I added a new folder in the "links" area called "Handwritting" please
feel free to add other links to this folder.



thanks,



joseph



ps: one day we'll have to do a major back up of all the resources we've
collected for the site. Looks like it will be a job.





aajay1073 wrote:

Under Genealogy.com Research guidelines, Deciphering Documents and 
Handwriting there are a few articles:

1) Reading Handwriting
http://www.genealogy.com/00000010.html

Towards the top of this document it says:
"Watch out for double S's. The first S in a pair was often written to 
look like a lower case F."

2) Guidelines for Reading Old Documents
http://www.genealogy.com/68_sperry.html

The material at Genealogy.com is a good read if you have a chance to 
browse over there:
http://www.genealogy.com/developing_research_skills.html

Good luck,
Angie

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Puentes <makas@n...> wrote:
  

I was watching a documentary about American Slave Narratives. In one 
    

of 
  

the stories it was talking about slaves being sold at auction and 
    

they 
  

showed a bill of sale. the time period was about 1850. In the bill of 
sale at the bottom it spell "witness" like this:

"witnefs"

now this reminds me of the times I've seen Castañeda spelled Caftañeda

does anyone know about the use of the "F" for "S's" in early 
    

handwritting?
  

thanks,

joseph
    

 
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