Learn to decipher German cursive script
For those of Pennsylvania German ancestry, a key skill is being able to decipher the German cursive script they used for their wills, deeds, church registers, tombstones and other documents well into the 19th century. The cursive writing used in these documents is considerably different than that used by English-speaking peoples. In addition, modern Germans no longer use the script.
Coming to the rescue for those who need to learn this skill is the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem, which has sponsored a two-week German Script Seminar for 35 years that reveals the intricacies of the handwriting used in both Old and New World documents of German-speaking peoples.
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Posted by: Ernie Misch | September 10, 2006 at 01:55 PM
That is very common. As stated at the top of every page on this section of the web site, "All links were verified at the time of posting but may have changed since then." Many of these articles point to newspaper web sites and many newspapers rearrange their articles frequently.
I am not aware of any archive that contains that story.
Posted by: Dick Eastman | September 10, 2006 at 02:14 PM