I've been trying to find some genealogy stuff forever and I found a document that's kind of a school record type thing from one of my ancestors (specifically the one that immigrated here). Pretty cool but worthless because it's rather illegible. However there's an exercise where you have several people in a room guess the length of the room and the average is pretty close to the actual, so I'm going along the same lines of thought here.
This is the image. There's three different ways the first word is written (though they all look very similar) and I think it's a town, where the second word at the bottom left corner is a district of the town or state or something, not really sure. Anyhow I was wondering what y'all thought it might say. The language is German by the way, so it's not necessarily the English alphabet.
Edit: Blurgh it's not working. Go here if you're interested:
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To me, the first word kind of looks like Nullfold and the other one looks like Zulofint. But again both are rather illegible sooo....any better guesses? Would like to go back and strangle whoever the 'schullehrer' was who wrote that chicken scratch.
Also let me know if the image doesn't load. Photobucket seems down at the moment so I'm having to host it differently.
Anyhow if I can figure out what on earth they say, I'd have the town/village/whatever of where he grew up and did his schooling. From there I could perhaps look at town records or something.
This is the image. There's three different ways the first word is written (though they all look very similar) and I think it's a town, where the second word at the bottom left corner is a district of the town or state or something, not really sure. Anyhow I was wondering what y'all thought it might say. The language is German by the way, so it's not necessarily the English alphabet.
Edit: Blurgh it's not working. Go here if you're interested:
Dropbox - Photos - Online backup, file sync and sharing made easy.
To me, the first word kind of looks like Nullfold and the other one looks like Zulofint. But again both are rather illegible sooo....any better guesses? Would like to go back and strangle whoever the 'schullehrer' was who wrote that chicken scratch.
Also let me know if the image doesn't load. Photobucket seems down at the moment so I'm having to host it differently.
Anyhow if I can figure out what on earth they say, I'd have the town/village/whatever of where he grew up and did his schooling. From there I could perhaps look at town records or something.
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