> Probably you are facing "Sütterlin"[4], which differs quite a bit from modern german handwriting. My mother in law (and her mother) wrote everything in Sütte

> Probably you are facing "Sütterlin"[4], which differs quite a bit from modern german handwriting. My mother in law (and her mother) wrote everything in Sütterlin and I found it rapidly became pretty easy to read, though that also could be because I only encountered it from a small number of hands. OTOH I find older Handschrift and Fraktur print (we have a bunch of old books in that) basically illegible.