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What the record is missing

353 places where the data is sound and the history has a hole in it, found by reading the model against itself rather than by anyone thinking to ask.
The questions somebody thought to ask are on their own page: 152 open questions, and 42 that have been answered.

This is not a fault list. data/checks.py already stops the build on anything broken: a dangling id, a malformed date, a farm with no name. Everything here is well-formed and simply incomplete - eighty-one years pass on a farm with nobody on record holding it, a surveyor names a man on a boundary whose own tenure we have never written down, an estate is inventoried on ground we cannot place. None of it is a bug. All of it is an afternoon in an archive.

checkwhat it looks foropen
B1 successiontwo consecutive owners with nobody in common and years between them 17
B2 trail-endsa farm we researched whose record stops and never resumes 51
B3 unheld-farmground named again and again as a neighbour that we hold no parcel for 28
B4 unheld-ownera neighbour named as a person whose own tenure we have no record of 12
B5 one-tracesomebody who touches the land once and is attached to nothing else 6
B6 loose-docevidence about ground, a diagram, an estate, attached to no ground 27
B7 no-owneran ownership span that names nobody 11
B8 never-helda parcel nobody is on record as ever having held 201

2 further breaks have been answered and are not shown: 0 promoted into research_leads.csv as real leads with a prediction behind them, the rest dismissed with a stated reason in data/breaks_dismissed.csv. A detector nobody can silence turns into noise, and noise gets ignored wholesale.

First Order · 7

A handover with no deed behind it, or a man named on a boundary whose surname holds no ground anywhere in this model. These are the ones worth a day in the Deeds Office.

Second Order · 98

Real holes with a known place to look, a farm whose record stops, an estate taken somewhere we cannot place, a landholder attached to no family.

Third Order · 248

Mostly the shape of what we have not started: ground the cadastre drew that no research has reached, neighbours named once. Worth having counted, not worth dropping other work for.