VOC

Started by mosman on Tuesday, January 15, 2019
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1/15/2019 at 8:19 PM

How can a person get the VOC records transcribed accurately when so much is handwritten and abbreviated?

3/19/2020 at 3:37 PM

You cannot.
Not only is it handwritten and abbreviated but also in a pre-literate world spelling was not formalized so two clerks recording the name of a person could quite typically spell them differently, potentially even the same clerk on a different occasion could do this.

3/19/2020 at 3:40 PM

Also punctuation can very easily be lost during transcription producing very different results:

"Jan, van Haarlem" is a man from Harleem.
"Jan van Haarlem" is a man who's family at some point was from Haarlem.

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