{"id":6526,"date":"2018-03-19T21:07:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T21:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6526"},"modified":"2018-03-19T21:07:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T21:07:16","slug":"records-in-shorthand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6526","title":{"rendered":"Records in Shorthand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you read shorthand? I certainly cannot.<\/p>\n<p>Shorthand testimony was taken in regards to the naturalization of Jane Alice Donald in Adams County, Illinois, in 1921. The material appears with other loose naturalization-related documents from Adams County, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not often I discover this much shorthand in a record&#8211;let alone an entire record written in shorthand. It serves as a reminder that we can easily encounter handwriting we cannot read in virtually any record&#8211;even when most of other materials are written in a script with which we are familiar.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not related to Jane. I merely stumbled across this item while searching for something else. It is located in &#8220;Naturalization related papers, cases 1-414, ca. 1830-1918&#8221; from Adams County, Illinois, as micofilmed by\u00a0<em>FamilySearch.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Information about this item:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/ark:\/61903\/3:1:3Q9M-CS97-RSY4-P?i=510&amp;cat=620678\">direct link to first image on\u00a0<em>FamilySearch<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/search\/catalog\/620678?availability=Family%20History%20Library\">catalog entry for the entries from which this item was located on\u00a0<em>FamilySearch<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6529\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/record-image_3Q9M-CS97-RS5V-1-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/record-image_3Q9M-CS97-RS5V-1-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/record-image_3Q9M-CS97-RS5V-1-768x1102.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/record-image_3Q9M-CS97-RS5V-1-714x1024.jpg 714w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/record-image_3Q9M-CS97-RS5V-1.jpg 1299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6528\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/record-image_3Q9M-CS97-RSYC-N-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/record-image_3Q9M-CS97-RSYC-N-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/record-image_3Q9M-CS97-RSYC-N-768x1098.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/record-image_3Q9M-CS97-RSYC-N-716x1024.jpg 716w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/record-image_3Q9M-CS97-RSYC-N.jpg 1306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6527\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/record-image_3Q9M-CS97-RSYZ-3-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/record-image_3Q9M-CS97-RSYZ-3-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/record-image_3Q9M-CS97-RSYZ-3-768x1098.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/record-image_3Q9M-CS97-RSYZ-3-716x1024.jpg 716w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/record-image_3Q9M-CS97-RSYZ-3.jpg 1302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you read shorthand? I certainly cannot. Shorthand testimony was taken in regards to the naturalization of Jane Alice Donald in Adams County, Illinois, in 1921. The material appears with other loose naturalization-related documents from Adams County, Illinois. It&#8217;s not often I discover this much shorthand in a record&#8211;let alone an entire record written in [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-6526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526","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=6526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}