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--part1_27.3bc5971.261a355e_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit << Subj: Ancestry Daily News, 3 April, 2000 Date: 4/3/00 7:02:31 AM Pacific Daylight Time From: (Ancestry Daily News) To: (Ancestry Daily News Subscriber) Ancestry Daily News http://www.ancestry.com/DailyNews Brought to you by the publisher of "The Source" and "Ancestry" Magazine http://www.ancestry.com ================================================== ******************************************************************** Keep in touch with your family and share information and data with a FREE MyFamily.com site. Sign up now for your site at: http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?id=ancnewsfooter ******************************************************************** Search Ancestry's World Tree--the largest, free database of family files available on the Internet! 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For contact information, please see the bottom of the message. ========================================================== 03 April 2000 In this issue: - Database of the Day ----- Auburn, New York Directories, 1889-1892 ----- White County, Tennessee Census, 1920 ----- Michigan Military Records, 1775-1836 ----- James Steele, Sketch of California History, 1889 ----- Evening News (Scotland), Obituaries, 1999 - Today's Featured Map: ----- Iroquois Frontier, 1768-1780 - "The Works Projects Administration," by Juliana Smith - Ancestry Quick Tip - Thought for Today - Share Your Opinion - Product of the Day at the Online Store ----- New York Births & Baptisms: Southeast Region CD-ROM ----- Early-bird Sale on new Ancestry CDs! Save up to 37% ____________________________________________________________________ ANCESTRAL PHOTO SHARING CONTEST! Enter the Ancestral Photo Sharing Sweepstakes! Get out your shoebox of ancestral photos and share them with others. Each photo uploaded to the Ancestral Photo Sharing Sweepstakes will enter your name into a weekly random drawing to win an Ancestry.com Preferred Annual Subscription or an HP ScanJet 4200C Series Scanner. Enter now or just browse current entries! http://www.myfamily.com/photo_contest/ancestral/main.asp ============================================================ DATABASE OF THE DAY (Free for 10 Days!) <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ============================================================ AUBURN, NEW YORK DIRECTORIES, 1889-1892 Situated in the Finger Lake area of New York, Auburn is the county seat of Cayuga County. This database is a transcription of three city directories originally published between 1890 and 1892. In addition to providing the resident's name, it provides information regarding their address and occupation. This collection includes the names of over 51,200 people, mostly heads of households. For those seeking ancestors from central New York, this can be an informative database. Source Information: "Auburn City Directory, 1889-1890." Auburn, NY: Alonzo P. Lamey, 1890. "Auburn City Directory, 1890-1891." Auburn, NY: Alonzo P. Lamey, 1891. "Auburn City Directory, 1890-1892." Auburn, NY: Alonzo P. Lamey, 1892. To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4468.htm This database is also included in the 1890 Census Reconstruction Project and can be searched through its main page at: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/census/1890sub/main.htm ____________________________________________________________________ WHITE COUNTY, TENNESSEE CENSUS, 1920 Officially declared a county on 11 September 1806, White County, Tennessee was created from surrounding Smith and Jackson Counties. This database, taken from microfilm copies of original federal documents, is a collection of census records from the county in 1920. Entries in the collection include the resident's name, age, sex, race, marital status, and place of birth. Also provided for each individual is the district and house number in which they lived. It contains the names of nearly 15,700 individuals. This information will be of interest to those who have familial ties in the county and can used as a starting point for further research into the lives of these ancestors. Source Information: Young, Denise, ed. "1920 White County, Tennessee Census." [Database online] Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 2000. Taken from microfilm copies of United States of America, Bureau of the Census. "Fourteenth United States Census of Tennessee." Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1920, located at Middle Tennessee State University Library. To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4464.htm ____________________________________________________________________ MICHIGAN MILITARY RECORDS, 1775-1836 Although not officially a part of the United States until after the American Revolutionary War, Michigan attracted thousands of veterans who fought in both the war for independence and the War of 1812. This database, originally compiled in 1920, is a collection of burial and pension records for residents of the state prior to 1836. It includes the names of men buried in the state and the source from which the record was taken. Also included is a list of pensioners who received land as bounty for their service. It provides the name of over 1,000 men. For those Ancestry.com patrons seeking early Michigan ancestors, this database can be a great source of information. Source Information: "Michigan Military Records." n.p., 1920. To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4465.htm ____________________________________________________________________ JAMES STEELE, SKETCH OF CALIFORNIA HISTORY, 1889 Visiting the California in the 1880s, James Steele, after returning to the East Coast, wrote a book based on his adventures in the state. This database, originally published in 1889, is a transcription of that narrative. It provides a sketch of California's history before the Gold Rush and includes descriptions of the remnants of that history which existed during Steele's visit. It includes descriptions of the San Gabriel and San Juan Capistrano missions and commentary on the Spanish-American culture of the region. For researchers wishing to better understand the history of early California, this can be an informative database. Source Information: Library of Congress. "California As I Saw It, 1849-1900." Vol. 145. [Database online] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Steele, James. "Old Californian Days." Chicago: Belford-Clarke Co., 1889. To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4466.htm ____________________________________________________________________ EVENING NEWS (SCOTLAND), OBITUARIES, 1999 Source Information: Bell and Howell Information