I spent Christmas Day, 2019, scanning some of my mother-in-law’s old family photos. Some of them had long notes on the back, written in German. Her mother, Helen Schiesl, was born in Munich, or München, in 1892.
Thought I took a couple of years of German in high school, I’m not able to read these. Aside from my limited German, the handwriting is also a challenge, so I am posting them here in hopes I can get help with translating them.
On the first one, the second line, I think I can make out the word photographer or photograph. The picture this note was written on is below it. I think there are names written on, but the ink is smudged a bit over the years. I think perhaps the young man in uniform is Helen’s brother Norbert Schiesl, who may have been killed in World War I.
The links are to profile pages on FamilySearch.org, which is free to use but requires registration.
From the collection of Helen Schiesl Raney
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