A genealogy connection and now-good-friend directed my attention to an online transcribing project for the Boston Library’s Anti-Slavery Collection (see links below). Genealogists often have more experience than the general public interpreting cursive writing. If you want to offer those skills to online transcribing projects, I am including some links below. A Google search also produced hits for certain university libraries that may be of specific interest to some of you.
There’s a long “clearing house’ list at the American Historical Association’s website https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/teaching-resources-for-historians/teaching-with-dighist/crowd-transcription-projects-resource
The Boston Library’s Anti-Slavery Collection project is here: https://www.antislaverymanuscripts.org
The Smithsonian offers projects here: https://transcription.si.edu/
Library of Congress: https://crowd.loc.gov/
National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist
