January 2015 Magazine – Book Design and Manufacturing Friday, Jan 9 2015 

Book Design and Book Production and Electronic Magazine , , , , , , , , , , , Gregath Company, Inc. 9:08 am

Book Manufacturing Concepts
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December 2002, V1#4: Genealogy Saturday, Jan 3 2009 

Electronic Magazine and Genealogy , , , , , , , , , , , , , Gregath Company, Inc. 10:51 pm

Having trouble deciphering old records?  In addition to spidery hand (which can’t be helped) and bad reproduction (you might seek out another copy – even in microfilm), a culprit may be differing styles of writing.  Check out information on old handwriting.  One example if the instance of double s’s (ss) was often written like a misshapen lowercase cursive “f”…