WPA URL does not work! -----Original Message----- From: Bobbie Ross <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, October 17, 1998 9:02 AM Subject: [TXCORYEL-L] Rain! >Good morning every one, and it is a good morning here, we are getting a >good rain which was needed. Think I may have told you about the following >before and there is a link on the home page. It is worth mentioning again, >I found 3 references to my ggf in Parker Co. TX. > >"The WPA had a little known project during the later depression years to >interview and record certain citizens history scattered around these >states. These interviews have now been placed where they are accessable >and sometime valuable information is obtained from them. You might >consider adding the link to you county sites. There were several >hundred in Texas but you can use the search engine and retrieve, from >other states interviews, any with reference to Texas or family names. >The pages all have warnings about special viewers but just scroll on >down the text is there." >http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.htm >This was received this morning from Herman Weiland on the GenWeb list. >Thanks for his thoughtfulness. >Still looking for those of you who have large family files to volunteer to >be a lookup on those families. We will display your address on our Surname >look up page. We need all of the help we can get. You would not believe >how small our volunteer group is, nor would you believe the amount of >queries we get each week! Our home page has been averaging 30 hits a day >since it went up! Seems that everyone was thirsting for Coryell County >information! > Happy hunting list members, have a good week. >Bobbie Ross >[email protected] >County Co-ordinator for Coryell County, TX GenWeb project: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~txcoryel/ >Now hosting the Coryell County Mailing List > (to subscribe, send a message containing the single word subscribe >to [email protected]) >Ross Family Website:http://www.htcomp.net/ross >Coryell County Society NSDAR:http://www.htcomp.net/ross/dar >ICQ 18046713 > >