Field Guides
Research templates for careful source work
Use these guides to turn records, maps, place hubs, family clues, community notes, and fact-check questions into reviewable packets before public copy is strengthened.
Choose your path
Start with a place, a source, or a claim. Each path keeps source type, claim status, privacy risk, and evidence limits visible before public wording is strengthened.
Start with a place
Use the Place Packet to record location, date range, maps, institutions, open questions, and next source checks.
Place HubsMapsOpen Questions
Start with a source
Use the Source Table to separate exact source details from interpretation, privacy risk, claim wording, and follow-up work.
Source ReviewEvidence LevelPrivacy
Start with a claim
Use the Claim Review Card when a statement touches identity, descent, Muur/Moor language, spiritual interpretation, oral tradition, or living people.
Claim StatusEvidence GatesNo Certification
Evidence gate reminder
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.
Muur and Moor note: Muur history and Moor history may appear near each other in public conversation, but they are not the same claim set. Keep labels source-specific. Do not use one tradition, name, spelling, or interpretation to certify another.
How to use these guides
Each template is a learning aid. It helps readers slow down, name the source type, separate public records from interpretation, and decide what still needs owner/source review.
- Use one row per source, clue, witness, map, institution, or claim.
- Keep living people, current addresses, private family conflict, medical details, DNA files, and contact details out of public notes.
- Send identity, ancestry, tribe, nationality, DNA, legal-status, descent, membership, Muur/Moor, spiritual, or oral-tradition claims through Source Review before public strengthening.
- Continue to MoorofUs.org for broader Moor historical context without collapsing Muur history and Moor history into the same concept.
Note: The templates do not certify identity, ancestry, tribe, nationality, DNA conclusions, legal status, descent, or membership in any community.