{"id":6619,"date":"2018-04-04T19:46:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T19:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2018-04-04T19:46:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T19:46:35","slug":"scripting-an-answer-palmer-and-spencerian-handwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6619","title":{"rendered":"Scripting An Answer-Palmer and Spencerian Handwriting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent private email mentioned the<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palmer_Method\">\u00a0Palmer Method of writing<\/a>\u00a0and \u00a0asked when it came into favor (the general answer: the 1890s). An earlier method was the<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spencerian\">\u00a0Spencerian Method\u00a0<\/a>which became popular in the 1860s and continued until the Palmer Method was generally adopted. Your ancestor who served in the Civil War was probably not using the Palmer Method and likely wasn&#8217;t taught the Spencerian Method either&#8211;assuming he went to school.<\/p>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iampeth.com\/books\/palmer_method_1935\/palmerMethod_1935_index.php\">1935 Guide the Palmer Method<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iampeth.com\/pdf\/theory-spencerian-penmanship\">Theory of Spencerian Penmanship<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palmer_Method\">Wikipedia article on the Palmer Method<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spencerian_script\">Wikipedia article on the Spencerian Method<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent private email mentioned the\u00a0Palmer Method of writing\u00a0and \u00a0asked when it came into favor (the general answer: the 1890s). An earlier method was the\u00a0Spencerian Method\u00a0which became popular in the 1860s and continued until the Palmer Method was generally adopted. Your ancestor who served in the Civil War was probably not using the Palmer Method [&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-6619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619","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=6619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}