Roman wrote: > In order to transliterate...you need to become familiar > with the handwriting...You need to look at a lot of records > written by the same person and learn how that > person scribes the various letters of the alphabet.. AMEN! Some letters of the alphabet are not written today as they were in our ancestors' lifetime. When I first started looking through older records, I can't tell you how perplexing the old-fashioned lower case S was for me until I saw an example of old-style handwriting. I thought the scribe kept writing the lower case F with a backward lower loop! -Marie