Cursive! Foiled again!
Probably should have checked first...
Posted on 01/14/2025 2:52:10 AM PST by EBH
If you have expertise in reading cursive, then there’s an opportunity that might peak your interest.
The National Archives is looking for someone who can transcribe (or classify) more than 200 years’ worth of U.S. documents.
Which historical documents must be transcribed? A team within the federal agency is looking for volunteers to read and transcribe records from Revolutionary War pension records that include applications and other records related to claims for pensions and bounty land warrants. Other historical materials include immigration documents from the 1890s and Japanese evacuation records.
What they're saying: Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, D.C., tells USA Today in an interview that volunteers will help the agency transcribe or tag records in their catalog. They can simply pick a record that hasn’t been worked on, and it only requires a half hour a day or week to do it.
The National Archives is collaborating with the National Parks Service ahead of the nation's 250th birthday for a project, and they are reaching out to volunteers for assistance transcribing these documents.
How can I apply? What you can do: People interested in participating can sign up online at the National Archives website. There is no application to fill out, and all you have to do is register for a free user account in order to contribute to the National Archives Catalog, by clicking on the Log in / Sign Up button.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox5dc.com ...
And Deep State is delighted to see it.
I don’t like AI generated pictures and video. It is too perfect and almost becomes boring and ugly perfect. It is devoid of personality.
Thanks! I was waiting for that pic!
Marking.
i’d do it for $50 an hour
exactly! exploit the people for free labor rather than gainfully employ senior citizens. they can eat their cursive documents
Paper in his world is obsolete. Cursive writing is archaic irrelevance...
In your opinion... I see it as part of reverse human evolution.
Books are paper and dont rely on power. All this digital data management and computing power is useless without power. Imagine all this being wiped out by a massive solar flare or EMP pulse.
If all knowledge is digitized and then lost it would be hard for a do over without books.
Same here, heck, I can’t even write cursive anymore!
"The National Archives and Records Administration is an independent federal agency that preserves and shares with the public records that trace the story of our nation, government, and the American people."
It would seem obvious that part of the job requirements of National Archive employees hired to preserve and share such national archive records would be the ability to read such national archive documents, rather than to use unpaid volunteers to do their job for them.
Cursives! Foiled again!
On the face of it, I would agree. I also agree they should pay the people who take this on. It is a much harder job than many minimum wage people do, and they at least make something for their time. But I think it's possible that part of the reason they are asking for help is not the difficulty of it, but that there might be such a large volume of it that it would take them decades for them to complete it on their own.
Not only can I read cursive but I can also speak it.
= = =
And in the modern tech world, the computers have cursors.
I remember back in the 60s learning cursive and I noticed right away that the teachers and every adult I knew did not write the way we were being taught. So I ended up developing my writing the way I liked it. To this day people comment that they admire my penmanship. But if I’m in a hurry even I might not be able to decipher what I wrote. FWIW
No money, no read - reading 18th Century cursive is difficult and hard on the eyes.
I very well take your point. My post tells of what actually is. My grandson is an excellent student, top of his class being sought by various colleges.
His example is what actually is. They just do not write any thing. All is accomplished on their computers. His world is totally digital.
I’d be worried about lefty “volunteers” coming forward for their opportunity to Change History.
The National Archives was established in 1934 to centralize federal recordkeeping. It is likely that the National Archives will be around for at least another 90 years, if not 190 years.
Perhaps colleges will offer students academic degrees in Handwriting Reading, so that they can be hired by the National Archives and other state or local organizatons to read handwritten historical documents.
Given the decline in educational standards, in the future, universities may also offer master and doctoral degrees in addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division.
Just going to park this dumb question right here:
So there is a call out for cursive readers/writers. Let’s say a large contingent volunteers. And let’s say they are all progressive/liberal history teachers who volunteered.
Would you ‘trust’ them to transcribe our historical documents truthfully, honestly, correctly? Or do you think that more than a few would see this as an opportunity to literally rewrite history.
Would you volunteer then as a mission critical endeavor for the good of the nation?
I mean seriously, if no one or few can read the documents any transcription can or could change the context. As conservatives we often complain about the ‘crazy’ interpretations of historical writings and yet, WE often won’t pursue opportunities to keep the records straight.
What is the value of our history?
That’s not too far-fetched. I could see myself enjoying doing something like that.
Cursive! Foiled again!
Probably should have checked first...
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