Patrick, I have been to the Andersonville museum and it is beautifully done. It is well worth a side trip to visit if you are ever in the area. ----- Original Message ----- From: "PATRICK MURRAY" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 8:45 AM Subject: Re: An "i" for an "I"? >I know what you mean. I have transcribed Civil War letters and found > the same thing. Another thing I have found that the letters were written > by different persons to the same family. Apparently the soldier had one > of his buddies write letters for him. So you end up with different > styles of hand writing. One batch of letters were written by a Civil > War soldier to his family back in IN. He died at Andersonville prison. > I donated the letters to the Andersonville Museum. > > Patrick Murray > Des Moines, IA > > "NO TRUTH WITHOUT PROOF" > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jack Fallin" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 1:33 AM > Subject: An "i" for an "I"? > > >> Dear All, >> >> I figure there are quite a few subscribers here who have struggled >> with transcribing old handwritten letters. I've just emerged from >> doing transcriptions for more than 70 Civil War era letters. A major >> part of the correspondence occurred among three brothers, their >> families and themselves. All three followed what appears to be the >> unusual convention of avoiding all punctuation and all inital >> capitalization (they seemed to like some letters as capitals -- those >> would be capitalized wherever they were found). In addition to not >> capitalizing letters at the beginning of sentences they would render >> the personal pronoun "I" as a capital just once, at it's first use -- >> after that it was always written as "i." I'm wondering if anyone >> else has come across this pattern. >> >> Jack Fallin >> Walnut Creek, CA >> >> To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions >> at >> http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html >> > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions > at > http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html