Another guidebook for translating difficult handwriting, this volume is good to own if you are working with German records. The book is self-published and spiral-bound. While it does not have the polish of most modern guidebooks, there is a lot of valuable information within its pages. Lists of examples of handwritten letter variations are followed by lists of common abbreviations, vocabulary, illnesses, occupations, and more. Chapters cover both German and Danish alphabets; the use of umlauts in surnames; glossaries in German, Latin, and Danish; some European history; feasts and holidays; calendars, and numbers. There is no index.