{"id":454,"date":"2012-10-02T23:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T04:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/and-i-thought-my-english-handwriting-was-bad\/"},"modified":"2013-07-05T12:45:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T17:45:05","slug":"and-i-thought-my-english-handwriting-was-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/and-i-thought-my-english-handwriting-was-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"And I thought my English handwriting was bad\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out, my German handwriting is even worse!<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, I attended the Tazewell County (IL) Genealogical Society fall workshop, where Carol Whitton presented four great lectures.\u00a0 Truth be told, I was strictly in it for the two lectures on German research:\u00a0 <em>Using and Understanding the German Gazetteer<\/em> and <em>Reading German Church Records<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Both of the German lectures were excellent and gave me some motivation to dive further into my German roots (more on that in another post).\u00a0 In the church record presentation, Carol introduced us to the old German <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S%C3%BCtterlin\">S\u00fctterlin script<\/a>, which has not been taught since World War II.\u00a0 Then, after handing out penmanship paper, she had us try our hand at writing in the script.<\/p>\n<p>I felt like a first-grader trying to write for the first time!\u00a0 English or German, it doesn\u2019t matter, my penmanship is still terrible\u2026but for my first stab at writing in an obsolete script that is completely foreign (no pun intended) to me, I don\u2019t think I did too bad.\u00a0 Can you read these surnames?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"handwriting\" alt=\"handwriting\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/-Vboa9DgcB2Q\/UGu_P9R2XbI\/AAAAAAAAGz0\/D09047qo2XQ\/handwriting%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"452\" height=\"629\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The surnames are:\u00a0 Schwartz, M\u00fcller, Kramer, Leppin, and Wach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out, my German handwriting is even worse! On Saturday, I attended the Tazewell County (IL) Genealogical Society fall workshop, where Carol Whitton presented four great lectures.\u00a0 Truth be told, I was strictly in it for the two lectures on German research:\u00a0 Using and Understanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[394],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genblog","tag-location-germanyprussia","cat-25-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-7k","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3164,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/3164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}