READING EARLY AMERICAN HANDWRITING By Kip Sperry

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 for reading early American documents, provides samples of alphabets and letter forms, and defines terms and abbreviations commonly used in early American documents such as wills, deeds, and church records. Also contains an annotated bibliography of books and articles of particular interest to genealogists and historians.