The Key to the Family Deed Chest. How to Decipher and Study Old Documents

by Cope Emma Elizabeth Thoyts 1860- (Creator)

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Genres: Language

176 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1972

Reviews

[Susan Molloy · Rating 5 out of 5]

🖊️ I enjoyed reading this book since it had much information about documents and handwriting, too. The illustrations were very helpful.

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༒ From Chapter II, "Handwriting"

🔻The uneducated generally have a very good opinion of their own personal qualifications.

📕Published — 1903. In the public domain.
🎨Illustrated.

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[Meg - find me on TSG · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well, the last chapter skimmed the surface of what I thought this book would be helpful for, chiefly learning hints to help one better be able to decipher the formation of letters and abbreviations in medieval manuscripts. Bummer.

However, the chapter on parish registers might be helpful to genealogists and there was another chapter that gave references to other books that might better cover the manuscript stuff--although since they are likely of similar vintage to this one, that seems dubious.

There were also beautiful engravings/woodcuts at the beginning of each chapter for no apparent reason.