Discover tips to help you learn how to read old handwriting
In a perfect world, all the documents we use in our research would be written in a beautiful, clear copperplate, all perfectly spaced in neat lines, with no blotches or crossings out and no faded ink or damaged pages. But we soon learn that, most of the time, what we actually see falls some way short of that ideal.
Professional scribes
The standard varies greatly from one set of records to another. A lot depends on the original
