Reading cursive is a superpower,” said Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, ...

The National Archives needs volunteers to help transcribe historical documents written in cursive. This citizen-led initiative makes American history more accessible to researchers and genealogists.

Reading cursive is a superpower,” Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, DC, ...

A lot of old records at the National Archives are written in longhand, but fewer people can read cursive. The institution is ...

Anyone with an internet connection can volunteer to transcribe historical documents and help make the archives' digital catalog more accessible ...

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 ...

To date, more than 4,000 Revolutionary War Pension Project volunteers have typed up the content of over 80,000 pages of ...

But these texts can be difficult to read and understand— particularly for Americans who never learned cursive in school. That’s why the National Archives is looking for volunteers who can help ...

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.” ...

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