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Help with this 1911 signature!

Hey folks, happy new year! 🎊 Please help me figure out this 1911 signature..it's driving me crazy! TIA! 📜✍🏻💛

3 Comments
2025/01/02
18:17 UTC

9 Comments
2025/01/02
16:24 UTC

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Need help with transcription for this 1924 German document

1 Comment
2025/01/02
04:13 UTC

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Who was the artist with this strange signature?

Honestly cursive is impossible to read and I don't know where to ask this so what is the name of this artist?

11 Comments
2025/01/02
02:33 UTC

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What does this say?

How to ….?

87 Comments
2024/12/31
13:05 UTC

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The II bat. Of Reserve Infanterie Regiment 249

Hi everyone!
I buy that picture (In very poor condition) of the II bat of Reserve Infanterie Regiment 249. Can anyone read the names? They are very faded, but I would like to write them on a separate sheet of paper before they are completely erased

If anyone is interested in this kind of projects, you can contact me privately, and we can talk about other identifications that are in process.
Thanks to all!

https://preview.redd.it/tpaxo1ywd6ae1.jpg?width=6000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d359ba370da29e4c5081401c8c787cebc744537

https://preview.redd.it/1k6irmgde6ae1.jpg?width=6000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d7878fa46415d246bf91fe952d87b4d90b8fdc71

https://preview.redd.it/h0nkwlgwe6ae1.jpg?width=6000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb5f07fd37a14fd59d158f2d73cc37e8b2178275

https://preview.redd.it/bp79vupof6ae1.jpg?width=6000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a1a6d9e05b08ab8777bbc2c2425c670c587d598

5 Comments
2024/12/31
12:26 UTC

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Fragment of a circa 1300 Greek map of the Iberian Peninsula

Hello everyone,

I know it's too much to ask for, but can anyone who knows Greek transliterate into Latin some of (or all of them, if that's not too much to ask for) the names of the places located in the fragment of this map?

Thank you so much in advance!

https://preview.redd.it/z86i2hxii3ae1.png?width=1382&format=png&auto=webp&s=a770cb58cae33416b1ca7591a310da73146e8069

3 Comments
2024/12/31
02:33 UTC

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Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968 for Peter McFarland

4 Comments
2024/12/30
03:29 UTC

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early 20th century Latin American record [Spanish]

https://preview.redd.it/b6thn59sou9e1.png?width=839&format=png&auto=webp&s=3faf4dff41d7af34950fef8bab387b6ae26d363e

Can anyone decipher the names? I believe the third from the top is Guillermo Orr? This is Spanish from February 1918 in a port/ship in Uruguay. Thanks! :)

2 Comments
2024/12/29
20:53 UTC

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Can anyone read this?

(Cross post from old books) This is a Bible from my great-great-grandmother (her name nit shown). It was published in 1858 and has the inscription above. I cannot read all of it and don't know if the words "Solger" is a name or a misspelling of "soldier". On the right page, the second line I see letters to the right and left of the "words". The one word I think I can read is "Rogers" which is not a family name which I find particularly interesting. Thanks for any ideas!

6 Comments
2024/12/29
16:57 UTC

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Help with the mid-1800s signature (the rest is easy)

13 Comments
2024/12/29
13:48 UTC

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English letters of a Chinese male's name? See comments for link to more written words.

11 Comments
2024/12/29
10:43 UTC

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From 1856, Druin collection, Marriages names: Patrick Bow and Mary ..... ?

I can make out the penmanship for the name of the brides'smother on the second line of this record. "Patrick Bow... Mary ______" I think they were both Irish but not sure.

Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968 for Patrick Hart

https://preview.redd.it/p8x50lc48p9e1.png?width=2116&format=png&auto=webp&s=1bafc3b1cc65f1f66255b091cbf33b1d85333f57

3 Comments
2024/12/29
02:27 UTC

6 Comments
2024/12/29
01:28 UTC

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Please help me read this artist signature

3 Comments
2024/12/28
19:58 UTC

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Another family document

Found another one, a lot clearer. Y’all are wonderful

4 Comments
2024/12/28
05:47 UTC

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Dutch: 17th Century Marriage Record

https://preview.redd.it/6goi7lg0ei9e1.png?width=1734&format=png&auto=webp&s=084de04223951e6ece133d84e5892a119da8233c

Struggling with transcribing the last two lines of this 17th century Dutch marriage record - what I've got so far is:

[1] met Magdelena Hendriks Rochman

[2] out 30 jaer ouders doot g______ R_________

[3] _______ ende ________ __trae__

1 Comment
2024/12/28
03:35 UTC

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Spanish: San Pedro.... ??

I have this document in Spanish.

This document shows specifically where my deceased grandma is from but I can't decipher it as when I google it, it doesn't exist, which makes me think I must be reading it wrong.

San Pedro...???...?

4 Comments
2024/12/28
02:04 UTC

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Old family document

This is from a French relative, it’s the only picture I have of this document. I believe it’s French but I really can’t make out anything. Any help would be massively appreciated

2 Comments
2024/12/28
01:51 UTC

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Back of ww2 photo three unknown words

Is anyone able to identify the letters of the first three words?

The last two are West Front (western front). And the date is 15, December 1944, so I am guessing the first word possibly is a town?

  1. First word looks like maybe: “Timotengen”?

  2. No idea on second word

  3. Third word maybe is “Fonten”?

Many thanks so much for your help!

10 Comments
2024/12/27
18:33 UTC

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Help me identify some names on this will!

I’m struggle to read this will from Devon, England 1833. Identifying children and grandchildren’s names will help me to determine whether this Joseph Gould is my ancestor or not. I don’t expect anyone to read through it all as it’s very large. Many thanks!

https://www.ancestry.com.au/sharing/28415791?mark=7b22746f6b656e223a224870386264766d34507264694d61586f36462f6e66686e7277475941703642652b4b76744b6c47635855303d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d

8 Comments
2024/12/27
07:05 UTC

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Need help transcribing this postcard

4 Comments
2024/12/27
03:14 UTC

31 Comments
2024/12/26
11:21 UTC

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need help transcribing info about 1st person on doc (Johann Homburg) - I can read parents names but I can't read Anna Dor. Place of birth, which should be under her name. I also can't read what the text on the far right says

2 Comments
2024/12/25
15:51 UTC

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Church document concerning some sort of dispute, Britain, unknown language maybe Latin maybe English. 1700s.

2 Comments
2024/12/25
06:20 UTC

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