Saturday, February 28, 2015

The WPA Historical Records Survey

This reference is not for the feint of heart. The link will take you to an online digitized book titled “The WPA Historical Records survey: A Guide to the Unpublished Inventories, Indexes, and Transcripts.”

This is an inventory of WPA era work products that, in the end, were not published. It will tell you state by state what records were covered by the WPA and where they exist in archives across the country.

This information may guide your genealogy trip planning for the future. The list starts at page 9, but the pages before that will give you a history of the project.

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