Bill, I think the National Archives has a tutorial for that, and also one for the Latin terms, but I don't remember exactly how to get to it on their site. Jane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Dalton" <rnbill@centurytel.net> To: <ENG-SURREY@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 8:22 PM Subject: [SRY] Reading an old will > Thanks to Chris I now have one of the wills that I am interested in but > am having a bit of a problem reading some of the script. I used to have > the URL for a site that had excellent examples of the old script used in > the 1600-1700's but it doesn't' work now. Is there anyone out there > that knows of such a site? > > Bill Dalton > *************************************** > Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** > superfluous old messages in replies. > > List Admin can be contacted at: Eng-Surrey-admin@rootsweb.com. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-SURREY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/Palaeography/ Also try http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/whatis.htm Anne South Asutralia Jane Fiske wrote: > Bill, I think the National Archives has a tutorial for that, and also one > for the Latin terms, but I don't remember exactly how to get to it on their > site. > Jane > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill Dalton"<rnbill@centurytel.net> > To:<ENG-SURREY@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 8:22 PM > Subject: [SRY] Reading an old will > > >> Thanks to Chris I now have one of the wills that I am interested in but >> am having a bit of a problem reading some of the script. I used to have >> the URL for a site that had excellent examples of the old script used in >> the 1600-1700's but it doesn't' work now. Is there anyone out there >> that knows of such a site? >> >> Bill Dalton