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This handwriting is very faded and the copy is not good.  Any assistance is appreciated.  I can make out the first line, part of the second, and that is pretty much it.

46. 17  Hans Hinrich harder und Magdalena
    Mar  Studt? in Mözen, ?_____----1830
    _----10  _______?
   

Thanks,

Steve

Adrian,

Thanks again for your great transcribing skills.  The tongue in cheek comments would have made accurate translation for me even more unlikely.

I appreciate your work on this.

Steve

I would like a transcripton and translation from German to Englis.  I believe it is written inKurrent script.   This card seems to be postmarked in July 1910 from Uetersen Holstein.  The script is very graceful with fine thin strokes.  The lettering is very small to fit in a very confined area.  I have enhanced it somewhat to make it more legible.

Thanks,

Steve

Gillg & Adrian,

Thank you both for your excellent help and most of all for your persistence.  I now consider this case completed.  Great cooperation from the two of you. I am still amazed especially by the transcription work.  I am learning more about German every day.  I thought that deine indicated a woman rather than a man.

As for the mystery name, I think I have enough to go on as I review other correspondence and records.  Names unlike language, are less likely to follow a set of rules.  They can be rather unexpected.  As you noted one might expect Berta or Beata instead of Bertha in a German speaking country.  We have to remember though that even a hundred years ago or longer, people came  from other nations with foreign names.  In addition there have always been variants or an affinity for the exotic. Possibly the name could be Berte or Berthe rather than the traditional spelling.  I have a relative from Bremerhaven whose name was Betsy!  Everyone thought this was a mistake, but it kept popping up as Betsy in all the records.  Her grandchild was named Betty, spelled in the conventional American or English manner.  You just never know.

Thanks again to both of you for your skill and knowledge.

Steve

The attached file contains a family photo with several comments handwritten on the reverse.  Some of these notes were added possibly by additional individuals at a later time.  I feel there may be some valuable information which may provide clues to family members, but can't decipher it.  The occasion is the eightieth  birthday of a Meta Harder (seated second from the right).

Please transcribe and translate from German to English.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Steve