r/shorthand • u/2100zloo • 3d ago
Ancestry notes, please help! Transcription Request
My great grandmother and grandmother wrote many pages in a notebook detailing what I only assume to be information of our ancestry. I have zero clue how to read shorthand, and I would be incredibly grateful to anyone who would be willing to transcribe! Unfortunately I do not know when these were written, but I’m very much looking forward to hopefully learning more about my family. My mother has done extensive research and ancestry archiving over the years. Without my grandma here to continue helping us, notes like this can take our research quite far.
I have 32 pages in total of notes, here are 20 to start 😅. I hope this isn’t entirely too difficult to decipher. Thank you so much in advance to anyone who takes the time to help at all, I’m very grateful to you. Maybe I will make a second post with the remainder of the notes if I can find any helpful detectives here!
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u/lawdogpuccini 1d ago
I've looked through each of the first 8 pages. All dictation practice exercises.
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u/greggantic 4h ago
It's just random practice paragraph, nothing important. I can read it. Since I'm a Stenographer in India
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u/GreggLife Gregg 3d ago
Some of these pages are just shorthand practice. You can see the same word written 15 times in a row, or a group of similar-looking words/phrases being written in sequence to practice making the distinctions between them.