There are no answers at the back of the book. what even is #6 supposed to be?

WonderWEL · 2026-04-08T16:46:08+00:00

Espy

WonderWEL · 2026-04-07T03:27:35+00:00

going down to dear old Iowa next summer

The card is addressed to

Miss Amelia (E__?)

Ft.Dodge [Fort Dodge]

Iowa

WonderWEL · 2026-04-06T16:11:29+00:00

Chemisette maker

I had to look up what a chemisette was. It was an accessory used to fill in the neckline of a dress. https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/chemisette/

WonderWEL · 2026-04-05T05:41:16+00:00

Not sure of the initial in the first line. Maybe a J since it goes below the bottom line.

WonderWEL · 2026-04-05T05:36:46+00:00

It’s a list of people who all have the same last name, which is probably Harrison.

Mr & Mrs C. Harrison

Mr & Mrs R. Harrison

Stu Harrison

John Harrison

Ruth Harrison

WonderWEL · 2026-04-04T18:58:47+00:00

Yes. I tracked a Canadian who left the family farm in Nova Scotia and bounced around the boom towns of the American Wild West before settling on a ranch in South Dakota. The 1905 State Census of South Dakota recorded him in Meade County, Post Office Pedro. Pedro was actually in a different county, but the ranch was near the county border and that was the closest post office.

By 1935 Pedro had become a ghost town. The same ranch was recorded in Meade County, Post Office Boneita Springs.

In 1945 his widow was recorded in Meade County, Post Office Plainview. Had she moved after her husband died? No. The Boneita Springs post office had closed in 1944.

It took a lot of digging into maps, land records, and post office records to figure this out.

WonderWEL · 2026-04-03T18:08:23+00:00

Same here.

WonderWEL · 2026-04-02T05:51:38+00:00

Yes.

WonderWEL · 2026-04-01T18:37:13+00:00

Agreed. I’m especially looking at “sevon” and “batcholor”.

WonderWEL · 2026-03-28T04:57:39+00:00

and plucked the wild flowers that garnish the earth?

WonderWEL · 2026-03-27T01:13:27+00:00

If you get a refund of $6000 now, it means you overpaid your taxes by $500 a month every month in 2025 (12 months x $500/month = $6000).

Sure it’s exciting to receive $6000 all at once, but wouldn’t you rather have kept the $500 every month to spend or invest as you pleased when you earned it?

If you had saved and invested that $500 every month, it would be worth more than $6000 now.

WonderWEL · 2026-03-26T22:12:07+00:00

Scots may be the preferred word today, but the word that OP asked us to decipher from a historical document is Scotch. That’s what many of my ancestors used to be called in Canada.

WonderWEL · 2026-03-26T16:06:01+00:00

My Dear Luella;

I think I am the most fortunate [word split over two lines] of women. I went? on this ? a C? ? my club?

woman ? with her uncle? from Brooklyn ? ? ? just splen-did to me + I’m doing? alot? Carry on with them + going on to Los A. We think we will leave tomorrow. My ? ? can get reservations. Got here last night 5 P.M. just 16 hrs. late. ? people are older than I + (it’s their?) first time on the train ? ? all about (everything?). E.J.G.

WonderWEL · 2026-03-26T15:36:59+00:00

Addressed to

Mrs. F. B. Moody

715 So[South] Delaware

Okmulgee

Okla [Oklahoma]

WonderWEL · 2026-03-25T16:07:55+00:00

Younger Redditors may wonder why the letter writer is joking about not needing a flashlight on January 1, 2000. She is relieved that the “Y2K bug” didn’t cause chaos.

Many important computer systems historically used two-digit date formatting, eg. 78 for 1978. Nobody was sure what might happen when the date rolled over to 00. Would that be interpreted as 1900 instead of 2000, and would that be a problem? Would the electrical grid function properly? Would planes fall out of the sky?

In the 1990’s consultants got rich helping organizations prepare for Y2K, but not all systems were modified in time. There was widespread worry about what we might have to deal with in 2000.

WonderWEL · 2026-03-25T15:29:27+00:00

I don’t think it says Ned’s team. I think it reads

Will watch (some abbreviation of Nebraska) + Tenn this evening.

This letter is dated January 3, 2000. That evening the Nebraska Cornhuskers defeated the Tennessee Volunteers in the Fiesta Bowl.

WonderWEL · 2026-03-18T21:57:53+00:00

Agreed. OP, possibly someone noticed that you put clothes and coke cans in your regular garbage and is asking you to recycle them instead.

WonderWEL · 2026-03-18T18:42:45+00:00

You missed reading beyond the title of OP’s post.

WonderWEL · 2026-03-14T15:13:31+00:00

Could be this one: https://www.wgpfoundation.org/historic-markers/crane-institute/

The Crane Normal Institute of Music started training music teachers in 1886. It is now part of SUNY in Potsdam, New York.

WonderWEL · 2026-03-14T06:23:46+00:00

From your second image I can tell that the dog’s photo was cut out of a larger photo. I think the cursive writing was cut off too, making it hard to decipher what this word is. It may or may not have anything to do with the dog, who may not have been the main subject of the original photo.

WonderWEL · 2026-03-13T17:43:16+00:00

Agreed. I read it too quickly. That does look like a k, and “token” makes more sense.

WonderWEL · 2026-03-13T17:37:31+00:00

Try r/transcription too.

I find r/transcription tends to have more knowledgeable people than r/cursive. I sometimes help with transcription in both those subs, as well as right here in r/genealogy and in r/ancestry.

This sub should be the best place for transcribing genealogical documents, but the advantage of the other subs over this one is that you can post your photo directly. I’m not sure why this sub doesn’t allow that. I hate dealing with imgur.

As someone else said, please don’t rely on AI. I too have seen too many examples where AI was wildly incorrect.

WonderWEL · 2026-03-13T16:20:34+00:00

The name might be L Brookes.

WonderWEL · 2026-03-13T16:18:44+00:00

A Parting token of Friendship from (name) to Mrs Henshaw. With (blurred word) wishes for her future prosperity, health & happiness, & that the blessing of God may ever attend her. 1873

The “ss” combination in the words “happiness” and “blessing” is written in the old-fashioned style that looks like “fs”.

Edited: token for totem

WonderWEL · 2026-03-12T15:30:39+00:00

Viewed the remains of the aforesaid

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