Download this handy alphabet chart to help you in deciphering handwritten Germanic letters you’ll encounter in genealogical records research.

The charts below display all the letters of the German alphabet, lowercase and uppercase, and the numbers 1 to 10. Each letter is shown first in English (Latin), then Gothic Handwriting, and then in Gothic Typeface, or Fraktur. We also offer an alphabet chart with Latin, Fraktur and Kurrent characters.

Kurrent (German: [kʊˈʁɛnt]) is an old form of German-language handwriting based on late medieval cursive writing, also known as Kurrentschrift ("cursive script"), deutsche Schrift ("German script"), and German cursive. Over the history of its use into the first part of the 20th century, many individual letters acquired variant forms.

2024年8月12日 · These printable handouts can be used for ready reference when reading German Handwriting. Fraktur Font -- Many forms and books are printed in this font. List of Names in Old German Script -- A comprehensive list of German given names, written in old script, with possible variations.

For those of you who would like to be able to read the old German scripts that were banned by decree in Germany in 1941, it is recommendable to first master how to write these particular scripts. I have selected the “Kurrent” script, which was in common usage in 1900.

If you don’t have them already, we have the Kurrent and Fraktur alphabets in PDF format ready to download here. Found a record that you can’t read? We can translate it for you. Here’s an example of the old German cursive (Kurrentschrift) that …

Below is a full chart of Kurrent letters. The Alphabet pages in this section will describe each letter of the alphabet in detail. Tracing animations on the Animated Letters pages will show you how each letter is written. Pictures from actual documents will show you real examples of each letter.

you are writing in printed letters or in joined-up (cursive) handwriting. In this tutorial you will learn to go back and learn from scratch how to write in cursive script. It is assumed that you can already read and write. To ensure that this tutorial is successful, each …

The ä is alphabetized as if it were a plain a, the ö as o, the ü as u, and the ß as ss. Historically, the umlaut originated as a German cursive e, e, written over the vowel in question. In older books, we often see umlaut vowels printed with a small superscript e [e] over the vowel:

2002年10月6日 · From the Sixteenth Century until 1941 German handwritten documents used a cursive script ("Kurrent", "Kupferstich") sometimes called "Fraktur" or "Bruchschrift" (from the broken line that characterized the writing) or "Sütterlin" (after the designer of one example of this script taught in German schools in the last century).