Records of the Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps
In response to the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced the New Deal, a series of domestic programs focused on relief for the poor and unemployed, economic recovery, and reformation of the nation’s financial system. Two of these programs—the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)—employed millions of men and women and created a variety of records that can be useful to genealogists today.
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Thank you for this article on the CCC. How do I find the date that this article was published?
Hi, Mary. That’s a good question. The site as it currently exists only displays month and year, in this case March 2016. Only from my administrative view can I see that it was posted 14 March 2016. We’ll keep this in mind as we look to update the NGS Monthly site.
Thanks for the article. Am wondering if WPA records have survived? I was told an old Native American Cemetery was surveyed in a WPA project , collecting a a list of burials given for Bloomfield Cemetery. The cemetery is near Achille and Hendrix Oklahoma, on private property, once part of the Chickasaw Nation IT. There are still has surviving stones. Any chance the list survived in the Archives of WPA, or would it contain only info of the people who were assigned to the project? I have family buried there and am looking for names, dates of those whose stone has not survived age and vandalism. Please advise…Thanks