I may have gone a little overboard with the redactions, but you can't be too careful.
When I showed this picture to him, my dad pointed out that my great-grandfather was demobilized a week after the end of WWI.
My mom found my great-grandfather's discharge paper from the US army. It's 107 years old.
17 Comments
victorz@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 1y
Use all the fonts!
vaguerant@fedia.io · 16 pts · 1y
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Comic sans wasn't invented yet.
I mean, I joke, but it probably actually wasn't.
espentan@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
It wasn't, not by a long shot. Comic sans is a mere 31 years old.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
That's what historians in future Generations will call the beginning of the decline.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I've seen London, I've seen France, I've seen docs in Comic Sans.
buffing_lecturer@leminal.space · 6 pts · 1y
Is there a reason for this ?
victorz@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 1y
For what?
jet@hackertalks.com · 11 pts · 1y
Ruddy complexion
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Notice the printed date, One thousand nine hundred and ________
Clearly this is one of the things they had to update for Y2K.
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I have some old checkbooks that have "19__" printed on the date area.
I still have the account, but there's little need to use checks any more.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
“Christian name first?”
That is a whole basket of assumptions about people.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social · 12 pts · 1y
In this case christian name is a synonym for given name. I bet if someone was baptised with a name that doesn't match their legal given name it would be the wrong choice in this context.
Drekaridill@feddit.is · 9 pts · 1y
Everyone knows that there were only Christians in America before Obama /s
Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
OP make sure you or a family member makes a good resolution digital scan of it. Bonus if you contribute it to something like Wikitree for future generations.
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y
you should get that dry mounted.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
Bah. We were trying to buy a house older than that. And it wasn't a fancy "heritage" house either.