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.