The write way to trace your ancestors.

Lancashire Evening Post (Preston, England) | June 6, 2008 | Copyright

Reading old hand-writing is a vital part of researching a family tree and Preston has experts who can help.

Paleography is hard to explain, admits Anna Watson, archivist at the Lancashire Record Office in Preston.

She says: "Put simply, it is reading old hand writing. An essential skill for an archivist."

"It is the ability to read something and recognise the elements in it. For example, people use text language now to say a lot with a few characters. They used to do the same thing in medieval language. They abbreviated language to use less ...

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