Kenneth is a New Zealand-based archival researcher, now in his late sixties, with a long background in regional archives and family-history collections. These days his work focuses mostly on Caribbean plantation records, estate papers, and the compensation files that connect island properties back to British families.

He is careful, slow, and not especially interested in neat conclusions. Most of his work is about following names across broken records, copied documents, and catalogues that do not quite match each other.

Emma is a France-based translator and independent researcher. She has spent much of her career, over 50 years in the field, working with historical, legal, and estate documents, especially material connected to Caribbean land ownership and plantation records.

She works between translation and research, often noticing small shifts in wording that change how a document reads. Her notes tend to follow repeated family names, estate names, and terms that appear differently across French, British, and Caribbean records.