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 >