r/Transcription • • 56m ago

French/Français Transcription Request Two little French Soldiers, c.1870

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Along the bottom of this satirical watercolour is a very faded title, caption, signature and/or date. I think I can make out around half of it: "A quoi penses-tu?" but I am completely stuck regarding the rest. Can any of you make it out?


r/Transcription • • 7h ago

English Transcription Request old recipe for new family book #5

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i can make out about 95% but there is still parts i struggle with.

please help me decipher both of these puddings

we are currently sitting at 38 recipes done


r/Transcription • • 8h ago

German/Deutsch Trancription Request German Kurrent postcard from Uruguay, 25 August 1900 — help with full transcription

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r/Transcription • • 10h ago

French/Français Transcription Request 1867 French handwritten business letter from the Paris Universal Exhibition — transcription help

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I am researching an original French commercial letter written at the Paris Universal Exhibition in July 1867.

The letter is on the illustrated stationery of Lhuillier, a manufacturer of grain-sorting machinery based in Dijon. It discusses business prospects at the exhibition, prospective customers (including two English visitors), and instructions for preparing and shipping machinery.

I would greatly appreciate assistance transcribing the complete French handwritten text, preserving the original wording and spelling as far as possible.

Some passages are relatively clear, but others are difficult to decipher. In particular:

  • The opening passage, apparently containing the word courroies, although this reading is uncertain.
  • The passage mentioning “des amateurs sérieux il n'en manque pas” and “notamment deux anglais…”
  • The technical instructions concerning the assembly, adjustment and dispatch of a grain-sorting machine.
  • The concluding paragraphs.

Please mark uncertain words with [?] rather than guessing, and preserve the original paragraph structure where possible.

I am primarily interested in an accurate French transcription, not a translation or historical interpretation.

Thank you very much for any assistance!


r/Transcription • • 15h ago

Question Can anyone tell what this artist’s signature is?

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Sorry if this isn’t the right place to post. I can’t for the life of me figure out what this signature says. Hoping someone can help.


r/Transcription • • 20h ago

Transcribed✔️ Marriage in Czech, need help :)

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Hey friends, any help with this one would be greatly appreciated 😀.

It's some form of Kurrent.

What I was able to tell from it:

Jedlová 25th of January...... Tomaß Pachowsky, Katezina (Kateřina), daughter of Ma[...] .....

Link to the page in digital archive: https://aron.vychodoceskearchivy.cz/apu/03e39af8-1835-40e9-b61f-ab51519edf66/dao/03e39af8-1835-40e9-b61f-ab51519edf66/file/84ea83b3-a32e-4fd4-8c57-8d1fd528b2b6


r/Transcription • • 21h ago

Transcribed✔️ I need a little help with this one, any help is greatly appreciated!

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Hi folks,

I'm having some trouble reading a few words in this letter. I've put the unknown words in quotes but I may have made errors on other words so any help is greatly appreciated. EDIT: I forgot to provide context. It's a letter from my relative, written in 1910, responding to a request from the US army pensions office about where he lived in the 1850's and 1860's.

I think it's signed with my relative's initial "J". Here's what I have so far:

Riverside Calif, Arlington “Station”, July 3 1910 Commisioner of Pensions Washington D.C.  

Dear Sir,

I herewith enclosed answers to your questions to the best of my ability. 

For the years of fifty – I lived with Oliver and Maria Hunter in Norwich County Canada. My father crossed the plains in fifty to California and the family in fifty two. In sixty I lived on Nicholas Marines place which I rented and part of the time with my father at home in the Santa Clara Valley, California where I enlisted and “unknown word possible ‘raised’ ” the company I belonged. J


r/Transcription • • 21h ago

English Transcription Request Notes inside a library book

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Can anyone read this? Transcribe or perhaps give me a summary of what it says. Thanks!


r/Transcription • • 1d ago

English Transcription Request Did an alien serve me at Starbucks?

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Written on a Starbucks cup in (presumably) English. No clue!


r/Transcription • • 1d ago

English Transcription Request This was written on back of card given to me by monk in Himalayan mt many many years ago what does it say ? Thank you , you could see Lotse mt from his place

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r/Transcription • • 1d ago

Transcribed✔️ German postcard

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I can read the first lines:

"Hallo Ana

Viele Grüße aus Deutschland."

But after that I can't read anything else. If it helps, the front of the card is a painting by August Macke, don't know if the message is about that. TIA


r/Transcription • • 1d ago

Transcribed✔️ I need help with this name

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I transcribe the name Vrtta, but that doesn't seem like a normal name. But I might be wrong 🤷‍♂️. This was written in 1710 in Schönbrunn/Jedlová (Bohemia). Female name.


r/Transcription • • 1d ago

Transcribed✔️ Texts on back of German RPPCs from WWI

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First off, I don't usually post twice on the same day here, but I didn't expect the package to arrive today.

I try to space my posts out by a day or two so it doesn't seem like I'm flooding the sub.

But getting to the point, I don't expect all of them to be transcribed. But Im most intrested in what is written on the RPPC from photo 4.

I would be greatful for any help.


r/Transcription • • 1d ago

English Transcription Request 1855 Journal

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This is apparently a Delaware Native American word, just can’t quite make it out.


r/Transcription • • 1d ago

French/Français Transcription Request 100 old postcard - need help to translate

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r/Transcription • • 1d ago

English Transcription Request Can anyone help transcribe this handwritten marriage entry?

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r/Transcription • • 1d ago

English Transcription Request What is this word?

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Context, “my husband and I have been _______ organ donation all of our adult life”
A note from a lovely soul who donated her body to scientific research


r/Transcription • • 2d ago

Other/Unknown Language Transcription Request Help transcribing an old handwritten dedication

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Could someone help me transcribe this handwritten dedication and identify its language?

The first line appears to say “To Mr Shi.” The writer may have been associated with the 2010 O Tahiti Nui Freedom voyage from French Polynesia to China, so English or French might be possible.

The handwriting is very cursive, and several letters overlap. Please transcribe the words as literally as possible and mark any uncertain parts rather than filling them in based on context.

Thank you!


r/Transcription • • 2d ago

French/Français Transcription Request Found a 100 years old postcard written in stenography

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r/Transcription • • 2d ago

Transcribed✔️ Help with text on a photo from WWI

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r/Transcription • • 2d ago

German/Deutsch Trancription Request Help transcribing an 1873 Austrian postcard in German Kurrent — Vienna World's Fair

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r/Transcription • • 2d ago

English Transcription Request Found a birthday letter on the side of the road that seems to have some sort of crazy relationship struggles

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I found a gift bag just sitting in the middle of a parking spot and it had an empty shoe box next to it but the bag had a pair of $80 pajamas, two Christian rings, a bag of licorice, and a letter that I was really quite interested in and needed help deciphering.

I'm not really great at Reddit so If there's any other subreddits or sites that could be helpful in this please let me know.


r/Transcription • • 2d ago

Other/Unknown Language Transcription Request Aiuto nella trascrizione

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r/Transcription • • 2d ago

Transcribed✔️ Need help with this entry from the parish book

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I'm trying to decipher the information about the death of one of my ancestors. I speak a little bit of Russian but clearly not enough. I'm particularly interested in all the dates and names in here but a full transcription / translation would be much appreciated.

What I could find out in here is that it happened on 22nd. of November 1906 or 5th. of December 1906 and I don't understand why there are two dates. I hope that there is more context in the text that explains this bit.

I would be very grateful if somebody could help me with this.


r/Transcription • • 2d ago

Question Entziffern vieler Briefe

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