IOWA CEMETERY RECORDS (Update Adding Every County Except Mahaska) These cemetery records represent 77 counties and Graceland Cemetery of Sioux City, Iowa that were transcribed by the Works Project Administration, Graves Registration Project. This collection is the largest compilation of the Iowa WPA cemetery records found in a single place. The database was created from copies of the transcriptions created by the Works Progress Administration; because of multi-generational copies, some names were hard to decipher. As with any genealogical index, the data is to be used as a finding aid to original records. Records in this database generally include the page number where the record can be found in the WPA index, the name of the deceased, birth date, death date, age, cemetery name, town name, and additional comments if any. The Works Project Administration was a relief program created during the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1930s. The program provided employment for millions of people during the Great Depression. For more information about the Works Project Administration, please see the following articles: Source Information: Ancestry.com. "Iowa Cemetery Records." Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Works Project Administration. "Graves Registration Project." Washington, D.C.: n.p. To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4711.htm IOWA CEMETERY RECORDS (Update Adding Every County Except Mahaska) printed with permission of Juliana Smith, Editor of Ancestory Daily News 24 Oct 2000