The National Archives is currently looking for volunteers who have the ability to read cursive writing to help them transcribe and tag records of over 200 years' worth of documents. Amid the rise ...

"It's easy to do for a half hour a day or a week,” Suzanne Isaacs, community manager with the National Archives Catalog, said ...

Get a read on this. The National Archives is seeking volunteers who can read cursive to help transcribe more than 300 million digitized objects in its catalog, saying the skill is a “superpower ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...

National Archives asking for volunteers to help transcribing documents “Reading cursive is a superpower,” said Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in ...

The National Archives needs help from people with a special set of ... 5,000 citizen archivists that help read and transcribe some of the more than 300 million digitized objects within its catalog.

WASHINGTON — Reading cursive writing is a skill that could be fading away over time. But if you know how to read cursive, the National Archives could use your help. The U.S. National Archives ...

That’s no small feat for an agency that, as of October 2023, had nearly 240 million pages of digitized records in the National Archives Catalog, almost 18 million digital images in the Digital Public ...

"It's easy to do for a half hour a day or a week,” Suzanne Isaacs, community manager with the National Archives Catalog, said. Danielle Jennings. Wed, January 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM UTC.

The National Archives uses Citizen Archivists who volunteer to help transcribe such materials. The ability to read cursive handwriting is helpful but not essential. “We create missions where we ask ...