countries: zero. Control in the identical form, SALVANACH with spouse LERENA: 19. So no Bretón married into this family — if they are connected to Pablo Armando it is as friends, compatriots or employers, not kin. Look for them beside Lerena in Argentine records, not in marriages.
106. Next — ready to start this archive
Careen Maria Lerena, born and died 1947, third person in the Newlands grave
From the cemetery office at Newlands, via Cheryl's sister Patricia: the unmarked grave carrying only the word LERENA holds three people — Pablo Armando, Mary Septima, and a baby girl, CAREEN MARIA LERENA, born and died 1947 This archive has never heard of her. He was sixty-five and twelve years a widower. Cheryl's own reading is that Rose Lilian Theys was the mother; that is a granddaughter's inference, not a record. A Cape birth and death registration of 1947 would settle it. Note his death notice says he had no children of any other marriage. DATE FOUND, 20 September 2026. South Africa, Cape, Cemetery Records: Careen Maria Lerena, died 27 June 1947 (ark 1:1:QP7Z-K7B8). The row had only born and died 1947; here is the day. Whether she is the third person in the Newlands grave is still to be settled from the grave itself.
107. Next — ready to start this archive
The newspaper cutting: a £5 fine for shooting at two boys
Sue Rowbotham to Cheryl, 2 July 2020: a cutting was, or is, held by the Taylor/Braddick family in north Devon reporting that Roberto was fined £5 for shooting at two native boys who were trying to steal — a horse? — from him. Neither Sue nor Cheryl could place it. A five-pound fine means a magistrate's court, a date and a name in print Cape newspapers of the period are digitised. It would be the earliest independent description of him in South Africa outside a register.
108. Next — ready to start this archive
Mary Septima's voyage out — the window is now 1901 to 1905, and her brother was there first
Sue Rowbotham finds no sign of her in England after the April 1901 census, where she is a 16-year-old pupil-teacher at Northam. Her mother died 1900, her father November 1902. Roque was born at Cape Town 25 November 1905. So she sailed between 1901 and early 1905, orphaned, aged 17 to 20 And she had a reason to choose the Cape: her brother Horace Archibald 'Archie' Taylor was posted to South Africa on 21 October 1899 and served through the Second Boer War to 15 September 1902, with the Queen's South Africa Medal, Cape Colony clasp. A nineteen-year-old orphan does not sail to the Cape at random.
109. Next — ready to start this archive
Trace Roberto Juan Roque LLORENS, b. Buenos Aires 16 August 1872, forward
The cheapest open question in this archive. Two photographs of a Buenos Aires baptism were filed in David's own Roberto Paul Lerena Documents folder, unexplained. Somebody was pursuing the idea that Pablo Armando was really Roberto Juan Roque Llorens, born 1872 — and the two South African death records both make him mid-seventies, which fits 1872 and not 1882. Against it: his own passport and his own enrolment card, both in his hand, both saying Rosario 1882, and parents who do not match at all Look for Llorens after 1872 in Buenos Aires — a marriage, an enrolment, a death. If he lived and died in Argentina the question closes in an afternoon. Written up at /family-papers/.
110. Next — ready to start this archive
Settle where he is actually buried — Maitland or Newlands
The death certificate names the intended place of burial as Maitland Cemetery no 1 The family were told by the office at Newlands that he, Mary Septima and the infant Careen Maria lie there. Intended is not actual, so both can be honestly stated — but one of them is wrong and neither has been checked against a burial register. Cape Town cemetery records are held by the City; one email settles it.
111. Done — finished and published David
TAB MHG 1095/48 — Anne told; the whole Booyzen pull was cancelled, by decision
Belongs to the Booyzen archive, found here. A sweep of David's Documents folder on 16 September 2026 found the death notice of GEORGE DOWNING MOUNTJOY BOOYZEN, estate 1095/48, already photographed and in the house It was one of six Booyzen estates Anne was booked to pull at Pretoria on 22 September. Its companion, 2945/44, that archive has already read.
WHAT HAPPENED: THE WHOLE PULL WAS CALLED OFF ON 20 SEPTEMBER, AND THAT STANDS. Anne was told to stop rather than told about one duplicated document. David was asked whether to un-cancel and said no. This row is closed as a decision, not as an oversight — nobody should re-raise it.
WHAT WAS NOT OBTAINED, recorded so the gap is known rather than rediscovered: the will and liquidation account of 1095/48, which no one holds — only its death notice is in the house — and five entire estates, none of which is in the folder: 3734/46, 769/52, 5155/51, 10/57 and 52653. 52653 is written without a year suffix, unlike the rest, so it may belong to a different reference series; that was never checked.
AND THE ROW ITSELF WAS PART OF THE CAUSE. Its headline read "tell Anne before Tuesday, its death notice is already in the house", which scanned quickly is an instruction to call something off; every limit lived in this note, where a person reading a work list does not look. A row that needs its note read to avoid being actioned wrongly is a badly written row. It also said "the other four" and listed five. Both fixed 20 September, and logged in corrections.tsv.
112. Done — finished and published this archive
Mine the GEDCOM — done twice, because the first file was the wrong one
First run used 2018-07 Defranceski.ged, found on the disk. 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 everything from it is withdrawn. Re-derived from the current export of 15 September 2026 - 15,643 individuals against the backup's 8,286 The Brayley ascent now runs eleven generations to Matthew Reed, born 1643 at Braunton, with parishes and dates throughout, and HELEN WALKER of Haddington is found five generations up, which explains the Walker given name and the DNA match sharing Temple AND Walker
113. Next — ready to start this archive
Get 'Mary Ann Taylor Death Certificate' off MyHeritage — it is the way into the Brayley wall
A media object of that title is attached to Mary Septima Taylor in the tree. It is her mother's certificate — MARY ANN HELLEN TAYLOR, born BRAYLEY, died 1900 — the death that orphaned Mary Septima and set up the emigration. This archive does not hold it and has never seen it. rootschat-assessment.tsv says Brayley is the line this archive could not push past, and on the same day the DNA subtraction produced a paternal cluster of Bailey trees at 116 cM. Three separate roads now point at Brayley. The file is not on the disk — the GEDCOM's media references point at MyHeritage's servers — so it needs the live tree, which David is logged into.
114. Next — ready to start this archive
Settle the grave from the photograph already in the tree
A media object titled "Lerena Grave" hangs on Nuno Fernando in the tree. The family were told Newlands; the 1950 death certificate names Maitland Cemetery no 1 as the intended place of burial. A photograph of the headstone or plot may settle which, before anybody writes to a cemetery office
115. Next — ready to start this archive
One estate-file page exists that the local folder does not hold
The tree attaches record-image_3Q9M-C913-K98Q-J to Roberto Paul. The folder on disk holds K941, K94R, K983-D, K983-R, K98S-V and K9H3-D — not K98Q-J. One more page of MOOC 6/9/17017, already captured by somebody, sitting on MyHeritage. Cheaper than the Cape Town archives.
116. Blocked — waiting on a person or an institution David
Write to the 116 cM Bailey match — it is the only thing that can settle cluster 14
The Brayley reading was tested on 16 September and did not hold The real Brayley matches were found — one Australian at 23.0 cM sharing BRAYLEY and BAKER, one Englishman surnamed Brayley at 16.2 cM — and neither is in cluster 14. But the three Bailey trees hold two people and four people, so their absence proves nothing either. The link is UNTESTED, not refuted She is the largest paternal match on the whole chart and her tree has two people in it. One message asking for two generations of her grandparents' names settles in a week what no amount of surname probing can. This session does not message DNA matches on anyone's behalf, so it stops here.
117. Next — ready to start this archive
Three media still to pull off the live MyHeritage tree
Attempted 16 September and blocked by the application, not by permissions: the tree view is a canvas app carrying 8,286 people and it froze the browser renderer three times. The three wanted objects are "Mary Ann Taylor Death Certificate" (her mother's, d. 21 April 1900), "Lerena Grave", and record-image_3Q9M-C913-K98Q-J A lighter route than the tree view is needed — the person page reached directly by its MyHeritage id, or Family Tree Builder on the desktop, where the media are stored against the person rather than rendered in a canvas.
118. Struck — founded on a mistake, kept rather than deleted this archive
Test the tree's Dapto, New South Wales birth against a registration — STRUCK, the birth does not exist
Founded on a mistake and struck rather than deleted The Dapto, Wollongong birth came from the 2018 backup. The current tree has Paul Raymond Lerena, born 11 March 1951 at Johannesburg, and no Australian place anywhere in that generation. This archive had already flagged the entry as impossible because his sister was born in Johannesburg six months later - the flag was right and the cause was the backup being wrong.
119. Blocked — waiting on a person or an institution David
Fix the live tree: Rosario 1882 and Buenos Aires parents cannot both be true
The current tree has been half-corrected and it needs finishing. His birth now reads Rosario, 22 February 1882 - his own passport's date and town. But his parents still read "Roberto Llorens" and "Francisca Fernandez Lerena", which came from the unsolicited Buenos Aires baptism of 1872 that David himself says is likely no relation. The birth was fixed and the parentage was left behind And the mother's surname is spliced: the Buenos Aires act says FRANCISCA FERNANDEZ, not Fernandez Lerena. Fix it in the tree before the next export, or it will be mined again as evidence by somebody who does not know where it came from.
120. Done — finished and published this archive
Four Uruguayan departments — measured at 1,343 records, and one claim retracted
MEASURED 16 September 2026 — and the first version of this row, written the same day, said these were departments the archive had NEVER SEARCHED. That was wrong about FLORES and too strong about the other three. Retracted; see /corrections/. Flores has a dedicated study — trinidad-flores-kindred.tsv, read 13 September, titled "Trinidad, department of Flores — the founding nest of the surname", with eleven children, the Basque mothers Beloqui, Echeverry and Pelaez, and the Lerena–Pelaez consanguinity dispensations in lerena-pelaez-trinidad.tsv. The Bernabé Lerena and Casimira Pelaez family I reported as a find on 16 September was already in it. WHAT SURVIVES IS THE SCALE, WHICH IS NEW AND WHICH 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 have no dedicated study at all, only passing mentions, and hold another 735 between them. The picture is not wrong. It is thin in places nobody had measured. And a real warning stands: the tree's Gabino of Flores is given as a son of Ramón Llerena Cubas and Margarita Leal — not Sancho's line — so the interior may hold a different Lerena family entirely. LARGELY ANSWERED 17 September 2026, and not in the way the row expected. Three of the four departments are accounted for by the children of ONE COUPLE — Mauricio Lerena and Casimira Montaño — San José de Mayo, Trinidad in Flores, and Florida, with Salto and Montevideo besides. They were never four leads; they are one family spreading across the interior in a single generation. The tree's own San José person, Demetria Clara Lerena Montaño, is identified as their daughter Clara. Only ROSARIO in COLONIA is still unaccounted for. MARKED DONE 20 September 2026. The row as written — four departments, never searched — is answered, and answered against itself: three of the four turned out to be one family spreading in a single generation, and the 'never searched' claim was retracted to /corrections/. One remainder survives and it is too specific to hide inside this row, so it has its own: Rosario, in Colonia.
121. Done — finished and published this archive
Ask the tree where Félix de Llerena's ANDALUSIA came from — answered, and the answer is nothing
Answered 16 September 2026 by reading every citation on every Lerena, Taylor and Brayley person in the export. Félix's Andalusia is sourced to "Carvalho Calcagno Web Site" and "Familia Martinez Camino" — two other people's MyHeritage trees So the agreement this archive noted, "from a direction that owes the archive nothing", owes it nothing because it is two strangers' trees, which may well have copied the same reasoning from the same place. No support. And the wider answer: of 244 people on this line in the tree, SIX cite a record, 94 cite only other trees, and 144 cite nothing at all Written up at /family-papers/ with data/gedcom-graded.tsv.
122. Done — finished and published this archive
Check the 12 November 1999 deaths against a registration
Worked 17 September 2026, and the free sources took it as far as they go — see data/1999-deaths-tested.tsv. NAAIRS was 503 all day (genuinely down, not blocked), so the death registration this row asks for was not reachable. What the free Government Gazette did settle: Pierre Frederick's estate was advertised 28 January 2000 (GG 20821 p.41, Transvaal; re-advertised GG 20926, 3 March 2000) — ten weeks after the claimed 12 November 1999, from a source independent of both the GEDCOM and the index. That kills the artefact reading for him: a padded year does not reproduce as an exact day in a separate source and then land ten weeks before a real government notice. The two boys are uncorroborated and always would have been — minors with no assets get no J193. A control decides how the absences read: Rhena May Lerena, died 1 April 1998 on cemetery records, has no gazette estate at all inside a 1994–2023 sweep — so absence here is evidence of nothing, and the lag from death to advertisement runs from ten weeks to ten years. Retry NAAIRS for the registration. CLOSED 20 September 2026. The registration this row asked for is in the Johannesburg cemetery register: Pierre Frederick Lerena, died 12 November 1999 (ark 1:1:6X6S-M484) and Richard Lerena, died 12 November 1999 (1:1:6X6S-M48C) — the GEDCOM's date confirmed to the day by an independent source, with NAAIRS still never consulted.
