Deciphering Handwriting In German Documents - Analyzing German, Latin, and French in Vital Records Written In Germany by Roger P. Minert

Based on more than 200 years and 20,000 hours of experience in German family history research, Dr. Roger P. Minert presents in these pages systematic instruction for deciphering German handwriting for researchers on all levels of expertise. For the first time, one volume offers all of  the following features:

• A brief, scholarly review of the history of handwriting styles and alphabets in German-speaking regions of Europe.
• A methodology for deciphering German texts in German source documents.
• A methodology for deciphering Latin texts in German source documents.
• A methodology for deciphering French texts in German source documents.
• The introduction of modern computerized, normed sets of alphabet characters representing the old Fraktur and Gothic handwriting alphabets.
• More than 150 illustrations - including 131 examples taken from genuine German vital records.
• Instructions on the use of the reverse alphabetical index - the only modern technology to be applied to the deciphering of words and names in old handwritten German documents.