Save and follow
Bookmark people, places, spellings, and searches; choose research alerts without being enrolled in marketing.
Participate
Help by making the evidence better.
A free verified-email account is planned; the homepage currently shows an inactive preview. There is no registry, upload form, checkout, or automatic mailing-list enrollment in this release. Participation begins with reading the methods, checking citations, and asking precise questions.
What the free account should add
The surname archive itself stays public. A verified account should add personal utility, not hide the evidence.
Private workbench
Keep private notes and source requests that are not published or treated as Society conclusions.
Draft contributions
Prepare corrections, transcriptions, and context as private drafts, then track review status before anything can become public.
Stronger boundary: living-family workspaces, contact forwarding, publication permissions, merges, and bulk export require more than a basic email account. Signup never grants permission to publish, research a living person, or send optional updates.
Useful roles in the future workflow
Source locator
Resolve a bounded book, image, folio, page, or collection while recording the complete denominator and access state.
First reader
Transcribe an assigned region from the original, preserving literal spelling and uncertainty.
Independent reader
Read the same masked region without seeing the first conclusion.
Place and context researcher
Document historical jurisdictions, houses, estates, occupations, customs, and institutions with citations.
Translator
Translate reviewed claims while preserving evidence labels, uncertainty, and local terminology.
Correction reviewer
Test a challenged claim and make sure every dependent output changes together.
Ordinary contact only
If you choose to write to hello@dobesh.org, your message begins ordinary correspondence. It does not enroll you, create a public profile, authorize research use, or grant publication permission. Those uses require separate, explicit choices in a future approved workflow.
Before structured contributions open
The project must finish separate permissions for private research use, contact forwarding, Society updates, Press contact, and named public display; document retention and deletion; secure attachments; contributor rights; and a receipt that lets a contributor withdraw one permission without losing the others.