If only they HAD written that way instead of the running of words together, lack of punctuation and overlapping letters! LOL! Thanks for the link though Katharine. Beautiful penmanship there! Sam (currently in CA)
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Katharine Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 6:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Broadside teaching 19th-century penmanship. For anyone who's ever gotten frustrated trying to decipher the flourish-y penmanship in Azorean baptismal, marriage or death registos, and other old documents -- which I'd imagine is a goodly percentage of this group's membership! Katharine. "How That Nineteenth-Century Handwriting Got So Pretty": http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/05/17/handwriting_broadside_teachi ng_the_spencer_method_of_cursive.html?wpisrc=obnetwork -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores?hl=en. -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores?hl=en.
