An Infinite History is an experiment in thinking with stories, in a world of endless story-telling. It has been inspired, throughout, by a sense of the incompleteness and the immensity of historical sources; of the possibility of finding everyone (in the generation of Marie Aymard’s grandchildren’s grandchildren, or in the parish records of Angoulême in 1764) and of the limits of even the most universal evidence. One solace, along the way, has been to try to be as obvious as possible about the sources and the statistics, and to hope that others will find more connections, more sources, and more hypotheses to be explored.
continuations@infinitehistory.org is an invitation to discover more of this history.