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Re: [OL] How to decipher old handwriting?		 Datum 2006/08/19 18:40:46
E. Bomhof
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2006/08/19 11:08:13
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Ahnenforschung Familie Timphaus
Re: [OL] How to decipher old handwriting?
2006/08/16 19:41:42
Werner Honkomp
Re: [OL] Rollman's of Neuekirchen		 Autor 2006/08/21 10:57:18
Werner Honkomp
Re: [OL] Meyer-Holzgrefe in Bokern, Damme

Re: [OL] How to decipher old handwriting?

Date: 2006/08/19 15:36:51
From: Werner Honkomp <werner(a)honkomp.de> 

Could it be "Cumberland" in Maryland?
Former the "u" was allways overstrike.

Werner

> Hallo List,

> We need some assistance in reading old handwriting from late 1700s and
> early
> 1800s church records.

> There is a first letter of a word that looks like a 2 in modern
> handwriting.


> "Ludovicus de Heise Wa??is (or in)  im gu(or gri)unreadable von
> 2umbarland."
> (Or what looks to be barland - it may be barlant or barlaut.)

> Do any of you have an idea about that 2 looking letter?  The 2 has a curl
> on
> the top if that helps.  Also, in the old handwriting, was the overstrike
> over
> the letter u as common as it is today?

> Thanks for any assistance.

> Courtenay Ochs

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