Minnesota Genealogical Society
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Audience Level – Beginner to Advance
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was founded in 1935 as part of President Roosevelt’s New Deal. Providing jobs for over 8.5 million people, they were instrumental in compiling many records that are valuable to genealogists today. Many of the indexes and records we use today were compiled by the WPA; those unemployed professionals who were “put to work” in the days following the Great Depression. Many times we think the WPA and the CCC are the same government agencies, when in fact they were both components in the New Deal. These are likely the most common ones we are familiar with, and this webinar will aid us in seeing the differences between the two, as well as where employment records may be located.
Peggy Clemens Lauritzen, AG, FOGS, author of Legacy QuickGuides on Appalachia, she is an instructor at Ancestry Academy, Family Tree University, and columnist for Reminisce magazine. Named Fellow of the Ohio Genealogical Society, and is the 2018 recipient of the Laura G. Prescott Award for Exemplary Service to Professional Genealogy. She is a former researcher at Ancestry ProGenealogists.
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