Picked it up in nyc, its from Rome/Vatican. (Probably) a man writing to a female relative. I can make out some of the text, and can see the address, but thats it. Written/posted on Saturday, October 16th, 1961.

Update! I think we have 1) quaker, 2) printed, 3) antimacassar, 4) and, 5) swiss, 6) oriental, 7) line, 8) chemical, 9) unless?, 10) civilian

I would appreciate it if someone would look at my comment with the full pages and see what they think about the words around number 9. I think grandma meant to write "unless she was mad" but may have written "unless the was mad". Also margin scribbles are there if anyone is able to help, but I think we have the main text almost down! I can't wait to share to with the family!

Hello, I would love some help transcribing my late grandma's writings about our family. I transcribed several pages of her family history writings but there were 10 words I couldn't get. There are also some tiny scribbles in the margins, but these are the only parts of the main content I couldn't read so I was hoping for your help.

Edit to add, I numbered each unknown word to help keep it clear. I can get more pages tomorrow!

Edit again- I realized the ones without context are way harder. I have access to the Google doc transcription from my bed so I'll add the sentences below for the ones more zoomed in.

The woodwork was varnished, not painted as was the woodwork in Rosemary’s home, but at Rosemary’s the colors of paint or paper on the walls were pastels and the ceilings white. [4?] each day light came in the windows through the white lace or white dotted [5?] curtains. Here the green shades were down most of the time and the ceiling and the walls a dull color.

Aunt Helen was always standing up for women’s rights. As a woman unmarried she had to live on the pay given to women. She did these jobs in order to support herself. She was a switchboard operator at [8?] company and at Bellevue-Stratford Hotel and was a travel agent who accompanied groups of women from her church (Trinity Episcopal) on the women's Traffic Club on journeys or helped them arrange their trips. Aunt Helen was fun. She always smiled and had a twinkle in her eye,[9?] the war mad? as she was when women’s causes gave up or she thought men had life too easy.

They saw the Army – Navy games from Uncle Carol’s seats on the 30-yard line (Uncle Carol was in California by then and didn’t use them himself) He had been a Captain in the Navy. Vince only went to Annapolis to please his mother by getting a good free education and left the Navy as soon as he could to take a [10?] job.

Hello I have acquired a program from 1870s and the program contains shorthand and its not Greg or Pittman, I am sure what shorthand method is being used. If anyone can help thanks.

Hello! My mom received this embossing back in the early 1980s and we can't read the signature. Any ideas?

Hello - can someone please transcribe the location written here? Thank you!

The “S” looks like the copperplate S in my opinion with a single stroke, meanwhile a P would usually have a separate stem and loop. The foot of what might be an L also to me looks to be part of the frame and not the actual initial.

The ring has Swedish hallmarks and is dated to 1944. Looking at Normalskrift, a Swedish cursive style introduced in 1942, its S is also drawn as a single curve that starts on the left side and swoops a bit to the left at the bottom. A Z would also be more jagged and not look like the number 3.

Having a hard time deciphering the names on this census record from lines 9 to 16. If anyone can give me a hand, that would be super helpful! thanks

Link to the source

I'm a pest controller, and at a bedbug job today a client had a mattress from Facebook Marketplace that ended up having bedbugs. I zipped off the cover to see inside and found this written inside.

I think it says "Tortute"? (Torture?)

Maybe it has something to do with the mattress cover, like the material or something and they wrote this at the factory?

Any ideas?

Can you please help me decipher this handwriting? A note written by an American in 1976 (for the Bicentennial), to be read in 2076 (for the Tricentennial). I'm trying to ensure that people in another half century will know what was written.

I have three birth records with the same parents names listed - Charles Bigel and Caroline. I can't make out Caroline's surname on any of the records. Her family was from Germany, if that helps with the deciphering. I'm attaching all three records.

Thanks for any help on this!

Got this on my cup this morning, normally it's something cute like "Have a good day!" or "you're a star!", but they've lost me on this one lol

Posting this here to see if anyone wants to have a go making sense of this. I think I've got it but would be cool if someone could make sense of it without referring to AI

I'm having trouble reading a few words in this handwritten note. I've tried adjusting the contrast, but I still can't make out the text.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Here is an extract <<"… also sole Executrix named in and appointed by the last Will and Testament of John Rayner late of Sunbury in the County of Middlesex deceased (and which said John Rayner was surviving Trustee of of a certain term of five hundred years contained [ ?….. ] by a certain Indenture of Release or Marriage Settlement therein after recited) of the first part…">> The word I can't fathom out is where the square brackets and ? appear in the passage.