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Handschrift - handwriting

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Left side: Hausvater Johann Michael Mauer Bürger(?) u. Weingärtner geboren in Oberriexingen, den 10. Mai 1806 Basically name and profession. The "Bürger" part I'm unsure, but the second ("Weingärtne …
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Understanding the record of Georg Friederich Händel's baptism

German did not really have a unified orthography until the 18th century (even if the first dictionaries came into being around the time Händel was born), so everyone more or less wrote like they thoug …
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Can an umlaut be written as a line in handwriting?

Old handwriting (other than "Sütterlin") also allowed to write double consonants "nn" and "mm" as a single one with an added vertical bar on top (that's called Geminationsstrich). …
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Translation for an autographed inscription

Herrn Großadmiral Raeder mit den herzlichsten Wünschen zugeeignet. Albert Speer, Berlin, den 25.IV.1940 Translates to Handed over (or dedicated) to Mr Grand Admiral Raeder with the most …
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Handwriting: Prefixes on German words

That pretty definitely says Hausmutter. The capital letter is a German "H" as in the attached picture off Wikipedia. The "hooks" on top of the "u" are there to make the "u" and "n" easier to distingu …
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Translation of journal page written in 1823

I can come up with the following: Nimm dies kleine Angedenken Freundschaft, Achtung weiht es Dir, Könnte ich das Schicksal lenken, Immer bliebe ich allhier Was sind doch der Menschenfreuden(?) Kaum d …
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What is written on this postcard from about 1945 or earlier?

Templin, 1.10.07 Lieber Cousin! Die besten Glück- und Segenswünsche zu deinem Geburtstag senden mit den herzlichsten Grüßen an dich und deine[r] lieben Frau Euer alter Cousin und Cousine E u. L Voh …
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Understanding an old handwritten document from 1850

It apparently is a marriage certificate ("Trauschein") between Wilhelm August Krahmer and Marie Christiane Wilhelmine Cramer, married 8. Jun 1841 in Moscow. The document is an excerpt from the marri …
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