Could someone post the alphabet in american spencerian. I have looked everywhere on the internet for the complete lower and uppercase alphabet. I can't find anything at the book store either. Thanks
I don't believe Alexandria Script Normal would be the same as Spencerian. Here is the link I used to get my example of 19th century Spencerian - http://www.sullivanpress.com/Spencerian.htm - I found it by going into Google.com and typed in "19th century handwriting".
I found in searching, using "handwriting" as a search word instead of "script" seemed to work better. You can search for other types of handwriting this way. German handwriting, gothic handwriting, etc.
I found this information to be very helpful. One of the most dramatic changes in letters has been the letter "s". Over 100 years ago "s" was sometimes written like a backward "f". This was usually used when there was a word with two "ss" and the first "s" was called a leading "s"and the backward "f" was used and the second "s" was printed as we currently use. This is hard do explain without illustrations. An example would be the name Jesse, using the leading "s" the name would appear to read Jefse.
Also, a good example is the upper case "V" which looks like a upper case "W".
Here is a small update on how the transcriptions are going. In the last month we have added 49 new passenger lists, containing more than 4300 emigrants, to the database. Some lists are of the short type, containing only a few emigrants, while the long lists have close to 500 passengers. The database now have a total number of 38742 emigrants , from 322 different lists. There are now about 6-8 of us working with the lists (on and off), and several lists are in progress. If we keep this speed up I probably will have to start looking for a new hobby after Christmas
I have been working on lists from the 1840's but for the transcribers that are working on later lists, I would think crosschecking with the Emigration departure lists (or census) might be of help in verifying hard to read names.
100 passenger lists waiting
Posted - 21/10/2003 : 12:38:24
This is hard do explain without illustrations. An example would be the name Jesse, using the leading "s" the name would appear to read Jefse.
