At 09:46 PM 4/6/2011, you wrote:
I'm so glad Cheri is giving that tutorial on how to read the
records. Thank you SO much. May I add another resource on reading
the handwriting?
There is a helpful (understatement) booklet published by the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints called "Basic Portuguese
Paleography". It talks about handwriting styles, shows examples of
various ways letters were shaped, discusses abbreviations &
variations in spelling & naming customs , gives lists of terms and
Latin words and common first names and surnames, etc etc etc, all to
help you know what you are reading. It gives actual texts to practice read.
The booklet is available online, for free, in four .pdf chunks of
about 10 pages each, at wiki.FamilySearch.org. You can download it
and print it off. This publication was apparently put online in the
last half of last year, by the way; I know that for a time it was
only available on microfiche.
Go to:
<https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Portuguese_Genealogical_Word_List>https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Portuguese_Genealogical_Word_List
There is a lot of useful information on this page.
For the handwriting booklet, go to the left "Contents" and click on
"3. Additional Resources". At the very bottom of that section,
there is a reference to the Basic Paleography booklet. The links to
the .pdf 'chunks' are at the very end of that section, part 1, part
2, part 3, and part 4.
Eileen Leite
Eileen,
Thank you very much for this link =D> . I've downloaded and saved
those PDFs. They should come in very handy.
Joan Jurancich
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