This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------D0369954B030C5AC59E0EC5B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thought I'd share with everyone Have a great weekend everyone! Sande --------------D0369954B030C5AC59E0EC5B Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [209.85.6.27]) by good.attitude.com (2.5 Build 2640 (Berkeley 8.8.6)/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA26950 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:30:03 -0800 Received: (from [email protected]) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA12184; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:31:28 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:31:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <[email protected]> From: "Diane Walsh" <[email protected]> Old-To: "ILSTCLAI-L" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:35:39 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Subject: [ILSTCLAI] Old Handwriting Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/1295 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Here is a link http://www.firstct.com/fv/oldhand.html which shows examples of old handwriting you will often come across during your research. Good for beginners and as a refresher. It even has puzzle to solve. Thanks goes to the NGS Newsletter article which mentioned this site: "Ready Early American Handwriting" by Kip Sperry, author of "Deciphering Old Handwriting" Diane Walsh Member St. Clair CGS www.compu-type.net/rengen/stclair/stchome.htm --------------D0369954B030C5AC59E0EC5B--