{"id":205,"date":"2013-07-21T04:01:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T04:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alamance-nc\/?page_id=205"},"modified":"2013-07-21T23:33:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T23:33:46","slug":"index-alamance-county-wpa-cemetery-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alamance-nc\/index-alamance-county-wpa-cemetery-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Index to Alamance County WPA Cemetery Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1930\u2032s and 1940\u2032s, the workers of the Works Progress Administration (now called the Works Projects Administration) set out to record burial information for cemeteries across the state. \u00a0These records have now been added online by the NC State Archives and State Library of NC; <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.ncdcr.gov\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/p15012coll1\/id\/38877\" target=\"_blank\">visit their website to view the PDF file<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In order to make the records easier for you to navigate, we have provided an all-name index to the Alamance County burials included in the WPA records.\u00a0The index includes\u00a0<strong>more than 2,800 names<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Do keep in mind that there were often errors in these transcriptions so you&#8217;ll want to be sure you follow-up accordingly.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Surnames:<\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\"><a title=\"WPA Burials \u2013 Page 1\" href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alamance-nc\/wpa-burials-page-1\/\">A &#8211; C <\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"WPA Burials \u2013 Page 2\" href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alamance-nc\/wpa-burials-page-2\/\">D &#8211; G<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"WPA Burials \u2013 Page 3\" href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alamance-nc\/wpa-burials-page-3\/\">H &#8211; K<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"WPA Burials \u2013 Page 4\" href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alamance-nc\/wpa-burials-page-4\/\">L &#8211; P<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"WPA Burials \u2013 Page 5\" href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alamance-nc\/wpa-burials-page-5\/\">Q &#8211; S<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"WPA Burials \u2013 Page 6\" href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alamance-nc\/wpa-burials-page-6\/\">T &#8211; Z<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1930\u2032s and 1940\u2032s, the workers of the Works Progress Administration (now called the Works Projects Administration) set out to record burial information for cemeteries across the state. \u00a0These records have now been added online by the NC State Archives and State Library of NC; visit their website to view the PDF file. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alamance-nc\/index-alamance-county-wpa-cemetery-records\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Index to Alamance County WPA Cemetery Records&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alamance-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alamance-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alamance-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alamance-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alamance-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alamance-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alamance-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alamance-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alamance-nc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}