Practice workbook
A workbook made from your own words, in the hand you choose.
How the workbook works
Type the words you want to learn to write: names from a family letter, a place, a line from a postcard. FamilyLore sets each one in this hand as a workbook to print: first to trace, then to copy, then on blank lines.
- Type the names, places and phrases you keep meeting in your family's papers, one per line, up to 20 lines.
- Choose A4 or US Letter, then download and print the PDF.
- Work through each line in order: trace it, copy it, then write it from memory.
- Check any letter you are unsure of against its page, starting with the pairs below.
The preview is free. Downloading the PDF needs Plus.
What the PDF holds
A cover page lists your lines and the day you made the workbook. Then each line gets three pages: on the first it is written once and repeated in grey on eight rows for you to go over; on the second it is written twice, above seven empty rows to copy it on; on the third it is written once, above eight empty rows to write it from memory.
The rows are 15 mm high, nine to a page, and your words are drawn letter by letter in this hand. The PDF is made when you ask for it and isn't kept.
Type in today's spelling: the workbook's Russian letters have no ѣ, ѳ or ѵ, so it can't be made while a line has one of them. Trace those three on the tracer instead.
Letters to watch in your words
In a name or a word, these letters are easy to misread. Write both letters of each pair and compare them:
- д de and Latin g: The Cyrillic д closes its descender into a full loop that returns to the baseline and joins the next letter. The Latin g's tail hooks left and stops. If the stroke continues into the following letter, it is д. The д page
- г ge and Latin r: Cursive г is a single down-stroke with a small shoulder at the top and no ascender. A hand-written Latin r carries a short arm that breaks to the right of the stem. The г page
- и i and Latin u: и and a Latin u are the same two-arch shape. Position decides it: и is a vowel between consonants where English would not put one — read the whole word, not the letter. The и page
Who it's for
For anyone practising the names, villages and phrases of a Russian family letter or record in the handwritten hand.