Consider the Youth of the World when providing batches to index
The youth of today do not use cursive. Most batches are cursive. I serve in a FamilySearch Center and have observed the young Service Missionaries indexing in the past. Last week a took time to walk around and observe them. No one was indexing. I ask a couple of them why they weren't doing it anymore. They said it was to hard to read.
The youth is our future. It is a disservice to them that we cannon provid them with batches that are printed or easy to index. I suppose you are using AI to index that type of record. I have found that if you can get the youth to index the easy ones then they go onto the harder ones and learn cursive. Is there a way you could block out the easier batches for the youth only?
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The disservice is in not teaching our children cursive. The records are not going to get re-written just because the newer generations can't read that style of writing.
(I'm the parent of a sixth grader who hasn't been taught cursive.)
Of course, there's nothing new in the current situation: it's just a variation on the difficulties presented by Kurrentschrift in German-language records, or the old secretary hands in English parish registers. We don't learn those styles of handwriting any more, so the paleography becomes that much more difficult.
Another consideration: typed or printed records hardly need human indexers, nowadays. Between OCR and AI, the computer can produce a fairly competent index for those.
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