Anyone with an internet connection can volunteer to transcribe historical documents and help make the archives' digital catalog more accessible ...

Do you want something challenging to tackle? Can you read cursive handwriting? If so, the National Archives and the National ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

There is also some evidence that learning cursive benefits the brain. “More and more neuroscience research is supporting the idea that writing out letters in cursive, especially in comparison to ...