The Gregg Group was founded 22 May 2004, prompted by the lack of online shorthand resources. As the primary use for shorthand — business and legal recording — has waned in recent decades, we generally acclaim the skill as a hobby or personal tool. The purpose of the group is to promote the use of Gregg systems of shorthand by providing advice to beginners, support for students, and an association of users of this efficient, attractive, and enjoyable method of writing.
These are some images from the book Your First Year of Teaching Shorthand by Marion M. Lamb (1961). The shorthand laboratories shown in these photos are a real blast from the past! Thanks to the Evernote app on my Kindle, I’m creating my own portable “shorthand laboratory” these days. But these were fun to see. …
It’s not very often you find a modern book written about the history of shorthand (this one was published in 2012). I just started reading this so I can’t comment too much about it yet, but here is a summary from Amazon. Transcribing Class and Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Courts and Offices…
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Wow, Survivor Library has a ton of shorthand .pdf’s– most of them are systems I’ve never heard of, but there were quite a few Gregg .pdf’s here, too. Survivor Library’s Shorthand Library
I saw that there had been some mention of Stenoscript Shorthand by George Oliver on the forum. I’ve had a copy of this system for quite a few years now, and thought it would be good to post a something about it as well as pass it along to Carlos, so that – hopefully –…
I happened to read that she was a trained secretary who took shorthand much faster than her personal assistant. Apparently, she never went to meetings with studio executives without her steno pad. Thought that was a neat little factoid. Happy Friday!
I understand Thomas Jefferson knew shorthand. Does anyone happen to know which system he used?
I received the following email. If you’re interested, please let me know and I will connect you with Connor. ————— When looking searching for sources related to eclectic shorthand I found this ancient conversation: http://gregg-shorthand.com/2005/09/25/cross-eclectic-shorthand/ I want to learn eclectic shorthand and extend it to include tonal speech as well as convert the theory to…
At tandfonline.com there is a searchable archive of specialized magazine articles including many 20th century articles about shorthand from The Journal of Business Education. You can view the first page of each article for free and for a rather high price you can obtain complete articles. Search terms such as shorthand, notehand, diamond jubilee and…