123. Blocked — waiting on a person or an institution David
Three Devon street addresses — one confirmed free, two need a paid census
Horace Archibald Taylor born at 23 Geneva Place, Bideford; Lucy Elizabeth at North Street, Northam; Agnes Walker at 2 Fore Street, Northam. And 2 Fore Street is a few doors from 26 Fore Street, where Mary Septima stayed with her sister Edie on her last visit home in 1935 An address is what a census is searched on, and this archive has the 1871, 1891, 1901, 1911 and 1921 censuses and the 1939 Register already worked. These three should place the household in each of them without a name search. TESTED 17 September 2026. 2 FORE STREET, NORTHAM: CONFIRMED — the 1891 return (piece 1787, ED 4, folio 42, schedule 2) gives the household's address as "2, Fore Street", so the tree's birth address for Agnes is the family's real address two years later. 23 GENEVA PLACE and NORTH STREET: NOT TESTABLE FREE — they need the 1871 and 1881 censuses and FreeCEN holds neither for Bideford or Northam (1851, 1861, 1891 only). AND THE ROW'S METHOD DOES NOT WORK ON THE FREE CENSUS AT ALL: FreeCEN HAS NO ADDRESS FIELD. Its form searches names, years, place, occupation, sex, marital status — an address can only be READ OFF a return a NAME search found , which is how Fore Street was confirmed. Needs findmypast or Ancestry. See data/devon-addresses.tsv. REOPENED 17 September 2026, and my own verdict corrected. The 'not testable free' above tested the census route and nothing else. The UK National Archives had never been searched in this project at all, and Discovery shows Geneva Place, Bideford is a council school — North Devon Record Office 629C holds its log books and ADMISSION REGISTERS, 1885–1949, with Kew's ED 21/26168 and ED 70/427 alongside. Admission registers name the child, the date of birth, the father and the address. That cannot reach Horace, born 1872 and too old for them, but Lucy Elizabeth (1881), Mary Septima (1884) and Agnes Walker (1889) were all of school age inside the run.
124. Next — ready to start this archive
Test the Brayley ascent — four links tested against the civil index, three confirmed; Westleigh parish register still outstanding
PART DONE, 16 September 2026. The ascent was published unsourced below 1843. It is not any more at its lower end. FreeBMD — the free GRO index — was made to work (the search button is an <input type=image>, so form.submit() silently re-renders the form; it has to be clicked) and four claims were put to it. John Brailey's death: CONFIRMED — Deaths, Jun quarter 1851, BRAYLEY, John, St Thomas, 10/177, and the Devon County Asylum at Exminster is in St Thomas district. A search under BRAILEY finds nothing in 1851 at all — the spelling matters. The 1870 marriage: CONFIRMED — BRAYLEY, Mary Ann H, Bideford, 5b/794, double-keyed; and TAYLOR, William is on the same page , which is the join that attaches this whole line to the Taylors. 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 , which corroborates the birth year from a second direction and kills the 2018 backup's 1844. Her 1843 birth registration: NOT FOUND, control passed — but registration was not compulsory until 1875, so that null is weak. See data/brayley-bmd.tsv. WHAT IS STILL OPEN: everything above generation 3. Westleigh, September 1799 — Robert Brayley born the 21st, dead the 23rd, his mother Ann Snow dead the same day — is still the densest single page, and it needs the parish register, not the index. FamilySearch record search was blocked all evening and FreeREG does not hold Westleigh; see data/devon-tooling.tsv.
125. Next — ready to start David
Buy ONE certificate: the Bideford marriage, March quarter 1870, 5b/794
This is now the cheapest decisive document in the archive, and it was not identifiable before tonight. The GRO index puts Mary Ann H Brayley and William Taylor on the same page, Bideford, Mar quarter 1870 — but the page carries four names (the others are Huxtable Elizabeth and Johns Thomas), which is two marriages, and the index does not say which pairs with which. More importantly: a marriage certificate names BOTH FATHERS. Mary Ann Hellen's father is the entire question at the foot of the Brayley ascent — the tree says John Brailey and cites a stranger's web site. One certificate confirms or destroys him, and fixes the Taylor pairing in the same line. Ordered from the GRO at gro.gov.uk (PDF, about £3 for the record-only option where available; £12.50 for a certificate).
126. Done — finished and published this archive
The nine Taylor children followed to their deaths — eight of nine, and four married surnames recovered
PART DONE the same evening it was written, 16 September 2026. The three 1900 deaths were run and all three are in the index, all three in BIDEFORD, all within nine months of each other: Georgina Brayley, age 85, Mar quarter, 5b/421 — the Scotswoman, and 85 is exactly right for a birth of 23 August 1814 at Haddington ; Mary Ann H Taylor, age 56, Jun quarter, 5b/363; and John Walker Brayley, age 53, Dec quarter, 5b/305. His age is the one thing tonight that did NOT match — 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 ages were exact to the month , which points at the tree rather than the informant. And neither he nor his sister has a registered birth at all — no John Walker Brayley 1843–1850 anywhere, no Mary Brayley or Brailey in Jun 1843. That is a household that did not register births , which was lawful before 1875 — so the place to look is the parish baptism register, which is where "St Paul's" and "St Bartholomew's" pointed all along. THEN THE NINE TAYLOR CHILDREN, IN ONE SEARCH — births, surname Taylor, Bideford district, 1870–1890. NINE OF NINE, every one in the right quarter , including Mary Septima, Dec quarter 1884, 5b/506 — Pablo Armando's wife now has her own birth registration. The tree's odd-looking pair of November 1870 births turns out to be right: both registered that quarter on adjacent pages, 489 and 490, so they are twins. But the names are the find, not the dates: Isabella TEMPLE (1874), Margaret Hellen W[ALKER] (1876) and Agnes WALKER (1889). Those are the surnames of Georgina Temple and of Helen Walker, who five generations up cited nothing at all. She is still not on a record — but three of her descendants were registered with her surname by a clerk, and that is. AND A THIRD SPELLING TRAP, LOGGED BECAUSE IT NEARLY LANDED. A county-wide search of all 129 Brayleys in FreeCEN's Devon for 1861 found none of this family, with a clean control — 53 Taylors at Bideford the same year. It was one sentence away from being recorded as "the family left Bideford between 1851 and 1870". Searched again as BRAILEY, every one of them came back, on the same street as in 1851. A controlled null is only ever as good as the spelling it was run under. FOURTH PASS, 17 September 2026 — the sibling DEATHS, which were the unfinished half. HORACE ARCHIBALD: Deaths, March quarter 1934 — TAYLOR, Horace A, AGE 61, BIRMINGHAM. A death on 18 January falls in the March quarter and a man born April 1872 is exactly 61 that January. The district is the surprise — Birmingham, not Devon — but he was a FOOTMAN at nineteen in 1891, 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. Of the twins born in one quarter of 1870, one died in Devon at eighty and the other went to Cape Town. AND A METHOD RULE THAT NEARLY COST BOTH: the first search for each man returned NOTHING. "Horace Archibald" and "William John" both give no rows; both men are there under Horace A and William J. The GRO index abbreviates second forenames, so a FULL-forename search is WEAKER than a first-forename one. Search the first forename and filter by AGE. Controls held both times — 34 Horace Taylors in the decade, 205 William Taylors in 1951 at >99%. The coverage was never the problem; the query was. AND THE SISTERS, 17 September — which needed a different method and cracked two of them. A married woman vanishes from the death index under her maiden name and this archive holds no husbands. That looked like a wall; it is not, because the MARRIAGE index still holds her maiden name. KATHLEEN GEORGINA — never married: Taylor, Kathleen G, age 69, Mar q 1940, Bideford. Born and died in the same town. ISABELLA TEMPLE — married Sep q 1900 at Bideford, 5b/901, a page carrying four names, so the index could not say which man was hers. Her death settles it: DALLING, Isabella T, age 79, Dec q 1953, Bideford. She married HENRY DALLING — disambiguated by her own death fifty-three years later. LUCY ELIZABETH — married Jun q 1909 at Totnes, 5b/373, a page carrying only two names: William Norrish SWEET and herself. Died Sweet, Lucy E, age 75, Jun q 1957, Plymouth. Two husbands and two married surnames the archive did not have. And Totnes is not random — her brother William John died at Totnes in 1951. THE METHOD, for Irene, Margaret Hellen Walker and Agnes: death under Taylor → if absent, that is a finding; marriage under Taylor → take vol/page → search the page with no surname → the husband appears → death under his surname, confirmed on age. If the page holds four names, the death resolves the pairing. COMPLETED 17 September 2026. EIGHT OF THE NINE now have a marriage, a death, or both. Irene → Henry Albert BURTON (Bideford 1900, 5b/900; d. Barnstaple 1969, aged 90). Agnes Walker → Alfred S WOOD (Devonport 1918, 5b/588; d. Cheltenham 1974, date of birth 3 August 1889 — her birthday to the day). Margaret Hellen Walker married at St Pancras, Dec q 1903, 1b/43 — husband unresolved, either Charles William Bell or Arthur Wallis, and with no death date there is nothing to disambiguate on. And a detail only visible 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 autumn 1900, the year their mother died. FOUR RULES ABOUT THIS INDEX ARE NOW IN brayley-bmd.tsv: search the first forename only; a woman missing from the death index has married and the MARRIAGE index still holds her maiden name; when a marriage page holds four names the DEATH resolves the pairing; and the index changes shape twice — from 1912 it names the spouse, from ~1969 it gives a date of birth instead of an age.
127. Done — finished and published this archive
The 1891 census at Northam — done. The household is found, and two children are missing from it
DONE the same evening it was opened, 16 September 2026, and it gave more than it was asked for. FreeCEN holds Northam for 1891. The household is at 2 FORE STREET, NORTHAM — piece 1787, ED 4, folio 42, page 1, schedule 2. See data/1891-northam-census.tsv. WILLIAM TAYLOR, head, 65, "Cab Driver / ret'd Army Srgt", born Worlingworth, Suffolk — which also solves a puzzle filed as a data error: the tree attaches "Sergeant-Major in the army" to the infant who died at nine months in 1825, and the trade belongs to this man, on a census return, in his own house. MARY A. H. TAYLOR, wife, 47, born ST BARTHOLOMEWS, LONDON (CITY) — and that is the birthplace FreeBMD could not find a registration for. Three independent records now agree on 1843 and not one of them is her birth certificate. WILLIAM J. and KATHLEEN G., both 20, both born Bideford: the twins are confirmed for the third time. WHAT IT DID NOT SETTLE: there is no Edith, so that candidate 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. 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. The count still demands a seventh daughter. Row 128. MARKED DONE 20 September 2026 — it had been finished for four days and left open. The census work is complete and the one question it could not settle, the seventh daughter, is row 128's and is already written there. A row whose remainder lives in another row is finished, not open.
