This book is designed to teach you how to read and understand the handwriting found in documents commonly used in genealogical research. It explains techniques

In this engaging history, the author demonstrates handwriting in America from colonial times to the present. Exploring such subjects as penmanship, pedagogy, ha

"In genealogical research it is all very well to locate original records, but to read them correctly is another matter altogether. Few people know this better t

Handwriting is something of a dying art nowadays, as we tap messages to each other day after day. But handwriting analysis can divulge everything from a person'

How is American history written? Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alan Taylor answers this question in this collection of his essays from The New Republic, where h