Some of the old documents are written in poor Latin...my theory is that this was a deliberate ploy by the clerks to show they "knew more" than the rest of the population...!! So they wrote in their own form of Latin....result - impossible to translate! Read between the lines is what I was once told to do... Jacqui ----- Original Message ----- From: Charani To: warwick@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 10:32 AM Subject: Re: [WAR] Latin lessons for the masochists amongst us! A P L wrote: > amamus amatis amant > > - I couldn't resist showing off!! Miss ROBERTSON be overwhelmed!! :)) > But what is palaeography? That is definitely GREEK to me? It is Greek. It's the study of old handwriting. Mind you, some of the documents are double Dutch to me. -- Charani (UK) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.11/838 - Release Date: 07/06/2007 14:21

Jacqui Simkins wrote: > Some of the old documents are written in poor Latin...my theory is that this was a deliberate ploy by the clerks to show they "knew more" than the rest of the population...!! So they wrote in their own form of Latin....result - impossible to translate! > > Read between the lines is what I was once told to do... I can just about manage to translate baptisms and Anglicise names but that's about my lot. -- Charani (UK)