Handwriting dictionary Wiki



Welcome to the Handwriting dictionary!
This wiki was created with aim of building collaborative resource that would help decipher handwriting in old vital and census reports in multiple languages. Anyone is invited to join - just add your term, image with handwriting example with explanation where it is from and categorize it according to language and content you've just added.

Few tips, though:
 * The aim here is to ilustrate actual usage - always include images and explain the word according to its usage in the images
 * This applies to categorization too - you might think the term can apply in other cases, but don't add category unless there is pictorial evidence on the page
 * Include the modern country as part of the location - nobody knows all the historical changes world's political geography has been trough.
 * Include persons age and gender in descriptions of death records