Judy, Your best bet for a reliable translation is to find a freelance German-English translator, rather than to count on the expertise of university students! In my experience, professors already have a full agenda, and have a hard time supervising such projects adequately. If you choose to go through a professional agency (such as Berlitz, who also run a global translation service) you can expect to pay 15 to 20 cents per word (of the English translation). If you use a freelance translator, you will probably pay 12 to 15 cents per word. Of course, if you are asking them to read old handwritten script for you, you ought to be prepared to compensate them for that skill! If you're still interested in locating a translation service or a freelance translator, contact me directly and I can steer you: [email protected] Good luck! Katharina Birch > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 8:38 AM > Subject: [GERMAN-LIFE] Trans. services? > > > > Hello, list, > > Wonder if any of you have found someone who will do translations at a > > reasonable price? The list has been WONDERFUL at helping me with the odd, > > short translations, but can't impose on them forever, and I will need to > do 3 > > or 4 letters, and hope to get 3 or 4 replies, which I will need trans. > from > > English to German, and German to English. If anyone has found a > reasonably > > priced place, would love to hear about it. Thanks so much. Judy > >

For what it's worth, I recommend this group for translations ..... http://www.genealogienetz.de/misc/translation.html This is NOT a computer generated attempt at translating, but done by real people .... at no cost ...... they do several languages Dick S. http://www.harbornet.com/folks/dick/TheSwamp.htm