Can you read cursive?
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The National Parks Service and National Archives could use your help . . . Can You Read Cursive? The National Park Service Wants To Hear From You
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Even if you know cursive, the version of cursive used in Revolutionary War times probably looks a bit different.
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Seems like they want free labour.
I've read manuscripts of pretty much all ages and it becomes pretty easy to strip away the flourishes of copperplate, even in documents 400 years old.What is difficult, or rather I should say, takes time to become familiar, is the person's writing.
My father wrote in cursive using all the less familiar capital letter forms, but in a sloping, quite tall and very narrow style that is simply difficult to read.Could be very interesting archive work as you really never know what the next document might contain. Imagine finding an unknown Whittier poem, or correspondence of a famous musician with their musical ideas.
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@AndyD said in Can you read cursive?:
Seems like they want free labour.
“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” -
Are the National Archives at war or a charity?
Citizen archivist
Personally I think a National Archive ought to be offering properly paid & pensioned temporary/part time jobs; and looking for employees interested in a career.
Of course it's a choice people will make. Who will these free workers be do you think? Bored older retirees?
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I was trained in the Palmer method in grade school but now my hands are kind of stiff so I print everything.
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If people don’t write in cursive, what are graphologists going to do?
