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The completeness pass: what was searched, and what is not here

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A roster is only as honest as its stated limits — here they are. Searched whole for this section and the people file: Chapman's Union chapter including all thirty-one sketches; Howard's first volume (Union, Lakeville, hotels and lakes matter); Howard's second volume by full-text search for the township's names, its Lakeville cluster read in context — with the limit stated: the volume has no township arrangement, so a sketch whose text never repeats "Union township" or "Lakeville" could escape the net, and the roster prints as the yield of that search, not as an index; and the Atlas's Union references, directory and plat entry, subject to the column-split defect stated above. The tested negatives print with the positives: the three works never identify any resident of this township as Black — a searched silence across sketches, sections and directory alike: Chapman's sketch of Andrew Huggart, the settlement's own man, runs with no word of race in it, Samuel Huggart appears in none of the works, and the settlement as a community in none of them; the identification stands on the census, deed and obituary record in the settlement's own file, where the Huggart households are carried whole. No woman holds a Chapman sketch but Ruth Brock; the stock otherwise names women inside their husbands' and fathers' sketches — Elizabeth Little Lineback Rector, whose own telling Chapman quotes, is the standing exception, and she is profiled in the people file on its strength. No settler is carried here from the Geyer narrative or the modern compilation; where those carriers name men the works do not (the plan's Dick Schalliol, its Gabrielle Motts), they stand in the claims file's world, not this roster's. The register of conflicts this population creates — first family, first child, sections, surnames — stands's note, unmerged.

The roster's pointer roll stands at lk-digi-ppl-pointer-roll (assembly pointer, DELTA-I-4).

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Source: The completeness pass: what was searched, and what is not here, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/more-people/completeness-pass-what-was-searched-and-what-is-not/