Thank you folks. I started to wonder "Have I done it all wrong?" These old Tudor PRs are difficult enough with their variations in spelling and indeed the different ways of forming the individual letters, I'm quite dizzy after about an hour of it. Some letters I puzzle over for hours ... and it could be days or even weeks later, when it has been used in a word that looks familiar, like ?lerk. Then, I think that the letter that could be a Y, or a P, is in fact a C. Low and behold, a few entries later was the word Clerk with what we would call a normal C. This is a right old puzzle! Anyway thanks again to all those who replied to me. It was a real encouragement. Dennis ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 9:35 AM Subject: Re: [WSX] Transcribing Parish Records | Hi Dennis | We have transcribed many Hampshire PR's and these are online at | www.knightsure.co.uk/knightroots/genealogy | We always transcribe as is - otherwise it is not a transcription but an | interpretaion. If we can't read something, we put dashes or ??? | We came across a site recently www.british-genealogy.com where there is a | section on transcribing. | Take care | Linda & Tony | | | ==== WESSEX-PLUS Mailing List ==== | To find a UK mailing lists - try John Fuller's page at: | http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_country-unk.html | John also includes some useful non-Rootsweb Lists eg Moonrakers etc |