One of the biggest obstacles that faces us as family historians is the very real challenge of reading the almost infinite styles of handwriting used over the centuries. Here Family Tree Academy tutor David Annal shares tips to help you decipher the documents
In a perfect world, all the documents we use in our research would be written in a beautiful, clear copperplate, all perfectly spaced in neat lines, with no blotches or crossings out and no faded ink or damaged pages. But we soon learn that, most of the time, what we actually see falls some way short of that ideal.
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