128. Blocked — waiting on a person or an institution David
The tenth Taylor child — FreeBMD cannot settle it; ONE GRO search can
Two questions that did not exist this morning, both raised by records rather than by trees. (1) Mary Septima Taylor, born Northam, registered Dec quarter 1884, is not in her parents' house at 2 Fore Street on 5 April 1891 , and is not among the 368 Taylors born 1882–1886 in FreeCEN's Devon. The null is soft — FreeCEN's Devon 1891 is transcribed parish by parish and is not complete — but Northam itself IS complete, which is what makes her absence from it real. Her elder sister Isabella Temple, 16, is absent too, and at that age service explains it; at six it does not. (2) The tree says ten children and names nine, and SEPTIMA MEANS SEVENTH while the known daughters make her sixth. THE CHEAPEST TEST OF BOTH: the 1901 census at Northam , where she would be 16 — FreeCEN's place list should be checked for Northam 1901. And for the tenth child, FreeBMD deaths in the Bideford district 1871–1890 under an infant age , because a child who died before 1891 would be in the birth index, counted among the ten, and in no census at all. UPDATE, SAME EVENING. The first suggestion above is dead: FreeCEN lists Northam for 1851, 1861 and 1891 only, so there is no 1901 there. But the same place list held Westleigh for 1851, and chasing that instead found the whole family at LOWER GUNSTONE, BIDEFORD on 30 March 1851 — see data/1851-bideford-brayley.tsv. It answered three other open questions and raised one new person. John Walker Brayley is aged 5 there, which fits the tree's 1845 and not the 1900 death index's implied 1847, so that discrepancy resolves in the tree's favour; Georgina Margaret Brayley is 8 months old, so born about July 1850, and the tree's "1851" is a year late ; and there is an ISABELLA BRAYLEY, 10, born London (St Andrew), whom this archive did not have at all. The two questions in this row are still open. SECOND UPDATE. The obvious hypothesis was tested and it FAILS. Georgina Temple was alive and in Northam in 1891 — found only by searching BRAYLEY, the fourth spelling trap of the evening — and she is ALONE in the ALMS HOUSE (piece 1787, ED 6, folio 72, schedule 40), "Living On Means", aged 77. Mary Septima was not with her grandmother. 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 at six years old is a real open question. WORKED 17 September 2026 AND HANDED OVER, because it is structurally beyond this session. The infant-death search this row asked for was run: FreeBMD deaths, Taylor, Bideford district, 1881–1891 — 37 entries, fourteen of them aged 0–3. An ETHEL Taylor, born Bideford Dec quarter 1882, died aged two, fits the gap exactly — born between Lucy Elizabeth and Mary Septima, dead before any census could hold her. And she cannot be attached to this family, and neither can Edith, and neither can the other five infant girls. THE REASON IS STRUCTURAL: the FreeBMD birth index carries NO mother's maiden name and the death index carries NO parents, so there is no field anywhere in FreeBMD capable of joining a Bideford Taylor child to THIS household. More searching there will not help. WHAT SETTLES IT IN ONE SEARCH, AND IT IS YOURS: the GRO's own index at gro.gov.uk is NOT FreeBMD and gives the MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME on every birth from 1837. Search 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 at all — the tenth included, whoever she was. It needs a free GRO account, which this session does not create. The second half of the row — where Mary Septima was at six in 1891 — remains open and is not answerable from FreeCEN, whose Devon 1891 is transcribed parish by parish.
129. Done — finished and published this archive
Isabella Brailey — she vanishes after 1861, and the silence is controlled
Found on the 1851 census at Lower Gunstone, Bideford: BRAYLEY, Isabella, granddaughter, 10, born London (City), ST ANDREW — an elder sister of Mary Ann Hellen Brayley, born about 1841, who appears nowhere in the current tree. She is worth chasing for two reasons beyond simply being a person. (1) Mary Ann Hellen named her second daughter ISABELLA TEMPLE — registered at Bideford, December quarter 1874 — so she named a child for this sister and gave her their mother's maiden name too. (2) Sue Rowbotham's family history has a chapter called "The mystery of the missing husband and daughter". The missing husband is now firmly John Brailey, alive in the asylum on census night and dead five weeks later. Whether Isabella is the missing daughter is NOT established and is written here only so it can be tested, not assumed. Where to look: FreeBMD births, Brayley or Brailey, London, 1840–1842 — St Andrew Holborn is the likely parish; then her marriage or death. UPDATE, SAME EVENING: SHE IS CONFIRMED. The 1861 census at Lower Gunstone, Bideford has BRAILEY, Isabella, daughter, unmarried, 20, NEEDLE WOMAN, born London (City), St Andrews — the same birthplace as 1851, ten years apart, so she is a real person and not a transcription ghost. See data/1861-bideford-brailey.tsv. What is still open is what became of her: a marriage or a death, and whether she is Sue Rowbotham's missing daughter — which remains untested and must not be assumed. ANSWERED 17 September 2026, and the answer is a controlled silence. No marriage under Brailey or Brayley in Devon 1861–1890; none anywhere in England and Wales 1858–1895; and no death under either spelling 1861–1925. Control: Brayley marriages with no forename in 1870 alone return FOURTEEN nationally — the surname is thickly indexed and the searches could have found her. She did not marry in England and did not die in England. Either she emigrated, or she married or died under one of this surname's manglings. And a candidate, offered as a candidate: of John Brailey and Georgina Temple's four children, Mary Ann Hellen, John Walker and Georgina Margaret all have documented later lives. Isabella alone has nothing after 1861, which makes her the best candidate for Sue Rowbotham's "missing daughter" — an argument from absence, the weakest kind, and recorded as untested. See data/brayley-two-questions.tsv.
130. Done — finished and published this archive
Georgina Brayley of Kilburn — REFUTED, and the search that refuted her found his marriage
Found in the 1891 census at Tower Street, Northam — piece 1787, ED 3, folio 36, schedule 107 — BRAYLEY, Georgina, servant, single, 20, General Servant, born Middlesex, LONDON KILBURN, in the household of Thomas Lock, draper. The pattern is the family's exactly: Mary Ann Hellen herself was a "House Servant" in a china dealer's house at Bideford at eighteen. And the forename is the family's — Georgina Temple's name is carried by Georgina Margaret (1850) and Kathleen Georgina (1870). The obvious reading is a granddaughter of Georgina Temple, most likely a daughter of JOHN WALKER BRAYLEY , who was born in London, was 26 in 1871, and whose birthplace the records give as St Pancras. NONE OF IT IS PROVEN. The census states no relationship to anybody in this family. What would settle it: her birth in the index, London, about 1871, under Brayley or Brailey; and whether John Walker Brayley married at all — the archive has no marriage for him, and he died at Bideford in 1900. REFUTED 17 September 2026. John Walker Brayley married in the December quarter of 1876, at Bideford, 5b/978 — five years AFTER a child born at Kilburn in 1871. She 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, and she is not adopted. What the same search bought: page 5b/978 carries Bonning Elizabeth, Brayley John Walker, Paddon Elizabeth, Richards John — two marriages. 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 before. The certificate would settle it and would name his father.
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Turn /searched/ into rows an index can carry
1,335 lines of prose — the longest page of its kind in the estate, and none of it reachable by a filter or countable by a gate. Six siblings keep {when, src, what, got, outcome}. The outcome vocabulary stays this archive's. Shape: kit/components/Searched.astro.
Raised by the UI alignment pass, 2026-09-16. It is recorded here because it is research this archive owns, not something to guess at from outside.
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Turn /open-questions/ into rows
173 lines of prose. The shape is the question, what is known, what has been tried, and the record that would answer it. Shape: kit/components/Questions.astro.
Raised by the UI alignment pass, 2026-09-16. It is recorded here because it is research this archive owns, not something to guess at from outside.
133. Done — finished and published this archive
There was no .two rule — fixed in this archive's own stylesheet, not the kit
Found while making the record links on /enrolment-card/ prominent. The markup writes <div class="grid two"> in two places, and the stylesheet has .grid { display:grid; gap:14px } and NO .two rule at all — checked against every loaded rule, including inside media queries. So both of them have always been a single column, at every width , including the front page's "What this archive has established" cards. Worked around locally rather than fixed properly: the enrolment-card grid now carries an inline grid-template-columns:repeat(auto-fit,minmax(290px,1fr)), which is responsive and self-contained. The real fix belongs in the shared archive-kit stylesheet , which means the kit changes and six archives repin — see row 92, which already wants a repin for the /bloodline/ fix. Do them together, and drop the inline style when the rule exists. PARTLY OVERTAKEN, 17 September 2026. Repinning the kit to 8e565d9 to fix the bloodline chart also brought in whatever else had landed there, and the archive still has its own inline grid-template-columns on the enrolment-card grid. Check whether a .two rule now exists upstream; if it does, drop the inline style. If it still does not, the fix and the repin can go together next time. DONE 17 September 2026, and NOT by changing the kit. The repin to 8e565d9 did not bring a .two rule — checked. And by then the inline workaround had been written into FIVE pages , which is well past the point where it should be a rule. So .grid.two now lives in this archive's own site/public/styles.css, beside the .grid rule it was always missing from , as repeat(auto-fit,minmax(290px,1fr)) — auto-fit rather than a hard 1fr 1fr, so it collapses on a phone with no media query. The five inline overrides are removed. No kit change and no repin of six archives, which is why this was the right place to fix it. Verified: every .grid two on /uruguay/, /argentina/, /enrolment-card/ and the front page now renders two columns.
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Piedmont: mapped in detail, and the Turin route cannot close it — the Argentine end can
Opened 16 September 2026 out of David's question, "do we have a Juan Carlos Lerena / Lerina in Italian records?" The direct answer is no — no Giovanni Carlo or Gian Carlo under either spelling, controlled. The useful answer is that LERENA and LERINA are Italian surnames and they sit in PIEDMONT: 66 exact Lerena records in Italy clustered in the Diocese of Torino, and 114 exact Lerina, Torino again plus Ivrea. See data/italy-lerena-lerina.tsv. And that is the same corner the DNA points 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. Two independent things, an admixture estimate and a surname distribution, now point at northern Italy, and neither of them names anybody. WHAT TO DO WITH IT: the Torino and Ivrea civil registration and diocesan records are indexed on FamilySearch and are searchable by parent name — so look for a LERINA or LERENA male born about 1840–1862 in Piedmont who then DISAPPEARS from the Italian record , and cross him against the Argentine arrivals. The archive already holds cemla-lerina.tsv: a Lerina family of four landing at Buenos Aires from GENOVA on 15 March 1889 — seven years too late to be his parents arriving, but the right surname on the right route , and Genova is the port Piedmont emigrates through. Also worth re-running CEMLA for LERENA and LERINA before 1882, which is the arrival that would matter. ANTENATI CHECKED, 16 September 2026, and it cannot answer this. The Italian State Archives' own portal returns one Lerena in its whole national name index — Cesare Lerena, death 1915, BRESCIA — and eight Lerina, most of them the different surname Di Lerina. The control destroys that null: Antenati holds 2,621 registers for Torino, but a name search there for ROSSI restricted to Torino returns 102 people called Charles, Marguerite and Jacinte, in 1805–1811 — the Torino name index is NAPOLEONIC ONLY, kept in French, and does not reach the 1840s–1880s at all. So Antenati's images exist for Piedmont and are not name-searchable for the years that matter — the same lesson as the Rosario typescript and the FreeREG Devon parishes, that the null belongs to the finding aid and not to the past. The searchable collection for the right years is FamilySearch's "Italy, Torino, Torino, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1899" , which is where the 66 and 114 came from. Antenati's 2,621 Torino registers are the fallback: browsable by comune and year, image by image, the way Rosario and Canelones were read. WORKED IN DETAIL 16 September 2026, and the conclusion is negative in a useful way. 49 Lerina records in and around Torino — Ivrea, Montaldo Roero, Costigliole — families that stay put for sixty years , with two Carlo Lerinas acting as fathers and neither a candidate for anything. THE ROUTE IS STRUCTURALLY INCAPABLE of answering the question: the Turin civil series begins in 1866, so a man born in the 1840s–50s has no birth record in it at all; and an emigrant leaves no later Italian record by construction , so "a son who vanishes" cannot be told from an unindexed death or a move. Enumerating Piedmontese Lerinas maps the people who STAYED, which is the complement of what is wanted. Do not spend a week on it.
135. Blocked — waiting on a person or an institution David
CEMLA before 1882 — David's to run, and check the coverage before spending the searches
This session cannot run CEMLA. The buscador is an iframe onto search.cemla.com, and that form carries CaptchaCode and LBD_VCID_SampleCaptcha — it is behind a CAPTCHA, and this session does not complete CAPTCHAs. So it is yours. SETTLE THE COVERAGE FIRST, because it may make the whole search pointless. The earliest arrival this archive holds under any spelling is the Lerina family of 15 March 1889, from Genova. CEMLA's arrivals database is generally given as beginning in 1882 — and if that is right, then an arrival before February 1882, which is the only one that could carry Pablo Armando's parents into the country before his birth, is invisible to it by construction, and finding nothing would prove nothing. IF IT DOES REACH BACK FURTHER, the searches are: LERENA, LERINA, LARENA and LORENA, arrivals before 1882, and note the port — Genova is how Piedmont emigrates , and Piedmont is where both the surname and the northern-Italian DNA now point (row 134, data/italy-lerena-lerina.tsv).
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When he left Argentina — nothing dates it, and one prop has been knocked away
REWRITTEN the same day it was opened, because the control demoted half of it. THE STRONG HALF STANDS: there was no LERENA and no LERINA household, under any spelling, anywhere in SANTA FE PROVINCE in the 1895 National Census. Controlled: a Gonzalez search 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. For a whole surname to be absent from a province indexed that thickly, it has to be genuinely absent — and that agrees with the Rosario baptism sweep from an entirely different record type. THE WEAK HALF IS WITHDRAWN AS EVIDENCE. This archive said earlier today that Pablo Armando's own 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: the Argentine army indexed his own card as "ARMAND LORENA", born "Rosario de Lerma, SALTA". A boy who becomes Armand Lorena on one index can be anything on another. SO THE HONEST POSITION IS THAT NOTHING DATES HIS DEPARTURE: born Rosario February 1882, son born Cape Town November 1905, twenty-three years with no record inside them. The live routes are the ones hypothesis 2 already names — UK outward passenger lists (BT 27), indexed from 1890 — and the consular file behind the 1940 passport. And note the archive already reasoned that the South African War shipped some 360,000 horses in, Argentina among the sources, when he was 17 to 20 and a horseman.
