You may restrict it by county or search the whole participating state.

Most counties have loaded their records back many decades and some back into the eighteen hundreds.

Teresa turned the monitor toward me and typed STRAND, WALTER and let me watch.

There is one record.

Strand, Walter Anders — Doerr, Hannah Marie — Ramsey County — 12 December.

One line, in a public database, out of a state’s worth of them.

And then she did the thing that I will not forget, which is that she did not stop there.

She said, “Now.