Immigration records from the 1890s, Japanese evacuation records, Charles Mason’s field notes on the Mason-Dixon Line, and Revolutionary War pension records.
According to Isaacs, “we design missions where we ask volunteers to assist us in tagging or transcribing records in our catalog.” All you have to do to volunteer.
Is register online and get started. She said, “There is no application.” Simply choose an unfinished record and read the instructions. Spending 30 minutes a day or a week doing it is simple.
Since so many papers are written in longhand script, being able to read it is quite beneficial. “How much you use cursive today is more important than whether you learned it in school,” she said.
On April 29, 1852, a Revolutionary War Pension application was submitted. To assist with the transcription of such documents,
The National Archives employs volunteer Citizen Archivists. It helps to be able to read handwriting in cursive. Cursive is no longer used.
