{"id":804,"date":"2014-10-19T22:27:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T02:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alexander\/?p=804"},"modified":"2014-10-25T10:23:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T14:23:58","slug":"wpa-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alexander\/wpa-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Index to Alexander 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 are provided\u00a0online by the NC State Archives and State Library of NC; <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.ncdcr.gov\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/p15012coll1\/id\/38605\" target=\"_blank\">visit their website to view the PDF file<\/a>. You can learn more about the compilation work to put these records together on the <a href=\"http:\/\/ncarchives.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/10\/wpa-cemetery-survey-records\/\" target=\"_blank\">NC Miscellany blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In order to make the records easier for you to navigate, we have provided an all-name index to the Alexander County burials included in the WPA records.\u00a0The index includes\u00a0<strong>approximately 2,500\u00a0names<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Do keep in mind that there were often errors in these transcriptions so you\u2019ll want to be sure you follow-up accordingly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Surnames:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"WPA Burials: Surnames A-G\" href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alexander\/wpa-burials-surnames-a-g\/\">A-G<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"WPA Burials: Surnames H-M\" href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alexander\/wpa-burials-surnames-h-m\/\">H-M<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"WPA Burials: Surnames N-Z\" href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alexander\/wpa-burials-surnames-n-z\/\">N-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 are provided\u00a0online by the NC State Archives and State Library of NC; visit their website to view the PDF file. You can learn more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alexander\/wpa-records\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Index to Alexander 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":[4522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cemeteries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alexander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alexander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alexander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alexander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alexander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alexander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alexander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alexander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alexander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/alexander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}