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The story your family tells at the dinner table — let’s bring it to life.
Most families have a beloved story that gets told at the holidays. The ancestor who did something remarkable. The veteran whose service was never fully explained. The name that keeps coming up but no one quite knows why.
The Office of Special Collections builds the documented record behind those stories — drawn from primary archives, period objects, and sources most people don't know how to find. The result is something your family can hold, share, and pass down.
We work primarily with military families, though the work follows the story wherever it leads.
A focused narrative research brief on one ancestor or military unit. Drawn from primary archival sources — service records, unit histories, period documents — and delivered as a readable story, not a genealogy chart. The documented truth of what happened, told clearly.
Ideal for families who want to know what the record actually shows.
Everything in The Dispatch, plus period context — maps, photographs, unit records — and one curated object sourced to the ancestor's service. A physical artifact that belongs to the story.
Ideal for families who want something to hold, display, and pass down.
Everything in The Dossier, plus a curated artifact relevant to ancestor. A permanent record of the full life — not the footnote history gave them, but the one they actually lived.
Ideal for families ready to tell the story for keeps.
“Thorough doesn't begin to cover it. She found things we didn't know to look for.”
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