I enjoyed Dorothee Hughes Carousso's article, "Colonial Handwriting Hazards and Hints," which can be found in the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol. 30, no. 4 (1978) at p. 227 et seq. You hopefully can find the magazine and article available for reading on-line on google books at http://books.google.com/books?id=BcJ1jgnNp6sC&pg=PA235&lpg=PA235&dq=%2B%22colonial+abbreviations%22&source=bl&ots=eiXz79KEp-&sig=xxTFDUpjTr2_ZvDIvd0GdI099FY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA227,M1, Carousso even addresses colonial abbreviations on pages 235 & 236. (As for those apparently out of place, odd, weird, and often seemingly indecipherable names, numbers, figures, dates, places, words, and letters, and so forth, I try not to toss them out the window too quickly. Sometimes some of them mean something. And I have fun trying to figure them out in any event.) Dave K
Thanks for the link, Dave. The article is interesting . . . paid by the word . . . that explains a lot. I have often wondered why it took a paragraph to say someone sold land to someone else. Jean -------------- Original message from "Dave & Jane Kearney" <kearneyd@erols.com>: -------------- I enjoyed Dorothee Hughes Carousso's article, "Colonial Handwriting Hazards and Hints," which can be found in the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol. 30, no. 4 (1978) at p. 227 et seq. You hopefully can find the magazine and article available for reading on-line on google books at http://books.google.com/books?id=BcJ1jgnNp6sC&pg=PA235&lpg=PA235&dq=%2B%22coloni al+abbreviations%22&source=bl&ots=eiXz79KEp-&sig=xxTFDUpjTr2_ZvDIvd0GdI099FY&hl= > en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA227,M1, > > Carousso even addresses colonial abbreviations on pages 235 & 236. > (As for those apparently out of place, odd, weird, and often seemingly indecipherable names, numbers, figures, dates, places, words, and letters, and so forth, I try not to toss them out the window too quickly. Sometimes some of > them mean something. And I have fun trying to figure them out in any event.) > > Dave K > *************************************** > QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? > Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: > http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Dave, I beginning to think you and I are the only ones who read the article. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave & Jane Kearney" <kearneyd@erols.com> To: <lower-delmarva-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 12:11 AM Subject: Re: [LDR] Old abbreviations and their [sometimes difficult todetermine] meanings >I enjoyed Dorothee Hughes Carousso's article, "Colonial Handwriting Hazards >and Hints," which can be found in the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, >vol. 30, no. 4 (1978) at p. 227 et seq. You hopefully can find the magazine >and article available for reading on-line on google books at >http://books.google.com/books?id=BcJ1jgnNp6sC&pg=PA235&lpg=PA235&dq=%2B%22colonial+abbreviations%22&source=bl&ots=eiXz79KEp-&sig=xxTFDUpjTr2_ZvDIvd0GdI099FY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA227,M1, > > Carousso even addresses colonial abbreviations on pages 235 & 236. > > (As for those apparently out of place, odd, weird, and often seemingly > indecipherable names, numbers, figures, dates, places, words, and letters, > and so forth, I try not to toss them out the window too quickly. Sometimes > some of them mean something. And I have fun trying to figure them out in > any event.) > > Dave K > *************************************** > QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? > Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: > http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Nope ! I read (most of) it. The first several pages seemed to be sorta' boiler plate, but then she "got down to business". The chart in the middle of the article should be useful to all. Joe Lake > Dave, I beginning to think you and I are the only ones who read the article. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave & Jane Kearney" <kearneyd@erols.com> > To: <lower-delmarva-roots@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 12:11 AM > Subject: Re: [LDR] Old abbreviations and their [sometimes difficult > todetermine] meanings > > >>I enjoyed Dorothee Hughes Carousso's article, "Colonial Handwriting Hazards >>and Hints," which can be found in the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, >>vol. 30, no. 4 (1978) at p. 227 et seq. You hopefully can find the magazine >>and article available for reading on-line on google books at >>http://books.google.com/books?id=BcJ1jgnNp6sC&pg=PA235&lpg=PA235&dq=%2B%22colonial+abbreviations%22&source=bl&ots=eiXz79KEp-&sig=xxTFDUpjTr2_ZvDIvd0GdI099FY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA227,M1, >> >> Carousso even addresses colonial abbreviations on pages 235 & 236. >> >> (As for those apparently out of place, odd, weird, and often seemingly >> indecipherable names, numbers, figures, dates, places, words, and letters, >> and so forth, I try not to toss them out the window too quickly. Sometimes >> some of them mean something. And I have fun trying to figure them out in >> any event.) >> >> Dave K >> *************************************** >> QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? >> Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: >> http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > *************************************** > QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? > Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: > http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Well, no.? But as the author said at the outset, script interpretation is a lifetime of learning.? My own favorite, as it were, which she failed to mention, is the cup-on-hook "8". The top circle on our modern "8" was not closed, and the?symbol appeared like a little cup hanging on a rack. This is easily confused with a "6".? Other scribes made "lazy 8s", with the circles almost side-by-side, much like what we know now as the representation of "infinity'. John > Dave, I beginning to think you and I are the only ones who read the article. ________________________________________________________________________ Email message sent from CompuServe - visit us today at http://www.cs.com
Jean ~ Ha, I think you're right! Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Schroeder To: lower-delmarva-roots@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 5:15 PM Subject: Re: [LDR] Old abbreviations and their [sometimes difficulttodetermine] meanings Dave, I beginning to think you and I are the only ones who read the article. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave & Jane Kearney" <kearneyd@erols.com> To: <lower-delmarva-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 12:11 AM Subject: Re: [LDR] Old abbreviations and their [sometimes difficult todetermine] meanings >I enjoyed Dorothee Hughes Carousso's article, "Colonial Handwriting Hazards >and Hints," which can be found in the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, >vol. 30, no. 4 (1978) at p. 227 et seq. You hopefully can find the magazine >and article available for reading on-line on google books at >http://books.google.com/books?id=BcJ1jgnNp6sC&pg=PA235&lpg=PA235&dq=%2B%22colonial+abbreviations%22&source=bl&ots=eiXz79KEp-&sig=xxTFDUpjTr2_ZvDIvd0GdI099FY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA227,M1, > > Carousso even addresses colonial abbreviations on pages 235 & 236. > > (As for those apparently out of place, odd, weird, and often seemingly > indecipherable names, numbers, figures, dates, places, words, and letters, > and so forth, I try not to toss them out the window too quickly. Sometimes > some of them mean something. And I have fun trying to figure them out in > any event.) > > Dave K > *************************************** > QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? > Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: > http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message *************************************** QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message