General Resources

• American Temperance & Prohibition 
• Dust Bowl Migration Digital Archives 
• Footnote.com - 1930s and The Great Depression 
  Footnote is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents. Some areas of Footnote are free to use, while others can be freely searched and then viewed with a paid subscription.
  • The 1930 Federal Census 
  • Every day life and Major News Events in the 1930s 
  • Major Events of the Great Depression 
• Surviving the Dust Bowl 
  Companion web site to the PBS television program.
  • Map 
  • Mass Exodus from the Plains 
  • Timeline 
• Timeline of the Great Depression 
• Voices from the Dust Bowl 
  From the Library of Congress.
• Yahoo!...U.S. History...Great Depression 

Civilian Conservation Corps - CCC

• CCC Enrollment Index of Custer County, Colorado (1933-1942) 
• Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy 
  • Camps by State 
  • History Center 
    • Brief History 
      A brief history of the Civilian Conservation Corps.
  • Interpretive Center 
  • Research Guidelines 
    Provides instructions on how to obtain service records for members of the CCC.
• The Civilian Conservation Corps and the National Parks Service, 1933-1942 
  An administrative history.
• Civilian Conservation Corps Introduction 
• Civilian Conservation Corps Newspapers - Kansas State Historical Society 
  The Kansas Civilian Conservation Corps newspaper provided information on activities at the camp and on the projects.
• Civilian Conservation Corps Records 
  Information from the Springfield-Greene County Library, Missouri.
• Colorado Civilian Conservation Corps Enrollment Index 
  Alphabetical listing by surname.
  • Mesa County Colorado Civilian Conservation Corps Enrollment 
  • La Plata County CCC Enrollments 
• James F. Justin Civilian Conservation Corps Museum 
  Online resources for the history of the CCC.
• NARA | Research Room | Guide to Records of the Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC] 
  Description of the holdings of CCC records at the National Archives.
• Old Pictures of the 107th Company CCC Camp, Mount Greylock, Massachusetts 
  Pictures of the camp and some of the men taken between 1933 and 1935.

Libraries, Archives & Museums

• CCC Museum & Research Center  ~ St. Louis, Missouri
• Civilian Conservation Corps Museum  ~ Grayling, Michigan
• Colorado State Archives - Civilian Conservation Corps Collection 
• DAR Library Special Collections - WPA Collection  ~ Washington, D.C.
• Family History Library Catalog- WPA Holdings 
• Inventory of the WPA Collection at the Utah State Historical Society 
• New York State Civilian Conservation Corps Museum  ~ Laurens, New York
• Presidential Libraries Locations and Hours 
  From the National Archives and Records Administration.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Museum 
  • Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum 
• Works Project Administration: Historic American Buildings Survey Of New Hampshire 
  Index of names of people and places from the University of New Hampshire Library.
• W.P.A Historical Records Survey State Manuscript Repository Guides  ~ Harvard University, Massachusetts
• WPA records, 1935-1942 - Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections  ~ Montana
  From Montana State University Bozeman.

Locality Specific

• Alphabetical Index of Changes in Street Names, Old and New Period 1852 to Current Date, Dec. 1st 1938  ~ New Orleans, Louisiana
• The Annals of Cleveland  ~ Ohio
  A Depression-Era Project of the WPA.
• Arizona WPA Pioneer Interviews 
  Index of persons interviewed.
• Cass Co., Indiana, WPA Birth Record Index for 1882-1920 
• Check List of Historical Records Survey Publications, Bibliography of Research Projects Reports 
  Historical Records Survey information for California.
• Historic Morrison - The Civilian Conservation Corps  ~ Colorado
• Indiana WPA Indexes 
  • Indiana WPA Vital Records Microfilm Index 
• Inventories of the County Archives of Ohio Prepared by Historical Records Survey Works Progress Administration 
  Excerpts of those portions dealing with Infirmary (Poorhouse) records.
• Manuscript Group 1079, WPA Historical Records Survey, New Jersey, 1936-1938 
  From the New Jersey Historical Society.
• Petersburg Public Library Newspaper Index 1797-1877  ~ Virginia
• Record Group 954.000 - Illinois Historical Records Survey of the Work Projects Administration 
  From the Illinois State Archives.
• Types of Oregon Records - Works Progress Administration 
• Virginia Historical Inventory Project (WPA) 
  Online searchable database providing interactive access to photographs, maps, and detailed written reports documenting the architectural, cultural, and family histories of thousands of 18th- and 19th- century buildings in communities across Virginia. This collection was originally assembled by the Virginia Writers' Project, part of the depression-era Works Progress Administration. Report, photograph, and map images are available online.
• Works Progress Administration Historical Records Survey, 1936-1943 - Tennessee Records 
• The Works Progress Administration Index to Texas Naturalizations, Texas State District and County Courts, 1846-1939 
• Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Writers Project Survey of State and Local Historical Records (1939) Church Records Jewish - Synagogue  ~ Greater New York City
• Work Progress Administration (WPA) projects in Georgia 
• Work Projects Administration  ~ Texas
  From the Handbook of Texas Online.

