Father of Scientific Examination of Questioned Documents

The firt American prominent in the field of forgery detection and author of the seminal "Questioned Documents"

Founder of ASQDE

When was the ASQDE was established

He is the 3rd President of ASQDE

The world famous handwriting expert who testified on Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. kidnapping case

The name of defendant on the charles A. Lindbergh kidnapping case

He is a Consultative Expert in Disputed Document

He authored the book "Law of Disputed and Forged Documents"

Examiner of QD of San Francisco California Postal Inspector

He is the authored of "Evidential Documents"

A Doctor of law and Director of the Identification Bureau of the Police Department pf Berlin until 1928

He was a Criminology Professor at the University of Berlin in 1920 and well-known handwriting expert

Director of the British Government's Office Home Office Forensic Science Society of QDE.

He is the the authored the book " SUSPECT DOCUMENT EXAMINERS THEIR SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION"

He had over twenty years' experience in the examination of "suspect documents for the police forces of England and Wale and for many government departments"

He is the 6th President of ASQDE

First questioned document examiner in the then new crime laboratory of the Chicago Police Department

24th President of ASQDE

He was an English Graphologist

The current and 36th president of the ASQDE

MEANING OF ASQDE

Meaning of "ABFDE"

He also authored "Detecting and Deciphering Erased Pencil Writing"

Any material containing marks, symbols, or signs either visible, partially visible that may present or ultimately convey a meaning to someone, maybe in the form of pencil, ink writing, typewriting, or printing on paper

Latin word "DOCUMENTUM" means? and in MEDIEVAL LQTIN, (mean?)

FRENCH WORD "DOCERE" means?

Any material which some issue has been raised or which is under scrutiny

One in which the facts appearing therein may not be true and are contested either in whole or part with respect to its authenticity, identity or origin.

A term suggesting that there is an argument or controversy over the document, and strictly speaking this is true meaning.

Are condensed and compact set of authentic specimens which, if adequate and proper should contain a cross section of the material from a known source.

A term used by some document examiners and attorneys to characterize known material. STANDARD is the older term.

Any document completely written and signed by one person?

Material compiled and organized by the document examiner to assist him in answering special questions.

Kind of document notarized by a notary public or competent public official with solemnities required by law

Kind of Document that issued by the government or its agents or its officers having the authority to do so and the offices, which in accordance with their creation, they are authorized to issue and be issued in the performance of their duties

Kind of Document Executed by a private person without the intervention of a notary public or of any person legally authorized, by which documents. some disposition or agreement is proved evidenced, or set forth

kinds of document Executed in accordance with the Code of Commerce or any Mercantile Law, containing disposition of commercial rights or obligations

Kind of Document that exist only in electronic form such as data stored on a computer, network, back-up, archive, or other storage media

Any matter made a part of the document after its original preparation may be referred to as addition

A scientific conclusion results from relating observed facts by logical common sense reasoning in accordance with established rules or laws

One who studies scientifically the details and elements of documents to identify their source or to discover other facts concerning them

The removal of writings, typewriting or printing, from a document is an erasure.

A kind of erasure im which the writing is removed or bleached by chemical agents)

A kind of erasure in which the writing is effaced by rubbing with a rubber eraser or scratching out with a knife

It is the act of making a close and critical study of any material and with questioned documents, it is the process necessary to discover the facts about them.

A legal term used to describe a witness who by reason of his special training or experience is permitted to express an opinion regarding the issue, or a certain aspect of the issue, which is involved in court action

The professional experience, education, and ability of a document examiner before he is permitted to testify as an expert witness, the court must rule that he is qualified in his field

In legal language, it refers to the document examiner's conclusion. In Court, he is not only expressing an opinion but demonstrate the reasons for arriving to it. Opinion and conclusion are used synonymously.

Material compiled and organized by the document examiner to assist him in answering special questions.

Other material between lines or paragraphs or the addition of whole page to a document.

The blotting out or shearing over the writing to make the original invisible to as an addition

as used in this text it means that the Source or authorship of the compared questioned and standard specimens isdifferent.

Any document completely written and signed by one person

This involves the detection of forgery, erasure, alteration or obliteration of documents intelligent police investigator can defect almost 75% of all forgeries by careful inspection.

This is more focused in determining the author of writing. It is a more difficult procedure and requires long study and experience.

A document examiner analyzes any questioned "document and is capable of more than just questions of authorship limited only by their access to laboratory equipment.

This is work involving the verification of age and worth of a document or object, sometimes done by a document examiner.

This is work that often overlaps with that of the document examiner and focuses on the money trail and criminal intent

These are public or private experts who date, type, source, and/or catalogue various types of paper, watermarks, ink printing/copy/fax machines, computer cartridges, etc., using chemical methods.

These are public or private experts who analyze altered, obliterated, changed, or doctored documents and photos using infrared lighting, expensive spectrography equipment, or digital enhancement techniques

These are usually psychology experts who assess personality traits from handwriting samples, also called graphologists or graphoanalysts

refers to the same purpose but by looking at semantics, speeling, word choice, syntax and phraseology

This refers to the art of trying to interpret the character or personality of an individual from his writing

This refers to the method of characterizing handwriting by measurement of the proportionate values of the angle and ratio of the heights and widths of letters.

These are experts on the origin, make, and model used in typewritten material.

This is an emerging group that relates to QDE through some common investigative and testimonial procedures.

Properties or characteristics, observed or measured.

Properties or characteristics of the unknown determined thought analysis are now compared with the familiar or recorded properties of known items.

Similarities or dissimilarities in properties or characteristics will each have a certain value for identification, determined by its likelihood of occurrence. The weight or significance of each must therefore be considered

It is the process of double checking the accuracy and correctness of the examination usually conducted by other experts in the said field.

are known (genuine) handwriting of an individual such as signature and endorsement on cancelled checks, legal papers letters, commercial, official public and private document and other handwritings such as letters and memoranda.

are signature or other handwritings written by an individual upon request for the purpose of comparison with other handwriting or for specimen purposes

writings produced by the subject after evidential writings have come into dispute and solely for the purpose of establishing his contentions.

writing intended to conceal the identity of the writer by attempting to change his or her writing habits.