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Shorthand
« on: Sunday 03 March 13 12:44 GMT (UK) »
Is anyone able to decipher the attached shorthand please.

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Re: Shorthand
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 03 March 13 13:16 GMT (UK) »
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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Re: Shorthand
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 03 March 13 13:37 GMT (UK) »
Many thanks BumbleB

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Re: Shorthand
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 03 March 13 13:38 GMT (UK) »
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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Re: Shorthand
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 03 March 13 14:05 GMT (UK) »
Whipby,

This was my mother's shorthand which she would have learnt in the 1940's/50's

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Re: Shorthand
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 03 March 13 14:05 GMT (UK) »
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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Re: Shorthand
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 03 March 13 14:10 GMT (UK) »
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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Re: Shorthand
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 03 March 13 19:07 GMT (UK) »
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.

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Re: Shorthand
« Reply #8 on: Monday 04 March 13 00:33 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: BumbleB on Sunday 03 March 13 14:10 GMT (UK)
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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