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That's the legend. Now open the file.

Every Veilbound file, and the tools to open one on a woman in your own family

Twelve case files, the archives guide, the templates and the Source Spotter, plus a family history workbook you can only get in this kit. Seven PDF files, 236 pages, with the templates and workbook in Letter and A4.

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$80 bought one by one. $67 for all five, workbook included.

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From the archive

You have watched the whole story. Now you want the paper.

Under every Veilbound video, the same things come up. One of you wrote:

"THIS is what history class in school should include."A viewer, in the comments

Another asked why the big retellings always skip the people themselves:

"We never hear about the individuals or the little instances."A viewer, in the comments

And many of you ask the question underneath all of it: how do we know? Who wrote this down, and could I look for a woman myself?

This kit is the full answer. The case files show you twelve women with the evidence laid out. The guide and the two printables show you where women's records are and how to read them. The workbook turns all of it toward a woman in your own family, the one the family only talks about in a single line.

Because, as another viewer put it, this history is "NOT ancient or far away." Some of it is in your own house.

A free lesson from the family workbook

Cut a family story into claims you can test

A family legend sounds like one fact. It is usually four. Write it down word for word, then cut it at every claim. Each piece can be checked against a record, and each gets its own verdict. Here it is on the workbook's practice case, a family invented for teaching.

MYTH

Before: the story as told

"Great-grandma Ellen went mad after her babies died, and they locked her away for the rest of her life."

One sentence, told at the table for decades. Nobody remembers who said it first.

After: four claims, four verdicts

  • Her babies died. Holds up
  • She went mad. The record is silent
  • They locked her away. Holds up
  • For the rest of her life. Doesn't hold up

The census counted her children born and living. The hospital register shows she went home after 17 months. Only the doctor's word describes her mind.

Try it tonight on a story from your own family. The workbook gives you the forms to finish the job, and the record finder that tells you where to check each claim.

What's inside

Five pieces that work together

Cover of The True Stories

The True Stories Behind History's Most Infamous Women

Twelve case files in three parts: Accused, Rewritten, Locked Away. Each opens with the legend stamped MYTH and ends with a verdict.

67 pages
Cover of Find Any Woman in the Archives

Find Any Woman in the Archives

Where women's records survive and how to find trial transcripts, asylum registers, court papers and letters, without being misled by who wrote them.

70 pages
Cover of The Case File Templates

The Case File Templates

Five printable forms, a timeline, source log, claims ledger, open questions and cover sheet, with one worked file. Letter and A4.

16 pages each, Letter and A4
Cover of The Source Spotter

The Source Spotter Cheat Sheet

The common record types on one printable page, with who usually wrote each and the bias to check for.

3 pages
Cover of The Woman in Your Line
Only in this kit

The Woman in Your Line: a family history workbook

Ten chapters and eight fill-in forms that take one woman in your family from a story at the table to a written, sourced account. Letter and A4.

32 pages each, Letter and A4

Bought one by one, the two books and two printables come to $80, and the workbook is not sold on its own. The kit is $67 for all five.

Buy the complete kit

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Inside the family workbook

Real pages, as you'll print them

The one idea and the five steps of the Thread
The one idea, and the five steps you follow
Chapter 3, a legend cut into claims with verdicts
Chapter 3: a legend cut into claims
Part II opener with an etching
Part II opens on a 17th-century etching
Decision chart for finding a maiden name
The maiden name chart and name sheet
A finished search timeline in handwriting
What a finished search looks like
A worked write-up in six paragraphs
A woman written up, start to verdict
How the workbook works

A family story is a source too. Ask who told it.

The case files show what happens when a clerk, a newspaper or a doctor decides who a woman was. Families do the same, kindly or not. The workbook treats the story you inherited as one source with an author, and sets it beside the records.

Every chapter answers one question you'd type into a search box, ends with a box called Now look at who wrote this, and gives you one task you can finish in an evening.

The Thread, in five steps

  1. Name her. Pick one woman and write down what the family says.
  2. Ask the house. Interview the living and list every paper and photo.
  3. Follow every name. Search her maiden name, married names and every spelling.
  4. Weigh it. Give each family claim a verdict against the record.
  5. Write her up. Six paragraphs that give her back her whole life.
The Veilbound Archive
Who made this

The Veilbound Archive

Too many women survive in the record as a single line: the poisoner, the witch, the madwoman. That line was usually written by the men who judged them, the papers that sold them or the storytellers who came later. Veilbound opens the file again and reads what is actually there, and says so when the evidence runs out.

12women, each a full case file
236pages across seven PDF files
13printable forms between the templates and the workbook
3verdicts: holds up, doesn't, or the record is silent

Every book lists its sources at the back, from trial records and archive guides to the national archives whose record rules the workbook follows. What we won't do: invent a woman's words or thoughts, state a guess as fact, or call something secret when it isn't. We don't run a research service and we haven't searched your family. The kit teaches the method; the finding is yours.

Questions

Before you buy

I've never done family history. Is this too much?

The workbook starts from nothing. Chapter 1 helps you pick one woman, chapter 2 is a phone call to a relative, and each chapter ends with one task for one evening. The archives guide is there when you're ready for trial and asylum records.

Do I need paid genealogy sites?

No. The workbook's record finder names the free places first: FamilySearch, the US National Archives, Chronicling America, FreeBMD, the GRO index, irishgenealogy.ie, the National Archives of Ireland census, Library and Archives Canada and Trove. Where a source charges, like ScotlandsPeople, it says so.

What if my family is from outside the US and UK?

The record finder covers the United States, England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Canada and Australia. The method in the workbook, from interviews to verdicts, works anywhere records were kept.

I'm not interested in my own family. Is the kit still worth it?

The two books and two printables stand on their own, and you can use the templates on any of the twelve women. The workbook is the part you can only get here.

How do I get it, and can I read it on my phone?

You download seven PDFs right after checkout: the four books and printables, with the templates and workbook in both Letter and A4. They read on a phone, tablet or computer. The forms print at home on Letter or A4 paper.

Can I get a refund?

All sales are final. This is a digital download you get right away, so we don't offer refunds. This doesn't affect any rights you have by law. The contents, the free lesson and the real inside pages are here so you can check before buying.

Who do I write to with a question?

veilbound@awakeup.shop

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Read the Record Yourself: 7 questions that separate a real woman from her legend, worked through on one Veilbound case. It's free and goes to your inbox.

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That is the record. Here is what it left out.

Twelve women, the archives guide, the templates, the Source Spotter, and a workbook for the woman in your own line.

Two books and two printables are $80 apart. The kit is $67, plus the workbook.

$67Buy the complete kit

Instant download, seven PDFs. Secure Stripe checkout. All sales are final.