Hybrid Chapter

January 2025 Meeting - Virtual

Presented by Kassidy Price on 22 Jan 2025.

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Struggling with reading old handwriting? Forgot what that document your great-uncle said was important actually says? Is that Latin?! Learn where to start with those old papers here! Paleography or paleography is the study and analysis of historical writing systems, the historicity of manuscripts and texts, deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts, including the analysis of historic penmanship and handwriting script. This presentation will be a brief introduction to paleography as used by genealogists primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. We will also discuss transcribing which is meant to ensure that you and others can understand a document. Transcription is the term for copying or translating what a document says in a much more legible way.

Kassidy Price has always been interested in genealogy and family history; in grade school she would reenact family stories during recess. She attended Boston University’s Genealogical Principles Course in 2018 and immediately registered for SLIG 2019. Kassidy graduated from Utah Tech University with a BS in History and Minor in Management in 2022. Her studies covered a variety of topics and for her capstone she examined the use and oppression of women’s speech in early modern Scotland. Kassidy is currently attending the University of Strathclyde in pursuit of an MSc in Genealogical, Palaeographic & Heraldic Studies and is also preparing to apply to be a Certified Genealogist (CG). She is currently researching what genealogical information can reveal about Prohibition enforcement in the 1920s. Kassidy spends her free time hiking, persuading friends to do escape rooms, and volunteering with religious organizations to teach young adults genealogy.