I’m tracing an inheritance my grandmother never received after her father died in 1958.
AI helped me search the archives, but I caught something: it had read a document’s text while only sampling the scanned pages.
That matters when a single handwritten line can change the search.
Prompt I use now:
“Confirm what you can access: PDF text, page images, or both. Review 5 pages at a time. Log pages actually checked, names verbatim, handwriting and citations. Cross-reference earlier findings, flag contradictions and next leads. Mark anything unexamined UNCHECKED.”