Over the past 20 years we have deciphered and translated thousands of documents in Old German script: postcards, letters, magazine extracts, diaries, reports from submarines, passenger ships and steam ships, as well as birth, marriage, and death certificates, and medical and church records. From the famous air force pilot Manfred von Richthofen, AKA the Red Baron (1892-1918), to the Boxer Rebellion in China (1899 – 1901), the Kaiser Reich, and the First and Second World Wars, each document has a story to tell.

Deciphering and translation service for old German scripts.
Sütterlin, Kurrent, Old German Gothic alphabet (also known as "old German hand" or "old German blackletter handwriting"), Chancery script or the Gothic printed Fraktur typeface, we have the linguistic knowledge and experience for the transcription of your old documents, letters, books and manuscripts.

The Sütterlin script was created by Ludwig Sütterlin in 1911 as a modern handwriting script. It started to replace the old handwriting Kurrent script beginning from 1920 in schools until 1941. Nowadays many people falsely call all old German handwritings 'Sütterlin’ when in fact the script is actually the “old German script”, aka “Kurrent”. This had been in use since about the 16th century.

Old German handwriting can be hard to read, let alone translate.
Many people own letters, postcards, certificates, court records, documents concerning inheritance or matters of genealogy or other papers which contents they do not know because they cannot read the writing. Often these documents of your ancestors will contain interesting news and valuable information. You might be surprised by what happened ages ago in your family and in the surrounding area.

● Let our specialized linguists work on your documents, translate them for you, and summarize them for you in English.

● A family history that needs to be told. A story that needs to be narrated. We make getting a stunning voice-over for it easy!