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Show 111LLER, HITTER, HILTER OR HITLER By W. M. EveHon If you pick up a scrap of paper on vvKicK someone had scribbled tbe words. "Hitler is Ruler of Germany," you would have no trouble in deciding the name to be Hitler though the writer had failed to cross the t and dot the i. If you should read in an old record that John Hitler had married your 6lh great aunt, you would find it quite difficult to decide on the proper spelling of the name if the i were not dotted and the t crossed. It might be Heller or Hiller. If the t had a long cross which extended over the I then it might be Hitter or Hetter, Hiller or Helter. The only way to tell for sure just what the writer intended to put on paper would be to seek some other book which recorded the same same event. If the name were thus carelessly written on a temple sheet it is hard to guess just what the recorder would put into the permanent temple record. Those who write temple sheets or genealogical records should know that the kind of writing that is quite readable in a letter or diary may be entirely unreadable in a record which consists principally prin-cipally of unfamiliar names. This applies equally to those who write a beautiful hand and those who write a very poor hand. The "beautiful hand" often has the form of the letters i, n, m, u and sometimes e all alike, that is m looks' like three i s in a row. Persons who are careless with their writing and who do not care to practice so that every letter they form will be so written that it cannot be mistaken for another letter, should not trust themselves to write genealogical records or temple sheets. They should either use a typewriter or employ some other person to do the writing. ' Many very serious errors have found their way into family genealogies and temple records because of the carelessness of those who have copied from one book to another or to temple sheets. There are many who think they have done all the temple work on certain lines who would find, if they did some careful checking, that some of the names' had been miscopied and they have done the temple work for names that are quite different from those of their relatives who are dead. The making of proper records is just as important as the performance per-formance of temple ordinances. |