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Dennis J Yancey
Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
February 14, 2021 edited February 21, 2021 in General Questions

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!

 

Hope you all have a day filled with positive feelings and love and hope

 

What are some Valentine or LOVE related items that you have come across in your Family Research?

 

Here is one Valentine treasure among the Yancey Family

 

https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/60679489?cid=mem_copy

 

You may not recognize it for what it is. It is a LOVE LETTER between one William Yancey and his new wife Arvilla.

 

As you first look at it closely you will try to read it - but your brain will go blank - because it cant perceive what is written on the page. The writing has been "encoded" - but at the beginning you will not perceive how it has been written.

If you stare at it long enough - you may eventually perceive - how it was "encoded" so that only William and Arvilla could read it (easily).

 

Its a funny puzzle to solve.

 

See if you can solve it.

 

Dont ruin it for everyone else

message me privately if you think you have the answer.

 

what family treasures do you have? have you preserved them by uploading them to FS Memories

 

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  • Carol Lou Hill
    Carol Lou Hill ✭✭
    February 15, 2021

    That was really a fun idea. Very creative.

    Carol

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    February 17, 2021

    the letter was written in English - its not a some foreign language.

    feel free to message me privately if you are stumped and wnat to know how to read it.

    If any of you think you have it figured out - send me ( privately ) the transcription of the first line.

     

    cool letter once you can read it.

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  • pam4381.5482845312327764E12
    pam4381.5482845312327764E12 ✭
    February 21, 2021

    Love it. That would have been tricky to write in long hand (cursive)!

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    February 21, 2021

    so now that this has been posted for a while

    If you look carfully you will see that the words in the love letter

    are written with each word's componenet letters written in reverse order

     

    the first line: "Been thinking about you darling . . . "

     

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