r/Cursive • • 6d ago

Deciphered! What is Starbucks trying to say to me?

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273 Upvotes

I ordered a “medicine ball” tea and this is what they wrote on the cup. What da heck does it say?


r/Cursive • • 5d ago

Deciphered! Trying to decipher my Great Great Grandfather's death certificate.

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Mainly I am trying to read the name of the undertaker at bottom in the close up photo. It looks like 'Richard Platt' to me but I can't find any record of someone with that name working as a undertaker in Brockville around that time.


r/Cursive • • 5d ago

Help with final 3 lines please

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25 Upvotes

r/Cursive • • 6d ago

Deciphered! Can anyone make anything of this? Might well be in German.

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4 Upvotes

r/Cursive • • 6d ago

Practice What is that word?

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19 Upvotes

r/Cursive • • 7d ago

Help with cause of death

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31 Upvotes

Sarah Connolly Murphy


r/Cursive • • 8d ago

Deciphered! Can anybody read this one word?

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This is written in the front page of my book, but I can’t read this one word if anyone can decipher it for me!


r/Cursive • • 7d ago

Cursive course by experienced handwriting teacher - free

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https://universitas-scholarium.org/abecedaria/map/. course plus collection of free workbooks, all free to download. no paywall.


r/Cursive • • 8d ago

Ring found on the beach

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Found in Brazil 20 years ago, cannot decipher


r/Cursive • • 8d ago

Can anyone identify what style of cursive this is?

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6 Upvotes

If it follows any style at all, or what the closest match would be. It's gorgeous, and I'd love to read more about the method and incorporate some of the elements into my own.


r/Cursive • • 8d ago

Help deciphering my ancestors' names

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Edit again: to the person who went and added a lot of erroneous info onto my ancestor's pages based on the assumption that Lowesa Semple and Louisa Hammond are the same woman, please don't add anything else. It's making things a lot more confusing.

Edit: some folks wanted to see the full sheet, see below. And yes, the surname is Hammond and line 4 is Louisa/Louiza. I have everyone but line 5. I've seen Alphra suggested before Google doesn't seem to recognize that name and it didn't show up on the census search.

Hey folks! I need help deciphering a name on my ancestors' documents. Can anyone read the name on line 5? Apparently it's that of a boy. Family was Episcopalian, if it helps. Please don't just plug it into an AI reader'; others tried that already and it didn't yield anything. Help me, good nerds of Reddit.


r/Cursive • • 9d ago

Deciphered! Help with the first word!

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238 Upvotes

_____, my godchild this is my brother Eddie’n daughter.

This is on the back of a photo from NYC 1990s.

Edit: thank you everyone!! We just looked through a bunch of obituaries and found out that there is a distant cousin named Providence. This was a picture in a group of pictures that we couldn’t identify. I’ve never heard of someone named Providence, let alone a relative.


r/Cursive • • 8d ago

Help with Book Inscription

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What I can make out (possibly) is “1960 To Jean ___, compliments of the ____, ____ Proescholdt”

EDIT: The book is the 1953 second revised edition of Advance to Barbarism by F. J. P. Veale published in Appleton, Wisconsin. It’s a pretty rare and collectible book.


r/Cursive • • 9d ago

Can you decipher the occupation in the last row?

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18 Upvotes

r/Cursive • • 9d ago

Deciphered! Help! (Context 1895 Nebraska)

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44 Upvotes

Thank y'all, I'm going to keep spits, I think it might have just been slang And I'm going to assume she was trying to spell sausage.

"We butchered Mr.Armagost helped it is cold and windy and Spits snow"

"We made Soueeage we butchered a beef"

I cannot figure out if it is supposed to be "spits", and I don't know what they made.

(She is allergic to punctuation lol)


r/Cursive • • 9d ago

Signet ring initials

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6 Upvotes

AK?


r/Cursive • • 9d ago

What was the cause of death?

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What was the cause of death on this 1950 death certificate?

I believe the second word is myocarditis but not sure


r/Cursive • • 9d ago

Help me decipher this letter I found in an old book please

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8 Upvotes

r/Cursive • • 9d ago

Deciphered! Good luck with this one!

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I only want to know what the top line says. I think it's "something something traveller". It's from the 1901 census in Newton Heath, North Manchester, Lancashire, England


r/Cursive • • 9d ago

Can anyone help decipher these signatures of WW1 officers?

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r/Cursive • • 9d ago

Signature Signature ID

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3 Upvotes

So received a card from someone and can’t decipher who it is.


r/Cursive • • 9d ago

Deciphered! Please help with the handwriting.

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r/Cursive • • 11d ago

Deciphered! Profession or Occupation

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44 Upvotes

I think it's cotton weaver something apprentice something. Please help


r/Cursive • • 10d ago

Occupation and Employer

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Clerk (General office)

Something something Ltd London

Carpenter Improver

Something something Out of work


r/Cursive • • 11d ago

Practice Lots of samples

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If people are looking for things to try and transcribe I’ve got multiple volumes of old letters I inherited. Most are from historically notable individuals. I’m happy to post some of the more illegible ones for people to take a stab at. I think the oldest one I have is from the 17th century.