Palae What?

Palaeography is the study of ancient writing. Once you get back to early records, you'll find you're faced with a number of challenges.

All of these factors make reading early writing a challenge to the amateur genealogist.

A useful site with tutorials on reading old documents is that at the UK National Archives

 

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