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Sweep the interior through FamilySearch — done once, and it found the generation above the nest
This came out of measuring the four departments, and it is worth more than any of the names that measurement failed to turn up. The archive's Uruguayan baptism layer, uruguay-baptisms-lerena.tsv, is a FINDMYPAST FREE RESULT LIST — its own header says "33 index rows... transcripts are behind findmypast's paywall and were NOT opened" — giving names, years and parents' forenames only. Twenty-two rows: eleven Trinidad, four Montevideo, three San José de Mayo. Beside it, free, sit 1,343 exact LERENA records across the same four departments with parents in full and frequently a View original document link. For Trinidad the 608 split roughly half Catholic Church Records 1726–2000, half Civil Registration 1879–2020, and only a couple from Uruguay Baptisms 1750–1900 — which is the index findmypast was charging to transcribe. Fair to the earlier work: the register does cite Catholic Church Records for particular people, so the collection was known — it was used person by person, never swept. THE JOB: take Flores, San José, Florida and Colonia one collection at a time, harvest every exact LERENA with its full parentage, 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 will ever be joined to Sancho, or shown to be a separate family. RUN ONCE, 17 September 2026, AND IT WORKED THE FIRST TIME. Searching by parent instead of by person turned up MAURICIO LERENA and CASIMIRA MONTAÑO , a couple with at least seven children across San José de Mayo, Trinidad, Florida, Salto and Montevideo. One of them is CIPRIANO LERENA MONTAÑA, and Cipriano is one of the six Trinidad fathers — so the archive now has a generation above the nest for the first time. Another is CLARA LERENA, b. 1848, d. Montevideo 3 March 1925 certificate 47, which is almost certainly the tree's "Demetria Clara Lerena Montaño" — and the record explains the compound name, because her mother was Montaño. See data/mauricio-casimira-montano.tsv. Graded honestly: Cipriano's card says Image Unavailable, so it is an INDEX and not an act. The method is proved and the sweep is barely begun — Alejandro Lerena, Emilio Lerena and Alejandro F. Lerena all appear as fathers in the same window and none has been worked.
138. Done — finished and published this archive
Mauricio's parents — found. Ramón Lerena of Rosario, and he is NOT Sancho's son
ANSWERED 17 September 2026, in two searches, and the answer is a SEPARATION. MAURICIO LERENA, born at COLLA, married Casimira Montaño at San José de Mayo on 3 February 1837 — father Ramón, mother María Gonzales (ark 1:1:F21B-SZ5). And his brother: ALEJANDRO LERENA, born at ROSARIO, married Margarita Fernández Álvarez at San José on 16 September 1825 — same parents, Ramón Lerena and María Josefa Gonsales (ark 1:1:F21Y-JRV). That marriage also closes a circuit the archive opened on 14 September: the-three-alejandros.tsv had an "Alejandro Lerena of the Trinidad orbit" with Severa Fernández and a Bárbara Lerena and could not place him — the Fernández is his wife and the Bárbara is his mother-in-law, Bárbara Sotura. THE STRUCTURE: Ramón Lerena × María Josefa González of Rosario/Colla → Alejandro, Mauricio, Manuel Lorenzo (b.1812 Unión) and Luís Manuel (b.1820) → and TWO OF THE SIX TRINIDAD FATHERS, Bernabé and Cipriano, WHO ARE FIRST COUSINS. AND THE ANSWER: RAMÓN IS NOT SANCHO'S SON. Alejandro married in 1825, so was born about 1800–05, putting Ramón's birth about 1775–85. Sancho was baptised about 1767 and married in January 1791, his first child born 1793. A man born in 1775–85 cannot be the son of a man who married in 1791. Ramón is Sancho's contemporary, about ten years his junior. So there are TWO documented Uruguayan Lerena families, not one. See data/ramon-lerena-rosario.tsv.
139. Done — finished and published this archive
Ramón's origin — his parents are found, his birthplace is not, and that is now the whole question
This is now the best-defined question in the whole Uruguayan file, and it turns on a single phrase. Ramón Lerena married María Josefa González and was fathering children from about 1800 (Alejandro, b. Rosario) to 1820 (Luís Manuel). So the marriage falls about 1795–1810, most likely at ROSARIO in COLONIA or at SAN JOSÉ. Uruguayan marriage acts state where the groom is NATURAL DE, and that is the whole question. Sancho Llerena was natural de Córdova la Llana. If Ramón is Córdoban too, the two families are brothers or cousins and the surname entered the Banda Oriental ONCE. If Ramón was born in the Banda Oriental, they are two separate arrivals and may not be related at all. Where to look: Uruguay Catholic Church Records 1726–2000 and Uruguay Marriages, free and indexed, searching Ramón Lerena as groom; and the Rosario (Colonia) parish registers, which this archive has never opened. And a loose end worth picking up in the same pass: the current tree gives Gabino of Flores as a son of "RAMÓN LLERENA CUBAS and Margarita Leal" — a different wife. Either Ramón married twice, or there are two Ramóns, and the tree may be carrying a version of this same man. ADVANCED 17 September 2026, and it went one rung FURTHER than asked. The marriage was not found; Ramón's PARENTS were: SALVADOR GERENA and ANA DE CUBAS , named on the baptism of his son Manuel Lorenzo at Unión, Montevideo, 15 November 1812 (ark 1:1:6D7Z-BD56) — because Montevideo acts name grandparents as a matter of course. THE IMAGE IS AVAILABLE AND HAS NOT BEEN READ. That also explains the tree's "Ramón Llerena CUBAS": Cubas is his mother's surname. Second time in two days a record has explained a compound name the tree merely carried. AND IT SETTLES HALF THE QUESTION: SANCHO AND RAMÓN ARE NOT BROTHERS. Sancho's father was Félix, Ramón's was Salvador. They may still be cousins, and the one thing that keeps it worth chasing is the SPELLING: both fathers are written GERENA in Montevideo acts a year apart — 1811 and 1812. A scribal habit of one place and time, not two families choosing the same variant by chance. A resemblance, not evidence. WHAT REMAINS: read the 1812 act, which may say where Ramón was natural de and close it in one reading. CLOSED 17 September 2026 by row 140. The marriage was never found, and it did not need to be: the 1812 act states Ramón is natural de VALDEMORO en CASTILLA LA NUEVA. Not Córdoba. The two houses are two Spanish emigrations, and the question this row existed to ask is answered.
140. Done — finished and published this archive
The 1812 act, read — Ramón is from VALDEMORO, and the two houses are two Spanish arrivals
READ 17 September 2026, and it closed the question in five words. DGS 007713375, image 02668 — which is the film already sitting 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 27 KM SOUTH OF MADRID. SANCHO WAS NATURAL DE CÓRDOVA LA LLANA, IN ANDALUSIA, 500 KM AWAY. So the surname entered the Banda Oriental twice, from opposite ends of Spain — two emigrations, not one kindred. And the Gerena/Gerena coincidence, which this archive flagged as "a reason to look and not a reason to believe", is discharged: the act writes SERENA, and the two men were baptising children at the SAME FONT one year apart. The resemblance was real and it meant nothing. The act also beat the index nine facts to four: the father's birthplace, the mother's birthplace, the real maternal grandmother (Ysavel Lorenza, whom the index never named and for whom the child Manuel Lorenzo is probably named), and the church — the index says "Unión" and the act says the Iglesia Matriz. See data/1812-union-act.tsv and /uruguay/.
141. Blocked — waiting on a person or an institution this archive
Valdemoro — the place-name is hard, and its registers are not on FamilySearch
What the 1812 act bought in exchange for closing the join. An hour ago Ramón's house had no origin at all; it now has two, both precise. ONE: VALDEMORO, in Castilla la Nueva, 27 km south of Madrid. Salvador Serena and Ana de Cubas were married in Spain and Ramón was baptised there about 1775–85 — both findable, because Valdemoro is one parish and not a province. FamilySearch holds Spanish diocesan records for Toledo and Madrid; PARES and the Spanish diocesan portals are row 78. TWO, AND NOBODY SUSPECTED IT: MARÍA JOSEFA GONZÁLEZ IS A CANARIA, FROM LANZAROTE. Her parents are Marcial de León González and Ysavel Lorenza. The Canary Islands fed a migration stream of their own into the River Plate and no part of this archive has ever looked at it. A CAUTION BEFORE ANYONE SPENDS A WEEK: none of this is Pablo Armando's line. It is Ramón's house, which the same act has just proved is NOT Sancho's, and neither house has yet produced a Juan Carlos. Work it because it is real and cheap, not because it is his. TESTED 17 September 2026 AND BLOCKED, with a control. FamilySearch's catalogue holds exactly ONE item for Valdemoro and it is a CENSUS ; a catalogue search for church records there returns "No Results Found" . The control is the census: the place resolves and the search works, so the null is about the holdings. FAMILYSEARCH HAS NO VALDEMORO PARISH REGISTERS. And a warning repeated because it has now misled twice: an indexed search for SERENA filtered to "Valdemoro, Madrid, Spain" returns 79 hits and not one of them is Valdemoro — Madrid city, Toledo, Murcia, Almería, Huesca. The place filter silently widens to the province, exactly as it did for Santa Fe. Check the place field on the rows. THE ROUTE IS DIOCESAN, NOT FILMED: Valdemoro is historically Archdiocese of Toledo, since 1991 Diocese of Getafe, and PARES is the state portal. That is row 78 — which until today said only "try PARES and the Spanish diocesan portals" and had no place to try them on. It now has one, and a precise target: Ramón's baptism about 1775–85, and the marriage of Salvador Serena and Ana de Cubas before it.
142. Done — finished and published this archive
Evidence now reaches the person, and a gate refuses the build if it stops
The Mazza fault was looked for here and found in a different shape. 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 lived on topic pages while the people they were about had pages saying "No relationships are recorded for this person." AND THE GATE FOUND A PRE-EXISTING ONE ON ITS FIRST RUN, which is the real vindication. /people/carlos-lerena-salvanach/ carried that sentence while relations.tsv held five edges for him — father Gilberto, mother Julia Salvanach, wives Rosa Maria Eppens and Adela Camiglia, son Avelino Carlos. The cause is on his own page: the row was corrected on 14 September from "Retiro baptism" to "información matrimonial", and the rename fixed the register and orphaned every edge. relations.tsv does if not subj: continue — it drops unknown names in silence. All five repointed and recovered. THE FIX: data/person-evidence.tsv (person-keyed, same name convention as relations.tsv); build-people.py reads it and raises on an unknown name rather than skipping; the person page renders What has been read about this person and no longer prints the false claim when evidence exists. THE GATE: tools/check-evidence.py, wired into verify.sh and into npm run build so CI runs it. It refuses if a named person is not in the register, if their page does not carry their evidence, if the page still prints the false claim, or if relations.tsv names anyone the register lacks. Verified by reintroducing the bug three ways — build stops reading the file, template guard removed, edge repointed at an unknown name — each exits 1.
143. Blocked — waiting on a person or an institution David
Order the Royal Marines attestation of John Walker Brayley, ADM 157/197/182
Discovery has ADM 157/197/182, folios 182–186: John Walker Brayley, born Middlesex, attested for the Royal Marines in 1861 aged 18, discharged 1868 as an Invalid. This archive has its John Walker Brayley born 1845 at St Paul's, London — which is Middlesex — and has already logged that his death index gives age 53 in the December quarter of 1900, implying about 1847: a two-year gap left open. Aged 18 in 1861 implies about 1843. Three sources, three different years. An attestation paper states date and place of birth outright and would settle it. Not asserted to be him — that is what the document is for.
144. Blocked — waiting on a person or an institution David
Read the three Brayley wills of Northam
Wills name relationships, which is exactly what the Brayley ascent is short of. Kew: IR 26/337/185, abstract of the will of George Brayley, Gentleman of Northam, 29 May 1800. North Devon Record Office: B127-8/126/1-3, Emily Kate Brayley of Northam, will 1935, proved 1943; B127-8/139/1-12, Edith Mary Brayley of Northam, will 1943, proved 1948. The last two are within living memory of Mary Septima Taylor and may name her generation directly.
145. Blocked — waiting on a person or an institution David
Consult the Geneva Place school admission registers, North Devon Record Office 629C
The route row 123 did not have. Log books and admission registers, 1885–1949. Registers of this period give child, date of birth, father's name and address — which would test the family's Bideford and Northam addresses without a census, and may catch Lucy Elizabeth, Mary Septima and Agnes Walker Taylor. Not online; needs an order or a visit.
