Old-Timey German Handwriting: Learn how to write your name in Sütterlin

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Location: Hesburgh Library Scholars Lounge

Old Timey German Handwriting

Old-Timey German Handwriting with Professor CJ Jones.

Learn to write like a German Oma! Up until the mid-twentieth-century, Germans used a form of cursive handwriting that was very different from the handwriting used by English speakers. Many letters and ancestry documents are written in this cursive script, even ones written in the US! Stop by to see what this handwriting looks like, and learn to write your name!

Originally published at cslc.nd.edu.