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• Deutsch <-> Englisches Wörterbuch

• FamilySearch Research Guidance - French Letter-Writing Guide

• FamilySearch Research Guidance - Handwriting Guide: German Gothic

• FamilySearch Research Wiki - Switzerland Language and Languages

  A list of commonly used words found in Swiss church records, family registers and church census records. This list includes words found in dialect spellings.

• Form Letters for German Genealogy

• Fraktur and German Script

• French Wordlist | Learn | FamilySearch.org

• German Genealogy: Translation Service

• German Illness Translations

• German Study Group / German Words

• German Translation Service

  Specializations: German genealogy, Fraktur and German script, legal documents.

• German Word List | Learn | FamilySearch.org

• German-English Genealogical Dictionary

  A book by Ernest Thode.

• German-English Letter Translation Specialists

• German-English On-line Dictionary

• 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.

• If I Can You Can Decipher Germanic Records

  A book by Edna Bentz.

• Italian Genealogical Word List | Learn | FamilySearch.org

  This list contains Italian words with their English translations. The words included here are those that you are likely to find in genealogical sources.

• Moravians - German Script Tutorial

  With Moravian Archival examples

  • German Script Alphabet

• Old German Handwritten Scripts