Secretary Hand Ancient and Modern

[Hugh Thompson]

Anybody reading old wills and having trouble deciphering them this might help,I found this site to-day and they have the Secretary Hand fonts used in early wills,free download.
Hugh.
Secretary Hand Ancient and Modern

http://www.fonts101.com/

[Geoffers]

Also do look at The National Archives (TNA) tutorials on palaeography (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/tutorial/default.htm) which are excellent for anyone just starting into older forms of handwriting.

[Browneyes]

Also do look at The National Archives (TNA) tutorials on palaeography (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/tutorial/default.htm) which are excellent for anyone just starting into older forms of handwriting.

Very useful!

Browneyes x

[Hugh Thompson]

Yes Finbar it is useable,just highlight the file,copy,open control panel,open Fonts, and paste it into your fonts folder.
It runs like any other font you have,I tried it last night with a will of my ggg? grandfather and typed in a line as I read it using wordpad with normal text and then changed the font to Secretary Hand to compare it with the will,works great.

[Hugh Thompson]

Geoffers thanks for the NA page,it helps explain a lot especially the way they used abbreviations which is confusing to say the least.
There is another great site for free fonts,most are free some are shareware and some you have to pay for but there are hundreds of them,calligraphy,handwritten,medieval,celtic and a lot more even LCD fonts.
They are zip files so you have to unzip them first but there are instructions on the web page.
all are useable even for emails.(Address Below)
Hugh.:)

http://www.dafont.com/