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| #[https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/lesson/reading-scandinavian-gothic-handwritten-records-lesson-3-handwritten-records/256 Reading Scandinavian Gothic Handwritten Records Lesson 3: Handwritten Records] | | #[https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/lesson/reading-scandinavian-gothic-handwritten-records-lesson-3-handwritten-records/256 Reading Scandinavian Gothic Handwritten Records Lesson 3: Handwritten Records] |
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| ''See also '' [[Denmark Parish Register Headings|Parish Register Headings]]. | | ''See also;'' [[Denmark Parish Register Headings|Parish Register Headings]] and [https://familyhistory.byu.edu/Downloads/Scandinavian_Extraction_Guide/Scandinavian_Extraction_Guide-Chapter_2.pdf The Gothic Alphabet]. |
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| <br>'''How to decipher the letters'''
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| As a child, you may have learned to write letters and numbers like these 20<sup>th</sup> century letter forms.
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| <br>[[Image:]]
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| Some Danish letters look deceptively like handwriting used today. For example, a letter that you may think looks like a 20<sup>th</sup> century “B” , may actually be an old handwritten Danish “G” or
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| a “V” . It can be easy to misread old handwriting. However, if you follow the steps below, and practice, you can learn to develop the ability to read old handwritten records.
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| [[Image:]] = B
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| [[Image:]]<nowiki>= G</nowiki>
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| [[Image:]]<nowiki>= V</nowiki>
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| <br>''Follow the five steps below, to analyze and decipher a scribe’s handwriting.''
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| '''1: ''Look for anything familiar to you in a record.'''''
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| <br>'''a.''' Look for any ''numbers, letters, and/or words'' that you are reasonably confident in identifying.
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| For example, look in the record below for any familiar letters, words or numbers.
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| <br>''Danish Christening Entry 1787''
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| Did you see any of the following?
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| *On line 1: The second word appears to consist of fairly distinct
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| letters (Visitationis).
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| The third word also appears to contain fairly distinct letters (Maria).
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| The fifth figure appears to be a number (2), followed by the word (July). | |
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| *On line 2, the third word , appears to begin with the capital letter “D.”
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| *On line 3, in the fifth word , some letters appear to be similar to the word
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| on line 1.
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| *On line 5, the first word appears to be similar to on line 2.
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| '''b.''' If you cannot read a word, '''go to step ''“2. Decipher unknown letters''.”'''
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| If you think that you can read a word, '''go to step “''5. Compare complete/incomplete words with words in'''''
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| '''''the Word Lists.''”'''
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| <br>'''''As needed, '''study the sample church and census records in the back of this guide.''
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| [[Category:Denmark|Handwriting]] [[Category:Handwriting]] | | [[Category:Denmark|Handwriting]] [[Category:Handwriting]] |