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• AAD ABIES

  AAD ABIES provides German>English/Latin>English translation and transcription of modern and historical handwriting.

• Fraktur and German Script

• Fraktur Deciphered

• German Translation Service, translators of the Old German Scripts

• Handwriting Guide: German Gothic

• Here you can learn Suetterlin - the German handwriting

  Excellent online tutorial on the German script and handwriting including an alphabet and scanned examples of documents.

• Moravians - German Script Tutorial

  With Moravian Archival examples

  • German Script Alphabet

• Old German Handwritten Scripts

• OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List

  For deciphering and interpreting documents from the British Isles, from earliest times to about 1900. This list is intended for genealogists, family and local historians, etc. Archives: browse or search.

• On-line kurs i gotisk handskrift

  Free Norwegian on-line course in Gothic handwriting.

• On-line kurs i gotisk handskrift

  This learning package is a collaboration between the Department of History at the University of Bergen and the State Archive in Bergen. Norwegian only, but easily followed to handwriting examples to help with decifering texts and manuscripts.This course is a self-help course. This means that we can not provide assistance or technical guidance in the interpretation of Gothic handwriting beyond what is possible in this learning package. If you want to know more about handwriting history and development in Norway, so please take a look at the National Archives exhibition (Scripture for 1000 years.).

• Scottish Handwriting

  Online tutorial with scanned examples and helpful tips from the Scottish Archives Network.

• Script Tutorials - Paleography, Old Documents, and Family History Research

  Resources for old handwriting and documents in English, German, Dutch, Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

• The Old German Handwriting

• Vertalingen van Latijns naar het Nederlands

  A dictionary for translating Latin genealogical words to the Dutch language.