Records of the Great Depression
One overlooked set of federal records is the Works Projects Administration (WPA). WPA records were created between 1935 and 1943, when the federal government created the Works Projects Administration to provide work for thousands of unemployed Americans who were struggling to survive the depression of the 1930's. There were hundreds of WPA programs that employed thousands of people. Records of this program are at the National Archives and some state archives. Not all are of genealogical value.
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You are so right. The WPA was a big deal and provided many jobs during that time. thanks for the website.
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The North Carolina State Archives have digitized the original 1930s type-written WPA cemetery surveys and put these documents online in their "North Carolina Digital Collections" in the "Family Records Collection" where you can find each county's document. (Not all counties may be included.) Since these were done decades before Find A Grave / Billion Graves, they may help with monuments which are unreadable in later surveys.
Since these are PDFs of typed documents, they are not searchable unless you download the PDF and use the search/find feature in your favorite PDF software.
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