✒️ Library of scripts

An old record rarely resists you because of its language: it resists because of its hand. Here are the scripts found in the registers, what makes them unreadable, and what it takes to decipher them.

• FrakturGeburtsregister16th century – 1941German, Scandinavian and Central European printing
• Kurrent and SütterlinKirchenbuch16th century – 1941German handwriting, from parish registers to family letters
• English round handParish Register17th – 19th centuryEnglish-language parish registers and civil records
• Pre-1918 CyrillicМетрическая книгаuntil the 1918 reformRussian records: civil registration, parish registers, censuses
• Old and polytonic GreekΛηξιαρχεῖονuntil the 1982 reformGreek church registers, island records, inscriptions

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