Field Guide Worksheet
Place Packet Worksheet
Use this worksheet when starting from a town, river, cemetery, public site, archive, neighborhood, or place hub.
What this worksheet adds
- It gives one claim, place, or source packet a bounded structure so details can be compared instead of guessed from memory.
- It helps the reader record what the source actually says before stronger interpretation begins.
- It creates a cleaner handoff into review lanes if the topic becomes sensitive, disputed, or identity-adjacent.
What remains open: Filling in the worksheet does not settle the claim. It only makes the next review decision clearer.
Worksheet decision frame
Best used when
- The reader has a location, public site, institution, route, cemetery, church, school, river, neighborhood, or place hub but not yet a clean claim.
- A map, address, county boundary, mission site, port, mound, courthouse, school, or preservation landscape changes how the question should be read.
- The first task is to separate landscape context from family, identity, ancestry, legal-status, or membership conclusions.
Reader output
- A one-page place frame with alternate names, date range, institutions, source leads, privacy limits, and open questions.
- A list of records or maps that need source-table rows before stronger wording is used.
- A clear decision about whether the next step is Source Review, Claim Review, Safe Sharing, or another place-hub reading.
Do not use this worksheet to
- Certify a person, family, tribe, Nation, legal status, ancestry, descent, DNA conclusion, or community membership.
- Treat a landscape feature, surname, oral memory, or public marker as proof without source-table support.
- Publish living-person details, private addresses, graves, ceremonies, or family documents without Safe Sharing review.
20-Minute Use Pattern
Use this worksheet without overbuilding it
This quick-start pattern adds discipline by keeping the first pass small, source-led, and review-ready instead of letting a worksheet become an unstructured dump.
- Name the place, source, or claim in one sentence.
- Copy exact source details before interpretation.
- Mark claim status and evidence level before writing conclusions.
- Move sensitive rows to Safe Sharing or Evidence Gates before public use.
Stop when the next review step is clear. More rows are not better if they blur uncertainty, privacy risk, or source type.
Before you fill this out
These guides do not certify identity, ancestry, descent, tribe, nationality, DNA, legal status, membership, Muur/Moor claims, spiritual interpretation, or oral-tradition claims. They help readers collect sources, label uncertainty, and decide what needs review before stronger wording is used.
Claim status options: Supported, Needs Review, Open, Unsupported, Sensitive / Do Not Publish Yet.
Evidence level options: A - direct public source; B - corroborated public source; C - partial or contextual source; D - weak, unsourced, or contradicted; Sensitive - review required before public use.
Place frame
Source trail
Review status
Next step
Use the Source Table for each record and the Claim Review Card before changing public wording.