There was an interesting recent exchange involving Michael Bernet and
Roger Lustig (among many others); the subject was originally umlaut's
but there were also details on identifying i's, u's and n's in a
zigzag. Try looking up umlaut and/or Sutterlin in the discussion
group archives.

Also, if you are looking for specific names, try _writing_ them in
the old German script and looking at the result, rather than
attempting to decipher the script >from scratch. Then try to recognize
frequent words such as "aus", "ledig", "wohnhaft". Go over and over
the same page until words begin to appear.

Good luck, Nicole Heymans, Brussels, Belgium <nheymans@...>

Julian Reinheimer Northridge, California julianolgar@... wrote: