Can you read cursive? It's a #superpower the #NationalArchives is looking for.

More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need #transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority from the #RevolutionaryWar era are #handwritten in #cursive – requiring people who know the flowing, looped form of #penmanship
#history

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/12/national-archives-needs-citizen-archivists-cursive/77493951007/

A thing I'm doing this summer at the London International Palaeography School.

'Transcribing and Editing Manuscripts: Palaeography after 1700'.

https://ies.sas.ac.uk/london-international-palaeography-school/course-descriptions/transcribing-and-editing-manuscripts

#palaeography #manuscripts #archives #editing #transcribing #handwriting

Thinking about #transcribing a novella by #FountainPen (similar to how Mountain of Ink uses LotR for testing ink samples, but at a much smaller scale!). There’s a 175ish pg book I’d like to spend more time with & my gut is saying this is a great way to do so.

Anyone have recommendations or tips for doing a first transcription project? My handwriting is quite terrible, so itd be for personal use as a handwriting practice project.

ETA: I have a book in mind, but I appreciate the recs!

@penfount

I've started #transcribing my #SingerSongwriter #music into chord sheets, so I have a better visual reference than just the #lyrics

#musician #songwriter #producer #IndependentMusician #IndependentProducer #songwriter #chords #ASCAP

4+ years ago I started transcribing Folger Shakespeare Library MS V.a.447 (John Guillim's heraldic notebook) from digitised images. This is the MS that started my researching Guillim.

For some reason the images for folios 39r-44v were missing. My contact at the Folger said there was no reason they shouldn't have been digitised, and the metadata on the images was probably wrong.

Periodically I have checked to see if this has been sorted, and today I found it has!
Now to finish transcribing, and then finish encoding in TEI!

#Folger #FolgerFinds #Va447 #Guillim #transcribing #heraldry #TEI

The National Archives has a lot of great citizen archivist missions. One of them includes transcribing the Revolutionary War pension and bounty land applications. Think of the stories you will find!

https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/missions?utm_campaign=asianpacific-may2023&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

#genealogy #history #RevWar250 #revolutionarywar #transcribing