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20 Tips for Deciphering Old German Handwriting

Offers tips for deciphering old German script.

Deciphering Gothic Records

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FamilySearch - Old German Script

By Fritz Juengling Ph.D., AG.

FamilySearch Learning Center - Old German Script Part 1 ^FREE

By Dr. Fritz Juengling.

FamilySearch Learning Center - Old German Script Part 2 ^FREE

By Dr. Fritz Juengling.

FamilySearch Learning Center - Old German Script Part 3 ^FREE

By Dr. Fritz Juengling. German Church and Civil Records.

FamilySearch Learning Center - Reading Russian Documents: Deciphering the Handwriting and Understanding the Grammar

FamilySearch Learning Center - Reading Russian Documents: The Russian Alphabet

FamilySearch Learning Center - Scandinavian Handwriting

FamilySearch Learning Center - Scandinavian Handwriting Part 3

FamilySearch Wiki - Germany Handwriting

FamilySearch Wiki - Handwriting Guide: German Gothic ^FREE

FamilySearch Wiki - Italy Handwriting

Fraktur Deciphered

GenWiki - Alte deutsche Handschriften / Old German Handwritten Scripts

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.

Journey into German Genealogy (YouTube)

Presentation by German Genealogy Translator Katherine Schober on Tips and Tools to Help You with German Genealogy and Old German Handwriting.

My Ancestors and Me - Helps for Translating That Old German Handwriting

OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List (Archived on RootsWeb)

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.

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.).