Somerset PAGenWeb Archives - WPA Transcription Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/somerset/wpa/toc.html Somerset County, Pennsylvania USGenWeb Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/somerset/ Article Daily American Online Your one stop spot for News, Sports and Entertainment http://www.dailyamerican.com/articles/2008/01/11/news/news352.txt Library helps with genealogy requests By VICKI ROCK Daily American Staff Writer Friday, January 11, 2008 12:31 AM EST The Workers Progress Administration (WPA) did an inventory of 550 cemeteries in the 1930s, Mason said. The Somerset County Planning Commission did an inventory in the 1970s, based on the earlier work, and found that more than 150 could not be physically located. Many of the cemeteries were for only one family. Some had only one grave. The library contracted with Carolyn McKinney, Pocahontas, to try to find each cemetery and to provide photographs and GPS coordinates for each. In the past two years, she has worked in the southern end of the county. If another grant is awarded for this year, she will continue to travel north. Barry Christie, Meyersdale, has scanned the WPA inventory onto CDs and is adding McKinneys information. The information is available online at www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/somerset/wpa/toc.html The cemeteries coordinates are also being plotted on maps. Christie has also done an inventory for the Union Cemetery of people buried there, which will go online. In addition to the cemetery project, volunteers at Meyersdale library are continuing to clip obituaries from local newspapers. They have done this since the 1970s. The obituaries are being scanned to CDs and are available online. Peter Petenbrink, a library volunteer, is collecting information about people from Somerset County who served in the Civil War. He has collected 4,926 names so far. That information will also go online. The daughter and granddaughter of the late Marguerite Cockley, who was the librarys director for many years, donated issues of the Meyersdale Commercial from 1913 to 1918 to the library. ************** Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"