Decipher Old Handwriting

[Stiles/Akin]

via David Morris‎/South Carolina Genealogy Network: Annabel Staats of Missouri Genealogy originally posted this. She states: "This was posted on an Illinois genealogical web-site as a help to decipher old handwriting . . . ."
She thought it might be helpful - I think it certainly could be. Notice the Century headings at the top. You can open the chart and then right click to save it for reference.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Someone took a huge amount of effort, whoa! That's amazing. Later centuries aren't too hard ( sometimes ), earlier are sure baffling, no? It'll be valuable for the generations not used to cursive, be sure. . Nice resource, thank you!