r/Cursive

Found part of my great grandma's recipe but need help figuring out what it all says.

Thank you everyone! I was unsure about a few words and best be safe than sorry!

I got a million of these names. I been going through them one by one and piecing together his history of his relations in the 50s.

I have found him not to be the greatest speller or writer but the most of time it's right. Some of these though are difficult to make heads or tails of.

Edit: I have a lead for the second photo. I just gotta wait to see if they respond but man none of the suggestions worked in the search engine. It's so frustrating.

I believe the last name is Martinez if that helps (written on the bottom)

Edit: I think we've all officially decided on "Hi cutie < 3 great art classmate u r ! Alex Martinez"

Can anyone actually read this
Edit- sorry it’s from a marriage certificate. It’s a woman’s name

I'm making a family tree for a friend, and I'm having difficulty figuring out what the town name is that is written here. Anyone able to make it out?

I had gotten a drawing I made, autographed by Antony Starr last year and now looking back at it, I don't remember what the blue ink part says. Right after it is my name, which is why it's blurred. I was wondering if anyone here could maybe tell what it says! Thank you!

Grandparents are gone and left a hoard of things. This letter fell out of a box.

It's addressed to Jake. Although in the letter the writer calls them Jink. Signed by Mac, but they say as of May 1st they should be addressed by the highlighted name. It's dated May 1945, Com 7th Fleet F.P.O. an Francisco.

I don't know any Jake, Jacob, or Mac that is connected to our family. I'd like to find whoever this might belong to, if possible.

I imagine the upload quality may be difficult, the original document is here:

https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3342962

I know it's too much to ask someone to transcribe this whole thing, but I don't have a specific part of it to request. Ideally I want to be able to read the whole thing, and I'm hoping someone can transcribe a few lines of it, so I can study those and try to make a go at reading the rest. So, anything anyone can do here would be very helpful.

The background on this document involves suicide, so I'll leave a gap before telling the story.

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This is a document that I found doing genealogy exploration. It's linked in a profile for a long-ago ancestor, attached to a strange story. Sometimes the details on genealogy websites are not totally backed up by the documents, so I'm trying to see for myself what's supported. The story as given is that this guy, Pierre Lefebvre, hung himself in 1687. He was then posthumously tried and convicted for the crime of suicide, and sentenced to have his corpse desecrated in various ways and hung for some period of time in a dishonorable way, along with his property being seized. Supposedly his son-in-law, Jean Clouet, and daughter then petitioned to have the sentence rescinded and the seized property returned to his widow. This document is one of several linked in the sources of the story. The rest are here if anyone's curious, but I think you need a FamilySearch account to view the page:

https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/sources/K19Z-FN9

Another version of the (unsourced) story is here:

https://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/genealogie-personal-info.aspx?pid=53664&information=Pierre%20Lefebvre

Thanks for any help investigating this!

I’m looking through old census records to discover family history and I have been able to read most of the census except the part I have zoomed into seen on the first picture and I need help reading it.

EDIT: A lot of people are replying that the two males surnames are ‘Duncan’ but I can say with almost certainty that I believe it to be ‘Durcan’ as in the area my family were from ‘Durcan’ (and variants of it: Durkan, Durkin) were very popular. We visited a graveyard and I’d say at least 30% of the graves were Durcan.

I recently bought a second-hand copy of Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet," and there is a personalized note at the start of the book. I find the handwriting to be quite unique and pleasing to the eye. I feel that I have most of the inscription figured out, but some words, specifically the third word in the second line, is hard to read.

Trying to learn more about this register I purchased. I can’t quite make out the name. I don’t know if the word under it is a location or store type either. Thanks in advance!

it's a signature on a painting I bought. I haven't been able to match it to a known artist - which of course means they may not be known - but still.

Edit: thanks hive mind! It is indeed Arthur Solin! Never would have said that was an "S"

This is from 1916 Australia. File based on someone living in Cloncurry, Queensland, if that helps.

It says:

Has a family of

6 daughters (unsure)

all born in (unsure)

Any help with the blanks is much appreciated!

This is a screenshot of a video on the history of Muckross House, a Victorian manor house in County Kerry in Ireland. Unfortunately I can’t get a higher resolution image than that.

It shows a portion of William Burns’ original drawings for the mansion before it was simplified in a redesign. I tried asking AI but that can’t make it out either and was making impossible suggestions.

I can read everything except for the rooms across/above the corridor from ‘family bedroom.’ Top-rightmost rooms in the image. For context, these rooms are directly above the kitchen, scullery and larder in the basement so they may have been associated with the service area of the mansion rather than the principal rooms.

The other rooms, if it helps decipher the writing, are (anticlockwise from top left)
Luggage room
Mr Herbert’s sitting room
Stairs
Safe
Entrance Hall
Billiard room
WC
stairs
(Indecipherable circular room, probably a servery or warming room attached to the formal dining room because it’s beside a service staircase that connects to the wine cellar and kitchen access corridors)
Dining room
Main stair
Corridor
Library
Drawing room
Boudoir
Wardrobe
WC
Dress room
WC
Staircases
Family bedroom
… mystery rooms

I think the tiny room cut off the very edge of the image beginning with L may be Linen storage

I speculated about “Liveries” for the middle one

No idea on the room beginning with S. Seems to have 2 words in the name.

The rooms aren’t part of the restored rooms open to the public, so can’t get any clues from the 3D tour of the house that’s available online, and I’m just interested in what their original intended function was anyway as opposed to what they’re used for now, if anything.

Thoughts?