The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 66
Grant, Heber J. Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 66: August 25, 1904The majority of church registers used, to about the year 1800, were books of parchment, made from prepared sheepskins. The writing varies from the neatest efforts of a scholarly hand to the coarsest, all but unreadable scrawl.Most registers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are written in old English text, with Latin abbreviations and Latinized given names, the...