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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: brian57 on Sunday 03 March 13 12:44 GMT (UK)
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Is anyone able to decipher the attached shorthand please.
Many thanks
Brian
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F C H Birthday 24 July 1885 as far as I know in Liverpool (ask Mary) her father was a master builder and when I was a little girl he was working on a church in St Helens. He mother's name was Mary I think her unmarried name was Davies. She had a sister called Sarah this is all I know about her of Welsh forbears.
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Many thanks BumbleB
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I also read this as BumbleB's transcription. I learned Pitman 2000 and this is not exactly the same, but so similar that I could read it.
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Whipby,
This was my mother's shorthand which she would have learnt in the 1940's/50's
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I agree, I learned Pitman's in 1958 and it is the same as I learned. The letter is written by someone who uses it, without writing it perfectly, as you would have to if writing it properly for an exam etc. I quite often write messages like that, some words, some shorthand, but never in a letter to someone else.
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Yes, Lizzie, that is the same shorthand that I learned in 1959 and other than for exams (at which I was rubbish) we all developed our own little foibles over the years.
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I first learned Pitman 2000 at school in 1979 and continued it at college when I left. I have also adapted it to suit myself a bit! I think that's what tends to happen.
I love being able to do it. I've completely lost my speed as I don't use it often enough, but still have the theory stored away in my brain! It's amazing how it all comes back when you need it.
Whipby
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Yes, Lizzie, that is the same shorthand that I learned in 1959 and other than for exams (at which I was rubbish) we all developed our own little foibles over the years.
I've got a certificate for 120wpm, but I used it less and less over the years as bosses tended to use dictaphones instead and as I can type almost as fast as I could take shorthand, that in the end they used to dictate whilst I typed. Then I got fed up with it all and decided to become a midwife.
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Hi there,
I learned Pitmans in the mid 50's only one difference from this sample was' at church' instead of' on church' as mark elongated.
Sandra