TranscribeNC Handwriting Resources

This page provides a variety of resources to help you understand and transcribe historical handwriting.

Read this first: The State Archives' TranscribeNC Handwriting Guide. 

Our archivists shared a variety of resources for our Colonial Court Records transcription project that are still helpful today. Watch this training session and learn more about how we strive for accuracy and completeness. 

Learn more about 17th century handwriting and 18th century handwriting.

Additional resources

English Language Resources and Handwriting Helps (FamilySearch.org)
How to Decipher Unfamiliar Handwriting (Natural History Museum)
Misspellings and Misnomers in the Archives: The Case of Simon Kratzer (The Library of Virginia)
Wiggles and Squiggles (The Legal Genealogist)