146. Next — ready to start this archive
Test whether the Brayleys of Bideford and Northam gentry join Mary Ann Hellen Brayley
Discovery shows a Brayley family of standing in these two parishes across 1767 to 1861 — George Brayley master of the brig Cato at Appledore in 1767, George Brayley of Bideford gent in leases of 1769, 1831, 1844 and 1861, George Brayley of Orchard Hill in Northam in 1827, and B194/277/1-5, valuations of G.B. Brayley's property in Northam, Bideford and Barnstaple in 1915 and 1929. Whether any of them is kin to Mary Ann Hellen Brayley (1843–1900) is untested and is deliberately not assumed. The wills in the row above are the way in.
147. Done — finished and published this archive
Decide whether to buy ADM 188/195/140021, the Northam William Taylor
Settled 17 September 2026. David signed the archive into a TNA account and ordered the record himself; it was free. And it does more than nail the rejection down — it replaces the argument. The rejection had rested on a census age. The document gives two harder reasons. First, the form asks for 'Names in full' and the answer is plain 'William Taylor' — ours is William John Taylor, and the Navy had no reason to drop a middle name it had just asked for. Second, and it is conclusive: on census night, 5 April 1891, this man was borne on HMS Impregnable at Devonport (joined 20 May 1890, 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. The near miss is closed rather than merely argued.
148. Done — finished and published this archive
Cost the merchant crew lists before starting them
If the Taylor men went to sea it was not the Royal Navy — that is now a tested null. The merchant service remains open, but crew lists are indexed by SHIP, not by man, so there is no name search to run. A Taylor family of Appledore, in Northam parish, appears on the Ulelia (ON 74429) — T Taylor mate b.1846, J W Taylor master b.1888, T G Taylor b.1893, previous ship Annie of Bideford — joined to this family by nothing at all. Work out what a ship-by-ship search would actually cost in hours before committing to it. COSTED AND CLOSED 20 September 2026 — it costs nothing, because it must not be started. The 1891 census already answered it, and had been in this archive since 16 September: William John, 20, is a CAB DRIVER like his father; Horace Archibald, 19, is a FOOTMAN in domestic service. Neither went to sea, which also gives the ADM 188 null its reason. For the record, the search would have meant several thousand annual agreements across a hundred-odd Bideford and Appledore vessels, held in three institutions — and it could not have been done by name in any case, because no central register of merchant seamen survives between 1857 and 1918, which is exactly when either man would have sailed. See /taylor/.
149. Running — a machine or a person is at it now this archive
Hold the line on publishing TNA scans, not just TNA facts
TNA digital downloads are licensed for private study or research for a non-commercial purpose and for education. This archive is a public website. The line taken, and to keep taking: cite the reference, transcribe the facts, do not republish the scan. Facts are not copyright; the image is licensed. Anything wider goes to image-library@nationalarchives.gov.uk. Note also that download links expire 30 days from the order, so anything wanted long-term must be read and transcribed inside that window — ADM 188/195/140021 was ordered 17 September 2026.
150. Done — finished and published this archive
Juan Carlos Lerena is absent from every indexed record FamilySearch holds
Tested 17 September 2026, and the control was run first. The 1908 card is the only document naming Pablo Armando's parents. Searched: father exactly Juan Carlos Lerena with mother's surname Lerena — 0; the same without the mother — 0; Juan Carlos Lerena as a named person in any role, country or collection — 1, and it is an infant, Lerena Caraballo, died 21 February 1983 at Montevideo aged 0, a century adrift. Control, same form, Gilberto Lerena and Julia Salvanach: 11. The form works; the zeroes are the corpus. Limits stated on /direct-line/: this tests the exact string and indexed records only. Taken with the 1882 Rosario walk — 750 consecutive acts, no Lerena — the parents' generation is not in any indexed corpus this archive can reach.
151. Done — finished and published this archive
Stop searching indexes for Pablo Armando's parents; go to unindexed images
Walked 17 September 2026 — all three, same day. See /argentina/ and data/three-routes-walked.tsv. None finds his parents. Route 2 was dead before it started and should not have been offered: in February 1882 Rosario had one parish. Route 1 is real but FamilySearch has no Santa Fe civil registration collection at all — Buenos Aires and Catamarca do, Santa Fe does not — so it needs an approach to the province. Route 3 gave two false positives and one prize: the film number for the Montevideo dispensations, which closes row 32.
152. Blocked — waiting on a person or an institution David
Send the letter to the Registro Civil of Santa Fe — parents' death acts first
Drafted 17 September 2026 and ready to send — the Spanish text is on /argentina/. The ask was rebuilt before drafting, because the original premise was wrong: civil registration in Santa Fe begins 1886, so there is no 1882 birth act and asking for one would have spent the letter. The strongest ask is now the parents' DEATH acts — Juan Carlos and María would have died after 1886, so their deaths would be registered, and an Argentine acta de defunción names the parents and spouse of the deceased. That reaches the generation above the wall from records that should exist. Also asks for a late birth inscription (he held an Argentine passport and was enrolled in 1908; both needed proof of birth, and no baptism exists) and, failing everything, a certificado negativo — which for this archive is a document, not a disappointment. Registro Civil, San Luis 2950, CP 3000, Santa Fe (verified on the province's own site). Try santafe.gob.ar/rcdigital first; its form would not load here, so whether it accepts a requester with no Argentine DNI is untested.
153. Done — finished and published this archive
Add GONZALEZ LERENA to the compound-surname sweep
A full-text hit turned up 'Don Juan Carlos González Lerena' in the Montevideo dispensations, 8 November 1920. He is not ours. But González Lerena appears in neither compound-surname-sweep.tsv nor lerena-lerena-compound-test.tsv, so the compound sweep is incomplete by at least one variant — and compound forms are how this surname hides. SWEPT 20 September 2026, and it was not one variant — it was a family. 'Gonzalez Lerena' exact returns 52 records, headed by ESTEFANÍA LERENA, wife of Servando González, with at least six children across San José, Montevideo and Colonia, 1854–1931. None of it was in either compound file. She is attached to nothing and is recorded unplaced. It also finishes the false positive: Juan Carlos González Lerena, b. 1899, married Concepción Petrona Urbano Orio in 1922, son of Leopoldo — Estefanía's grandson, and seventeen years younger than Pablo Armando. See /uruguay/.
154. Done — finished and published this archive
Place the Santa Fe city Lerenas — Casimiro Lerena and Amelia Lepiani
The indexed Santa Fe church collection holds exactly three Lerena entries in 783,111 records, and one is new to this archive: Armando Lerena, baptised 1917 at Nuestra Señora del Carmen, Santa Fe city, son of Casimiro Lerena and Amelia Lepiani. It carries the name Armando, which is suggestive and nothing more — 1917 is a generation past Pablo Armando and Santa Fe city is 170 km from Rosario. Recorded unplaced; test it, do not adopt it. TESTED 20 September 2026, and it is not a Santa Fe household. Casimiro Lerena and Amelia Lepiani — indexed once as Lapriani — have Armando Lerena in the Santa Fe church records and Ventura Amelia Argentina Lerena in the Entre Ríos records. So the family is littoral, across two provinces, and Entre Ríos is also where Gilberto and Julia Salvañach's 1885 child sits — the province is worth mapping in its own right. Attached to Pablo Armando by nothing whatever. The only thing that ever recommended this household was the forename Armando, which is not evidence, and it has not been treated as any.
155. Next — ready to start this archive
Read the three new gazette records found on 20 September
Found by running a control rather than by searching for them, and all three are snippet only — see /south-africa/ and data/gazette-three-new.tsv. Transvaal Provincial Gazette 4793 (11 Dec 1991, p.75) and 4796 (18 Dec 1991, p.50), a two-week township advertisement naming Ricardo Juan Carlos Lerena in his lifetime — the archive holds no property fact for him, and Wysigingskema 2595 is the searchable handle. And Legal Notices B 18373 (24 Oct 1997, p.165), ABSA Bank Beperk v Lerena in the Witwatersrand Local Division — the snippet cuts off before the forenames, so which Lerena is unknown. All need one page-view each, once the viewer is reachable.
156. Done — finished and published this archive
Rosario, in Colonia — the one Uruguayan department still unaccounted for
The last remainder of row 120. Three of the four departments measured there resolved to the children of one couple, Mauricio Lerena and Casimira Montaño, spreading across the interior in a single generation — San José de Mayo, Trinidad in Flores, and Florida, with Salto and Montevideo besides. Colonia did not. It holds 189 exact LERENA records and has no dedicated study, only passing mentions. And the standing warning applies to it hardest: the tree's Gabino of Flores is given as a son of Ramón Llerena Cubas and Margarita Leal — not Sancho's line — so the interior may hold a different Lerena family entirely, and Colonia is where that would show. Needs a FamilySearch session. PART-ANSWERED 20 September 2026, and the method was the problem. Maria Bernarda González Lerena married at Campana, Colonia in 1931 — so part of Colonia's Lerena presence is a compound family that an exact-surname count cannot see. The 189 figure was measured by exact surname and therefore under-counts. Before anyone concludes Colonia is thin, re-measure it including compound forms. CLOSED 20 September 2026, AND THE ROW'S PREMISE WAS WRONG - my own row, logged as a correction. Rosario-Colla was never unaccounted for: it is where the family came from. The archive's own notes already read Ramón Lerena × María Josefa González, of Rosario / Colla, fathering children c.1800-1820 and from Rosario-Colla across San José, Flores, Florida, Salto — and the 1837 San José marriage gives Mauricio's birthplace as COLLA outright. What was genuinely missing was that none of them were people here: Mauricio, his father Ramón of Colla, his mother María Josefa González and his wife Casimira Montaño have now been added to the register with their edges, from ark 1:1:F21B-SZ5, tiered INDEXED not image-read. Also new: Vitalino Lerena, born San Pedro, COLONIA in 1870, son of Vitalino Lerena and Andrea Echeverry — a documented link between Colonia and the Trinidad/Flores kindred.
157. Done — finished and published this archive
Re-run any exact-forename null recorded against a two-forename person
133 of the 278 people in this register carry two or more forenames — very nearly half — and FamilySearch's exact forename search matches the whole given-name string, so an exact search on the first forename alone would never have found them. Any null recorded that way is unsafe. None could be identified by grep, because the searches were written down in prose without naming the parameter, which is the lesson underneath this row: record the query, not just the answer. Re-run suspects in the safe shape — fuzzy forename, exact surname — which does match per token. RUN 21 September 2026, and it found something better than a bad null. The archive's own blast-radius note says no affected null could be identified by grep, because the searches were written in prose without naming the parameter — so the sharpest available version was run instead: the CENTRAL null, re-done in the fuzzy-forename / exact-surname shape. Fuzzy 'Juan' + exact LERENA returns 29 distinct given-name forms, including *Juan Carlos Esteban Lerena*, *Juan a. Lerena* and *Juan P. Lerena* — the initial and three-forename shapes a whole-string exact match cannot reach, which is exactly what the trap predicted. None is the father: the Esteban man married in 1932. But the re-run falsified two published zeroes — see corrections.tsv. Juan Carlos Lerena is now an indexed person, as the father on his own son's military record.
158. Done — finished and published this archive
Read the 1877 Gilberto–Salvañach marriage image — it may document his parents
Found while running a control. Marriage of Gilberto Lerena and Julia Salvañach, 11 August 1877, San Francisco de Asís, Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo. Index ark 1:1:X9PV-HKCR; image ark 3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-N74V-N. The index gives the bride's parents-in-law — Gilberto's parents — as 'Luís Lenguas' and 'Justiniana Lenguas', 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. Do not promote it off the index: the page says indexed by a computer, and the same entry gives the bride a father called Cristóbal Lerena, which cannot be right for a Salvañach marrying a Lerena. Open the image. IMAGE READ 20 September 2026, and it does document them. The act: "contrajo Don GILBERTO LERENA, Oriental, soltero, hijo legítimo de Don LUIS y de Doña JUSTINIANA LENGUAS" — and the padrinos are "Don LUIS LERENA y Doña ÁNGELA ÁLVAREZ", so Don Luis is named twice in the one act, as father and as padrino, which is the document corroborating itself. Gilberto's parentage moves from tree to documented, and he becomes a documented brother of Don Luis Eugenio Lerena Lenguas, whose parentage on the same couple rests on Montevideo act 258 of 1864. And the index was wrong exactly where predicted: Cristóbal is a Salvañach, the bride's own father — the surname Lerena was carried across from the padrino line. There is no Cristóbal Lerena, and none was added.
159. Next — ready to start this archive
Map Entre Ríos — two separate Lerena households sit there and it has no study
Surfaced twice in one session and never looked at. Casimiro Lerena and Amelia Lepiani have a daughter in the Entre Ríos church records while their son is in Santa Fe; and Gilberto Lerena and Julia Salvañach have a child recorded at Uruguay, Entre Ríos, Argentina in 1885. Two unrelated Lerena households in the same province, and this archive has no Entre Ríos study at all — only Rosario, Buenos Aires and the Uruguayan departments. Entre Ríos sits between the two, on the river, which is exactly the route this family used.
