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The method's first rule — the page image is the source; every remove is printed
What it is: the rule the whole build ran under. A fact is read in its first carrier or its remove is stated where it stands: Howard's towns chapter read from page images when the question turned on two pages; the census township figures settled from page images wherever the OCR interleaved the columns; Chapman's assessors' table refused outright from every machine copy rather than reconstructed from scrambled numerals; Goff carried at one remove, attributed through the trustee's letter, in every load-bearing use. Where the county's own series was another build's work — South Bend's census-of-agriculture frame — Granger's Farms file takes it at pointer size and says so, with no re-derivation and no silent borrowing. A maker's own numbering outranks summaries of it: the Gazette's founding year is computed from its volume numbering and printed as that computation.
Its standing, from this build's experience: these are not aspirations; the passes document them deciding outcomes — a citation rescued (Part One), a table declined (Part One), a county history's two sheriffs left unelected (Part Two), an early parcel run voided because its console disagreed with its file. The rule costs time and leaves gaps, and the gaps are the receipt.
Where it fails: method cannot manufacture record. Where the ground's book is out of reach and its paper is film in another city's room, the honest output is a named gap with a settling source — this history is full of them by design, and Part Five's gap entry is their index.
Sources:
- granger-full/ — the rule as applied, leg by leg, including the refusals and the voided run.