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Berlin-Bob
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The most common 19th. century german handwriting style is called Kurrent
This is how it looks:
For a larger version of this image,
- click on http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Kurrentschrift
- click on this image on the right
- double click on the resulting image, or on the link below it
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Searching for Coleman, Moore, Kallnung in London; Margulies, Remenyi in E. Europe; Ancestors of Hessie Stevenson-Coleman-Baxter (Ireland, 1861) and, of course, any other ancestors for my web-site. All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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aghadowey
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Thanks for the handwriting guide- have bookmarked it now but unfortunately my relatives had more challenging writing!
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Fantastic chart Roli- have just printed it out and will see if I can decipher more old documents with it.
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Here is an interesting article (in english) on Sütterlin script:
Here you can learn Suetterlin - the "German handwriting"
http://www.suetterlinschrift.de/Englisch/Sutterlin.htm
on the same site, there is also a page about Fraktur:
The "blackletter typeface" Gotik, Schwabacher, and Fraktur
http://www.suetterlinschrift.de/Englisch/Fraktur1.htm
This is often found on printed documents.
Yours Sütterlin-ly,
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Searching for Coleman, Moore, Kallnung in London; Margulies, Remenyi in E. Europe; Ancestors of Hessie Stevenson-Coleman-Baxter (Ireland, 1861) and, of course, any other ancestors for my web-site. All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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Fantastic site there- now I'll have very little excuse for not reading old postcards, etc.
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german_alph.pdf
I would like to know especially the names of my great-grandfather and great-grandmother. So far members have kindly suggested August or Wenzel for him, and Theresa or Josefina or Josefine for her. The relevant text can be found on my post "Old German Script" in the "Immigrants Section". Ideally I would like a full translation of the Section, but I would be happy with just their names.