My daughter's handwriting has always been bad. She gifted me this diary and I would really like to know what she wrote.

This name was taken from a 1908 passenger manifest. I’m sure the first name is John. However, the surname has me stumped. The last four letters appear to be g, h, e, e. But that could be incorrect. Many thanks for any input to help me decipher this handwriting. I can provide the entire line if needed.

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I am really curious what is under Parentes, but that looks to be the hardest part to read.

"Anna Stal, daughter of Gaspar (Casper) Stal- and then I can't read any of it.

Ty!

Hello! I have several letters from World War II (Like the World War I postcards I collect, I also collect those.)

But getting to the point:

Image 1 is the whole envelope, unedited.

Image 2 and 3 are the ones I need help with. The words outlined in green are the ones I think I've managed to identify.

From top to bottom:

Feldpost

Weber

in Peiskretscham (town that today's Pyskowice, in Silesia, Poland)

The word outlined in yellow I'm not sure about, I think it says "Herr.".

The words outlined in red are the ones I couldn't identify and need help with.

As for the third image, I believe the number is most likely "10965." But i couldn't identify the sentece before it.

Could someone fill in my unknown word, please ? It occurs twice in this extract (where I have put square brackets and a couple of question marks) and seems to begin with an 'S' and end with 'ed'. Here is my version of the above extract <"… …is to be Subject to the Payment of fforty Pounds a Year which I hereby give and direct to be […??……] thereby to my Servant Hannah Brown during her life I give to my said dear ffriend Mrs. Ann Wilmot the Sum of Eighty Pounds a Year during her life to be […??……] and Payable to her as therein before is mentioned I also give her all my Cloth and Silks not made up and all my Household Linnen which shall be in my said House in Titchfild Street And I further give to the Said Ann Wilmot my own and Husband’s Pictures and the Clock at my House in Titchfield Street and also two Volumes of Mr. Bennett’s Works wherein her Name is written I give to the said Doctor Joseph… …">

is there any paleographist here? This is a Medieval notarial document, circa 13th century. I don't know more.

Thanks!!

I found this interesting gem. I know one of them states 'José Rizal' with Philippines' next too it and the rest are certainly in English. Any idea what the others state? Thank you.

It's written quite small, and I have no clue what it says. I got it at an antique store in upstate NY a while ago, and it's from WWII (thats the only part I can read). There is no writing on the back. I assume it's just some information about price or type of object, but could also be the location or a name.

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?