The National Archives' Citizen Archivist program is recruiting volunteers to help transcribe thousands of documents in its ...

The National Archives needs help from people with a special set of skills–reading cursive. The archival bureau is seeking ...

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

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of ...

Anyone with an internet connection can volunteer to transcribe historical documents and help make the archives' digital catalog more accessible ...

With the ability to read and write cursive becoming more rare, the National Archives is looking for some important volunteers ...

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 ...

The ability to read cursive handwriting is helpful but not essential. “We create missions where we ask volunteers to help us transcribe or tag records in our catalog,” Isaacs said. To ...

That led to a pushback and today at least 14 states require that cursive handwriting be taught, including California in 2023. But it doesn’t mean that they actually use it in real life.

WASHINGTON — Reading cursive writing is a skill that could be fading ... tend to use it only for signing their name -- meaning most people lack practice in reading and deciphering the often ...