Re: Wondering about doing transcriptions

"Peter C" wrote:

I have a copy of a will dated 1596, written in 'Old English' The local
Family History Society will transcribe for =A329 per hour. This may be a
reaonable offer as I cannot read it.


My first will was from about 20 years later, and very difficult at
first. I still have problems with a line or two on the centre fold
(very torn) and a few words elswhere.

I worked at it slowly - laying out the lines and filling it in rather
like a crosswoprd puzzle - a word here and there at first.

Later I realised how formulaic wills tend to be. If one can read a
few words in a phrase, there's a good chance someone has put a will
transcription on the web with the same phrase, which may be possible
to find by googling for the bits of the phrase including the
additional keywords
will testament

Examples of wills from a similar period are
http://freespace.virgin.net/guy.etchells/6.htm
http://freespace.virgin.net/guy.etchells/8.htm
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jean.ashfield/genealogy/pages/varcoewills.htm
http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/Crediton/RobertBuckingham1609.html

(The above URLs were found in Google using search terms of
will testament <date>
where <date> was 1590, 1600, 1610.)
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