I'm wondering what you mean by "convert the church records"? What church records and convert to what? Thanks. Judy Riffel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cajun" <cajun@thecajuns.com> To: <ACADIAN-CAJUN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 1:43 PM Subject: RE: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] WPA, cont'd > We could use a project today to convert the church records!!!! > > Stanley > > -----Original Message----- > From: Don2717@aol.com [mailto:Don2717@aol.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 12:29 PM > To: ACADIAN-CAJUN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] WPA, cont'd > > > received these replies and I thought I'd forward them to the listers: > > Subj: WPA > Date: 12/3/03 10:01:47 AM Central Standard Time > From: eoubre@charter.net (Elton Oubre) > To: don2717@aol.com > > Hi, Don. Good explanation. Just to remind you, some of the most valuable > > works of the WPA unemployed intellectuals for historians and > genealogists in our > area included: histories of each civil parish, translation of some of > the > oldest French records in the courthouses, at least conveyances and > mortages, and > indexing of the Superior Court Records (Little Black Boxes), and > negative > filming of the so called Little Red Church Records. > > > Re: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] "Gulf Coast Colonials" by Winston De Ville > Date: 12/3/03 11:19:39 AM Central Standard Time > From: jleblanc@eatel.net (James R Le Blanc) > To: ACADIAN-CAJUN-L@rootsweb.com > > > The Work Projects Administration was involved in other > efforts that were/are important to genealogist. They sent their people > into courthouses (the Louisiana State Library has books of many of the > La. courthouses) to inventory, even showing drawn maps of the > buildings). > > So much more important was their work in producing the > soundexs of many of the census. > > Jim Le Blanc > Baton Rouge, La. > > > ==== ACADIAN-CAJUN Mailing List ==== > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/CAN/ACADIAN-CAJUN.html > This is the link to our archives. You may search or browse. Also, > subscribe or unsubscribe and contact admin. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > ==== ACADIAN-CAJUN Mailing List ==== > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.ethnic.acadian-cajun > This is a link to the Acadian-Cajun Message Board at RootsWeb. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >