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    1. [Tri-Counties] All C.C.C. newspapers (Civilian Conservation Corps) now available
    2. Bill Benson
    3. The newspapers and newsletters published by members of the Civilian Conservation Corps at their camps from about 1934 to 1942 - over 5,000 titles - have all been filmed and are now available for purchase from the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). You can search for a title here http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/DBSearch/Ccc.asp For example, my father was in the 380th C.C.C., Camp Delmont, near Coudersport, Potter Co., Pennsylvania around 1933. A search on "380" and "Pennsylvania" produced this list: 1. Daily news. Coudersport, Pennsylvania 2. Moore's Run bugler. Coudersport, Pennsylvania 3. Moore's Run commander. Coudersport, Pennsylvania I can then click on a title to see the full record, which gives the years, frequency, number of microfiche, condition, etc. None of these 3 particular titles yet appears in the holdings on WorldCat (also called OCLC) as being owned by any of the 40,000 member libraries. The huge CRL libraries have their own catalog database, but many are OCLC members as well. This could mean that the films are just very new. Perhaps you are lucky enough to live near CRL, which is located on the southeast corner of the University of Chicago campus in Hyde Park (Chicago suburb). I think you get access them there, but am not sure. See http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/info/aboutcrl/directions.htm for more info. Hopefully some of the Tri-County, or nearby Mormon genealogy libraries will be buying those of local interest... If you had a relative in the CCC, why not ask them to look into it! Regards, Bill Benson

    07/15/2002 01:57:04