The National Archives: Handwritten U.S. Documents/ volunteers wanted

[Jersey mike]

I guess if you’re into reading and national history and politics the National Archives can use some help, if you can read cursive writing from the time periods.


“ Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National Archives is looking for.”

Those records range from Revolutionary War pension records to the field notes of Charles Mason of the Mason-Dixon Line to immigration documents from the 1890s to Japanese evacuation records to the 1950 Census.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/read-cursive-superpower-national-archives-100612982.html

[John Schmidt]

Don't know why they say it's a superhuman power, anybody over the age of about 70 should be able to do it. 

[98valk]

so they are still working on re-writing history using preselected volunteers?

[Jersey mike]

I just thought some may find this interesting or may knkw someone else who may be interested in reading and transcribing old historical papers in spare time or as a little side project.

[Oss]

how about just teaching the rug rats to read and write cursive BEFORE print block letters ?

[John Schmidt]

how about just teaching the rug rats to read and write cursive BEFORE print block letters ?

Agreed! They need to get back to "reading, writing, & arithmetic."