Thanks to all on the Dauphin list who gave me websites, lists of words, and all other assistance. I now have enough resources to tackle some of those troublesome words again. Nora Florida Scott Bosecker wrote: > Nora, > > It might be useful to have the context of the words in questions. > > Scott > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nora Avery-Wickham" <cozycottage2005@bellsouth.net> > To: "GenAlleganyCo MD" <MDALLEGA-L@rootsweb.com>; "GenCumberlandCo PA" > <PACUMBER@rootsweb.com>; "GenDauphinCo PA" <PADAUPHI-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 3:22 PM > Subject: [PADAUPHI] Legal-ese from 1850 > > > >> I am attempting to transcribe a few handwritten legal documents--deeds >> and indentures--from around 1850 and am quite perplexed and confounded >> by some of the terminology. Some examples are: something that looks like >> "infroff," "alimed," "legains," "lteuirn" and the like. >> >> If someone could offer me a list of commonly used legal terms from that >> time period, I could then see if some of them would fit. >> >> Thank you. >> Nora >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> PADAUPHI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADAUPHI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >