Editorial policy · November 2026

About this public reading edition

This edition makes historical family research available to readers while preserving the complete family edition behind its existing login.

What you are reading

Pages labeled Historical text retain Coral’s transcribed historical prose with photographs and original scan links omitted. Selected historical text pages omit identified personal passages or recent family identifiers. Editorial summary pages are newly written summaries, not Coral’s original wording. Page numbers, where retained, refer to her printed book.

Transcription errors may remain. Family memories and reconstructed scenes should not be mistaken for independently verified records. Some historical prose uses dated language or reflects the viewpoint of its sources. Later research boxes distinguish documentary additions, corrections, and unresolved questions.

What remains private

The original scans and family photographs, information about potentially living relatives, intimate medical and relationship accounts, and unreviewed family contributions are not included in this public release. Material by other authors is summarized where appropriate rather than reproduced in full. Names or details omitted from the public text are not exposed through linked scans.

The history and the novel

Out of the Wilderness is Coral’s family history. Robert Wescott’s What the Records Left Out is a separate novel inspired by that research. Its fictional events and wrongdoing are not genealogical claims.

Corrections and family access

Open the private family edition with your existing family login. Family members can use its contribution page to submit corrections or additional material for review.