I am having trouble reading an old record from my relative.Is there a hand writing expert that can help me?

Question

Who else can help me read what my relative wrote?I can not make out what is wrote?

Answer 1

It would be fun if you could post & we could try to guess. Here are a few links. I hope something is helpful.

http://members.aol.com/AdamCo9991/genealogytips9.html
http://genealogy.about.com/od/paleography/
http://genealogy.about.com/od/paleography/a/old_handwriting.htm
http://www.amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/oldhand.html
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~am1/genmain.html
http://www.amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/
http://www.genealogy.com/68_sperry.html
http://www.genealogy.com/00000010.html
http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/
http://famhist2.blogspot.com/2007/07/reading-old-handwriting.html
http://www.iltrails.org/oldhand.htm
http://www.thegoodwebguide.co.uk/index.php?rid=002167
http://www.amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/x-prop.html
http://www.amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/x-pob.html
http://www.amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/x-occu.html

Answer 2

Oh, so common for research!!
sometimes, it is just a matter of you look at enough old papers, you start to get a feel for it. Other times, the person just had such crappy handwriting that it is next to impossible, or the paper has faded.
Hope you have a scanner? if you don't, drop by walgreens or other one hour photo, and play it like a picture using their scanner. It will still be a jpeg file, and you want on cd, not a print.
Now, you can open it on your computer and use windows viewer or other photo program to ZOOM it close, to see better. Some documents benefit from adjusting the contrast or brightness to where the print shows better. the poster above offered to take a look... just know you will have to email as attachment, which has to be outside the yahoo system thingie, since it does not allow attachments. You can also drop me a note through my profile, and I'll be happy to take a gander at it too, if that does not work out.

Answer 3

I am not a handwriting expert but will give you one little hint that I learned. Look at the way the letters are made in the words you can read and compare them to the words you can't read. Sometimes you can figure some things out.

Answer 4

Go to the National Bureau of Investigation. They have hand-writing experts there.

Answer 5

I'm no expert, but I could give it a try. Scan it off as clearly as possible and send it to my email address listed in my profile. :) Or, is it on some website??

Answer 6

look how the letters are and if its loopy its an a,o,p,q. sometimes in old writing, the S's look like F's so thats another hint.