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Help translating French Canadian Baptism Record (In French)

Help translating French Canadian Baptism Record (In French)

I need help translating/transcribing this French Canadian Baptism record of my great-great-grandmother, Maria Berthelet. My French reading is at an elementary proficiency level so I was able to pick out words here and there but combined with the blur, I simply can't make out many of the words. If anyone could give me a transcription that would be wonderful!

Also, I'm willing to tip if that's acceptable, this is my first time posting here so I'm not sure of the etiquette lol.

u/hforkthedork — 24 hours ago

Trying to find when or what this strike or protest is

Can anyone decipher these signs?

These photos are probably from Morgan County, Utah or the surrounding area. My great grandpa is in these photos and he died in January, 1947. So these photos are sometime before he died.

u/Balthazar_is_me — 1 day ago

What is the name listed with the first paragraph?

I'm doing Genealogy research on an ancestor named Olivier LeBlanc. I think I found his baptismal record but I can't make out the first name with 100% certainty. If you're able to transcribe the paragraph next to it that would be great as well.

u/Glum-Result8699 — 2 days ago

Unsure what this says 🤔

Please note, the stone changes color, and when it [?] it said purple. But if I move it changes to purple too!

u/mrsdeetz — 2 days ago

What does this say? These are the notes from my watch that went in for servicing

I’m curious what they had to repair

u/mnt305 — 2 days ago

I found this old copy of Paradise Lost On ebay

I tried AI and i know its from an aunt to her niece Nettie who is sick and it was written in 1947 with two letters on eatch end of the book plus the back of the photograph

u/OfTheSevenSeasSir — 2 days ago

What does it say on the first line next to oranges?

Found this lost grocery note and can’t figure out what comes after oranges.

u/wahwahwahwahnaha — 4 days ago
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1960s Italian passport transcription request

Hi all - looking for some assistance in transcribing what is written on my grandmother’s Italian passport from 1964 under “domicile”. I can see Bari, which is where she lived, but have been unable to make out the next word starting with a C. Any help is appreciated!

u/steenamaria — 3 days ago

Has anyone found reliable AI tools for transcribing old handwritten documents?

I've been researching family history for 25 years and the documents that always defeated me were the handwritten ones — 19th century parish registers, Latin baptismal records, German church records that I simply couldn’t read.

I’ve been experimenting with using AI specifically trained on historical handwriting styles — secretary hand, court hand, the letter forms that look nothing like modern writing — and the results have been genuinely useful for genealogical documents.

The thing that matters most for this kind of work is that it flags what it can’t read rather than guessing. A wrong name or date in a family record breaks everything downstream.

Curious what others have found works well — particularly for non-English documents. Latin and French records have been my main challenge.

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u/gen-art — 3 days ago
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Herbarium label

https://preview.redd.it/phw8kyn3hy1h1.png?width=1556&format=png&auto=webp&s=70002912f184260a35cc1b60567a740b11e5dc1e

https://preview.redd.it/ou06mpn3hy1h1.png?width=1053&format=png&auto=webp&s=94925fb6f8854e06563d7eb79e83e2579b4f7e36

I've been trying to figure this one out for a while now. What I've got so far is “Potamogeton hybridum varietas natantum”, “in stagni Carolinae”, “schedulo in herb. Michaux, musei regdi”, "A v. Chamisso" (Adelbert von Chamisso). I can't figure out the word I've got as "regdi"... do you think I transcribed it correctly? I can't figure out what Latin word it should be.

Thanks so much for your help!

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u/menyanth — 3 days ago

What's the name?

I can read the number and last name clearly, but what's the first name? all I know is that it is a female name. thank you!

u/Comfortable_Tip_6022 — 3 days ago

Help identifying unclear handwritten digits

I found an old note with what I think is a UK mobile number on it, but I’m struggling to decipher the handwriting.

Since it’s a UK mobile number, it should start with 07. My best guess so far is something like:

0757xxx2xx7

but I’m not confident on several digits. Any ideas what the ambiguous numbers could be?

u/KingMorelloCherry — 4 days ago
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Help decipher what this note says

Coworker had this on her desk before she quit. She was Georgian.

u/EventHorizon-99 — 6 days ago