# The Key to the Family Deed Chest: How to Decipher and Study Old Documents Being a Guide to the Reading of Ancient Manuscripts

Author: Thoyts, Emma Elizabeth, 1860-1949; Martin, Charles Trice, -1914 [Author of introduction, etc.]

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67771

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Key+to+the+Family+Deed+Chest%3A+How+to+Decipher+and+Study+Old+Documents+Being+a+Guide+Thoyts&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Fashion changes in everything; but these alterations go on so imperceptibly, so gradually, that ofttimes we fail to recognise their progress except by glancing backwards into the past. But the fashion of handwriting and its changes are very forcibly brought home to us when confronted for the first time with some old deed or paper; and a feeling of helplessness reduces the amateur to the verge of despair as the pages of unintelligible hieroglyphics are spread out, as unfamiliar as Sanscrit or Egyptian characters. But perseverance conquers all difficulties.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-key-to-the-family-deed-chest-how-to-decipher-and-study-old-f43aa8ff/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-key-to-the-family-deed-chest-how-to-decipher-and-study-old-f43aa8ff/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-key-to-the-family-deed-chest-how-to-decipher-and-study-old-f43aa8ff/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-key-to-the-family-deed-chest-how-to-decipher-and-study-old-f43aa8ff/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-key-to-the-family-deed-chest-how-to-decipher-and-study-old-f43aa8ff/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-key-to-the-family-deed-chest-how-to-decipher-and-study-old-f43aa8ff/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-key-to-the-family-deed-chest-how-to-decipher-and-study-old-f43aa8ff/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-key-to-the-family-deed-chest-how-to-decipher-and-study-old-f43aa8ff/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-key-to-the-family-deed-chest-how-to-decipher-and-study-old-f43aa8ff/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-key-to-the-family-deed-chest-how-to-decipher-and-study-old-f43aa8ff/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-key-to-the-family-deed-chest-how-to-decipher-and-study-old-f43aa8ff/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-key-to-the-family-deed-chest-how-to-decipher-and-study-old-f43aa8ff/chapters/11/index.md)