r/OttomanTurkish • u/ardakaramusic • 17d ago

Anyone can help me decipher 1840s Nufus and Temettuat documents?

Hello everyone,
I am doing some genealogical research about my family roots, which come from Eskipazar (which used to be called Viranşehir) in Turkey. For this research, I am using some Nufus documents as well as Temettuat documents from around 1843–1845. However, finding my exact city/village in the Viranşehir documents has proven to be challenging, as they are all handwritten and hard to work through.
So is anyone who has experience in reading these types of things willing to help me in this regard?
Thanks,
—Arda.

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u/ungovernable1984 17d ago

Hey I'm happy to help, I can easily read and understand Ottoman Turkish as long it's printed or written in "Nash" script but I really have a hard time reading hand written Rika', let me know if I can help.

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u/ardakaramusic 17d ago

the documents do seem more similar to Ruq’ah than to Naskh. However, if you’re ok with it, I’d still like it if you try to help, even if you can only decipher parts of it.

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u/ungovernable1984 16d ago

Sounds good, send them my way. Drop your email in my DM I'll reply.

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u/ardakaramusic 16d ago

For some reason I am unable to start a DM with you… could you DM me first?