Do you have the skill set the National Archives is looking for? Most older folks can still read and write cursive and that is what is needed to help transcribe/classify 200 years of handwritten historical documents. There are over 5000 volunteer citizen archivists currently working on more than 300 million digitized objects from field notes made by geographers working on the Mason Dixon line, to immigration and census records. Interested volunteers can sign up online at National Archives no application required. Side note: only 14 states still require cursive being taught in schools, which always makes me wonder how people learn how to sign their names? or do they all just print their names?
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