5 Strategies for Deciphering Old English Words in Records

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You’re apt to discover archaic terms in documents from diaries to newspapers. The meaning of the unfamiliar word may hold the clue to an ancestor’s occupation, appearance, cause of death or legal transaction. Perhaps an old document will reveal that your ancestor worked in a zythepsary (a brew house) or was a peder (a small-tract View Website VIP Subscription

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