FamilyLore: Old Handwriting

FamilyLore reads the handwriting your family left behind.

Scan a page of an old letter, diary or record with the document scanner, or pick a photo. FamilyLore reads it line by line in its own language, then translates it into English, German, Russian, Polish, Italian, French or Ukrainian.

Every word is linked to the page. Tap a word and the photo moves to it, with its outline lit on the handwriting. Tap the handwriting and the word is chosen in the text. If a word is wrong, fix it with the handwritten word shown right above the field.

Russian, Ukrainian, German Kurrent and Sütterlin, Yiddish and more. Polish handwriting is read too, as a Beta: names are often misread, so check every word it marks against the photo. Learn the old scripts yourself, letter by letter, from real family documents.

Your pages stay in your Library, with collections for each family or branch. Reading a page a day is free, for ever: just sign in. Without an account you can try three pages.