160. Done — finished and published this archive
An ark's image number is not the number the viewer shows
Recorded because it cost a wrong page today. The viewer displayed "Image 33 of 250, item 9" for ark 3:1:3Q9M-C9BW-N74V-N, and image 33 of that film is a baptism register, not the marriage. The ark's real position is image 01765, and the only way to get it is to ask the manifest: GET /service/records/storage/deepzoomcloud/dz/v1/{ark-without-prefix}/manifest.json returns alternateId. The number on screen is the position within the waypoint item, not the film image. Also worth having: dist.jpg gives the whole page at full resolution — 4467×3476 here — so no tile assembly was needed at all.
161. Done — finished and published this archive
Surface Mauricio Lerena on a page — the drift checker says no page carries him
tools/drift.py flags it: the register now calls Mauricio "the patriarch this archive had researched but never made a person" and no single page says so to a reader. He has a person page, but the finding — that one couple at Rosario-Colla accounts for San José, Flores and Florida — lives in a register note and in row 120. It belongs on /uruguay/ beside the González Lerena section, which is the same shape of finding. DONE the same session it was raised. /uruguay/ now carries Rosario-Colla — not a gap, an origin, with all four people and the 1837 act.
162. Done — finished and published this archive
drift.py's catch is verified now, and three ledger pages had made it toothless
The blind spot it had was real and is fixed: drift.py read only the .astro sources, so it could see a finding a page had typed and was blind to one a page rendered. That put it in direct conflict with check-onsite.py, which requires every data file to be imported by a page — onsite said render it, drift said no page says it, and drift was wrong every time. It now reads the built pages, excluding /people/, /register/, /who/ and /search/, which re-print the whole register and would make any finding pass trivially. What is NOT verified: deleting the /uruguay/ section that carries the Mauricio finding did not make the check report it again, even though no other non-dump page and no .astro source holds those words. So the fix is sound but the catch is unproven, and a gate whose catch is unproven is a gate nobody should trust. Find out why — most likely the rarest-word selection shifts as the corpus grows. VERIFIED BOTH WAYS, 20 September 2026 - and my own test was broken first. The first attempt rebuilt with npm run build >/dev/null 2>&1 and never checked the exit code — the very trap verify.sh carries a warning about. Re-run with the status checked, the build was fine and the catch still did not fire, so the fault was real. What defeated it was /worklist/, and the reason goes to the heart of how this archive works: findings are written into row notes as a matter of habit, and /worklist/ re-prints every note in full — so logging a finding counted as publishing it, which is exactly the gap this check exists to find. /register/, /people/, /who/, /search/, /worklist/, /changes/, /corrections/ and /searched/ are now all excluded: they are ledgers of the work, not places a reader meets the story. Proved by deleting the /uruguay/ section — the check reports the finding — and restoring it — the check goes quiet.
163. Done — finished and published this archive
The four enslaved people of Sancho's household are named on the padrón
This archive states, in data and on its pages, that the 1812 padrón 'records four enslaved people in Sancho's household and gives none of them a name'. The image shows four named people immediately above him — Juana 41, Juan 'negro esclavo', Gabriel, María — under margin number 59, with Sancho's bracket beginning on the next line and the family above them a Sargento Veterano de Caballería and his wife Sabina Balmaceda. So the four may be that sergeant's, or Sancho's, and dist.jpg at 3793×2909 does not settle it. It matters because the baptism of 26 September 1812 names JUANA as an enslaved woman of Sancho Lerena and María Fernández — a Juana of 41 at the edge of his household in the same year is a convergence, not a coincidence to be shrugged at. Needs the bracket at tile resolution, or the household numbering read across the whole opening. If it resolves to Sancho, the archive's 'gives none of them a name' is wrong and two more people become nameable. RESOLVED THE SAME DAY, AND THE ANSWER IS THE OTHER DIRECTION. The four above Sancho are house 59 and not his. His four are BELOW his six children: ANTONIO — written out as negro esclavo — JOSÉ, JUANA and TERESA, listed after the youngest child Dominga and before RODRIGO FERNÁNDEZ, the father-in-law, whose presence at the end is what proves the household boundary. So the archive's 'gives none of them a name' is wrong and is logged as a serious correction. Antonio, José and Teresa are now in the register; Juana is corroborated inside the household by a second document of the same year. The Juana aged 41 in house 59 is a different woman.
164. Done — finished and published this archive
Place María Llerena, 60, born España — she stands in Sancho's generation or above
Found in Uruguay, Census Records, 1726–1858, a collection this archive had never opened. María Llerena, femenino, 60 years, birthplace ESPAÑA — ark 1:1:6BT5-QNYT, image apid TH-1942-36766-24983-3. Sancho was andaluz, 45 in 1812, so a María born in Spain about 1752 stands in his own generation or the one above. She is on a different film section from Sancho, so probably a different census year. Not claimed as kin — she is not attached to anything. To place her, find her line on the page: it is a nominal list with name, age, nationality, occupation, and it is rotated 90° — transform: rotate(-90deg) with mild contrast(1.5); heavy contrast destroys the pencil. A household number in the left margin will give her household. FOUND ON THE PAGE, 20 September 2026. She is the first name on it: 'Casa 2. María Llerena — 60 años — Española', heading her own household, with Manuel, 20, 'Africana' and Rosa, 12, 'Oriental' under her, both with a ditto where a surname would go. A Spanish-born Llerena woman keeping her own house in Montevideo. Added to the register as HIGH INTEREST and attached to Sancho by nothing. The census year is still not established, so her sixty cannot be turned into a birth year — that date, at the top of her own page, is now the one thing worth doing on her.
165. Done — finished and published this archive
Luis Llerena is in a vehicle-owners' padrón, not a census — and stays unidentified
The third of three Llerenas in Uruguay, Census Records, 1726–1858 — ark 1:1:6BR7-8DPW — and the index gives him no age, no birthplace and no household. This archive holds two candidates: Luis, Sancho's son baptised 1811, and Don Luis Lerena (1811–1878), husband of Justiniana Lenguas and now the documented father of Gilberto. Which, or neither, is unknown. The page will say more than the index does. READ 20 September 2026, and the page is not a census. It is a padrón of the owners of carretillas, carretas y coches in a Montevideo district, and Luis Llerena is entry 10, with entry 11 marked ídem — how these lists repeat an owner for a second vehicle. The year is not secure: the heading ends de 18__ and reads as 1841, 1842 or 1846, so no year is claimed. He is still not identified — the page gives no age, no household and no parents, so neither candidate can be chosen. The general lesson is the bigger one: this collection is not all censuses, and the index does not say which entries are which. See /uruguay/.
166. Done — finished and published this archive
Work the 1726–1858 census collection for the generation above Sancho
The collection spans earlier than anything else worked here in Uruguay — the archive's Uruguayan work starts at the Canelones baptisms of 1791, and this reaches back to 1726. Sancho arrived from Andalusia and his parentage is the wall row 22 is stuck on. Census records of the eighteenth century are exactly where an immigrant first appears, with an age and a stated birthplace. Sweep it for Lerena, Llerena, Serena and Gerena across the whole span, not just 1812. SWEPT, all seven spellings, 20 September 2026 - see /uruguay/. SERENA 10 (two complete households: Don Luis's c.1858 and Pedro Antonio's c.1833), LLERENA 3 (Sancho, plus María 60 born España and Luis, both unplaced), LERENA 27 fuzzy and mostly noise — Sancho is not among them, because he is indexed Llerena — LORENA 6, and GERENA, LERINA and LARENA all zero, tested against controls of 10 and 3 on the identical form. It did not reach the generation above Sancho, which was the row's hope; what it reached was two generations of his own descendants and one new candidate for a daughter nobody has ever followed.
167. Blocked — waiting on a person or an institution this archive
Household 97 will not reconcile by index — it needs the parish register
The c.1858 census gives Don Luis Lerena's household with ages — see /uruguay/. Three things need settling. (1) María Serena, 12, implying a birth about 1846, is nobody this archive holds, and she would sit exactly between Luis Eugenio (1845) and Alberto Octavio (1850). (2) Justiniana Serena, 10 implies 1848, but the archive's Justiniana Mauricia Maxima is b. 30 July 1843, which gives 15 — either the age is wrong, there are two Justianas, or the archive's date is. Recorded as a contradiction, not forced. (3) Josefa Serena, 7 implies 1851 and may be the 'Josefa in Gilberto's 1895 household (b. c.1852)' already here — one year apart, not merged. Also absent from the page: Alberto Octavio, b. 1850, who should be about 8 and is not there. WORKED 20 September 2026 and it cannot be closed by searching. Three children match: Luis E. (1845), Gualberto/Gilberto, Erna/Ema (1857). Three in the census are not in this register — María c.1847, Justiniana c.1849, Josefa c.1852. Two in the register are not in the house — Justiniana Mauricia Maxima, who would be 15, and Alberto Octavio, who would be 8, with no eight-year-old on the page at all. The Justiniana conflict has two readings: a five-year age error, or two daughters of the same name with the elder dead — which would also explain Alberto Octavio. Neither is asserted. No new people were added, deliberately: if the ages are what is wrong, adding them creates duplicates of people already here, and this archive has spent this week unpicking duplicates rather than making them. Blocked on reading the San Francisco de Asís baptism register straight through — which is where the archive's existing exact dates came from, so the register is already known to it.
168. Blocked — waiting on a person or an institution this archive
Telesforo Lenguas is in one census line and nowhere else
New to this archive, added to the register. Entered at 34 in household 97 of the c.1858 census, a year older than Justiniana Lenguas herself and living among her children. A brother of hers is the obvious reading and is not asserted — the census gives names, ages and nationality and no relationships at all. The Lenguas are already the best-documented side of this marriage: General Don Pedro Lenguas, Don Antonio, D. Juan, D. Felipe and Doña Sixta are all in the register. Telesforo is not, and should be findable among them. TESTED 20 September 2026 and he is a NULL. Surname LENGUAS exact, Uruguay: 561 records — the surname is well represented and the form works — and Telesforo is in none of them. Telesforo Lenguas across all countries returns 43, every one Colombian, Venezuelan or Mexican. He exists for this archive in one census line. A brother of Justiniana remains the obvious reading and remains unasserted. Blocked on the same parish register as row 167 — not on another search. Noted in passing from the control: Luis Pedro Lenguas and Antonia Veiga of Montevideo had a daughter María Ema Lenguas, b. 1896, and this archive's María Ema Lerena Lenguas was born 1857 — the same two names, forty years apart, in a Lenguas house. Claimed as nothing.
169. Done — finished and published this archive
Dominga in the 1836 census — and she was already proved, which I missed
Dominga Lorena, 28, born Montevideo, ark 1:1:6BV9-FR8D, on a page headed AÑO DE 1836 — DEPARTAMENTO DE MONTEVIDEO (image apid TH-1951-36766-25725-94). Sancho's youngest child was Dominga, aged 7 in the 1812 padrón, 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, not a finding, and not attached to Sancho. What makes her worth the chase: this archive has never followed Dominga past the 1812 padrón at all — she is one of the six children with no later record of any kind. Her household on the page will say whether she is married, and to whom. FOUND ON THE PAGE, 20 September 2026 - household 114. She is the wife of D. Antonio R. Carballo, hacendado, both entered casado, with two unmarried daughters, Lucinda and Dominga Carballo — a daughter named for her mother. And the page writes SERENA where the index says LORENA, the third such discrepancy found in one day. Still not attached to Sancho: 28 in 1836 implies 1808 against his Dominga's c.1805. What would settle it is the couple's marriage act, which would name her parents — a far smaller search than the one that found her. Added to the register as HIGH INTEREST. CORRECTED 20 September 2026. She is Dominga Josefa Llerena, b. 13 May 1804, proved on 14 September from the Catedral act of 1827. My 'candidate, not a finding' framing was wrong and I added a duplicate person before checking — removed, evidence folded in, logged as a serious correction. The census age of 28 against a baptism of 1804 is four years out, which is a census age.
