Excellent, thank you for all these great resources! jim On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Barbara A. H. Nuehring < [email protected]> wrote: > Greeting All, > > On 25-Mar-12 11:43, Jim Gorman wrote: > > I find it extremely difficult for me to read the German script and I don > not speak Germany so it took forever to figure out words. > Indeed, Elsie's article is a great resource to keep on hand. > > Here are some other sources for learning how to read German > handwritten records that you may find helpful: > > BYU has an excellent German Script Tutorial online. It is free. > The website is: http://script.byu.edu/german/en/welcome.aspx > > The Family History Library has three free15-minutes lessons on > German handwriting as well as courses/lessons on various aspects > of researching German records. > The URLs for reading old handwriting are: > > https://www.familysearch.org/learningcenter/lesson/reading-german-handwritten-records-lesson-1-kurrent-letters/69 > and > > https://www.familysearch.org/learningcenter/lesson/reading-german-handwritten-records-lesson-2-making-words-in-kurrent/70 > and > > https://www.familysearch.org/learningcenter/lesson/reading-german-handwritten-records-lesson-3-reading-kurrent-documents/71 > > You can download a PDF of the Family History Resource Guide > "Handwriting Guide: German Gothic" from > > https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/images/c/ca/German_Gothic_Handwriting_Guide.pdf > > And this website "teaches" German handwriting: > http://www.suetterlinschrift.de/Englisch/Sutterlin.htm > > > Regards from a Roots Hunter, > Barbara > > > > -- > Barbara A. H. Nuehring > For a genealogist, hunting season is all year long. > Hunting for: SCHOBER, GEIGER, BUDE, HENKE > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I recommend a YAHOO! group called transcribe. It is a free service for people who have problems transcribing old German documents, parish records... Here is the URL: http://www.transcribe-group.com/ The list owner can be emailed at [email protected] The YAHOO! group page is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transcribe/   To make use of the service, one must upload one page documents to the website. Volunteers transcribe and/or translate from the old German.  I have used this service several times with excellent results.    Annette Vliet nee Blum ________________________________ From: James Gorman <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 8:17 AM Subject: Re: [BW] reading the old German script Excellent,  thank you for all these great resources! jim On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Barbara A. H. Nuehring < [email protected]> wrote: > Greeting All, > > On 25-Mar-12 11:43, Jim Gorman wrote: > > I find it extremely difficult for me to read the German script and I don > not speak Germany so it took forever to figure out words. > Indeed, Elsie's article is a great resource to keep on hand. > > Here are some other sources for learning how to read German > handwritten records that you may find helpful: > > BYU has an excellent German Script Tutorial online. It is free. > The website is: http://script.byu.edu/german/en/welcome.aspx > > The Family History Library has three free15-minutes lessons on > German handwriting as well as courses/lessons on various aspects > of researching German records. > The URLs for reading old handwriting are: > > https://www.familysearch.org/learningcenter/lesson/reading-german-handwritten-records-lesson-1-kurrent-letters/69 > and > > https://www.familysearch.org/learningcenter/lesson/reading-german-handwritten-records-lesson-2-making-words-in-kurrent/70 > and > > https://www.familysearch.org/learningcenter/lesson/reading-german-handwritten-records-lesson-3-reading-kurrent-documents/71 > > You can download a PDF of the Family History Resource Guide > "Handwriting Guide: German Gothic" from > > https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/images/c/ca/German_Gothic_Handwriting_Guide.pdf > > And this website "teaches" German handwriting: > http://www.suetterlinschrift.de/Englisch/Sutterlin.htm > > > Regards from a Roots Hunter, > Barbara > > > > -- > Barbara A. H. Nuehring > For a genealogist, hunting season is all year long. > Hunting for: SCHOBER, GEIGER, BUDE, HENKE > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message