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Volunteer for the National Archives to Translate Cursive Handwriting for Modern Newbies

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The National Archives has launched a project inviting volunteers to help transcribe and digitize historical documents written in cursive.

The Citizen Archivist project is a collaboration between the National Park Service and the Archives to transcribe more than 2.3 million pages of pension files from the nation’s first veterans and their widows.

To date, more than 4,000 Revolutionary War Pension Project volunteers have typed up the content of over 80,000 pages.

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76

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70

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79

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formal

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English

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58

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