You can help make it happen," the National Archives said on its website. "As we add tags or transcriptions to records, all of those words are added to our Catalog and it helps improve search results.

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 ...

Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, D.C., tells USA Today in an interview that volunteers will help the agency transcribe or tag records in their ...

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

Isaacs said the catalog holds 270 million digitized files, still a fraction of the 15 billion items held by the National Archives. "We're ramping up and getting more and more things in the catalog ...

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 ...

"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.