How to Decipher Your Ancestors’ Letters and Diaries

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My husband works with computers, not old documents, so one night when he glanced over as I sat transcribing a census page, he cried, “How can you read that?” Used to the uniformity and predictability of fonts on a computer screen, he was baffled by the curlicues and chicken scratches on the old census document. View Website VIP Subscription

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