Tuesday, February 21, 2023

418 years ago

Today I found myself indexing records that were four hundred and seventeen and four hundred and eighteen years old. 

The style of writing was very different. Some e’s were backwards. The h’s went below the line. The s’s at the end of the word looped up line a footnote. 

It took me all morning to do a record of 51 names. I took frequent breaks. I was distracted a lot. I found it hard to stay motivated. 

But when I think that I was reading records that were older than the United States, I was flabbergasted and amazed. 

It is still a miracle that I could decipher as much as I could. 

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