There is copies of this Alphabet and some school books printed using same at the Daughter of Utah Pioneers museum here in Salt Lake City. "There's a mighty big difference between good, sound facts and facts that sound good." Ronald Colby rmcolby@micro-net.com Salt Lake City, Utah Researching the descendants and ancestors of Ezekiel Colby 1739-1791 and Sarah/Sally Fowler 1742-? Visit us at: http://www.parsonstech.com/genealogy/trees/rcolby/colby_ft.htm ---------- > This is getting fun! I was misinformed about this! I am going to research > this and get some fun info! Thanks to all for the pointers! > Holly > > ---------- > > From: AEParshall@aol.com > > To: HANDCART-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [HANDCART-L] Deseret Alphabet in ancestors' journals > > Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 5:35 PM > > > > > > In a message dated 06/12/98 1:12:36 PM, hulaboy@sprintmail.com wrote: > > > > >It didn't do me a bit of good to read it due to > > >the fact that it is written n the secretive DESERET ALPHABET. > > > > The Deseret Alphabet is very, very easy to read (assuming your > grandfather had > > reasonably decent handwriting) after only a half hour or so of study. > You > > won't read it fast at first, but it will come quite easily. > > > > There's nothing at all secretive about it. It is quite easy to find > material > > about it on the internet, for example, and I even found a DA font for my > > Macintosh in the AOL library. Try: > > > > http://people.delphi.com/deseret/home/homealph.htm > > > > for starters. You can find the alphabet, with sample paragraphs, in > quite a > > few readily available places, including the materials that are > distributed to > > seminary students during their year on church history. Since you live in > > Utah, you have easy access to microfilmed copies of the Deseret News -- > scan > > the films, especially for the weekly edition of the paper, for the right > years > > and you will find the DA/romanization table frequently and sample > articles > > every few days. > > > > If you're really interested in reading your ancestor's journal, you can > do it > > with very little preparation and only moderate effort. Wasn't secret > then, > > and isn't secret now. > > > > Ardis Parshall > > AEParshall@aol.com > > >