Applications:
Genealogy / Family History • Historical Research • Archive Support • Hand-Written Documents / Manuscripts • Conversion to Electronic Text • Old English • Middle English • Obscured or Difficult to Read Text • Palæography • Affordable • Small and Large Projects
Above: Portion of a 1680 Oxfordshire will. See this and other examples on the Examples page.
Experienced:
I have been transcribing historical documents since 2007.
I have done small and large projects, totaling thousands of original document pages.
What I do:
I can transcribe historical documents of various types:
wills, adm'ons and other probate,
mortgages, deeds, titles, sales and purchases,
letters, journals and diaries,
parish records and parish register entries,
military records,
etc.
... from mediæval times up to the present - in other words, most types of hand-written documents that come up in Family History or similar Historical Research. English language only please (referrals available for other languages).
Please visit my Examples page to get a better feel for the range of work I can do.
What you get:
For the simplest documents, I can deliver an ASCII text file (.txt).
If light formatting, or extended character sets (e.g. mathematical symbols, Greek letters and old-English letters "long s" ſ and "thorn" þ) are needed, then I can deliver a UTF-8 encoded "rich text" file (.rtf).
If more full-featured formatting is needed (such as documents with tables or blocks of text, I can deliver a Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx).
For older documents with obscure words and spelling (such as Old English and Middle English), you may also find it useful to have the text translated to modern English.
