In message <001301c3fc87$a8390700$64e9fc3e@oemcomputer>, "norman.lee1" <norman.lee1@virgin.net> writes >Hello there Mary > >I have a feeling that someone will disagree with me but most people I know >transcribe ff as F. ff was the way of writing a capital. absolutely correct - using a doubled ff in spelling a name (even a person's own name) is evidence of acquiring education late. u and v > These two letters present >different problems and there is more than one school of thought concerning >their transcription. u and v are often presented in documents as appearing >to be the same letter In general, the v formation is used at the beginning of words and the u formation in the centre, regardless of modern differentiation, and it is sensible to transcribe then with that in mind. >. Many people transcribe all of these as u, regardless >of whether any of us would pronounce them as a u. For instance, I don't like that - again, it shows lack of comprehension > I can't >think of anyone who would pronounce an underground chamber as 'caue' and >most people would call it a 'cave'. However, there is a school of thought >that would not alter the word caue to cave. but it isn't 'alteration', just using what the original writer intended to convey -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society