TRANSCRIPTION SERVICES Ltd UK – TRANSCRIBING OLD DOCUMENTS - transcription of old documents, translating old documents, translation of old documents, translating latin documents, translating french documents, manuscripts, Wills, inventories, deeds


	Transcript Examples: 15th Century English 16th Century Latin 16th Century French		Are you researching family history, local history, or history of a building? Do you need to read old documents written in English, Latin, French or Dutch? Are you a museum with manuscripts to be transcribed for publication? Do you have copies of source materials but struggle to read them? Would it all be so much simpler if you had an accurate typed transcript? email to us a copy of your document and we will provide an estimated cost.

Transcription Services Ltd offers professional palaeography services for genealogists, family historians, local historians, archivists, researchers, writers and students. We will accurately transcribe and translate your historic documents, records or manuscripts (e.g. old Wills, inventories, indentures, deeds, letters) written in English, Latin, French or Dutch of all periods.

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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 written in Latin) we will do our best to transcribe this correctly, but it will not be translated into English except by prior agreement.

Example of English Transcript, 15th Century

Unfamiliar words from Wills and Inventories

LATIN, FRENCH or DUTCH

A specialist service is offered for deciphering, transcription and full translation of documents written in Latin, French or Dutch of all periods, including expansion of abbreviation and coherent literal translation into English.

Example of Latin Transcript, 16th Century

Example of French Transcript, 16th Century

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

Estimated cost:

Estimates of cost for transcription are based on the length and perceived difficulty (condition, clarity, etc) of each document. Before we can provide an estimate of cost we must see a typical example image for each type of document to be transcribed. Having given an estimate, we will attempt to keep within that estimate whenever possible.

What to send us:

If and when you accept our estimate, please send your digital photographic image, scanned image, photocopy or photographic print of each document to be transcribed. Do not send any unique original document to TSL.

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"


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