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Analysis

The matrix: fourteen live candidates scored, and three record-state rows that cannot be scored at all

Scoring every non-zero candidate against the fifteen attributes on a five-level scale - strong, soft or partial, unknown or untested, absent, contradicted - puts Candidate B, Ackworth, Cheddington 1608, C(ii) Berkhamsted, Candidate D, the Epping and North Weald line, Hitcham, the Newgate apprentice, Weston Turville, the Bucks/Herts/Beds group, A(1603) Stewkley, Gurley of Westminster, C(i) Berkhamsted and Stewkley 1611 side by side, with the eliminated Eythorne household scored as calibration. Laying them out side by side is what made the structural finding visible; it was not apparent from any candidate's own file. The three leading probability rows - no record survives or is indexed anywhere, documented but never assembled into a person, and documented but in a source or class not yet searched - are not people and cannot be scored on the matrix at all, and between them they hold about 44 percent.

Confidence: Moderate-high

Why this conclusion

Depends on Analysis The fifteen-attribute shape: one specification every candidate is scored againstThe matrix is the specification applied; it has no meaning apart from it.
Synthesized by Finding The candidates fall into two disjoint families, and no candidate is in bothThe disjoint-families finding is read off the matrix and was not visible before it.

Qualifications and conflicts

Qualified by Analysis Where the matrix scores need explaining: the contextual leaders, the household leaders, and the two rows added at the closeSix rows of the matrix are not readable without the reasoning behind their scores.

Sources

Findmypast UK Parish Baptisms aggregated dataset within Birth, Marriage, Death and Parish Records., The candidate pool the matrix scores is the output of the July 2026 parent, child, mother and marriage sweeps across this and the county sets

Topic file location: Identity — the shape, the matrix, and the two families

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Technical details

Research item: G13-RI-000222
Graph revision: 381
Machine-readable JSON: /assets/g13-graph/findings/G13-RI-000222.json

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