Founder & archival math editor
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Archival digitization & genealogical research background
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Every guide and interactive calculator on HeirloomMath—including the Photo, Slide & Home Movie Digitization Planner + Local Histogram Workbench and the Tombstone Birth-Date, 1752 Calendar, US Census Window & Cousin DNA Calculator—is checked line by line against primary federal preservation standards (FADGI 3rd Edition May 2023, NARA 36 CFR § 1236.50, Library of Congress Recommended Formats Statements), statutory decennial census enumerator instructions (1790–1950), the British Calendar (New Style) Act 1750, and peer-reviewed population-genetics formulas.
Scanners, film holders, video decks & software used for verification
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Empirical scan-time measurements, 256-bin RGB and BT.709 luminance histogram evaluations, and diplomatic AI handwriting transcription benchmarks described across HeirloomMath are designed to be verified on dedicated flatbed and 35mm film scanners, S-Video/TBC video capture chains, and acid-free archival enclosures. Whenever a specific hardware benchmark, scanner timing log, or photographic comparison has not yet been completed on physical test media, the article displays a visible yellow “Field test pending” box describing the exact measurement protocol to be added; see our first-hand testing policy.
Editorial verification standards
- Optical & storage math: Every pixel matrix, enlargement magnification factor, uncompressed 24-bit/48-bit TIFF byte footprint, and CISA 3-2-1 backup volume is verified with automated unit tests before publication.
- Calendar, census & genetic math: Every gravestone subtraction example is tested across all four cases of the
8870borrow constant (K ∈ [0, 70, 8800, 8870]) alongside Backward and Forward Exact calendar subtraction, Julian Day Numbers (JDN), Sewall Wright’s Coefficient of Relationship (r), Donnelly-Coop Poisson segment counts, and NARA American Soundex rules.
Profiles & society memberships elsewhere
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Guides written & edited (12)
- AI Photo Restoration Prompts That Preserve Real Facial Features (Photo Restoration)
- Best PPI Resolution for Scanning Old Family Photos and Slides (Photo & Slide Digitization)
- Cousin Chart and Shared DNA Centimorgan (cM) Math Explained (Census & Kinship Math)
- Digitizing VHS, Hi8, MiniDV, and 8mm Home Movies: Bitrate Math (Home Movies & Audio)
- How the NARA Soundex Phonetic Code Works for Surname Variants (Census & Kinship Math)
- ISO 8601 File Naming and the 3-2-1 Backup Rule for Archives (Archival Storage & Backup)
- Reading Photo Histograms to Fix Faded Magenta and Yellow Prints (Photo Restoration)
- The 1752 Julian-to-Gregorian Calendar Shift and Double-Dating (Calendar & Tombstone Math)
- TIFF vs. PNG vs. JPEG: Archival File Formats and Bit-Depth Math (Photo & Slide Digitization)
- Tombstone Birth-Date Math: The 8870 Formula vs. Exact Days (Calendar & Tombstone Math)
- US Federal Census Dates (1790–1950) and Birth Year Math (Census & Kinship Math)
- Using AI to Transcribe Old Cursive Wills, Deeds, and Letters (Paleography & AI Transcription)