Cursive Letter Identification
I contacted Trinity Cemetery in Detroit, MI to request the grave location of my 3rd-great-grandfather. The cemetery records at the time were written in German. They sent me the attached image and said the grave is in either J-75 or P-75. I'm leaning towards J-75, but it doesn't quite look like the handwriting guides I've looked at. So I'm curious what those of you with more experience think. Thank you in advance!
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More examples of that persons handwriting would be helpful. Particularly examples of names and written out words so we can get a feel for the way that person writes. Do you have, or can you get copies of full pages from the book?
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As JohnsonGreg says, we need to be able to compare full words and even pages in order to get an understanding of the writer's style. Looking at one or two letters in isolation can be misleading, at best.
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Additional samples of the handwriting may help to make a reliable assessment. However, here is my opinion so far:
The cursive capital letter "J" is usually written in a single stroke with a closed loop below the baseline, whereas the capital "P" is written most often in two strokes, the first more or less vertical sitting on the baseline and the second forming the round head of the letter. In the case here, I would strongly favor the letter "P".
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