The world's oldest nonprofit membership organization dedicated to fostering forensic document education, research and justice in matters of questioned documents.

2025  ASQDE  Conference set for Las Vegas, Nevada

The next ASQDE conference will be held at Harrah's Las Vegas from Aug. 18-20, 2025.

Non-members must have an invitation to attend. If you are interested in attending, please complete the request form at the link below. 

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Visual Dictionary of Handwriting Anatomy:  ​A Reference Workbook

This reference workbook by Gina Hunter is available for purchase.

​It is designed to aid Forensic Document Examiners in the naming of handwritten character features. 

​This new format allows the FDE to find the term they are looking for by looking up the letter where they observed the feature.

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The Journal of the ASQDE is now on open access!

The ASQDE Executive Committee is pleased to announce that the Journal of the ASQDE is now freely available online to everyone!

You can access the back content of the Journal of the ASQDE now at www.journal.asqde.org.

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

​"Welcome to the website of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners. On behalf of the Society, I invite you to tour our website and get an idea of what the ASQDE is all about.

​You can learn about the history of the Society, our annual meetings, and get contact information for examiners in private practice, as well as our Executive Committee.​.."                                                                             

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​—Samiah Ibrahim, President, ASQDE
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The Journal of the ASQDE

Since 1998, the Journal of the ASQDE has published a compilation of peer-reviewed research papers by forensic document examiners and specialists worldwide, including papers presented at the ASQDE conferences.  

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Become a Member

Membership in the ASQDE is open to qualified forensic document examiners and forensic specialists in government service and private practice around the world who meet rigorous educational and professional standards.

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Annual Conference Sponsor

We would like to thank Foster + Freeman for being a Diamond Sponsor of the 2024 ASQDE conference.

​Foster + Freeman is a longtime sponsor of ASQDE's annual meetings,
and ​their support is greatly appreciated.