Script Tutorials New Resources for Reading Old Handwriting & Documents 1 January 2008

The Center for Family History and Genealogy is pleased to announce the launch of new online materials to aid in the research of old documents. The Script Tutorials includes extraction guides for old documents in English, German, Dutch, Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. The German ScriptTutorial has the most content available, and the English Tutorial is currently being developed. Other tutorials are forthcoming.

Please make use of these tutorials and leave us feedback on them, if you wish.

In the 30 November 2007 issue of BYU's student newspaper, The Daily Universe, an article appeared about the Center for Family History and Genealogy's Immigrant Ancestors Project. You can read the full article here on the BYU NewsNet site.

The September-October 2007 issue of the Center for Family History and Genealogy's Bimonthly Newsletter is now available. You may download the newsletter in PDF format by clicking here. Featured in this issue are new databases made available online, conference announcements and the activities the Center is currently engaged in.

This will be the last newsletter that the Center for Family History and Genealogy will release.