On p. 600 of my version of EE, ESM deals with illegible text by showing
a footnote where the last digit of a year is rendered with an underline
character followed by [illegible]. So,
... enlisted 181_ [illegible].
I'm transcribing dozens of deeds for my Barton ancestor where a few to
many words in a given deed are illegible. Should I render those words
as _ followed by the word illegible in square brackets? I am
tempted to either supply the underline (and if so, is there a rule for
how many characters) or the word illegible in brackets substituting
for the illegible word, but not both an underline and illegible in
square brackets following it. That seems like needlessly cluttering up
the text.
I'd appreciate hearing how others have treated this problem. Thanks.
Barton
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