About
Why Hearthline books are built on evidence.
Hearthline Books is run by Gary Black in Louisville, Colorado. Gary is a licensed Colorado attorney, and the habit of the law runs through the whole method: a claim is only as good as the evidence behind it, and the honest answer to "how do you know?" is sometimes "we don't, yet."
Hearthline began with the books Gary made about his own family. Working through three of them, he found what most family historians find: online trees copy each other's guesses, and a guess repeated forty times starts to look like a fact. The method that became Hearthline was built to stop that. Grade every fact by its record. Spend the effort on the links the story hangs on. Say plainly where the records stop.
What those books proved is the method, not the market. The first books for other families are being measured now, so that the time a book takes, and its price, rest on measurement rather than guesswork.
Hearthline Books is a trade name of Analyticus Enterprises LLC.