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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Can't read the town and country
« on: Friday 09 February 24 10:18 GMT (UK)  »
Biedenkopf,  Hessen Nassau

https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/10166020
Dave

I would support Dave's conclusion.

Here's another vote for Biedenkopf, Nassau. (From someone who used to live in Hessen.  ;D)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biedenkopf

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: When and where died
« on: Wednesday 07 February 24 10:18 GMT (UK)  »
I suspect it might be 25th.

The third letter does not look like an "r", and there is a dot over to the right which could belong to the "i". And as we know, dots are often not where they should be.  :)

So I think it might actually be Twenty Fifth.

Edit: Having looked at the page again, the scribe's dots are often a couple of letters to the right of where they actually belong.

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I am getting confused...  :D

The text in some of nicdigby's posts has disappeared - at least on my computer.

The screenshot in #8 is Johanna's death certificate, right?

The parents' names shown there are, as ss says, Hans Andreas Behrmann & Betty Louise Krohn

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Europe / Re: Joseph Modrach marriage 1833 Bohemia ( German language)
« on: Monday 18 December 23 10:21 GMT (UK)  »
Okeydokey, thanks!  ;D

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Europe / Re: Joseph Modrach marriage 1833 Bohemia ( German language)
« on: Sunday 17 December 23 22:06 GMT (UK)  »
Hi fiddlerslass,

What info do you have on his move to Hochelbe? Do you mean the general area around the Elbe near Hamburg? (I can't find an actual place with that name.)

Karen

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The other word looks like it ends in "s". But ta*s..?  :-\

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Any Ideas on date and make of car please!
« on: Saturday 09 December 23 14:37 GMT (UK)  »
 ;D  ;D  ;D

I didn't realise the pictures were going to be so huge!  ::)

I felt I had to join in, seeing as I live about 2.5km from the "original" Brunswick (Braunschweig), in N. Germany...  8)

It's a shame there is not more to go on in the original photo. And Arthurk raised a lot of good points re: other towns. But who knows... Maybe we will solve the mystery once and for all one day...  :)

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Any Ideas on date and make of car please!
« on: Saturday 09 December 23 13:29 GMT (UK)  »
I thought I might join in and take a look at Bridlington.  :)

Shop to let in Bridge Street, see P.3 (map):

https://www.heaneymicklethwaite.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/16-Bridge-Street-Bridlington-18.8.16.pdf

Street view of Bridge Street, with Brunswick Hotel (side?) door (main entrance appears to be on Manor Street) and what is marked as "garage" on the map in the previous link:



Street view of Manor Street, with hotel and archway:



Closer view of archway:



My brain is probably seeing too much similarity in the curve of the paving stones.  ::) Wishful thinking?! (I realise the stones themselves are different, but it could be that the old design was retained...)

There are apparently businesses in the yard beyond the archway, so there could - theoretically - have been a (repair) garage in there.

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Europe / Re: Ancestors of Michel RANQUE (German)
« on: Friday 08 December 23 14:49 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Cyrille,

I found this about his estate, but I am having a lot of trouble reading it!  :-\

https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/M64OWE6NKRWB5Q4RUP6IDFA44UXNUAW2

And please do not apologise for your (extremely good) English! A lot of native speakers are not as good. :)

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