You have done a great job, I have gotten a few military documents from Washington,DC., deeds,and wills, which takes time to learn to read, and I have found if I took and got out side in the sun light with a pen and paper,{ lets not forget the big glass of ice tea, }by getting out in the sun you can see the documents better, and think of how the sentence might read, it took me a while as I didn't do it that often, but once I learned, I was gone, I enjoy read them. Here I go with Nixon Covey and his diary, his hand writing is very ledgeable, his d's were the same as I have read in other documents, By looking at some of the other documents I have read and comparing them with his, one can tell he was educated, { but where did he get it?}. Keep it up, Jan. Jean Dalrymple wrote: > > http://www.firstct.com/fv/oldhand.html