{"id":4684,"date":"2013-08-15T23:47:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T04:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/?p=4684"},"modified":"2024-03-20T13:03:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T18:03:27","slug":"tip-for-german-research-write-it-outin-german","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/tip-for-german-research-write-it-outin-german\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip for German Research – Write it Out…in GERMAN!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are plenty of guides out there that show the German alphabet, in the Fraktur, S\u00fctterlin, and Kurrent styles.  These guides can really help you when trying to decipher old documents that use the German language.  One that I find useful can be found here<\/a> and contains all three styles.  However, I have taken a slightly different approach, and thought I\u2019d share it on the off chance it helps someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About a year ago, I downloaded a Fraktur font just for fun.  Okay, maybe fun isn\u2019t the right word, but I wanted to practice reading German type, and since I can\u2019t even read my own English handwriting (and that style is very elaborate), I figured what better way to study the letters than to read them, type them and hope that they match!  It really did help with distinguishing between those tricky, similar letters.  The font that I downloaded was MarsFraktur Normal<\/em> and I found it at Fraktur German True Type Fonts and Others<\/a>. Of the fonts listed, this particular one included all of the special characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the last few weeks, in my spare time (wait, what\u2019s that?), I\u2019ve been going through German church records, all handwritten, using S\u00fctterlin, Kurrent, or a combination thereof.  While I have my handy-dandy letter guide, it\u2019s a cumbersome process.  I am looking at every entry for certain people listed as parents or witnesses in hopes of building a network of my second great-grandfather\u2019s associates (so far, there are a few promising leads!!).  Anyway, skimming these entries is not as easy as scanning English entries, particularly when the handwriting is (literally) foreign to you.  Some names (okay, most) look nothing like their English equivalent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, to hopefully prevent me from reading over a name, I developed a cheat-sheet with the names I am looking for and what they look like in German.\u00a0 What a difference this has made.\u00a0 Recognition and recall are helping me avoid skipping a name and move a little faster through the records.\u00a0 Below is a partial listing of my list, which is now by my side when working with the church records.\u00a0 I used the font S\u00fctterlin<\/em>, developed by Professor Don Becker; it can be downloaded here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Hope someone else out there finds this tip helpful.  Best of luck to everyone seeking their German roots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are plenty of guides out there that show the German alphabet, in the Fraktur, S\u00fctterlin, and Kurrent styles.  These guides can really help you when trying to decipher old documents that use the German language.  One that I find useful can be found here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[27,25,29],"tags":[394],"class_list":["post-4684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-genblog","category-technology-genblog","tag-location-germanyprussia","cat-27-id","cat-25-id","cat-29-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-1dy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684","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=4684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6888,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions\/6888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}