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=== Dan Gross research files ===

The roster backbone is a spreadsheet and related working files Dan Gross maintained for the original theritchieboys.com project: Camp Ritchie class lists, demographics, IPW team assignments, research notes, and cross-references he and collaborators gathered over decades. That work is invaluable but was never a formal archival finding aid; typos, duplicate names, and uncertain matches were part of the working process.

=== Dan Gross timeline documents ===

Dan Gross also created more than 1,100 Word-document timelines about individual Ritchie Boys. These documents may combine National Archives and NARA records, Camp Ritchie personnel cards, newspapers, family research, personal notes, and working hypotheses. They are valuable research leads, but they are not treated as automatically verified biographies.

Timeline material is reviewed before it is used. Editors should separate directly documented facts from inferences or unconfirmed statements, compare conflicting dates or identities, and use the soldier's ASN and other corroborating details when matching a document. Private information—such as email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, personal correspondence, or living-person contact details—is not published.

The original timeline documents remain private and are '''not uploaded to this wiki'''. When approved information is incorporated into a soldier page, the Sources section may cite the document descriptively, for example: <cite>Dan Gross, “Timeline of [soldier name] for Camp Ritchie” (private research document)</cite>. The citation identifies the research source without exposing the original file or its private contents.

=== National Archives and census records ===

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 === Dan Gross research files ===
 The roster backbone is a spreadsheet and related working files Dan Gross maintained for the original theritchieboys.com project: Camp Ritchie class lists, demographics, IPW team assignments, research notes, and cross-references he and collaborators gathered over decades. That work is invaluable but was never a formal archival finding aid; typos, duplicate names, and uncertain matches were part of the working process.
+=== Dan Gross timeline documents ===
+Dan Gross also created more than 1,100 Word-document timelines about individual Ritchie Boys. These documents may combine National Archives and NARA records, Camp Ritchie personnel cards, newspapers, family research, personal notes, and working hypotheses. They are valuable research leads, but they are not treated as automatically verified biographies.
+Timeline material is reviewed before it is used. Editors should separate directly documented facts from inferences or unconfirmed statements, compare conflicting dates or identities, and use the soldier's ASN and other corroborating details when matching a document. Private information—such as email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, personal correspondence, or living-person contact details—is not published.
+The original timeline documents remain private and are '''not uploaded to this wiki'''. When approved information is incorporated into a soldier page, the Sources section may cite the document descriptively, for example: <cite>Dan Gross, “Timeline of [soldier name] for Camp Ritchie” (private research document)</cite>. The citation identifies the research source without exposing the original file or its private contents.
 === National Archives and census records ===