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Transcription and Translation of Old & Historic Documents
written in English, Latin or French
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Transcript Examples:
 
Do you need to transcribe old documents or translate old documents?
 
Are you researching family history, local history, or history of a building?
 
Are you a museum with manuscripts to be professionally transcribed?
 
Do you have copies of source materials but struggle to read them in detail?
 
Would it all be so much simpler if you had an accurate typed transcript?
 
 
 
 
We offer a professional palaeography and transcription service, transcribing handwritten documents (e.g. old Wills or probate inventories), old records and historical manuscripts, written in English, from all periods, world-wide. For genealogy, family history & local history; for archivists, historians, genealogists, writers, researchers and students.
 
ENGLISH
Experience of reading original documents, microfiche and microfilm at record offices, libraries, museums and other archives in England, Ireland, Canada and the USA enables us to transcribe your old documents written in English, from the 15th century onwards, including those in Secretary Hand of the Tudor & Stuart periods.
 
Where a short Latin phrase or paragraph appears within a document written principally in English (e.g. the Probatum at the end of a Will is often in Latin) we will do our best to transcribe this correctly, but it will not be translated into English except by prior agreement.
 
 
 
LATIN and FRENCH
A specialist service is offered for deciphering, transcription and full translation of old documents written in Latin or French, from all periods, including expansion of abbreviation and coherent literal translation into English.
 
 
 
We can help you read and understand...
 
 
 
PROBATE:
Wills
Administrations
Sentences
Inventories
 
 
FAMILY & ESTATE:
Letters & Memoirs
Diaries & Journals
Legal records
Financial accounts 
 
PROPERTY:
Deeds
Leases
Agreements
Entail (in tail male)
 
 
 
EDUCATION:
Reports
Certificates  
Registers 
EMPLOYMENT:
Indentures
Apprenticeship
Writers' unpublished work
 
FAMILY:
Marriage settlements
Divorce proceedings
Adoption/Fostering
Family Bible records
 
 
 
MILITARIA:
Military dispatches
Naval Logs
Merchant Shipping Records
India Office Library Records
 
CHURCH:
Parish registers
     (Baptism Marriage Burial)
Churchwardens' accounts
Bishops' (Diocesan) registers
Ecclesiastical Courts 
LATIN DOCUMENTS:
Inquisition Post Mortem
Feet of Fines
Fine Rolls or Close Rolls
Wills
Manorial records
 
 
 
 
 
What to send us:
Send a digital photograph, scanned image, photocopy or photograph, of each document to be transcribed. Please do not send any original manuscript.
 
Attach to each document a brief description, including:
♦ if the original manuscript is held in an archive, the name of that archive with their document description and reference number.
♦ any family names or place names believed to be associated with the document.
 
Completed work can be delivered as PDF* or Microsoft®Word files, in a format agreed with the client, sent by email or on CD, or as printed paper hard copy.
* PDF = Adobe Systems® "Portable Document Format"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
on old document transcription
 
 
 
 
TSL offers a reliable Family History Research Service principally for families with ancestors originating in England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Jersey, Guernsey or Isle of Man
 
please Contact Us for an estimate
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
The UK National Archives (Public Record Office) "Documents OnLine" site provides
 examples of PCC Wills from 14th-19th centuries that may be downloaded free of charge.
These Wills illustrate styles of writing in use during each century. 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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