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Subject: WPA Cemetery Record Project Coming Soon!
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:08:02 EST



Just wanted to let you all in on some new information coming out soon to
both the Decatur County, Iowa website and the Iowa Genweb Website which includes
Iowa as a whole.

Several volunteers are working on transcribing the WPA (Works Progress
Administration) Cemetery Records completed back in the 1940's for all of the
counties for which it exists in Iowa. I am transcribing Decatur County and will
be posting it to the Decatur County website as well as the Iowa Genweb WPA
project page. These records are not extremely accurate by any means as often
they were not obtained by actual survey of the cemetery but through court and
county records, including information where there often were no stones to
correspond. These records were typed on a manual typewriter and I can attest
that the Decatur County section has some quite a few typos. Since it's a
transcription I can't take the liberty of correcting those typos but I have tried
to correct the name of the cemetery in parenthesis as often as I can. There
are over 155 pages included in the Decatur County section and I have almost
completed the "C" Surnames. I will begin posting these to the website soon.
To read a very good explanation of the records and the project in general go
to the following link: _http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ia/wpa.htm_
(http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ia/wpa.htm)

And since I have your attention - There are many other special projects
going on in the Iowa Genweb as a whole. Many of which you can contribute to on
your own. Of course there is the wonderful Iowa Gravestones Project which is
a wonderful way to not only find your Iowa ancestors but to also obtain and
share photos of stones. You can find this project at:
_www.iowagravestones.org_ (http://www.iowagravestones.org/)

Another great project just getting off the ground is the Iowa Family Group
Sheets project where you can submit your Family Group Sheets and search for
others researching your Surnames. You can find this project at:
_http://www.rootsweb.com/~iafgs/_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~iafgs/)

One of the newest projects is the Iowa Old Press Project. This is a project
where you can submit and read transcriptions from old Iowa newspapers. This
project can be found at: _http://iowaoldpress.com/_
(http://iowaoldpress.com/)

These are just a few of my favorites. Other special projects can be found
at _www.Iagenweb.org_ (http://www.iagenweb.org/) including Civil War
Project, Orphan Train Riders Project, Iowa History Project, Iowa State Census
project. When you reach the page, scroll down just a little and the special
projects are listed on the left hand side of the page.

Stacey Dietiker

Decatur Co IA List Administrator
Decatur Co IA Website Coordinator



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