>From: "Murray Stauffer" <mstauf@arkansas.net> >To: TNGIBSON-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [TNGIBSON-L] Need Help On Old Handwriting >Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 19:02:20 -0500 > >Recently made my long awaited visit to the Gibson County Court House. My >purpose was to inspect an 1861 marriage license of N A Thomas to D L >Dickey. I have wondered if they were the parents of John Henry Dickey. I >believe the mother of John was named Matilda and I wanted to see if perhaps >the "N" in N A Thomas really looked like an "M" for Matilda. It didn't but >is there anyone that might know if an M was sometimes written to look like >an N? I would certainly appreciate any comments. I need some moral >support. BK Stauffer mstauf@arkansas.net >@arkansas.net Recently I was looking at some photocopies of the Blount & Sevier Co. census from around the turn of the century. Some of the M's I saw I would of thought were N if I had not known it should have been different. These were not printed but written in cursive and were always the first letter of a name (the lower case m and n were easy to tell apart). Was the marriage license printed or cursive? Wish you luck. Van Michael Wadley Trezevant,TN wadleyv@usit.net _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com