The surname Beseler in various scripts |
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Thursday, September 28, 2017
German scripts
I have just discovered a great website where you can type in your ancestral name and see what is would look like in several old German scripts. As I have German ancestry and my one year of high school German was both a long time ago and totally inadequate to translating old documents, I'm finding it quite useful. Anything that helps me decipher the old documents I find is great news, and as you can see from the scripts below, some of the results look nothing like the name I typed in. So here is the name Beseler in several different scripts.
Some of these, yes, I can see it is the Beseler surname at a glance. Others, not so easily. If I was rapidly scanning a document I would probably not pick it up - in several the B looks like L, the Es look like Ns and the S is an F.
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