November 21, 2026

ByJudith Kramer

Presentation: “Mastering the Art of Reading Old Handwriting: Strategies for Success” by Carla Cegielski

Carla Cegielski is a full-time family history researcher specializing in Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, and West Virginia research. She has been providing professional research services to attorneys, historians, genealogists, hobbyists, and others since 2007.  She has a special interest in exploring and teaching others about underutilized record collections.



Carla is the author of the NGS course Reading Old Handwriting. She was also the creator and coordinator of the Reading, Transcribing, and Abstracting Old Documents course at the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP).

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