{"id":773,"date":"2014-10-25T09:18:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T14:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/craven\/?p=773"},"modified":"2016-05-14T21:08:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T02:08:18","slug":"index-wpa-cemetery-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/craven\/index-wpa-cemetery-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Index to Craven County WPA Cemetery Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">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. These 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\/38498\" target=\"_blank\">visit their website to view the PDF file<\/a>. \u00a0You 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>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In order to make the records easier for you to navigate, we have provided an all-name index to the Craven\u00a0County burials included in the WPA records.\u00a0 The index includes <strong>more than 4,500 names<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Do keep in mind that there were often errors in these transcriptions so you\u2019ll want to be sure you follow-up accordingly.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Surnames:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"WPA Burials: A-C Surnames\" href=\"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/craven\/wpa-a-c-surnames\">A-C<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"WPA Burials: D-G Surnames\" href=\"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/craven\/wpa-d-g-surnames\">D-G <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"WPA Burials: H-L Surnames\" href=\"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/craven\/wpa-h-l-surnames\">H-L <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"WPA Burials: M-R Surnames\" href=\"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/craven\/wpa-burials-m-r-surnames\">M-R\u00a0 <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"WPA Burials: S-Z Surnames\" href=\"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/craven\/wpa-s-z-surnames\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">S-Z <\/span><\/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. These records are provided\u00a0online by the NC State Archives and State Library of NC; visit their website to view the PDF file. \u00a0You can learn more <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/craven\/index-wpa-cemetery-records\/\">Read More<\/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-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cemeteries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/craven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/craven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/craven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/craven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/craven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/craven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/craven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/craven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/craven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/craven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}