Latest Posts
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The System Has No Face — It Built Itself
No one designed the system of identity control — it emerged from institutions, records, and incentives. A self-reinforcing machine of compliance and belief.
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The Family Tree Was Always About Control
The family tree isn’t just history—it’s a control system built on surnames, certificates, and morality to trace, sort, and regulate human life.
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Always Has Been.
From feudal fields to factory floors to digital debt—most people have lived in servitude to power they didn’t choose. Slavery by another name. Always has been.
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Reclaiming the Narrative (Part 10 of 10)
This final post reclaims the power of identity, challenging the historical suppression encoded in parish registers and urging personal agency through modern tools.
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The Names That Weren’t Theirs (Part 8 of 10)
The surname Acton in Lichfield wasn’t inherited — it was assigned. Poor children were given names by clerks, not kin. Genealogy meets systemic labeling.
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Citizen Erased (Part 9 of 10)
The Actons weren’t a family. They were a function. This is what happens when identity is assigned, not inherited — and you are documented only to be forgotten.
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The Paper People of Lichfield (Part 1 of 10)
Were the Actons of Lichfield a real family—or administrative aliases for pauper children processed by the Church? We begin uncovering the paper people.
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Throughput by Design (Part 2 of 10)
Bastardy bonds and illegitimacy shaped the Lichfield Actons. Were they a family — or simply a surname assigned to pauper children for recordkeeping ease?
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The Actons of Lichfield: Bloodline or Brand? (Part 3 of 10)
Dozens of Actons appear in Lichfield parish records, but few can be reliably linked. Is this a family — or a brand assigned to pauper children by the system?
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Surplus by Design (Part 4 of 10)
Lichfield’s pauper children weren’t accidental. They were surplus by design — managed through the Poor Law as labor, ledger entries, and institutional throughput.