G2G: Help with German handwriting on back of photo, c. 1880

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Hi all, I need help from fluent readers of German handwriting!  Or Schweizerdeutsch; this is Zurichsee.  I have a scanned family photo with an annotation on the back.  "Famili Meier Re--f?--e?r" The third word may be the last name of my ggg-grandmother, whose name I don't know.  The photo (see last link) is of her, surrounded by her children (clockwise from lower left: Sophia, Pauline  (my gg-grandmother);  baby Ida, Jacob, Emil. Their father is Jacob Meier.)  Famili Meier Re ???? e? rI've also put it here, so you can click through and see it very high-res:

https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Meier_Kuhn_Riglander_Family_Records_and_Photos-1

The front of the photo is here: https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Meier_Kuhn_Riglander_Family_Records_and_Photos

Thanks very much!

in Genealogy Help by Patricia Hawkins G2G6 Mach 3 (38.9k points)

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"Familie Meier Rosenberger." This is it.
by Jelena Eckstädt G2G Astronaut (1.7m points)
selected by Patricia Hawkins

Aha!  I can see it now!  I *knew* my eye just wasn't seeing the right patterns!  Thank you so much!  

I'm pretty sure I've also seen Rosenberger on some other souvenirs and cards from my mother's family.

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Think the last bit of the word is berger
by Living Poole G2G Astronaut (1.4m points)

Not convinced there's room for the berg in berger; looking at the high res version, looks like it also could be boyer.   Might a z be formed with a long descender like that?  I know some of the Frakture/ black letter fonts have a long descender on the z, but I'm not at all sure about the handwriting, particularly Swiss.  

See: https://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/f/fd/Meier_Kuhn_Riglander_Family_Records_and_Photos-1.jpg


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