Friday, August 26, 2005

reading the unreadable

Palaeography is the study of ancient writing. Once you get back to early records, you'll find you're faced with a number of challenges. "
Hard to read the original books were damaged in a fire and this is one of the few which survived. You can see the smoke damage.
Genlinks Index - Tracing ancestors in the UK: "This site is a guide to tracing ancestors in the UK, with special reference to the North of England.
The information here, is based on a genealogy evening class I taught in 1976 and which subsequently became a series of articles, written for the first three journals of the Cleveland Family History Society (UK). It has been updated to take account of today's technology and prices."

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