Four hundred houses, and the people who lived in them from the 1840s to the 1939 Register. Much of it is here already. A great deal is not, and some of what is here is wrong.
Anyone can suggest a correction without joining. Becoming a contributor means your work goes straight into the record instead of into a queue, and it opens the tools that find what needs doing.
Read the contributor's guide — what every page is for, what you can do on it, and where to start if you have an hour. You do not need an account to read it.
Edit any of the properties — names and former names, street and number, dates, architect, builder, listed status, conversions and demolitions, description and history. Upload a photograph or a video. Link a house to its Historic England entry. Mark that you are researching one, so nobody duplicates your Saturday.
Add someone, or fill out who they were: names, dates, birth and death places, biography, portrait. Record what they did for a living, with employer and years. Record marriages, parents, children, siblings and cousins — the site writes both directions for you. Link them to the houses they lived in, and to published work and outside sources.
Add or correct a census record. Import a whole household from a spreadsheet. Move a record, or a household, to the house it really belongs to. File the ones that arrived with no address — or set aside the ones the census simply cannot place, so they stop looking like work. Merge two records of the same person.
Maps, plans, deeds, newsletters and photographs of the estate itself, with credit and provenance — the things that belong to The Park as a whole rather than to any one house or person.
Some things can only be settled by somebody standing in front of a building. Take one on and your name goes against it. Record what you found — including finding nothing, which saves the next person the walk. Add questions of your own.
The site suggests Wikipedia and Wikidata matches, and notices in the London Gazette that may name a resident. It never assigns them. A person confirms or throws each one out, and the record says who did.
The record checks itself and hands you the list. Houses holding an improbable number of people in one census year — usually several households filed against one address. Records filed against no house at all. The same person entered twice under two spellings. Forenames with no sex recorded, which you can settle once for everyone who shares them. Each of these is a page with a list and a button, and the counts come down as you work.
Moving a record does not delete it. Setting one aside does not hide it from search. Everything is attributed, your own contributions are listed on a page of their own, and you can watch particular houses to be told when anything about them changes. Managing accounts and the bulk import jobs are the only things kept to administrators.
If you would rather start by telling us something than by joining, every property page takes a suggestion from anyone signed in. A name, a date, a photograph of a deed, or simply that we have a house wrong — all of it is worth having.
The record holds people who have died, and everything in it is public. Nothing about a living person belongs in it. If you think something here should not be here — about you or about anybody else — say so on this form and it will be taken out while it is looked at. You do not have to explain why, and you do not need an account to ask. What can and cannot go in.