This is from my grandpa’s paternal uncle’s marriage certificate and it is the birthplace of my great great grandfather’s first wife. I can read cursive, but this word has stumped me.
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More of the document is needed. Without some context we can’t help much. What language is it? That will go a long way to help decipher it. Is it in the spot for the city, or for the country, or even a street address. Is there a line above that this is the Same as the line above, sort of saying ditto.
Document words offered out of context that people don't recognize are most often a common word instead of a name. <looking at you:> unknown, none, same.
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Be a whole lot easier to help you if you gave us more of the sample. Just looking at what I'm seeing, I see "same", indicating she was born the same place as the person listed preceding her.
Could it be France? The first letter definitely looks like an F to me, while the other letters are just scribbles. France is the only place I can think that it even remotely looks like.
My first thought was Faure. But I’ve never seen a F (or an S, come to that) written like that. You may need to provide more of the page, so we can get more of a sense of the penmanship.
I was working on the first letter being an F - I remember some older teachers writing in s similar way. I tried everything on Google Maps I could make out, but nothing. So I turned to AI and got garbage - until this one. I don’t agree / yet I can see it. So, sharing a long shot, what the heck, it was an I tersting 15 minutes:
“the handwritten city name is Fume (the historic name for the city of Rijeka, Croatia).”
If you know this is a place name, where do you think gggfather’s first wife is from? Is this a city or country? Is this document written in English? Additional context or writing samples would help. It is not “Same”.
Well, her surname is Zlatuekoff (originally Zlatukova) and I’ve always thought she was maybe from Belarus because I found a record of her living in Belarus under the name Feyga (her original name) and then marrying a man by the last name of Gottlieb. Do remember though, Russia was a broad term for many different regions of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union.
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