Intake

The form is part of the product.

Every answer here changes what can be found. The middle names change four numbers and add two etymologies; the birth minute moves the house cusps; a grandmother’s maiden name is often the only thread that reaches back past 1900. It takes about eight minutes. Nothing is charged until the last step.

01 — The person the briefing is about

Use the name as given at birth or as legally held now, whichever the briefing should be about. If both matter, put the second in the notes at the end and we will trace both.

Why middle names matter. They are usually the oldest thing in a name. A middle name is where families store a mother’s maiden surname, a grandfather’s given name, or a surname that otherwise left the record entirely — the Kellie in one briefing was a paternal grandmother’s maiden name, and it was the only route to an Irish Ó Ceallaigh line. They also change the numerology outright: dropping one middle name shifts the Expression, Soul Urge, Personality and Chaldean totals, because those are sums over letters.
A first name is required.
All of them, in order. Two middles is common and costs nothing extra.
A surname is required.
Traced as a full line of its own, not a footnote.
Useful: suffixes are how two men with one name are told apart in county indexes.
02 — Birth date, time and place

This is the input to the ephemeris. Date and city alone give a usable chart; the minute is what makes the houses and the angles real.

A birth date is required.
Local clock time as recorded, not adjusted to UTC. We handle the offset.
A birth city is required — the chart cannot be cast without coordinates.
Why the minute matters. The Ascendant advances roughly one degree every four minutes, so a fifteen-minute error moves it about four degrees and can push it into the next sign. The house cusps move with it, which is what decides whether the Sun is read in the twelfth house or the eleventh. In one briefing the Sun sat at 18°17′ Libra in the twelfth house at 09:26 — at 09:56 it would have been the eleventh, and the interpretation section would read differently. Aspect orbs, by contrast, are almost unaffected: Sun square Uranus at an orb of 0.03° stays 0.03° all day.
03 — Parents and grandparents

Full names, including middles and maiden surnames, plus any birthplace you know even loosely. Six names and two counties is enough to start; “Ohio, somewhere” is more useful than a blank. Leave what you do not know empty — a guess entered as fact costs a researcher hours.

Parents
Grandparents — as many as you have
Counties are the unit that matters. Vital records, marriage licences and probate files are held at county level in most of the United States, so a county name is often the difference between a search and a fishing trip.
What we do with names that go nowhere. Some will. When a name cannot be substantiated it goes into the research-gaps section with the variants already eliminated and the next record set named — the 1950 census, a state death index, county marriage licences, land patents. That section is a deliverable, not an excuse, and a briefing may honestly end a line with “goes cold, 1888”.
04 — What level of work

The computed sections are identical at every price. What changes is whether a person searches the archives for the names above, and whether any of it gets printed and bound.

Undecided? Take the free name reading first, or upgrade later at the difference in price with no penalty. Full comparison.

05 — Is this a gift
06 — Where it goes
A working email address is required — the briefing is delivered as a link.
Changes tone and section order, never the evidence standard.
Adoptions and name changes are handled without comment and both lines can be traced if you want them. If you would rather the esoteric sections were left out entirely — common for memorials — say so here.
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