From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Apr 10 18:45:59 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3B0jxjb003579; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:45:59 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3B0jtsi030335 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:45:55 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k3AMDlFI018032 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:13:47 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k3AMDl1H018031 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:13:47 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k3ALfBFI017859 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:41:11 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k3B0D9nq028103 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:13:09 -0600 X-Envelope-From: joe2phil@drizzle.com Mon Apr 10 18:13:09 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3B0D9jb028094 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:13:09 -0600 Received: from jetspin.drizzle.com (jetspin.drizzle.com [216.162.192.5]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3B0D2qT018384 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:13:02 -0600 Received: from y9w6c2 ([67.136.152.118]) (authenticated bits=0) by jetspin.drizzle.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k3B0CnLW013840; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:12:50 -0700 Message-ID: <01fe01c65cfc$84bf95a0$9c988843@y9w6c2> From: To: , References: <040920060053.28303.44385B26000C646C00006E8F2200735834C9CD9D0A059D0EBDB4@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] old handwriting Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:00:46 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0613-2, 03/31/2006), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Score: 1.51 (*) BAYES_00,NO_REAL_NAME,RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Hello Louise , A simple fix is a your local Kinco store , or any copy shop , Have them make you a Color Copy enlarging it about 10 % , AND , by shifting the color spectrum in the machine they can cancel the yellow shift a bit , a good operator will know which button to push , Phil ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 5:53 PM Subject: [ROOTS-L] old handwriting > I have a lot of old letters of my ancestors dating from the latter half of the 1800's. They have faded to a yellow that is almost impossible to read. Do any of you know how to bring out the writing so it is legibe? I'd be so grateful if someone could help me with this. > Louise >