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Ann Sherwin, German-English Translation (Facebook)

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

Deciphering Gothic Records

Pamphlet for sale.

FamilySearch Wiki - German Word List

FamilySearch Wiki - Handwriting Guide: German Gothic ^FREE

Foreign Name Cross Reference

Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Slovak, Russian or Yiddish given first names with their English equivalents.

Form Letters for German Genealogy

GenWiki - Alte deutsche Handschriften / Old German Handwritten Scripts

GenWiki - TransServ

Volunteer translators can provide you with translations between Czech, English, Dutch, French, German, & Polish. This service is provided via e-mail. Exact request syntax and length rules must be followed in order to expedite processing.

German Genealogy: Translation Service

German Illness Translations

German Study Group / German Words

German-English Genealogical Dictionary (Amazon)

A book by Ernest Thode.

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.

The Old German Handwriting

Walden Font Co. - Purveyors of old and historic fonts and clip-art

Several different fonts for sale, including: 18 historic German Fraktur fonts, including Gutenberg's original bible font; a high-quality Old German Script font. Includes ligatures and special characters. Ideal for learning German Script; 9 handwriting fonts from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and beyond; 18 original Revolutionary War era fonts plus 300+ clip-art images; a historic 18th century font that includes the long "s" and other special characters.