Mailing Lists, Newsgroups & Chat

• Genealogy Resources on the Internet - Mailing Lists 
  Most of the mailing list links below point to this site, wonderfully maintained by John Fuller. John indexes links for all known genealogy mailing lists, including RootsWeb and others.
• RootsWeb: Genealogy Mailing Lists 
  The majority of genealogy mailing lists are hosted by RootsWeb.com. Messages on RootsWeb lists are archived. The links to RootsWeb below point you to the archives (browse or search).

• DUST-BOWL-ROOTS Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in the Dust Bowl migrants. Archives: browse or search.
  • Dust-Bowl-Roots-L Home Page 
    Website for the Dust-Bowl-Roots-L mailing list, which covers the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and 40s.

The New Deal

• New Deal Acronyms - Alphabet Soup and the New Deal 
• New Deal Cultural Programs 
• New Deal Network: The Great Depression, the 1930s, and the Roosevelt Administration 
  Educational guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
• A Short History of the Tennessee Valley Authority 

People & Families

• Charles Curtis - Vice-President of the United States (1929-1933) 
  History of his career and a genealogy listing of his family.

Publications, Software & Supplies

• Cyndi's List Genealogy Bookstore 
  A categorized list of genealogy research books that looks a lot like my bookshelf at home.

• Amazon.com Genealogy Bookstore - Great Depression 
  The following are individual book titles of interest for this topic. The book links below point to the Amazon.com bookstore online where you may purchase the book if you wish. These links are provided to bring these published resources to your attention as an aid to your research. Follow the links to books of interest to make note of their title, author, publisher, and ISBN. You might then use this information to obtain the book from your local library or your favorite corner book shop.
  • American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California 
    A book by James N. Gregory.
  • Bearing Witness: Memories of Arkansas Slavery: Narratives from the 1930s WPA Collections 
    A book by George Lankford.
  • The Civilian Conservation Corps In and Around the Black Hills 
    A book by Peggy Sanders.
  • Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless: The WPA Interviews With Former Slaves Living in Indiana 
    A book by Ronald L. Baker.
  • Tree Army: A Pictorial History of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942 
    A book by Stan Cohen.
  • WPA Guides for various states in the 1930s 
    Books produced by the Federal Writers' Project.
  • WPA Historical Records Survey : A Guide to the Unpublished Inventories, Indexes, and Transcripts 
    A book by Loretta L. Hefner.
• Quintin Publications - WPA Guides 

Queries, Message Boards & Surname Lists

• Ancestry.com - Message Boards - Civilian Conservation Corps [1933-1941] 
• Ancestry.com - Message Boards - WPA Records 

Societies & Groups

• Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni  ~ St. Louis, Missouri

Works Progress (Projects) Administration - WPA

• American Life Histories 
  Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940. From the Library of Congress.
  • WPA Life Histories: State List 
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology 
  From the University of Virginia.
• Ancestry.com - The Works Projects Administration 
• Ancestry.com - The WPA: 60-Year-Old Investment Still Yields High Dividends 
• NARA | Research Room | Guide to Records of the Work Projects Administration [WPA] 
• The WPA 
• The WPA Census Soundexing Projects 
  Article by Claire Prechtel-Kluskens.
• WPA Historical Records Survey 
  Article by Steve Paul Johnson.

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