170. Blocked — waiting on a person or an institution this archive
Dominga and Carballo's marriage is not in Uruguay — it may be Brazilian
The one search that would settle whether Sancho's youngest daughter has been found. They are married by the 1836 Montevideo census, with a daughter old enough to be entered soltera, so the marriage is likely Montevideo, c.1820–1832. A Uruguayan marriage act names both parties' parents outright — as the 1877 Gilberto act did this week. Search CARBALLO with spouse surname SERENA, LERENA, LLERENA and LORENA in Uruguay, Catholic Church Records and Uruguay, Marriages 1840–1900, and remember the lesson of this whole sweep: the spelling on the page is not the spelling in the index. RUN 20 September 2026, and the country is probably wrong. SERENA exact with spouse CARBALLO, Uruguay returns exactly one hit — Dominga as mother of the bride in her daughter's act — against a control of 769 on the loosened form. Their own marriage is not in Uruguay's indexed records. And the reason may be plain: their daughter JOSEFA CARBALLO was born and lived in RIO DE JANEIRO, marrying Miguel Carlos Lemus of Rio at San Francisco de Asís on 24 July 1862 (ark 1:1:X9PN-PYNH). The family was in Brazil. Blocked here until either Brazilian registers or pre-1826 Montevideo registers are reachable — the search was right and the country was wrong, which is worth more than sweeping the same corpus again.
171. Next — ready to start this archive
The Carvallo marriage was known — what is new is Brazil
RE-SCOPED 20 September 2026 after a correction against myself. The identification was not new: this archive established on 14 September that Dominga Josefa Llerena married Capitán Antonio Ruiz [Rodríguez] de Carvallo, from the Catedral act of 12 May 1827. What is new is Brazil. Their daughter Josefa Carballo was born and lived in Rio de Janeiro and married Miguel Carlos Lemus of Rio at San Francisco de Asís on 24 July 1862. No part of this archive has ever looked at Brazilian records. A Uruguayan family with a daughter born in Rio is the first reason it has had to.
172. Blocked — waiting on a person or an institution David
Ask the AGN what Libro 256 of the Padrones de Montevideo covers — it dates María Llerena
'Casa 2. María Llerena — 60 años — Española' sits on an undated page of Uruguay, Census Records, 1726–1858 (image ark 3:1:3QSQ-G9ZR-NYGP). 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. The heading sits sideways at the top of the sheet above her entry; the page needs rotate(-90deg) and a mild contrast(1.5) — heavy contrast blows the pencil out to white. Neighbouring images on the same film will carry the same heading if hers is torn. CHASED AS FAR AS THE FILM GOES, 20 September 2026, and the year is not on it. Her page is film 007499043, image 02771. The filming target board at image 02725 identifies the volume: Archivo General de la Nación, Montevideo — 'PADRONES DE MONTEVIDEO Y EXTRAMUROS, LIBRO 256', volumen 15, filmed by the Sociedad Genealógica de Utah on 5 April 2006. The board at 02724 closes the previous item, Libro 107. The board gives the FILMING date, not the record date, and her own sheet is headed by a street, not a year. So the question changes rather than fails: it is no longer when is this census but what does the AGN's own inventory say Libro 256 covers — which is a question with an address on it, and the same letter that goes to Santa Fe could ask Montevideo. Her age of sixty means nothing until it is answered.
173. Done — finished and published this archive
Film 007499043 is not in this archive's film register
The DGS audit of 17 September tested 58 film numbers and found them all sound. This one was not among them, because nothing here had ever opened the Uruguayan census collection. It carries AGN Padrones de Montevideo y Extramuros, Libros 107 and 256 at least, and holds María Llerena (image 02771). Add it to film-register.tsv with its item boundaries — 02724 closes Libro 107, 02725 opens Libro 256 — so the next person can navigate it by item instead of by probe. ADDED 20 September 2026, with more than the row asked for. The film runs 1 to 3208 (last image found by binary probe on the public thumbnail) and its leader gives the old microfilm number, 1263678. It is rollo 1 of project URUG NA01S, filmed at the Archivo General de la Nación in March–April 2006, and it carries an entire reel of 'Padrones de Montevideo y Extramuros' in numbered volúmenes: volumen 1 = Libros 2 y 334 (board at image 00004), Libro 107 closing at 02724, volumen 15 = Libro 256 opening at 02725 and holding María Llerena at 02771. The remaining boundaries are unmapped and the row below says how to find them.
174. Done — finished and published this archive
Map the rest of film 007499043 — a whole reel of Montevideo padrones nobody has opened
3,208 images of AGN Padrones de Montevideo y Extramuros, and this archive has looked at five of them. Four volúmenes are identified (1 = Libros 2 y 334; one ending in Libro 107; 15 = Libro 256); the rest are unmapped. Find the boundaries with thumbnail contact sheets — the target boards show as dark frames among faint pages, and two sheets found 02724/02725 after a page-by-page hunt found nothing. Why it matters: the padrones are enumerations of the living with ages and birthplaces, they run earlier than any Uruguayan work here, and this one reel has already produced Sancho's household with four enslaved people named, two Lerena households with ages, and a Spanish-born Llerena woman heading her own house. Map it and the sweep can be run against structure instead of against luck. MAPPED 20 September 2026, and not with contact sheets. Each thumbnail was drawn to a canvas and its mean brightness measured: target boards read 16–30, ordinary pages 140–156, nothing in between. Scanned at stride 2 — sufficient, because a boundary is a fin/start pair of consecutive images so one is always odd. Eighteen boundaries found at images 4, 91, 125–127, 315, 563–565, 787, 959, 1073, 1215, 1315, 1475–1477, 1573–1575, 1847, 1961–1963, 2027, 2155, 2425, 2724–2725 — 1,604 thumbnails, three calls, no session, no screenshots. Three of the eighteen items are named; the rest are one image load each. See /uruguay/.
175. Done — finished and published this archive
Film 007499043 is fully mapped — fifteen volumes, every boundary confirmed
The boundaries are mapped; the volumes are not named. Three of eighteen are known — volumen 1 = Libros 2 y 334 (image 00004), Libro 107 closing at 02724, volumen 15 = Libro 256 at 02725. Each remaining board carries its own volumen and Libro numbers and costs one dist.jpg load: images 91, 125, 315, 563, 787, 959, 1073, 1215, 1315, 1475, 1573, 1847, 1961, 2027, 2155, 2425. Named, the reel becomes navigable by volume — and the Libro numbers are what the AGN's own inventory indexes, so they are also what dates each one. RE-SCOPED 20 September 2026, because the first attempt was wrong. The dark frames are not all target boards. Image 00127, predicted to be a title board, is a black book cover; image 00091 is a FIN DEL ÍTEM card carrying no title. Only 4, 2724 and 2725 are confirmed by eye. So each of the remaining fifteen costs one dist.jpg look to say what it is — board, cover, or blank — before any of them can be named. Loading four full-size boards into one page does not work: they are 1 MB each and none rendered. DONE 20 September 2026, and cheaply. All 41 dark frames were rendered as upscaled thumbnails — thumb_p200 at 194px with heavy contrast — which makes the big handwritten volumen numeral legible, and that was all that was needed. Two screenshots instead of fifteen full-image loads. The reel holds fifteen volumes, title boards at images 4, 126, 315, 563, 788, 959, 1215, 1315, 1475, 1574, 1847, 1962, 2155, 2425, 2725, each preceded by the fin del ítem card of the volume before. Twelve other dark frames are covers, spines or blanks. And the rule I withdrew was right: the pair is FIN(n) then title(n+1) — I had tested it on image 127, which is a third frame sitting after the 125/126 pair, not part of it. Libros known for volumes 1, 12, 14 and 15.
176. Done — finished and published this archive
Film 007499043 — all fifteen volumes named, with their AGN Libro numbers
The reel is mapped and four volumes have their Libro numbers — 1 = Libros 2 y 334, 12 = Libros 465 y 255, 14 = Libro 107, 15 = Libro 256. The other eleven title boards (images 315, 563, 788, 959, 1215, 1315, 1475, 1574, 1847, 2155, 2425) carry theirs too, but the Libro line needs the full dist.jpg — the upscaled thumbnail gives the volumen numeral and not much else. Why bother: the Libro number is what the AGN's own inventory indexes, so it is what dates each padrón — and an undated padrón is why María Llerena's age of sixty currently means nothing. FOURTEEN OF FIFTEEN READ, 20 September 2026. Two full boards per page render; four do not — so they were done a pair at a time, and where one failed to load it was carried into the next pair. 1 = Libros 2 y 334; 3 = 444, 247, 249; 4 = 250, 251, 252; 5 = 252; 6 = 253; 7 = 261; 8 = 262; 9 = 464; 10 = 147; 11 = 148; 12 = 465 y 255; 13 = 149; 14 = 107; 15 = 256. Volumen 14's number came off its FIN board at 2724, its own title board having refused to render twice. Only volumen 2 is outstanding — board at image 00126. Note that Libro 252 appears on both the volumen 4 and volumen 5 boards, recorded as read rather than tidied: a volume may end and begin mid-Libro. COMPLETED: volumen 2 is LIBRO 246 , read from its board at image 00126. All fifteen volumes now carry their AGN shelfmark. And the numbers fall in groups: 246, 247, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 255, 256, 261, 262 run nearly consecutively across volumes 2–8, 12 and 15; 147, 148, 149 sit together in volumes 10, 11 and 13; 334, 444, 464, 465 are scattered; 2 and 107 stand alone. So one reel carries at least four separate runs of the Padrones series, filmed out of order — which matters, because it means a neighbouring image is not a neighbouring year.
177. Done — finished and published this archive
Review the 133 same-name person pairs the new duplicate gate baselined
tools/check-duplicates.py was written after this archive added a duplicate of Dominga Josefa Llerena — one hour after refusing to add duplicates on principle. It flags two register rows sharing a forename and a canonical surname (all seven spellings fold to one) plus something only the same person would share: an ark, three uncommon terms, or birth years within six. Verified by re-adding the Dominga duplicate: it names the pair and exits 1. 133 pairs already existed and are baselined in data/_person-pairs.txt as UNREVIEWED — being listed does not mean compared. Several look genuinely suspect: Bartolomé Llerena vs Bartolomé Llerena – Córdoba origin, both b.1824; Felisa (arr. 1911) vs Felisa (arr. 1923), b.1893/1891; Emilia LERENA vs Emilia LERENA Vega; Carolina LERENA vs Carolina LERENA (de Martinez). Work down the list and put the reason after a # on each line. DONE 20 September 2026, the day after the gate was written. All 123 surviving pairs carry a reason on their line. Seven merges came out of it — three Carlos rows were one man, two Avelino Carlos, two Rosa María Eppens, and four of Gilberto's children were held twice because the enumerator wrote initials and the priest wrote names. Every one of those identifications was already stated in the archive's own notes and never acted on. One SPLIT too: merging Carlos exposed relations.tsv giving him a wife the register had explicitly ruled out. And two merges were decided by reading the census image — the ages on lines 10-13 are 8, 6, 5, 2, not the '6, 6, 5, 2' this archive had transcribed. Register 292 → 286, then 293 with the Villademoros branch.
178. Done — finished and published this archive
Take Avelino and Ambrosia's children forward as a PAIR — and read what the index dates actually are
Nine children where this archive held six, and four of them were sitting in its own files undated. A parent-pair search — Avelino as father, Ambrosia Traibel as mother — returns ten records. Three of them are dated 1896 and 1919, and Avelino died in 1890. That impossibility was the finding. The film is 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 off film 008166435, image 02850: Pedro Alberto Ysabelino Lerena, born 16 March 1852, baptised at the Aguada on 21 November 1852 — not 1896 — *libro 1.º de Bautismos, folio 135*, godparents Pedro Antonio Lerena and Vicenta Vega, his own uncle and aunt, and a man born in 1793 who could not stand at a font in 1896. He is the Alberto who died at Montevideo on 1 March 1921. The same opening carries Josefa's own baptism, which gives her a day at last: born 10 February 1851, and christened Josefina. From the indexes: Juan Arturo born 16 February 1861, Mercedes Micaela born 8 May 1863 — with Sancho and María Fernández named as her grandparents, a third independent attestation of that parentage — and María Adelina, who married Carlos Alberto Fein and died in 1946. The tell that catches this trap is cheap: two children of one couple indexed with the same birth date. See /method/ and data/1852-aguada-union-certificates.tsv.
179. Done — finished and published this archive
Ask for a husband and wife as a PAIR, then open the death act rather than trusting eight index entries
A woman this archive had written off is ours, and she has eight brothers and sisters. On 14 September Zelmira Carlota Lerena Larriera, born in the Departamento de San José on 4 November 1880, was tested and closed: *"she is NOT ours"*. The 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's Montevideo death act No. 246 of 2 March 1921 names his wife María Inés 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. Asking for Alberto and María Inés as a *pair* then returned a whole household born in San José between 1879 and 1898. And the image was opened rather than left as an errand, which is where the real find was: the act counts nueve hijos and names them, so there is a ninth child — *Eleiza* or *Eloiza*, read at three times magnification and still not securely read — whom no index has matched. Eight index entries look like eight confirmations and are one indexing project; one death act is a different mouth. See /uruguay/ and data/alberto-lerena-larriera.tsv.
