Handwriting Sources

To perform a forensic document examination, proper documentation is required. The questioned or suspect document should be provided along with ten (10) or more verifiable known exemplars. An exemplar is a standard used in making handwriting or signature comparisons and is an example of a person's handwriting or signature.

Listed below are sources where handwriting or signature samples may be found: 

 Account Books
Affidavits
Assignments
Autographs
Bank Signature Cards
Bank Receipts
Bible Entries
Bills of Sale
Bonds
Business License Applications
Charity Pledges
Check Book Stubs
Checks
Church Pledges
Codicils
Convention Registrations
Contracts
Corporate Contracts
Criminal Records
Credit Applications
Credit Card Charge Slips
Deeds
Depositions
Deposit or Withdrawal Slips
Diaries
Divorce Papers
Dog License Applications
Drafts
Driver's Licenses
Druggists' Poison Registers
Employment Applications
Envelopes
Fishing or Hunting Licenses
Funeral Attendance Registers
Gas Service Applications
Gate Records at Defense Plants
Greeting Cards
Hospital Papers
Hotel or Motel Guest Registers
Identification Cards
Insurance Forms
Inventory Records
IOU's
Lease Agreements
Letters
Library Card and Applications
Licenses
Light Company Applications
Life Insurance Papers
Loan Applications
Mail Orders
Manuscripts
Marriage License
Medicare Card
Membership Cards
Memorandums
Military Papers
Morgages
Newspaper and Magazine Subscription Cards
Package Receipts
Parent's Signatures on Report Cards
Partnership Records
Passports
Pawn Tickets
Payroll Receipts
Pension Applications
Permits
Petitions
Photograph Albums
Pleadings, Civil and Criminal
Police Reports
Post Cards
Probate Records
Promissory Notes
Property Damage Claims
Recipes
Registered Mail Receipts
Releases
Rental Contracts for Equipment
Rental Agreements
Reports
Sales Slips
School and College Papers
Signatures in Books
Social Security Cards and Forms
Sport and Game Cards
Stock Certificates, Endorsements
Surety Bond Applications
Tax Estimates
Tax Returns
Telephone Service Applications
Theses
Time Sheets
Titles
Traffic Tickets
Voter Registration Records
W-4 Forms
Water Company Service Applications
Wills
Workman's Comp Records

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A large portion of this list was taken from "101 Sources of Handwriting Specimens" written by Katherine Mainolfi Koppenhaver: www.forensicdocumentexaminers.com