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National Archives Seeks Volunteers for Cursive Transcribing Effort

National Archives Seeks Volunteers for Cursive Transcribing Effort
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  • National Archives needs volunteers to transcribe cursive documents.
  • Project spans over 300 million items from Revolutionary War to 1950 Census.
  • Most U.S. schools have replaced cursive with keyboard skills.
  • Volunteers, called citizen archivists, help decode historical records.
  • Participants choose records to transcribe or tag without formal application.
  • Community manager calls reading cursive a 'superpower'.
  • Leader Suzanne Isaacs invites more helpers for this historic effort.
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