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Deciphering Handwriting in German Documents: Analyzing German, Latin, and French in Vital Records Written in Germany
Author: Roger P. Minert, Ph.D., A.G.
Format:
Soft-cover, 182 pp., 0.50 x 11.0 x 8.50
Publication Date: 2001
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Setting a new standard in self-help literature for German family history research, this book incorporates for the first time the following important elements: A short history of handwriting styles in Germany; detailed separate methodologies for deciphering German, Latin, and French vital records; a computerized alphabet for old German characters; 131 sample texts from genuine vital records; and the application of the reverse alphabetical index in the deciphering process. From the perspective of a family history researcher, there are three significant challenges in German research: explaining spelling changes in German names, locating the ancestral home town in Germany, and
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deciphering
the handwriting found in German documents. Every one of us will deal with the fist challenge, only the most fortunate
can avoid the second, and most of us will evantually confront the third. Indeed, it is hard to imagine colleting ancestral
data in a German town or parish using only typewritten sources; thus reading the old handwriting becomes an indispensable capability.
Experts in the field have this to say aboutDeciphering Handwriting: ". . . absolutely terrific!" (Henry Z. Jones); ". . . bound to become a standard work" (Ernest Thode); ". . . sure to become a classic in the use of German records" (Clara Harsh); "a possible text for some of the courses I teach" (Prof. Raymond S. Wright, III.)
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