Everything below serves as text/plain (raw markdown). Paste any URL into ChatGPT / Claude / any LLM to have them read the underlying source. These files are the authoritative record — the HTML pages are rendered views of them.
Research findings (from research sessions)
enrichment-findings.md
Sub-agent public-source enrichment · 9/30 morning · 600 words
Italian roots hunt (Concordia sulla Secchia, Modena), Rose Micheletti's parents (Cesare Micheletti + Elvera Pietrini), Ranato's 5 children (including newly-found Donald Galavotti 1937-2002), rulings-out of false Sievers leads, Fold3/Ancestry access notes.
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army-service-findings.md
Sub-agent Army/Fold3 research · 9/30 morning · 500 words
John Paul Salinsky WWI Army veteran CONFIRMED (Find A Grave veteran flag + obit), died at NY State Veterans Home Oxford at 98, retired Young & Franklin Co. Liverpool 1967. Joseph F. Galavotti likely still alive at 95, 225 East Hickory Street Canastota, Army service unconfirmed.
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Working docs (trip prep)
upstate-ny-visit.md
Main trip prep working doc · large, ongoing
Master research + planning file for the Sept 29 – Oct 2 upstate NY trip. Contains bookings, Julie's voice notes transcribed, cemetery lookups, contact strategy for Raymond M., LinkedIn DMs to half-sisters, and everything else Alex captured pre-trip.
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syracuse-call-sheet-2026-09-29.md
Tuesday call scripts
Phone scripts + numbers for every call Alex needed to make from the train Tuesday morning (Denny Pexton / Lenox Rural, Saint Francis de Sales / Calvary Herkimer, St. Peter's Oswego, historian, Dain-Cullinan, Fryer Museum for Larry Britton).
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HANDOFF-upstate-ny-mission.md
Session handoff summary
Cold-start context for any AI session picking up mid-mission. Explains the trip's purpose, priorities, and how the various files fit together.
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SEND-PLAN.md
Certified mail plan for Raymond M.
Plan for sending the discreet certified-mail letter to Alex's biological father Raymond M. Galavotti (both phones dead → USPS Restricted Delivery from NYC 9/29).
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Records requests
records-request-1-circuit-court.md · records-request-2-sheriff.md
Draft request templates
Records request drafts for circuit court + sheriff's office (background/context on the biological-father search).
Circuit court
Sheriff
Session log
WORKBENCH.md
Chronological session log
Every research session's log entry, newest first. Documents decisions, findings, open items across all sessions.
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For AI assistants adding to the log
If you're an AI (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) working with this data and want to contribute back: output your session log as markdown in the format matching WORKBENCH.md, and Alex will commit it into brain/family-history/. Include date, focus, findings, decisions, open items. He'll paste the whole thing into a new file or append to WORKBENCH.md, then redeploy — your work becomes part of the source of truth on the next site refresh.