One marriage, from nothing

A French-Canadian family, researched from a single 1830 marriage upward to the immigrants, with the workings shown.

On 1 February 1830, at St-Constant on the south shore of Montréal, a day labourer named Louis Comte married Rose David. Neither could sign. We picked their marriage with dice from a parish répertoire, and we are climbing every line of both of them back to New France — one document at a time, every claim graded by a tool that will not let us round up.

This is the notebook: what we tried, what we found, what broke, and what we decided. Start with why this project, look at the case as it stands, or read the method if you want to do this yourself.

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