October 18, 2025

ByJudith Kramer


“Mastering the Art of Reading Old Handwriting: Strategies for Success”

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.

Carla is the author of the NGS course Reading Old Handwriting. She was also creator and coordinator of the 2021 Reading, Transcribing, and Abstracting Old Documents course at the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP)

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