diff --git a/src/domain/windows/ntfsJournalCorrelation.test.ts b/src/domain/windows/ntfsJournalCorrelation.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..eb45dac66d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/domain/windows/ntfsJournalCorrelation.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+import { expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+import { createUsnMftCorrelator } from "./ntfsJournalCorrelation.js";
+
+const baseRecord = {
+  index: 7,
+  sequenceNumber: 2,
+  fileOffset: 7168,
+  totalBytes: 1024,
+  baseRecordReference: null,
+  declaredRecordNumber: 7,
+  fixups: {
+    sequenceNumber: 5,
+    entries: 3,
+    verifiedSectors: 2,
+    coveredSectors: 2,
+    mismatchSector: null,
+    malformed: false,
+  },
+};
+
+it("keeps a reused record number unresolved while resolving a full parent reference", () => {
+  const correlate = createUsnMftCorrelator([baseRecord]);
+  expect(
+    correlate({
+      fileReference: 0x0001_0000_0000_0007n,
+      parentReference: 0x0002_0000_0000_0007n,
+    }),
+  ).toEqual({
+    file: { kind: "unresolved" },
+    parent: {
+      kind: "matched",
+      record: { index: 7, sequenceNumber: 2, fileOffset: 7168 },
+    },
+  });
+});
+
+it("keeps duplicates ambiguous and skips extensions and unverified records", () => {
+  const correlate = createUsnMftCorrelator([
+    baseRecord,
+    { ...baseRecord, fileOffset: 8192 },
+    {
+      ...baseRecord,
+      index: 9,
+      declaredRecordNumber: 9,
+      baseRecordReference: { recordNumber: 7, sequenceNumber: 2 },
+    },
+    {
+      ...baseRecord,
+      index: 9,
+      declaredRecordNumber: 9,
+      fixups: { ...baseRecord.fixups, verifiedSectors: 1, mismatchSector: 1 },
+    },
+  ]);
+  expect(
+    correlate({
+      fileReference: 0x0002_0000_0000_0007n,
+      parentReference: 0x0002_0000_0000_0009n,
+    }),
+  ).toEqual({ file: { kind: "ambiguous" }, parent: { kind: "unresolved" } });
+});
diff --git a/src/domain/windows/ntfsJournalCorrelation.ts b/src/domain/windows/ntfsJournalCorrelation.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9664a7b50e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/domain/windows/ntfsJournalCorrelation.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+import { FIXUP_SECTOR_BYTES, type MftRecord } from "./ntfsMft.js";
+import type { UsnRecordV2 } from "./ntfsUsnJournal.js";
+
+type RecordIdentity = Pick<
+  MftRecord,
+  "index" | "sequenceNumber" | "fileOffset"
+>;
+
+type CorrelatableRecord = RecordIdentity &
+  Pick<
+    MftRecord,
+    "baseRecordReference" | "declaredRecordNumber" | "fixups" | "totalBytes"
+  >;
+type JournalReferences = Pick<UsnRecordV2, "fileReference" | "parentReference">;
+
+export type MftJournalMatch =
+  | { readonly kind: "matched"; readonly record: RecordIdentity }
+  | { readonly kind: "unresolved" | "ambiguous" };
+
+export interface UsnMftMatches {
+  readonly file: MftJournalMatch;
+  readonly parent: MftJournalMatch;
+}
+
+/** Build one lookup for a selected MFT, then reuse it for each journal entry. */
+export const createUsnMftCorrelator = (
+  records: Iterable<CorrelatableRecord>,
+): ((entry: JournalReferences) => UsnMftMatches) => {
+  const byReference = new Map<bigint, RecordIdentity | null>();
+  for (const record of records) {
+    // The stream ordinal is the segment number in an acquisition of the
+    // logical MFT stream. Extension records do not identify separate files.
+    if (
+      record.baseRecordReference !== null ||
+      record.fixups.verifiedSectors * FIXUP_SECTOR_BYTES !== record.totalBytes
+    )
+      continue;
+    if (
+      record.declaredRecordNumber !== null &&
+      record.declaredRecordNumber !== 0 &&
+      record.declaredRecordNumber !== record.index
+    )
+      continue;
+
+    const reference =
+      (BigInt(record.sequenceNumber) << 48n) | BigInt(record.index);
+    byReference.set(
+      reference,
+      byReference.has(reference)
+        ? null
+        : {
+            index: record.index,
+            sequenceNumber: record.sequenceNumber,
+            fileOffset: record.fileOffset,
+          },
+    );
+  }
+
+  const lookup = (reference: bigint): MftJournalMatch => {
+    const record = byReference.get(reference);
+    if (record === undefined) return { kind: "unresolved" };
+    if (record === null) return { kind: "ambiguous" };
+    return { kind: "matched", record };
+  };
+
+  return (entry) => ({
+    file: lookup(entry.fileReference),
+    parent: lookup(entry.parentReference),
+  });
+};
diff --git a/src/domain/windows/ntfsMft.ts b/src/domain/windows/ntfsMft.ts
index cec24d8054..507bf097ed 100644
--- a/src/domain/windows/ntfsMft.ts
+++ b/src/domain/windows/ntfsMft.ts
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ const MFT_MAX_RECORD_BYTES = 65536;
 /** An update sequence array holds at least the sequence number and one fixup word. */
 const USA_MIN_ENTRIES = 2;
 /** NTFS fixes up one 512-byte sector at a time. */
-const FIXUP_SECTOR_BYTES = 512;
+export const FIXUP_SECTOR_BYTES = 512;
 /**
  * Fixed whole-file ceiling. Records are inventoried from their headers only;
  * attributes and their payloads are not decoded, so this is deliberately