Germans from Russia Handwriting

Germans from Russia &gt; Handwriting

Many documents about Germans from Russia will be written in old gothic handwriting which is different from the Roman script familiar to most English-speaking genealogists, or in Russian Cyrillic which has an alphabet closer to Greek.

= German Handwriting =

For information about and examples of old German script and type see the "Handwriting" page of the Germany Wiki article.

= Russian Handwriting =

Russian Cyrillic block letters are shown in the "Languages" page.

For examples of Cyrillic italic font. Dramatically different letters are highlighted in yellow.

For examples of Cyrillic cursive (handwritten script).