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So, I decided to try #writing this #blogpost by hand, it was quite a fun experiment!

Feel free to judge my #handwriting lol

https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/this-post-was-written-in-a-notebook

Calling #genealogy and cursive #handwriting experts for help identifying a place name from one small section of a Victorian-era English census record! I know that one of my ancestors came from Aachen, and married a German man who probably also came from the Rhineland. This man's birthplace is what I am trying to determine. I can make out the second line (his wife's birthplace) as "Achen [sic] Germany. B.S. [British Subject]", but the first line eludes me. It looks a bit like "-hausen" at the end, but I can't otherwise see how it could resemble any of the place names found in the vicinity of Aachen. A few thoughts:

• The ancestor of mine in question was born in 1864, so 'Germany' could have included places in the Duchy of Limburg or the Kingdom of Luxembourg for which the German name is no longer officially used.

• Germany has had a few spelling reforms and other changes in place names since 1864, which can be seen in the very same record (Achen rather than Aachen).

• Census questions at this time were answered orally and transcribed by census officials, so the likelihood of a spelling mistake is rather high.

Please share with others who you think might know the answer - thank you!

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Just realized again how important handwriting is for me when taking notes. Especially when it's thoughts and things like to-do lists.

When doing this digitally I tend to loose connection to my thoughts. It also tends to get more "copy & paste". And it also feels so final and it feels like they should look good. Also I like to strike-through.

That said: I make notes on a digital notebook nowadays. But one I can write into with a pen.

My #brain just works that way :)

Can anyone help with deciphering handwriting please? I tried searching with what it looks like, but not finding anything. I want to ring and make sure they have it, before I go to late night chemist.
#Help #Handwriting #WhatDoesItSay?

I think the top one is chloramphenicol?

My cursive is extremely flowy and wide. I find it funny that there’s a 3x difference in words per line between my English and Chinese.

(Also, whoever kept quoting Lu Xun in a textbook about Classical Chinese is a real troll.)

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I’ve only bought one or two new fountain pens in the last several years because my collection stabilized around what I actually use. Meet my two hardest working darlings, Pilot Falcon with 14k gold nib and TWSBI Eco with stub nib. #fountainpen #handwriting #fountainpens

The End of Handwriting

https://www.wired.com/story/the-end-of-handwriting/

Why the Brain Prefers to Read on Paper

by Kris deDecker, October 25, 2013

" 'Beyond treating individual letters as physical objects, the human brain may also perceive a text in its entirety as a kind of physical landscape. When we read, we construct a #MentalRepresentation of the text in which meaning is anchored to structure.

"The exact nature of such representations remains unclear, but they are likely similar to the mental maps we create of terrain—such as mountains and trails—and of man-made physical spaces, such as apartments and offices.

"Both anecdotally and in published studies, people report that when trying to locate a particular piece of written information they often remember where in the text it appeared. We might recall that we passed the red farmhouse near the start of the trail before we started climbing uphill through the forest; in a similar way, we remember that we read about Mr. Darcy rebuffing Elizabeth Bennett on the bottom of the left-hand page in one of the earlier chapters.

"In most cases, paper books have more obvious topography than onscreen text. An open paperback presents a reader with two clearly defined domains—the left and right pages—and a total of eight corners with which to orient oneself. A reader can focus on a single page of a paper book without losing sight of the whole text: one can see where the book begins and ends and where one page is in relation to those borders. One can even feel the thickness of the pages read in one hand and pages to be read in the other.

"Turning the pages of a paper book is like leaving one footprint after another on the trail—there’s a rhythm to it and a visible record of how far one has traveled. All these features not only make text in a paper book easily navigable, they also make it easier to form a coherent mental map of the text.' "

https://www.notechmagazine.com/2013/10/why-the-brain-prefers-to-read-on-paper.html

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Mystery photo from my late grandmother's stash. Train passengers(?) pose with a boulder that's fallen on the tracks and blocked their progress. No idea what connection this has to my grandmother.

The back has a note, but I can read only some of the words. "Compliments [illegible, possibly a joke word] Charleston, WVa, May 22 1908"

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Interesting article about taking notes by hand impacting on learning and memory: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-writing-by-hand-is-better-for-memory-and-learning/ #handwriting #learning #memory

We went to a 'Voices of Women" exhibit in #Barcelona, and, friends, look at the #handwriting.

Centuries old and I'm absolutely learning from these documents today.