180. Done — finished and published this archive
Sweep the rest of this generation as parent PAIRS — and one of the zeros was false
Fernando Moratorio with Josefa Lerena returns seven, adding Eduardo, Josefa (born 21 November 1884), María and Fernando Moratorio Lerena to the two girls baptised at the Unión in 1880. Two other pairs returned zero, and one of those zeros was a lie. Avelino Lerena with Celedonia Villademoros returned a clean 0 — rows rendered, page settled, read twice. Deleting the mother's surname returned seven, two of them christenings this archive has held since 20 September. That is how it was caught, and no control would have caught it: the control for this query shape had returned sixteen records in the same session, which is exactly what made the zero look trustworthy. Recorded as the fourteenth false zero. What it hid: 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. It also weakens a null this archive published about the Villademoros marriage acts: the control used, Lerena × Juanico, tested the shape but not the surname, and Juanico has one spelling where Villademoros has four. The null is not withdrawn; it is now stated as the weaker claim it always was.
181. Done — finished and published this archive
Ask how much of this register a machine read — then open the plate the most people stand on
Three surnames turned out to be a machine's, so the question became how many others were. `tools/transcript-only.py` counts rows citing *full-text transcript read* with no image named: sixty-one, more than half the rows carrying a source at all. 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 Cordón baptism where the President of Uruguay stood godfather to Sancho's grandson — the most consequential proper noun here, and a machine had read it. Opened: film 007713388 image 00726. *"padrinos Dn. FRUTUSO RIBERA, PRESIDENTE DE LA REPÚBLICA y su esposa Da. Bernardina Fragoso"*. Frutuso Ribera, with a B — the transcript had printed the history books' *Fructuoso Rivera*. The finding holds and is stronger for the check: the act states his office and names his wife, either of which identifies him alone. The same page spells the grandfather LLERENA with the double L. Both of the day'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. Seven rows moved off transcript onto plate; forty-nine remain.
182. Done — finished and published this archive
Alfredo Justiniano's wife, and the end of his life
Her surname was wrong, and she has a death. The 1892 marriage act was held from a machine transcript and the plate was never pulled. Film 007713383 image 02601, folio 340: *"hija legítima de Don GERÓNIMO GAVAZZO y Doña CAROLINA SUÁREZ"* — not Gavarro, not Juárez. Three register rows, a dispensation table, a working log and the last-attested-alive file carried the machine's reading. Corroborated by a second image forty-eight years later: her own Montevideo death registration of 20 June 1940, certificate 632, at R. Masini 3273, *"de estado VIUDA"*, of a fractured neck of femur. So Alfredo Justiniano died between February 1892 and June 1940 — the first thing this archive has ever known about the end of his life. And the index of that death act is a catalogue of its own failures: it attaches three children to the couple, and there are none on the act — one is the registrar, whose name follows *ante mí*, and two bled across the column rule from the neighbouring entry, which concerns a family with English names. It gives her birth as 1934 for a woman who died in 1940, her nationality as mexicana, and her birthplace as Minteridco. Every field is wrong except the maternal grandparents — and that pair is the only reason she was found.
183. Done — finished and published this archive
Read every register row that rested on a machine transcript — all sixty-one
**Sixty-one rows cited *full-text transcript read* and named no image — more than half the rows carrying a source. Twenty plates later the count is zero. `tools/transcript-only.py` ranked the unopened plates by how many people stood on each, because one image settles seven rows at once. What the sweep found: four claims about this family's spelling were the machine's, not the scribe's** — *Abelino Serena* is LERENA, *Sancho Lorena* is LERENA, the *LORENA* of 1889 is a margin and not a sentence, and *Fructuoso Rivera* is the history books' spelling written over the page's own Frutuso Ribera. Five surnames were wrong: Gavarro→Gavazzo, Juárez→Suárez, Florencia→Florinda, Seguera→Segueira, and "Del Suando"→Zalsamendi. One baptism was in the wrong parish (the Catedral Basílica, not the Unión) and one citation pointed at the wrong film. A birthplace changed the family's shape — María Fernández is *natural de Asturias*, so both halves of Sancho's household were Spanish immigrants. And about twenty-five people standing on the acts had never been entered, among them Sancho's parents-in-law, two grandparents drawn at the apex of a priest's kinship diagram, a second child of Justa Pastora, and Adolfo Lerena. The sweep also confirmed more than it corrected: Lavalleja, Maggesi, Larrañaga and Rivera's office are all really on the plates; only Rivera's *spelling* was the machine's. See /method/.
184. Done — finished and published this archive
Re-run every parent-pair null recorded on 21 September — and find out whose sign-out it was
Done, and the diagnosis needed correcting before the nulls did. The record search returned 0 for everything — *Historical Record Search Results (0)* with No Results Found — stable across two reads, still 0 after ninety seconds, including González in Uruguay. Full-text, asked the same question, redirected to the sign-in page, so this archive concluded the account was signed out and said David would have to sign in. That was wrong. A sibling archive ran both searches in the same minutes and got 3,652 and 3,967 with the account name in the nav bar: each session's in-app browser is its own browser with its own cookies, and one context had lost its auth and recovered on its own. In a fresh tab the González control returned 479,662 and Avelino × Ambrosia returned 10 again. All three held-over nulls were then re-run against that live control: Luis × Carolina = 0, Carlos Ambrosio × Luisa = 0, Juan Arturo × Isidora = 0. They stand, and row 70's null is now properly established rather than merely asserted. Rule kept: a control must be recent and arithmetically impossible to be zero. Rule added: before asking a person to fix something, open a second tab.
185. Next — ready to start this archive
Find the marriage of Alejandro M. Lerena and Elisa Villademoros, Montevideo, about 1868-1872
A CONTROLLED NULL, AND THE CONTROL WAS THE RIGHT KIND. Searched 27 September 2026 under LERENA and under SERENA - the spelling that had hidden the 1877 act - for a marriage to a Villademoros in Uruguay: nothing. The control passed in the same minutes: the Montevideo parish marriage of Luis Lerena and Julia Juanico, 19 December 1864 at San Francisco de Asís, returns with the groom's parents attached. So the instrument reaches 1860s Montevideo marriages and carries parents on them. The act is therefore not in the indexed corpus and must be walked by image. Their eldest known child was born 29 October 1872, so the marriage falls about 1868-1872, most likely at the Cordón. WHY IT IS STILL WORTH IT NOW THAT HIS PARENTS ARE KNOWN: it names them a second time, independently - and it gives his AGE, which is the one thing that separates the 1843 reading of the La Mauricia act from the 1845, and so the one thing that would finish the merge.
186. Next — ready to start this archive
Take Angélica María Lerena Villademoros forward — she married a Zalduando
Entered 27 September 2026 from the Iglesia Matriz act of 1872, and found the same day in the Uruguayan civil index under her married name, "Angélica Lerma de Zalduando", daughter of Celedonia Villademoros and a father the machine renders *"Arabia Larena Lerena"* - which is AVELINO LERENA. INDEX ONLY; no image opened, and "Lerma" is the index's word. The marriage itself has not been found. She is a granddaughter of Avelino and Ambrosia Traibel and a niece of Alejandro M. Lerena, who stood godfather at her baptism.
187. Next — ready to start this archive
The four new findmypast households, and the three Lerena women who are MOTHERS at San José
From the 33 findmypast transcripts opened 27 September 2026. Four households this archive does not hold: Manuel x Juana FERREIROZ (Montevideo 1891), Manuel x Dolores ESPINDOLA (Montevideo 1884) - *two Manuels or one with two wives, not established* - Pedro A. x Manuela LEMOS (Montevideo 1883), and Fermín x Paulina BARRAGÁN (Trinidad 1877, with a second child María Regina in 1882 found on FamilySearch the same day). And three LERENA WOMEN appear as MOTHERS at San José - OLEGARIA (1862), ESTEFANÍA (1872) and FELICIA (1875). A surname search on the father's line cannot see them, which is why this archive has never counted that side. Each needs testing against the San José cluster. Tier: index of an index; no image opened.
188. Next — ready to start this archive
Finish the Trinidad, Flores sweep — one page of one search returned a whole generation
Started 27 September 2026 and deliberately not finished. A single FamilySearch search on birthplace = Trinidad, Flores returned the CHILDREN OF THE CHILDREN - a generation findmypast's 33 transcripts do not reach. See data/trinidad-flores-sweep-2026-09-27.tsv. It found that CUSTODIO LERENA and EMA CARDOZO - the double first cousins of the 1911 dispensation - had a daughter in 1915, so the dispensation was granted. WHAT IS LEFT: the remaining result pages; four households new to this archive (Pedro Segundo x Petrona Fernández, Florencio x Juana Recuero, Gualberto x Rosaura Álvarez, Doroteo x Isidora Cardozo); a FOURTH Lerena woman recorded as a mother with no father named (Cayetana Faustina); and a fifth Alejandro - Alejandro Estéban, b. 1901, son of Gualberto - for data/the-three-alejandros.tsv to watch. Every row is INDEX ONLY and no image has been opened.
189. Blocked — waiting on a person or an institution David
Nine TAB files are ranked and ready to order, and nothing in this list tracked them
data/tab-pull-list-2026-09-22.tsv and its JSON hold 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. That is a finished piece of work sitting in a data file with no row here, which is part of why this archive's own gate reports 20 outstanding items not yet reconciled.
* TWO THINGS REPORTED BY THE BOOYZEN SESSION ON 27 SEPTEMBER, NEITHER VERIFIED HERE, both of which bear on ordering these. * 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. Recorded as reported rather than established, because this archive has not checked either and the difference matters to whoever acts on it.
Blocked on David because ordering costs money and the tariff is the thing that changed.
190. Done — finished and published this archive
Not one of the 357 charts here had ever shown the subject's dates, and 195 drew nothing at all
* TWO FAULTS, BOTH INVISIBLE IN A GREEN BUILD. * The chart adapter passed `dates: p.dates` and people.json has no `dates` field and never had one, so every self node carried a bare name while five sibling archives showed a lifespan. Undefined does not render as a gap a reader notices — it renders as nothing and looks deliberate. And 195 of 358 person pages drew NO CHART, the worst coverage of the seven archives, because the kit hides the figure when every tier is empty.
Both fixed 27 September. The chart draws for everybody via the kit's `always`, and the caption says which case applies from this archive's own `status`: 181 unplaced, 8 excluded, 6 connected and kinless. For the excluded eight an empty chart is the FINDING — Lola LERENA is Italian-born and the name is coincidental, Catherine BUYS is a false positive, Antonio LARENA of Cayasta is retracted.
* AND THE FIRST FIX PUBLISHED A PLACEHOLDER AS A DATE. * «-» is how this register writes «not known», on 166 of 357 rows, and it is truthy — so 163 charts read «b. -». The page's own field table had always filtered it and the adapter did not. Worse, the verification said «357 of 357 now show a lifespan» because it counted the PRESENCE of a dates span rather than whether it held a digit. Measured on the digits: 194 charts state a real date, 163 correctly state none, 0 placeholders.
Deaths were the other half. This register has no `died` column — deaths live in three separate files — so the kin gate had been green since it was written while examining nobody. 20 explicit deaths are now carried from the hand-reconciled last-attested-alive.tsv, tier DEATH only, never the three DEATH BY ceilings which say in their own text that they are a ceiling and not a date. See row 82 for what that does not fix: the 23 line-file people the register cannot hold under any spelling.
191. Next — ready to start this archive
Seventeen people this register NAMES as spouses and does not HOLD
Found 28 September 2026 while wiring the tree, and it is the same shape as the Fernando Moratorio gap found the same day. Of the twenty unwired people whose note states a spouse, seventeen name a husband or wife who has no register row - so the marriage is recorded in prose and cannot be drawn. They are: Petrona López (m. Juan Larena of Gualeguaychú), Vicenta Mercedes Fuentes (m. Vicente Antonio Larena), Florencia Calixta Ramos (m. Roque Larena), Antonio Medero (m. María Llerena), Rosario Moyano (m. Rafael Llerena), Vicente Campellone (m. Lucrecia Llerena), María Mercedes Rozzetti (m. Eduardo Lerena), Cristóbal Canale (m. Avelina Lerena), Nicolás Benteno (m. Leonarda Correa), Domingo Rodríguez (m. Juana del Espíritu Santo), and others. EACH NEEDS A SOURCE BEFORE IT NEEDS A ROW - most are named on a single act this archive has already cited, so the citation exists and the row does not. Do not bulk-add them: the same afternoon a matcher proposed wiring CELIDONIA B. DE LERENA as married to AMBROSIA TRAIBEL, who is a woman, by grabbing the wrong "m." in a sentence. Every one of these needs its note read.
Nothing in this archive is in that state.
The other work lists
Each archive keeps its own, in the same shape. Nobody has a list of everybody — that is the point: the work sits with whoever can do it.