A lot of old records at the National Archives are written in longhand, but fewer people can read cursive. The institution is looking for volunteers to help decipher and digitize them.

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

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

The National Archives is currently looking for volunteers who have the ability to read cursive writing to help them ...

The National Archives is brimming with historical documents written in cursive, including some that date back more than 200 ...

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

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

People interested in participating can sign up on the National Archives website. If you have expertise in reading cursive, ...

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