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Handwriting - a fascinating tutorial on Deciphering Old English Handwriting http://www.amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/oldhand.html http://www.firstct.com/fv/oldhand.html "In Their Words - A Genealogist's Translation Guide to Polish, German, Latin and Documents" authored by William Hoffman and Jonathan Shea, is an excellent resource. Ordering information - the most direct way to get info on the books - is to go straight to this Website at "Latin Words" - a Latin word dictionary and grammar aid that translates for a beginning Latin student at "Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary"- Dictionaries An index of on-line Dictionaries Dictionary. Com Merriam-Webster/Online The Library of Congress Thesaurus - LOGOS: Multilingual E-Translation Portal - Multi-Lingual Dictionaries along with Translations between European languages and much more can be found at On-line Dictionaries/Thesaurus Over 208 Language Indices and Dictionaries OneLook dictionaries (several languages) - Refdesk.com - Spell Web - "The Ethnologue" - a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. The Ethnologue Name Index lists over 39,000 language names, dialect names, and alternate names. The Ethnologue Language Family Index organizes languages according to language families Ethnologue - a database about languages of the world Free Translation - a very useful site to translate many languages including Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese
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Worldlingo Free Translating Service - up to 150 words Rules for Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex coding Soundex - check the following JewishGen site for doing your own calculation of D-M or Nara Soundex codes. Avotaynu Soundex Search Town Name Translations - "Translation Guide to Nineteenth Century Polish Language Civil Registration Documents" (Birth, Marriage & Death Records) - authored by Judith Franzin - a book by the Jewish Genealogical Society. A good source for translating Polish/Jewish acts in 19th. Century Polish-Language Civil-Registration Documents. It covers births, marriages and deaths with differences noted for pre-1826 and post 1826 documents. She has published a 2nd. edition. There is a Library of Congress Catalog Card (no.89-84516) and ISBN 0-9613512-1-7. Travlang's Translating Dictionaries - Umlauts - as a general rule, there is ambiguity in the transliteration of umlauts (the vowels a, o, u 'with two dots on top'. In central Europe, these are usually transliterated as ae, oe, ue. There is some logic in this because the umlaut characters originally were ligatures of these letters, like in the French word oeuvre. In North America, the preferred transliteration is a, o, u -- just omit the dots. Another character with ambiguous transcription is the "esszet" character which looks like a Greek beta. It is often replaced by a double s, sometimes 'sz' (the original ligature, now obsolete) and maybe others. Some Scandinavian characters pose similar transcription challenges. From a posting by Juergen Stockburger. Your Dictionary. com - General Language Just for the fun of it! Here's a weird one, a site that analyzes prose and guesses at the gender of the author. Strangely enough, it really works. I tried it with a bunch of documents , and it guessed correctly in every instance. If you have a document (works only in English, I believe) you might want to determine if a male or a female wrote it. Try it yourself right here - it's very believable. Afgan Language - there is no specific language. The country has two major languages -- Pashto and the local Persian dialect known as Dari. Baltic, Lithuanian, Latvian, Old Prussian* Languages - http://www.slavophilia.net/language.htm * indicates extinct languages Baltic & Slavic Languages - translating assistance from/to English from: Click2 Translate - a commercial service that offers help in translating foreign languages
Dictionary of Many Languages (Aussie, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Finish and many more) - a Dictionary for Addict Spell Check made freely available to all users of Addictive Software's Addict Spell Check and Thesaurus - version 3 and higher DOROT Genealogy Center - located at Beth Hatefutsoth in Tel Aviv e-mail bhgnlgy@post.tau.ac.il DOROT Software East Slavic, Russian, Belorussian, Ukrainian - Free2Professional Translation - great site and easy to use Fonts, software and keyboard labels for multilingual computing including Cyrillic Jewish Language Research Website - wow, what a site! Here you will find:
Ladino Language - also known as Judeo-Spanish, dates back to the
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Web Translation Service for FREE. InterTran™ can translate single words, phrases, sentences and entire web pages between 767 language pairs You don't need a site to get most foreign characters on your computer. First, go to Add/Remove Programs, Then Windows Setup. Next Add Multilanguage support for Cyrillic or Central (Polish etc.) European Languages, or whatever language you want. You may also need to Add the Character Map, if that is not in your program list under Applications/System Tools. It is in Add/Remove Programs, Windows Setup, System Tools. With both of these installed, open the character map and look at the different fonts available, for example, in Windows 98, there are several CE (Central European) fonts, like Ariel CE. There is Cyrillic. When you choose the font, you will see all the strange characters available. Choose one, copy, go back to your document, and paste it in. you can also set up hot keys if you use them repeatedly. You can also change your keyboard, but it is not recommended. For Hebrew, you need Hebrew fonts and the capability from Microsoft. This information obtained from a JewishGen Digest of 12/8/00 submitted by Sally Bruckheimer. You can also download the necessary Internet Hebrew fonts from World AltaVista - (same as Babelfish) can translate passages of text or entire web pages among nine languages, or they can translate your page into their language of choice.
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