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<p>READING OLD HANDWRITING includes in the table of contents:How to start, 'Victorian Vicars' and 'Shy Young Curates' ,Numbers up ,The eighteenth century ,All swags and flounces ,Capital letters ,Small letters ,Elizabethan scribes and scribblers ,Abbreviations ,Numbers,  andPractice makes perfect: Bibliography How to start   From the introduction: "Probably the first time you will come face to face with older styles of handwriting is in parish registers - in fact, they are a good way of cutting your teeth, since what the entries say is partly predict- able. It is much more difficult to start cold on whole slabs of prose where you are not sure even of what kind of document it is, and certainly not what phrases to expect. When you are given a set of registers or a microfilm, the natural reaction is to begin at the beginning. This is one of those rules which should be overturned in family history - always begin at the end. There are three good reasons for this: in the first place, what you know already is likely to involve the end of the registers, since we work back from what we know to what we don't know. In the second place, as you work back, you acquire more knowledge, in particular of which other families your ancestors married into - making them hence- forth 'yours' to be collected; in the third place, the writing of those early registers is strange and unless you ease yourself into it by getting familiar with the surnames occurring in the parish, you could fail to identify the relevant names among so many new ones and have to work back over them again. A seventeenth century register can look totally unreadable, at first sight, but if you have trained on the later years you will find names emerging from the general scribble which are the ones you want. "</p>

Reading Old Handwriting (A McLaughlin Guide)

Reference

Mclaughlin, E.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

The Location of British Army Records: A National Directory of World War 1 Sources

Holding, Norman H.

Parish Registers

Eve McLaughlin

A Secretary Hand Abc Book

Politics & Social Sciences

Alf Ison

Archaeology

<p>This book is written from the point of view of people in Great Britain tracing Jewish genealogy, but the clear explanation and mass of detail will make it useful for anyone using German and Austrian records. It shows how the borders of Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire changed, describes civil registration, and lists relevant libraries and Genealogy Societies in Germany and Austria. It has substantial information on records of the Holocaust, and on emigration during the 1930s. There is a bibliography, and suggested phrases in German for including in letters of enquiry to libraries and registration authorities.</p>

Jewish Ancestors?: A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Germany and Austria

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Skyte, Thea

DNA for Family Historians

Alan Savin

My Ancestors Were Congregation

David Clifford

History

North Yorkshire and East Ridings: Part 2 (National Index of Parish Registers)

Donald John Steel

My Ancestors Were Londoners

Webb, Cliff

Genealogy

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