Joshua Brown

Joshua W.J. Brown is a Toronto-based writer, filmmaker and independent family-history researcher from Courtright, Ontario. His work brings archival comparison and source criticism to Great Lakes history, genealogy and public memory. He develops practical tools for checking claims, separating similarly named people and recording unresolved evidence, including identity matrices, source registers and contradiction logs. This session draws on that work to help library and archives staff respond to AI-generated family histories with clear verification steps, useful referrals and language that preserves uncertainty.