The National Archive seeks help to transcribe 300 million documents

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The National Archive is looking for volunteers who can read a cursive to help transcribe more than 300 million digitalized objects in its catalog, saying that the ability is a “superpower”.

The Penmanship style has become almost obsolete as printing and textual obtained.

Most US schools no longer learn the form of handwriting, instead focusing on the keyboard skills.

Currently, 24 countries require learning to be learned – but only this may not help the task of the National Archive in question.

“It’s not just a matter if you have learned school courses, is how much you use savings today,” said Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Catalog of Archives in Washington, DC, said the USA.

“We create missions where we ask volunteers to help us transcribe or label records in our catalog,” Isaacs explained, saying that there are documents worth more than 200 years to spend.

The organization has registered over 5,000 civic archivists, but can still use more help.

“There is no request,” Isaacs said. “You simply choose a record that has not been made and read the instructions. Easy to do for half an hour a day or a week.â €

Records range from revolutionary war pensions to the 1950 census.

Volunteer Christine Rinal, 70, who lives in Hills Fairless, Pennsylvania, is deciphering the revolutionary war pension files for soldiers who served at the Battle of Guildford Courtouse on March 15, 1781.

She is very proud of her work, thinking about how people will feel able to discover these objects and connect them with their family stories.

“I wake up in the morning and eat my breakfast with my husband, then he goes to go to fishing and I come to my work room, I have my computer and I wear it at my radio station with Oldies and I just start transcribing , â € she told USA Today.

â € œ I just love it so much .â €