{"id":6162,"date":"2018-01-30T18:02:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T18:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6162"},"modified":"2018-01-30T18:02:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T18:02:18","slug":"that-doesnt-look-like-christina-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6162","title":{"rendered":"That Doesn’t Look Like Christina to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"
note: This is reprinted from our old blog and was originally published in May of 2015.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n
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Transcribing foreign language records is not always as difficult as one might expect. There’s a difference though between transcribing and translating.<\/div>\n
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This image comes from the “family register” of the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Harmony Township, Hancock County, Illinois, and is part of the digital images associated with\u00a0Ancestry.com<\/i>‘s\u00a0“Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Records, 1875-1940<\/a>.” As mentioned in an earlier post, the index\u00a0Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/i>currently has to these records does not include the family registers, but if they were microfilmed they can be viewed on\u00a0Ancestry.com<\/i>.<\/div>\n
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The notations on the image below only transcribes the first names of the family members listed in the entry. I used the\u00a0script guide from an old Family History Library research guide<\/a>\u00a0to help me through the transcription process.<\/div>\n
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The entries for Christina geb. Uffkes and Benjamin Rolfs are shown below. The individual letters in “Christina geb.” have been circled in the image below:<\/div>\n
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They are a pretty close match to the sample images in the guide to Gothic script.<\/p>\n

Pastor had very nice handwriting.<\/p>\n

Too bad others didn’t.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

note: This is reprinted from our old blog and was originally published in May of 2015.\u00a0 Transcribing foreign language records is not always as difficult as one might expect. There’s a difference though between transcribing and translating. This image comes from the “family register” of the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Harmony Township, Hancock County, Illinois, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[350,349],"class_list":["post-6162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christina-ufkes","tag-german-handwriting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}