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Historic WPA-Created Hamilton County, Ohio, Veteran Burial Map Books Posted Online

Filed in American Civil War, American Revolutionary War, American War with Mexico, Military Records, Ohio, World War I, WPA Resources on Apr.23, 2012

The following teasor is from an article posted in the April 23, 2012 edition of CityBeat.com. Newly restored digital copies of 73-year-old maps detailing where U.S military veterans are buried throughout Hamilton County will be unveiled Wednesday. The Hamilton County Recorder’s Office recently received map books dating to 1939 that were thought to have been [...]

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The WPA Era and its Impact on Genealogical Research

Filed in Genealogy How-To, WPA Resources on May.08, 2010

The following article about the WPA Era was written by Bryan L. Mulcahy, the Reference Librarian at the Fort Myers-Lee County Library. The year 1929 was one of the most tragic in American history. The infamous stock market crash coupled with the Great Depression that followed had a terrible impact on many Americans. Herbert Hoover [...]

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