The National Archives would appreciate a word from anybody who can read cursive. or many million. Over 200 years’ worth of American papers need to be transcribed, or at the very least categorized,
And the great majority of those from the Revolutionary War period are scribbled in cursive, which calls for those who are familiar with the flowing, looping style of calligraphy.
According to Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager at the National Archives Catalog in Washington, D.C., “being able to read cursive is a superpower.”
The Archive has over 300 million digitized items in its database, and she is one of the people who oversees the more than 5,000 Citizen Archivists who read and transcribe some of them.
They are also seeking volunteers who possess a talent that is becoming more and more uncommon. These data include the 1950 Census,
