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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: welshspencer on Sunday 03 September 06 00:31 BST (UK)
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If there is any Paleography's out there i need your help with some Chancery Documents from form the late 1400s.
I am trying to find out the first name of a Mr Gewn's first name
– here are several versions of it – any ideas? In the first example the surname translates as Geyn. The fourth example almost looks like Exeter!
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Not a paleographer, but might it be Seth?
Beth
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Hi welshspencer :)
Not sure, but the last two words look different from the first two words...any chance of some bigger (higher-resolution) scans of them all?
Prue
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Hi Thanks all, Have resized them as best i could
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and the next two
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Hi welshspencer :)
Still a bit hard to read them, but I think the first letter might be a "C"...then an "a", then "r" or "t", then "e"....
Will keep working!
Prue
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last two letters possibly "er"
...still working (shoudl be in bed! ;D )
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Hi Prue
Have tried to make one of them a little bigger
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Sorry a bit to big , and dont know how to delete it
Moderator comment: I deleted it for you. If possible, a higher resolution scan would be good rather than resizing the image - it tends to blur too much
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S definitely
a fairly definitely
c but not sure in all instances
s it is probably a long s I can't make it anything else
b fairly certainly
y I can't make it anything else
Sacsby
David
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Thank you for helping with this
Sorry I took so long in getting back to you , I have been out the country
Russell
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maybe
SAXBY
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As Prue said above (back in 2006), and as she (and then I also) said over on your other thread ('bumped' from a year ago) at:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,286957
the problem really is the poor quality of the scan.
The writing is hard enough to read anyway - but when it's all pixellated and blurred it makes it extremely difficult.
I do hope that you can get scans at a higher resolution.
JAP
Later edit: Another 'bumped' thread (from March 2008) is at http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,289865.0.html
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Hi Jab have emailed my cousins to try and get better scans.