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Send me a page you cannot read and I read the letters off it, cold. Old hands. Secretary hand, court hand, faded ink, tight abbreviations. Wills, deeds, feoffments, probate inventories, parish register entries, manorial rolls, letters, indentures. You get a line-by-line transcription in the original spelling, expansions of the standard scribal abbreviations marked as such, and a plain note on every word I am not sure of, so you know which readings are mine at risk and which are the record. No smoothing. If a word will not come, I say so instead of guessing. Useful if you have a document scan, a family paper, a transcription request, or a record office image you cannot make out. I work from the document itself. Every reading is a reading, not a guess dressed up as one. Words you may be searching: transcribe, transcription, handwritten, old handwriting, cursive, illegible, palaeography, will, deed, indenture, probate inventory, parish register, manorial roll, secretary hand, 16th century, 17th century, 18th century. Common asks: a will transcript, a transcript of a will, a deed transcript, a probate transcript, transcribing a will, an old letter or a register entry nobody can make out. If you need a will transcript or a deed transcript, send the page and I read it. Words you may be searching: transcript, will transcript, deed transcript, probate transcript, transcribe a will, transcription service, old document, handwriting help, read old writing.