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[6 Aug 2026] Discovery item KIN-01, and the model turned out to support it by a different route than the report gave. The report has him as 'heir 3' of the 1829 Rondavel estate; parentage has no FATHER row for him at all. What it does have is his MOTHER, PER-000341 Maria Catharina VenterM, who is the Rondavel widow - so the tie to that household is real and runs through her. Written that way and said on the page.

AND IT JOINS TWO STORIES THAT DID NOT KNOW THEY WERE JOINED: PER-000095, the 1841 Wolwekraal grantee, is on this project's own probable identification the brother of BOTH the Rondavel widow and Adriana Cecilia VenterM (S023). The man who took Wolwekraal on the grant day and the woman who bore fourteen children on Middelwater were brother and sister, and the 1855 buyer was their nephew.

Verified before writing: the 1841 grant to PER-000095 on Qts Vol 6 Fol 9; the joint purchase of 20 Nov 1855, transport 294, with PER-000097; the two instruments of 10 Mar 1857, transports 149 and 151; the 1879 brother-to-brother transfer, transport 430; and the sale out of the family on 14 Dec 1897, transport 10724, to PER-000107 - who had been buying Venterskraal fragments since 1879.

The uncle identification stays [TO VERIFY] because it rests on a tree match rather than a deed, and the page says so. The reason for the 1897 sale is not in this record at all - LEAD-0101. [8 Aug 2026, quality run] SPAN vs EVENTS, adjudicated. Claims 1823-1898; the three events it tells run 1829-1857 and are all linked. The last forty years of the span are carried by the deeds - the 1857 division and what followed - and no event row exists for them yet. A research gap, not a linking one.

[12 Aug 2026] BOLD PASS, both languages. 0 and said it still had lots of bold words and phrases, on a file the voice check had scored 0/3/0 and closed. Rule 4 counts bold carrying a whole SENTENCE and is blind to bolded PHRASES, so a speckled page reads as clean. checks.py now measures DENSITY - bolded words as a share of the page - against the S035 benchmark's 1.1%, plus an en/af asymmetry check, and this story was on that list. Out: dates, extents, survey records, deed and folio numbers, place names and, in S005, whole bolded sentences. STORY-VOICE.md names those exactly, and the benchmark bolds NOTHING in its narrative. NO WORD, FACT, HEDGE, [TO VERIFY], CITATION OR LINK CHANGED - the edit removed emphasis markers. verify_af passing.

[12 Aug 2026] VOICE REWRITE to STORY-VOICE.md, both languages, and A FIRMER CONNECTION PUT IN PLACE OF AN UNCERTAIN ONE. en 1/0/1 -> 0/0/0, af 4/0/1 -> 0/0/0 (narration/bold-sentence/punchline).

THE PAGE HUNG ITS BEST CONNECTION ON ITS WEAKEST EVIDENCE. Every tie between this boy and the Oosthuizen line ran through the uncle identification, which the page itself marks [TO VERIFY] because it rests on a tree match and not a deed. parentage.csv holds a better one that does not depend on it at all: MARIA CATHARINA VENTER PER-000341, b.1783, the widow, and ADRIANA CECILIA VENTER PER-000002, b.1792, the Middelwater matriarch, are BOTH daughters of Jan Louis VenterL PER-000120 and Johanna Jacomina SmitM PER-000121. They are sisters, and Jan Adriaan VenterL is therefore first cousin to the fourteen children on Middelwater. Stated now, tagged [TREE] since the parentage rows carry confidence='medium'. PER-000002's own notes say the same thing in words - 'her elder sister Maria Catharina's household held Rondabel by 1829' - so the story and the record now agree instead of the record knowing more. The uncle claim is kept, still [TO VERIFY], and the page now says plainly which step rests on the tree match and which does not.

THE PAGE QUOTED OUR OWN DATABASE NOTE BACK AT THE READER: 'This project's note on him is blunt: he took half of Wolwekraal as Venterskraal in 1857 and sold it away piece by piece over the next 37 years.' That is PER-000096's notes field, not a document, and every fact in it is already on the page - the 1857 halving in its own section, the thirty-seven years in the closing summary. Cut in both languages; nothing lost.

'The boy was seventeen and had been born on that ground eighteen years earlier' stood alone as a turned closing line under the 1841 grant. Same words, folded into the grant paragraph, where the age sits against the date it belongs to.

'What Jan Adriaan's seventy-five years are, and what they are not' -> 'Seventy-five years', and the 'two things this page does not claim' paragraph becomes a 'What has not been worked out' panel with LEAD-0101 linked. Narration recast: 'one of the few complete arcs in this project', 'the identification this project holds', 'the model ties the boy to this household', 'not in this record at all'. verify_af passing.