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Nice, I've been doing some genealogy research recently (caution: if you are obsessive this can become a real time suck), some of this has involved reading old

by pacaro 13y ago

Nice, I've been doing some genealogy research recently (caution: if you are obsessive this can become a real time suck), some of this has involved reading old German and Austrian newspapers, A typical obituary page might have Swiss, Roman and Gothic (black letter) faces, in particular the gothic tends to make extensive use of ligatures

vidarh 13y ago
> genealogy research recently (caution: if you are obsessive this can become a real time suck I experienced this first hand as a child - more summer vacations than I'd have cared for involved trips arranged so we'd pass by various cemetery's or churches so my dad could check graves or church books against his latest leads...