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Rifareal, Josh Conner Canoy
Rifareal, Josh Conner Canoy ✭
July 11, 2021 edited November 1, 2021 in General Questions
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  • Gordon Collett
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    July 11, 2021

    One of the most helpful techniques for reading handwritten documents is to initially ignore what you are trying to read and evaluate the entire page:

    • Where is it from?
    • What type of document is it?
    • What year is it from?
    • How does the person that wrote it write?
    • What do his letters look like on the rest of the page?
    • Do the same words appear multiple times so I can be confident knowing what letters are what?
    • What does everything look like zoomed way in and way out?
    • How does making the page lighter or darker affect what can be read?

    This means it is much more useful to see the entire page than just a tiny clip. My best guess is that this is the name Mercy. But if you could post a link to where this image is found or show the entire page at high resolution, so I could properly look at this, I could easily change my mind or someone else could give you a better opinion.

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    July 11, 2021

    Summarizing Gordon's comment: We Need A Lot More Context. Your snippet possibly cuts off part of the last letter, so it is completely impossible to interpret properly.

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