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I buy boxes of old papers that nobody wants and find the people inside them.

Estate sales, auction lots, attic cleanouts. The stuff that gets tossed when someone dies and nobody knows what to do with the paperwork. I take it home and figure out who these people were.

Sometimes I trace an 1891 letter back to a living descendant. Sometimes I find out the woman whose papers I bought was a Gilded Age novelist that history completely forgot. Sometimes I just hold a 140-year-old document and sit with how weird that is.

This channel is all of it. Opening boxes, following threads, hitting dead ends, getting way too excited when something clicks. I'm not a historian. I'm a curious person with a research problem and an internet connection.

Come hang out.
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