Research request

Suggest a story, add to or correct something on this site, share a family memory, tradition or lead, point to a source, or tell us about a problem with the website.

What you send is saved privately for review, not published. It does not change the family tree, add a fact or start any research by itself. The family historian reads each request and decides separately whether and how to check it, use it or credit it.

Text and links only: the form does not take files or photographs.
Please leave out private details of living people, such as addresses, phone numbers, health or birth dates.
There is no public list or status page for requests, and no email is sent when you submit this form.
Family members: for private family stories, sending photographs or saying who is in a family photograph, use Share a memory after signing in.

What kind of request is this? (required) Suggest a historical story, person, place, organization or event Add to an existing page Correct something on the site Family memory, oral history, tradition or lead Point to a source Technical or accessibility problem Something else

Your request Short title (required)

For example: A correction to a date, or The 1936 flood in Skowhegan.

Your request, in your own words (required) Related page on this site (optional)

The page's address, such as /stories/lucinda/. It is filled in when you follow a page's research request link.

Related finding or statement (optional)

For example a fact, a date or a finding on that page.

People involved (optional)

Names as you know them.

Place (optional) Date or period (optional)

A date, a year, or a period such as “about 1900”.

How you know Source or basis (required)

Where this comes from: a document, a book, a website, a family story, your own memory.

Which best describes your evidence? (required)

This is your own description. The site's Confirmed, Likely and Unconfirmed labels are decided separately, after review.

I have seen an original record, document or photograph I read it in a book, newspaper, website or index I saw it or took part in it myself A family memory or tradition: I was told it From another family tree or a compiled genealogy A lead or hunch that needs checking I'm not sure Not applicable (for example, a problem with the website)

Sources and links (optional) Source details (optional)

Titles, archives, record numbers, page numbers.

Links (optional)

Web addresses, one per line, up to 5.

Contact and credit (optional)

Unless you tick a box, we will not contact you, credit you or quote you. Your contact details are never published, and your name is used only as the boxes below allow.

Your name (optional) Email or phone (optional)

Only if you want to be contacted about this request.

You may contact me about this request. You may credit me by name if this request is used. You may quote my words on the public website.

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