and Learning Company. "Obituaries from the Evening News, 1999." Orem, UT: Ancestry Inc., 2000. To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4467.htm ============================================================ TODAY'S FEATURED MAP <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ============================================================ Today's featured map is: IROQUOIS FRONTIER, 1768-1780 To view this map, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/reference/maps/freeimages.asp?ImageID=473 ============================================================ "THE WORKS PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION" by Juliana Smith <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ============================================================ Franklin Delano Roosevelt took the helm as president in 1933, while the United States was engulfed in the Great Depression. As soon as he took office, he began pushing through legislation that would become the nation's largest relief program--the Work Projects Administration (WPA). The WPA was later renamed the Works Progress Administration. The WPA provided much-needed jobs for millions of out-of-work Americans. Its legacy to family historians is a wealth of information in the form of indexes, bibliographies, inventories, life histories, photographs, artwork, and other historical materials. While some of these projects are fairly well-known, such as the Soundex Index to the U.S. Federal Censuses (1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920), and Soundex Indexes to Naturalization Petitions in several regions of the country, many of the projects were smaller and may have escaped the attention of many researchers. There are several bibliographies that may be of use to family historians, some of which I located using the LDS Family History Library Catalog online at the FamilySearch site at: http://www.familysearch.org/Search/searchcatalog.asp. By clicking 'All Searches' and then 'Author Search.' I got different results using the terms: WPA Works Progress Administration Work Projects Administration WPA took me to another header for "United States. Work Projects Administration" under which I found several general bibliographies, as well as locally specific resources for various states. The other two searches gave results by state. (This makes a good case for trying different wording whenever you use this type of catalog or are doing other types of searches.) Because of the scope and varying content in the works of the WPA, it is often difficult to pin down what exactly is available for a particular area, but there are now numerous sites on the Internet that house material from the WPA and are a goldmine for genealogists. Below I have listed a selection of WPA based resources that can be found on the Internet. It is by no means everything that is available, but it gives a good example of the variety and value of the information that is contained in the works. I have also created a specific message board at FamilyHistory.com (http://www.familyhistory.com/lists/topics.asp) that will focus on these projects that are going up online. I will be adding the contents below, and any other sites or resources that I run across, in the categories listed below (Articles, General, African-American, or by state) and I hope that others will add any that I have missed and any that are put up in the future. Hopefully, in time, with your help, this can become a valuable resource in locating these wonderful projects. ARTICLES "The WPA: 60-Year-Old Investment Still Yields High Dividends" by Loretto Dennis Szucs (Ancestry Magazine, May/June 1995, Vol. 13, No. 3 http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/ancmag/699.asp GENERAL American Life Histories, Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 (American Memory Project, Library of Congress) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/wpaintro/wpahome.html List by State http://lcweb2.loc.gov/wpaintro/wpastate.html NARA: RG 69--Records of the Work Projects Administration http://www.nara.gov/guide/rg069.html WPA Exhibition http://205.166.161.4/lii10200.htm AFRICAN AMERICAN African American Mosiac--WPA, Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/wpa.html American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology University of Virginia http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html Slave Narrative database at Ancestry.com (Ancestry subscriber database) http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/biohist/slavnarr/main.htm ARIZONA Arizona WPA Records, by Jeannie Rogers http://www.jcrogers.com/wpaintro.htm WPA Arizona Index, by Jean Carhart http://www.getnet.com/~jcarhart/wpa.html Arizona Territorial Census, 1864 (Ancestry subscriber database) http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/3121.htm COLORADO WPA Photo Collection at the Colorado State Archives http://www.archives.state.co.us/wpa/home.htm GEORGIA Work Progress Administration (WPA) projects in Georgia http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/wpa/wpa.html ILLINOIS Illinois Historical Records Survey of the Works Projects Administration Record Group 954.00 http://www.sos.state.il.us/depts/archives/di/954__002.htm INDIANA Indiana WPA Indexes (Tri-State Genealogical Society) http://www.rootsweb.com/~intsgs/wpa.html Cass County, Indiana WPA Birth Record Index for 1882-1920 http://www.garlic.com/~marshall/CassCoBR/index.htm LOUISIANA New Orleans Public Library, Alphabetical Index of Changes in Street Names, Old and New Period 1852 to Current Date, Dec. 1st 1938 http://home.gnofn.org/~nopl/facts/streetnames/namesa.htm MINNESOTA Index to Rochester, MN newspapers (1859-1912) (Olmsted County Historical Society) http://catalog.selco.lib.mn.us/data/ochs/wpasub.cfm MISSOURI WPA Guide to the "Show Me" State (Publication for sale) http://system.missouri.edu/upress/fall1998/wpa.htm MONTANA Montana State University Libraries, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections WPA records, 1935-1942 http://www.lib.montana.edu/collect/spcoll/findaid/2336.html WPA Print Collection, University of Montana/Missoula http://www.umt.edu/partv/famus/print/wpa/wpa.htm NEW HAMPSHIRE Works Project Administration: Historic American Buildings Survey of New Hampshire Papers, 1935-1941 (MC 33), Index of Names of People and Places http://www.izaak.unh.edu/specoll/mancoll/wpahabs4.htm NEW JERSEY Camden, New Jersey, Johnson Cemetery (Ancestry.com subscriber database) http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/3507.htm UTAH Works Progress Administration Collection, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/p169/p169.html (From Photo Archives catalog) Inventory of the WPA Collection at

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