Family Tree Magazine September 2010 Zurück Ausgabe

This issue discover how to decipher old handwriting and reveal further ancestral clues.

If you find the thought of reading the handwriting on documents from centuries past fairly daunting, turn to page 28 for our article on ‘Palaeography for the family historian’.
With the useful insight and information from the article, you will soon have a wealth of new skills under your belt, enabling you to tackle manuscripts scrawled in secretary hand, cursive, legal and more. I’m sure you’ll enjoy putting your new-found knowledge into good use, to glean every last detail about your ancestors’ lives.

And detail is certainly what you do get with family history. It doesn’t take long before you’ve accumulated information for quite a number of places. But wouldn’t it be great to travel back, to walk these streets, glimpse the front doors, wander round the graveyards, and stop for a moment at the fonts where the baptisms happened? Dee Murray did just that, and planned a family history trip spanning Europe. Why not read her advice and plan your own family history holiday? Whether a simple day out or a dedicated fortnight, the lives of earlier generations will suddenly seem a lot more vivid.