Translation Services

• Handwritten letters and diaries
• Birth, baptismal, marriage, death, and other certificates
• Church books and family registers
• Emigration documents
• Newspapers
• Other genealogical and historical documents
• Journal article translations (many translations published)
• Certified Translations

Scripts I Work With:

• Present-Day German
• Fraktur (typeface from 15th century-early 20th century)
• Kurrent (early 16th century-mid-20th century)
• Sütterlin (a form of Kurrent, early-mid-20th century)

My most recent projects:

• 17th century letter of nobility
• 1921 diary
• 1913 marriage certificate
• 1831 emigration document
• 1883 autograph book
• 19th century church book entry
• 1645 obituary
• 1853 German passport
• 1810 marriage certificate
• 1920’s letters from Germany to America
• 1888-1905 death and marriage certificates
• 1791 document discussing sale of land
• Baptismal, birth and death certificates from 1880s and 1890s
• Letters from World War II
• Marriage document list from World War II, written in Sütterlin
• Poem written in 1773, written in Fraktur (old German typeface)
• 1882 German marriage certificate from a church register
• 1888 letter from a German nephew to his aunt in America
• 19th-century letter from a German immigrant in America to her sister in Germany
• 1920-1922 newspaper translations from German communities in Russia; written in Fraktur
• 1868 letters from a German woman to her sister in America
• Personal letters spanning from 1943 to 1952 from Germany to America
• Employment history booklet from early 19th century