If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S.

"I'm a history major," said Barnes. "One of the times it really got to me was when I was looking through an old arrest report book. We were trying to find when Wyatt Walker and Harry Blake were ...

“I felt like I was learning a different language. Not only was I brushing up on my cursive, but my old English as well,” she said. The Archive’s Isaacs is clear that volunteers don’t have ...

“I felt like I was learning a different language. Not only was I brushing up on my cursive, but my old English as well,” she said. The Archives' Isaacs is clear that volunteers don’t have to ...

“I felt like I was learning a different language. Not only was I brushing up on my cursive, but my old English as well,” she said. The Archive’s Isaacs is clear that volunteers don’t have to start out ...

I really enjoy it,” said volunteer Tiffany Meeks, 37. “I felt like I was learning a different language. Not only was I brushing up on my cursive, but my old English as well,” she said.

If you can read cursive ... a professor of English at Texas A&M University - Texarkana whose students take part in the Citizen Archivist work, putting their skills reading old documents to ...