Can anyone read LATIN?

Dennis J Yancey

check this out:

https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/106324186?cid=mem_copy

can anyone decipher the general gist of what this is?

Julia Szent-Györgyi

Not without a much-less-pixellated image, I'm afraid.

Dennis J Yancey

a rather poor image but at the moment all I have.

bathompson

Hello @Dennis J Yancey,

What a fascinating memory! Here is something I tried to understand what is in it. You can search for Latin to English translation in Google and you will come to a page where you can enter the Latin word and it will show you the English word.

I looked up the first word, "Imnomine", and it means "undefiled".

It's a little tedious, but that is the best suggestion I have. Maybe others would have a better idea.

There are other ideas in this article from the Help Center:

https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/where-can-i-get-help-to-translate-a-document

Best Wishes!

Julia Szent-Györgyi

On closer scrutiny, I'm not even sure this is actually Latin: some of it looks more like Italian. It starts with the word Anno, which is "year" in either of those languages. I think it writes out the year 1748, but a lot of that may be wishful thinking around the pixel-boxes.