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Showing posts with label handwriting. Show all posts

Showing posts with label handwriting. Show all posts

12 December 2012

From Joseph to James With One Letter

"Vermont, Vital Records, 1760-1954," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XF74-Z9G : accessed...

05 August 2010

Can You Read It?

This is a signature from a 1880 era pension application for a Civil War veteran in Iowa. This is the signature of the husband of a deponent ...

Can You Read It?

This signature comes from an 1880 era Civil War pension application in Iowa. This testimony was given by the ex-wife of the veteran. If you ...

Can You Read It?

This is a signature of a likely Virginia native born in the 1780s who was living in Kentucky in the 1850s. We'll post the answer in a fe...

Can You Read It?

This signature comes from a Civil War pension application in Iowa in the late 19th century. The Indiana native was in his fifties. Any thoug...

11 July 2009

Lease from 1874--Can You Read?

This is part of the text of an 1874 lease found in my ancestor's estate papers. The landlord wanted the balance of the payments and this...

27 May 2009

Can You Read It?

This handwriting was written by the testator in his will from Hanock County, Illinois. The German native was born in approximately 1795 in T...

22 May 2009

Can You Read It?

This is the signature of my German-born ancestor, born somewhere in the Germany of the 1820s. This signature for her comes from her husband...

23 April 2009

German word I cannot quite make out.

I'm working on a Casefile Clues column and cannot quite make out the word in yellow on this baptismal entry from the Bethany United Chu...

16 March 2009

Can You Read It?

This comes from a court case in Champaign County, Illinois in the 1860s. It really is not too difficult to read. The individual who signed t...

03 March 2009

Can You Read It?

This comes from a census entry. Interestingly enough, Ancestry.com has the name interpreted "correctly"and it doesn't appear ...

02 March 2009

Can You Read It?

It has been a while since we did one of these. This comes from a will ca. 1906 in Champaign County, Illinois. This one should not be too har...

02 April 2008

More Can You Read it?

This one (twice on the same page) comes from a court document in 1904 in Hancock County, Illinois. This individual probably learned to write...

Can You Read it? One more from the same guy

This is from the same person as the previous post . Just to give a comparison.

Can You Read it?

It has been a while since we have posted one of these. This comes from an 1870 era set of estate papers in Illinois. The writer was a German...

17 September 2007

Can You Read It?

This signature comes from an estate record in 1917-1918 in Hancock County, Illinois. Any thoughts? (I do know the answer to this one.)

05 July 2007

I really cannot read this one...

This is one where I really do not know what the first name is. The last name is clearly Adams. The first one I am not so certain of. The fir...

01 June 2007

Can You Read It?

This is an entry from an 1841 census entry in County Cumberland England. Any thoughts on what it actually is supposed to be?

Can You Read It?

This comes from the "father's name" column in a mid-nineteenth century Catholic Church christening register in Beberstedt, Ger...

Can You Read It?

This comes from an estate receipt in Illinois in the 1870s. This German native was probably in her thirties at the time she signed this rece...

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