Tracing the Past: Deciphering Handwriting in Yiddish and Hebrew
By J.D. Arden, Reference Services Librarian, Genealogy Specialist, Center for Jewish History
Here at the
Center for Jewish History in the Ackman and Ziff Family
Genealogy Institute, researchers in genealogy often
discover or bring in old postcards, letters, manuscripts or vital statistics
records. These old documents are notoriously difficult to read! Some are in
Yiddish,…
