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'''Handwriting'''<br> | |||
Handwriting styles have changed over time. In early records, the handwriting is quite different from what it is today. Visit [[Scotland Handwriting|Scotland Handwriting]] in Research Topics. | |||
'''Abbreviations'''<br> | |||
Abbreviations are common in early handwriting. When recorders left letters out of a word, they indicated the fact by using various marks, such as a period, a colon, a tail on the last letter of the word, a curvy line over the word, or a raised letter at the end of the word. Abbreviations can be indicated in many ways, and it is important to study individual writers to see how they made abbreviations. | |||
In Scottish church records, ministers often used only the first letter of the words, for example:<br> | |||
L.S. = lawful son<br> | |||
L.D. = lawful daughter<br> | |||
N.S. = natural son<br> | |||
N.D. = natural daughter<br> | |||
ch. = child<br> | |||
Ch. N. = child named<br> | |||
N. = named<br> | |||
Instead of writing the words father, mother, witness, son, or daughter, the minister may have used f, m, w, s, or other letters. | |||
'''The old letter Yogh'''<br> | |||
Yogh (ȝogh) is an old letter that may be encountered when looking at some very old documents. It resembles the number 3 or a cursive Z. This represents a "y" sound. Later the yogh was turned into Y. It ended up fossilized as a Z in some words and names. McKenzie and Menzies, for example, would have originally been written with a yogh, i.e. McKenȝie and Menȝies. | |||
== References == | == References == | ||