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