What it is
Fort Wayne · The Record is the city's historic record: its government, its businesses, its people and its events, from Kekionga to the present council chamber. The famous local stories are checked against the newspapers, treaties, orderly books, and gauge records that survive.
A story repeated for a century still earns only what its earliest surviving record supports, and where two records disagree the page says so instead of picking the tidier number. Only public-domain and freely licensed photographs are published, with a rights ledger at the foot of the page.
How it is graded
The same five grades as the other graded-evidence sites, using treaties, orderly books, and the city's newspaper run as the primary record.
- ProvenA contemporaneous primary record establishes it.
- DocumentedA credible official record exists; interpretation stays open.
- UnprovenTestimony or claim only; nothing corroborating has surfaced.
- MisidentifiedReal, but attached to the wrong thing, date, place, or person.
- FabricatedA proven hoax, forgery, or false claim.
Inside the case site
- Timeline
- Claims ledger
- Government
- Business
- People
- Sources and rights
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Fort Wayne · The Record publishes its graded city record
The city's historic record went up with its claims ledger: famous local stories checked against treaties, orderly books, gauge records, and a newspaper run that starts in 1833, each one stamped with the grade its earliest surviving record supports.
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