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Know how to read cursive? The National Archives wants you

The National Archives needs help from people with a special set of skills–reading cursive. The archival bureau is seeking volunteer citizen archivists to help them classify and/or transcribe more than 200 years worth of hand-written historical documents. Most of these are from the Revolutionary War-era, known for looped and flowing penmanship .

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

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority from the Revolutionary War era are handwritten in cursive – requiring people who know the flowing,

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National Archives Is Seeking Volunteers Who Have the ‘Superpower’ of Reading Cursive — Which Only 24 States Still Teach

The National Archives is currently looking for volunteers who have the ability to read cursive writing to help them transcribe and tag records of over 200 years' worth of documents. Amid the rise of computers,

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Maine lawmaker wants to require cursive be taught in classrooms

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Can you read cursive? The National Archives wants your help.

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

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Can you read cursive? The National Archives needs volunteers with your 'superpower'

But it doesn’t mean that they actually use it in real life. In the past, most American students began learning to write in cursive in third grade, making it a rite of passage, said Jaime ...

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