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== Gothic Handwriting == | == Gothic Handwriting == | ||
''See the tutorials in the FamilySearch Learning Center on [https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/ | ''See the tutorials in the FamilySearch Learning Center on [https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/lessons/scandinavian-handwriting "Reading Scandinavian Gothic Handwritten Records".]'' | ||
Gothic handwriting was not called such until the last half of the 1800s. Earlier it was customary to call it Danish or Norwegian script. But when the modern handwriting, Latin script, became the national script then the old script had to be called something else. | Gothic handwriting was not called such until the last half of the 1800s. Earlier it was customary to call it Danish or Norwegian script. But when the modern handwriting, Latin script, became the national script then the old script had to be called something else. | ||