Donna, I saw the responses on the list and leave you to decide if they help.
But I just wanted to comment on the reasoning for wanting to use it. The "long S" was just a way of writing at a period of time and there were many ways that people chose to write individual letters. The character is just a representation, in that person's handwriting or sometimes in print, of the letter S. To be totally faithful to the original, you would have to use exactly the same font if the document was printed or try to recreate the rest of the handwriting. This is probably one of the more common variations of writing letters in 19th century and before, but it doesn't change the fact that it was just the way that person chose to write the letter S. I'd be interested in the views of others as, so far, I have just typed up the transcription with the normal letters and not attempted to recreate the specific letter variations unless there was anything unusual. The "y" for "th" is one that I do type as it is, so I am inconsistent I suppose. Also things like 7er, 8er etc for September, October - but I do explain such entries. In passing, I'd like to thank Legacy for now including the ability to add superscript characters - certainly easier for typing up some of the abbreviations found in things like parish registers. Until then I tended to insert an apostrophe where appropriate, but would others understand the interpretation of that (e.g. Eliz'th when the original was Eliz and the "th" was written as a superscript) Jack -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Donna Sent: 18 October 2005 20:18 To: Legacy User Group Subject: [LegacyUG] Elongated S I have been unable to find the "Elongated S" (which looks *somewhat* like an uncrossed f) in the Special Characters. Since we so often find this when transcribing, would you please add this character? Thanks--- Donna Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
