Genealogy: A Letter from the Past

[530nm330hz]

Today is my maternal grandfather's yahrzeit. Earlier this week was my grandmother's birthday and their wedding anniversary. And this week I received the most amazing thing, and the timing could not have been more fitting

Comments

[elainetyger]

I'm glad for you that progress has been made!

[vettecat]

So very cool! Does this mean they'll be able to send you more letters?

(BTW the cut-tag doesn't seem to be working.)

Making a Bielein?

[kirisutogomen]

So I'm looking at the "B" in "Behandlung" and at the letter that you've transcribed as "B" in "Bielein" and "Bie", and I am not sure they're the same letter. The letter in "_ie" and "_ielein" certainly looks like a "B", but it differs significantly from the known "B" from this sample.

This is the "B" in "Behandlung"

Re: Making a Bielein?

[530nm330hz]

I originally had transcribed it as a Z, actually, until my mom told me (which I have since substantiated from other letters that the museum has sent me) that his "full" nickname for her was "Hobby"; it seems that "Bie", "Bielein", "Hobbylein" were nick-nicknames.

Re: Making a Bielein?

[kirisutogomen]

I suspected it might be something like that, but the temptation offered by "Making a Bielein" was too great.