Service Description

Understanding someone’s past starts with a clear map of their life. This workshop focuses on the foundational skill of building a timeline that helps you see patterns, connections and turning points that might otherwise stay hidden. Learn how to begin with simple tools and grow your timeline into a living document that guides the rest of your reporting. **Start with what is knowable** Using open sources and powerful databases, you will learn how to gather the essential facts that anchor any backgrounding project. Addresses, phone numbers, email history, personal milestones and basic relationships all become puzzle pieces that help you understand a subject’s story. **Track the people who matter** Lives intersect. That means the people around your subject can help you verify details, deepen context and expand your reporting. In this session you will learn how to build and maintain a list of associates from family to business partners to past classmates and how these connections can help illuminate the person you are investigating. This workshop offers the building blocks of strong backgrounding, showing you how to turn loose details into a clear, meaningful picture.