{"id":4904,"date":"2017-08-31T16:47:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T15:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/?p=4904"},"modified":"2017-08-31T16:47:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T15:47:20","slug":"reading-faint-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/reading-faint-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading faint records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it can be hard to read handwritten records where the ink has fainted<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Handwritten churchrecords can be hard enough to read even if we don&#8217;t have to deal with fainted ink. 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