There is a website for online look ups? - www.Theukelectoralroll.co.uk and another TraceSmart.co.uk/electoralroll?or if these don't work just google electoral rolls UK.? Hope you find her. Penny Wakefield -----Original Message----- From: leicestershire-plus-request@rootsweb.com To: leicestershire-plus@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 8:18 Subject: LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS Digest, Vol 2, Issue 377 Today's Topics: 1. Re: Learning to Read Old Scripts or Text (Firebird) 2. Re: Learning to Read Old Scripts or Text (Jim & Ann) 3. Re: Learning to Read Old Scripts or Text (Blanche Charles) 4. 2007 Electoral Roll Leicester look-up? (Sally Walters) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:30:01 +0000 From: Firebird <sparrer@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [LEI] Learning to Read Old Scripts or Text To: leicestershire-plus@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4763ACA9.40207@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Jim & Ann wrote: > Can someone please guide me as to any ways of learning more about this > subject so as to better familiarize me with these old texts please, all > suggestions welcome. Books and web sites all appreciated.. The National Archives has an online course. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:14:47 -0800 From: Jim & Ann <japatterson@shaw.ca> Subject: Re: [LEI] Learning to Read Old Scripts or Text To: "'Leicestershire List'" <LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <0JT300GIAJOQ0M10@l-daemon> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Many thanks for all the great suggestions and info everyone will take all into consideration as I begin to decipher the older styles of UK texts beginning to appear in my research :-) Best of the Season to all.. Jim Patterson-Brewin Brentwood Bay, BC. Canada -----Original Message----- From: leicestershire-plus-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:leicestershire-plus-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jim & Ann Sent: December 14, 2007 8:55 PM To: Leicestershire List Subject: [LEI] Learning to Read Old Scripts or Text Hi everyone and best of the season to you all:-). In recent times much of my research has taken me to a time in history where past scholars wrote quite differently than today and used fonts and calligraphy styles that I find quite hard or let's face impossible to read with my novice eye:-) Can someone please guide me as to any ways of learning more about this subject so as to better familiarize me with these old texts please, all suggestions welcome. Books and web sites all appreciated.. Jim Patterson-Brewin ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:59:14 +1300 From: Blanche Charles <blanchec@paradise.net.nz> Subject: Re: [LEI] Learning to Read Old Scripts or Text To: leicestershire-plus@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <005801c83f7e$e0a8d7d0$fe974eca@blanchec9lin4q> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Jim <japatterson@shaw.ca> wrote: In recent times much of my research has taken me to a time in history where past scholars wrote quite differently than today and used fonts and calligraphy styles that I find quite hard or let's face impossible to read with my novice eye:-) Can someone please guide me as to any ways of learning more about this subject so as to better familiarize me with these old texts please, all suggestions welcome. Books and web sites all appreciated.. Jim Patterson-Brewin ------------------------------ Hi Jim A department of Cambridge University has a (free) online course for reading old handwriting: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/ Regards Blanche Charles Wellington New Zealand ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:43:46 -0800 From: "Sally Walters" <swalters@dccnet.com> Subject: [LEI] 2007 Electoral Roll Leicester look-up? To: <leicestershire-plus@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <6DD38DF3B1EF49C1A1EAFC57E403A459@SallyNew> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original I have just discovered an aged relative, Win(n)ifred L Sturman, living in Leicester. She is my Dad's cousin, and is probably in her 90's. She is not in the phonebook, but I know that she is in the 2007 electoral roll. I am desperate to get her address so that I can write to her. I would be very grateful if SKS could look her up in the 2007 electoral roll for me and send me her address. I live in Canada so have no other way to get the info. Thanks very much, Sally in British Columbia ------------------------------ To contact the LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS list administrator, send an email to LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS mailing list, send an email to LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS Digest, Vol 2, Issue 377 *************************************************** ________________________________________________________________________ AOL's new homepage has launched. Take a tour at http://info.aol.co.uk/homepage/ now.