Question 1

What information can I share right now, and how is it handled?

Accepted Answer

The public waitlist currently accepts an email address. Its optional source and intent fields are used only to route a relevant follow-up. No public signup list is exposed. Subject intake and portrait-evidence submission are closed until licensing, insurance, client-agreement, and privacy-documentation clearance is complete. Current retention has no fixed published duration or automatic deletion promise. Hosting, database, email, and authentication providers may process information needed to operate the service, and legal compulsion remains a confidentiality boundary.

Question 2

Can I send a portrait URL or upload a portrait before launch clearance?

Accepted Answer

No. Before all four clearances are complete, neither a public image URL nor a portrait file is accepted. The closed portrait-evidence route rejects the request before reading or processing its portrait body. No portrait body is processed or retained by that closed route. If the workflow opens later, any accepted upload and evidence rules will be described then; this FAQ does not make that future workflow available now.

Question 3

What must be cleared before the service can open?

Accepted Answer

Checkout, subject intake, and portrait evidence share one pre-launch gate. Licensing, insurance, the client agreement, and privacy documentation must all be cleared; checkout additionally requires explicit activation. All four clearances are currently incomplete. A waitlist signup or inquiry records interest only: it is not a purchase, does not charge you, and does not start an engagement.

Question 4

What does source-led genealogy mean in practice?

Accepted Answer

It means a future lineage engagement would be built from reasonably exhaustive research, complete source citations, analysis and correlation, and explicit handling of conflicting evidence — not from a family-tree search alone. Civil, parish, court, census, and naturalisation records are treated as evidence while derivative databases are treated as leads. The method describes intended work; it does not mean that a genealogy engagement is currently open for booking.

Question 5

How can I join the waitlist, and what does joining do?

Accepted Answer

Use the public waitlist to submit an email address. Optional source and intent details help route a relevant follow-up; they are not a sensitive subject brief. Joining records interest in a future opening or follow-up only. It does not reserve checkout, submit a sensitive brief, start paid work, or create a dossier. Subject and portrait intake remain closed until the required clearance is complete.

Question 6

Can I buy the $250 Footprint Audit now?

Accepted Answer

No. The $250 Footprint Audit cannot be purchased or charged yet. Checkout is closed while any of the licensing, insurance, client-agreement, or privacy-documentation clearances is incomplete. Opening requires all four clearances plus explicit checkout activation. A waitlist signup or inquiry is not a purchase and does not reserve checkout. No paid work starts until an opening is explicitly announced and accepted.

01What information can I share right now, and how is it handled?

02Can I send a portrait URL or upload a portrait before launch clearance?

03What must be cleared before the service can open?

04What does source-led genealogy mean in practice?

05How can I join the waitlist, and what does joining do?

06Can I buy the $250 Footprint Audit now?