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- Weekly challengeLearn the long sSpend fifteen minutes on the long s, then find it in one old document from your own family and read the words again.
- HandwritingThe long s (ſ) and how to spot it1700-1830
- Record guideChurch records: baptisms, marriages and burialsChurch registers recorded baptisms, marriages and burials long before states kept vital records, often naming parents, godparents and the family's home village.
- Weekly challengeCheck the day of the weekFind a record that names a weekday alongside a date, such as a Sunday baptism or a Sabbath burial, and check that the two agree.
In the dictionary
OccupationsSStevedoreLoaded and unloaded shipsLegal and landGGunter's chainSurveyor's chain of 66 feetOccupationsMMule spinnerSkilled hand who ran a spinning mule machineMoney and measuresYYork shillingNew York name for 12 1/2 centsMoney and measuresFFurlongOne eighth of a mile (660 feet)ChurchDDissenterProtestant outside the established state churchCauses of deathGGastric feverTyphoid fever, named for its stomach symptomsChurchBBirthright memberQuaker by birth to Quaker parentsMoney and measuresCCordStack of firewood, 128 cubic feetMoney and measuresGGillQuarter of a pint (4 fluid ounces)ChurchGGlebeLand belonging to a parish to support its ministerCauses of deathDDeclineSlow failing of health, cause unnamed