How well I recall those days when we had to use carbon copies. Coralynn -------------------------------------------------- From: "Cliff Lamere" <clifflamere@nycap.rr.com> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 3:11 PM To: <nyrensse@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [NYRENSSE] Abstracts of Wills, 1790 - 1850 > Coralynn, > > I think you have been working with the following books: > > Phillips, Ralph David. Abstracts of wills of Rensselaer County New York > in the office of the Surrogate at Troy, New York, 1791-1850 /, compiled > by Ralph David Phillips. Nassau, N.Y. : R.D. Phillips, 1938. 3 v. (181, > 156, 128 leaves) > > You mentioned that it was difficult reading some of the vowels. In the > days before computers and copy machines, if you wanted more than one > copy of something you were typing, carbon sheets were placed behind the > original onto which you were typing, and a white piece of paper was > placed behind the carbon sheet. The original had typing that was > generally pretty clear. When a key struck the original sheet, some > material was transferred from the carbon sheet to the second sheet of > white paper. This carbon copy had letters which were not as clear as > the letters on the first copy. It was possible to make an additional > copy by adding another carbon plus another white sheet of paper behind > it. However, the letters were even more blurry and the vowels a, o, and > e were more likely to fill in. > > Cliff > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Coralynn wrote: > >>I may be the first person (in 100 yrs anyway) to transcribe these. The >>copy I transcribed from was probably typed from the original records on an >>ancient typewriter, the kind where the ink pools up within some of the >>letters, and when the person does a stike-over the word becomes illegible. >>Nonetheless, these were worth struggling through. >>PLEASE let me know if the name of an individual you may know well, as in >>he/she is in your Tree, is mangled and you can solve the problem of "the >>name is WHAT?!!" >> >>I only have one more section to transcribe. >>http://song-page-coralynn.0catch.com/TRANSCRIPTIONS/Rensselaer%20County%20Wills/CONTENTS.html >> >>Cheers, >>Coralynn B. >> >> > > ====NY-RENSSE Mailing List==== > Check out the mailing list's website at: > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYRensse/ > Don't forget the Rensselaer County Message Board: > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.rensselaer/mb.ashx > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYRENSSE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message