I have managed to find one of my past lives on the census records. I have first names for many of my other lives but not enough additional information to identify them specifically in historic documents or archives, although it’s early days yet! The more I travel the road of reincarnation exploration, the more I realise that names and dates just aren’t that important from the perspective of the soul. Think of it this way: you know your family members and friends, and you would recognise them in a heartbeat, but you don’t need to know all their dates of birth, birthplaces, middle names, PIN numbers etc to recognise them and feel an emotional connection to them (or, an even better analogy, your pets know and love you, but they don’t need to know your name to do so!). In the same way, I recognise the ‘feel’ of each of my PLs, despite not having much in the way of evidence that most of them ever existed. I’ve found paper evidence for one, which gives me the confidence to trust in the others.
Of course, finding ‘your’ name on a historical document is always an exciting, joyous and mildly terrifying experience, and a small part of me always hopes to find ‘myself’ on a census, or a record, but there’s only so much you can gain from always chasing bits of paper. (Except photographs, they’re very powerful documents in a whole different way!)