At one time, there was a website given on this list where one could download a German script font. SInce I downloaded it, I had a hard drive crash and lost the font (That will teach me to back up things!). Can any one tell me where to download that font again (Macintosh version)? Thanks for your help, Robert W. Ridenour 4814 Loop Road Dorsey, IL 62021-1014 On Nov 23, 2006, at 12:56 AM, Cecelia wrote: > This is the site I found. Very interesting. And kind of fun, too. I > spent > hours "writing" names! > http://www.suetterlinschrift.de/Englisch/Write_your_name.htm > > With actual handwriting, there is probably more roundness, possibly > more > scribbles, but it looks like this would be very hard to read, if you > were > not trained to write and read this style. > > This is the home page: > > http://www.suetterlinschrift.de/Englisch/Titel.htm > > Cecelia > > > > > >> Would you still have the address that transcribes names to old >> script? >> That may be av good tool to have! HAPPY HOLIDAYS > >> >> I had wondered about my great-grandfather's name, Emil Conitz, being >> listed >> as Emmanuel Conita or Conitr on the passenger list of the Admiral. >> However, I looked at a site that lets you select letters for your >> name, >> and >> then your name is written out as it would look in the old German >> script. >> His name does resemble, to this untrained eye, at least, Emmanuel, >> in the >> old script. >> I had thought that, perhaps, the person doing the writing heard it as >> A-mu-el, which is the way I have heard some people pronounce Emil. >> It >> could >> have sounded that way, which sounds a little like Emanuel. My dad >> pronounced Conitz (Con-its) as Con-itsh, though no one else in the >> family >> did, including the older people. >> Cecelia > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message >