Just to add to what Christine and Ingrid have provided (by the way Ingrid, I've used that site and it's very good--also provides examples of earlier writing), I'd like to point out that Suetterlin was taught in schools in Germany from 1915 to 1941 according to the site Ingrid has provided. Wolf, maybe you should indicate this in the nightschool. But what do we do when we are looking at records that date before that period. One of my grandfathers' family came to the United States in 1880. I'm searching the Hamburg emigration lists for his family--Suetterlin won't help me there, right?
Peter's site (the one Ingrid is talking about) does give examples of the older writing from the 17th to the 19th century....the chart has the English letter, the Suetterlin letter and then anywhere from 4 to 49 different ways the letter can be written. It becomes difficult to know which example I should use for 1880. I hate to suggest this, like Wolf's plate isn't already overflowing, but maybe nightschool could address this and break down these examples some way so we would have a better idea of what to look for.
Thank you Christine and Ingrid for providing these sites and Thank you to Wolf for the extraordinary job he's doing....we have more words to learn at nightschool http://wiki-en.genealogy.net/wiki/Nightschool. I did find that I sometimes had to click more than once on the speaker to get it to "talk"...in case anyone else is having that problem.
Judy Rosen
I did try to click on the microphone twice but it still doesn't activiate it. I am not able to hear the words spoken any more. It was fine with the numbers but when the second group was put in I no longer get any sound. Also when you click on "count to ten" is there supposed to be sound? The "writing" does work however and that is really a helpful.
Thanks for any help,
Joan schaller Yeckel
St. Louis, MO
Judy Rosen wrote:
Hi, Joan,
sorry to hear about your problems, but this is something very new to me too
and I had to learn 'Javascript' in a hurry and am still struggling with
it...
Anyone good with things like that and able to give me a hand ??
I did try to click on the microphone twice but it still doesn't
activiate it. I am not able to hear the words spoken any
more. It was fine with the numbers but when the second group was put in I
no longer get any sound.
This just doesn't make any sense to me, is there anyone else having the same
problem ??
Or could it be something with your speakers, Joan ?? Volume too low or a
cable unplugged ?
Also when you click on "count to ten" is there supposed to be sound?
Sure, it is supposed to count slowly in German from "eins bis zehn" ( 1 to
10)..
Of course, if the sound on the other page doesn't work, it won't work here
either.
I'm working continuously on the improvements, please come back often and let
me
know about your experience..
Have a nice weekend,
Wolf
Hi Judy,
thanks a lot for your comments, but I feel really bad in being un-able
to help at the present time. I'm just 100% occupied with building up the
'frame work' of the 'Nightschool' and there is no time left for any
additional tasks....
What about you going into 'action' and put your ideas on the 'WIKI' page.
I can ensure you it is verrrrry easy and once you have mastered the basics,
you will have a lot of fun to continue...
Or, if you are to scared of it, mabe a 'helping hand' could jump in ??
PLEASE !!!!
Have a nice weekend,
Wolf
Wolf,
I have sound on both the words and counting to ten.
Maria
Hello to you all, this is slightly off topic, but never mind I thought it might make interesting
reading.
Just to add to what Christine and Ingrid have provided (by the way Ingrid, I've used that site and it's very
good--also provides examples of earlier writing), I'd like to point out that Suetterlin was taught in schools
in Germany from 1915 to 1941 according to the site Ingrid has provided.
After the enactment by the Hitler Government that as from then on, no more 'old German writing'
was allowed, but 'Latin' writing was to be brought into use, people were puzzled how to write
'Latin'
all of a sudden. I remember that my mother learned the 'new' writing with me who had just started
school, one line of 'A' two lines Of 'B' and so on. Her sister, my auntie, applied for a job in an
office and was asked, if she was able to write Latin. To get the job she answered 'yes' she could,
hurried
home and sat down with me and my school books and learned the new way within 24 hours.
We often laughed about this later.
Cheerio for now
Ingrid
Hi List,
To add on to Ingrid's story and information, it was
only this past November I learned from a translator in
Germany the following ...
'All people who grew up in the "third dom" had to
learn S�tterlin. It was
later known as "German script", but it wasn't that ...
"S�tterlin" is just an older script, modified by
Ludwig S�tterlin.
The original German script, which was used worldwide
in the past, was the "Schwabacher Lettern". This was
named the "Jews letter" from Hitler and the use was
forbidden. So it was Hitler's debt, that the "German
script" is lost'.
Regards to all,
Kathleen