A Godly Inheritance Family histories, GEDCOMs, and treasures from a godly inheritance. Translation of German Gothic Handwriting

Ruth Marlene Friesen - Saskatoon, SK. Canada

Have you got some old letters, diaries or journals of an ancestor that you would like to have deciphered?

Here's some samples of Gothic German handwriting.

Even your parents perhaps, may not be able to read it, or have great difficulty explaining what Great-grandma or Great-grandpa were trying to express on that delicate, brittle paper, or in that old notebook.

Would you like to know how I learned to read that old German handwriting? Click on Background for that story.

Yes, there are people willing and able to translate German that is printed or typed with Roman (or English) letters, but not nearly so many who can read the old Gothic script, that was used in the handwritten German. I am able to offer this service to you!

I need to INSERT here that I've become VERY busy with other projects and business goals. I don't have time for translation work any more! Sorry! For some time I hesitated to stop this service, because when I started there were only three people online offering this type of translation work, and I was one of them. Now I checked again, and there are a number of others. To help you out I will list some links I found in Google;
Gordon Hartig Translation Services
Superfast Translations
Translation services
Ann C. Sherwin ( She says German Script no problem)
German - English Translation Service
Cyndi's List on Languages may have help

P.S. Incidentally, . . . I understand that people with university degrees may charge up to $1.00/word, and that is still no guarantee that they can work from the handwritten Gothic, so this is a pretty good deal, isn't it?