{"id":6888,"date":"2018-05-12T12:50:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T12:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6888"},"modified":"2018-05-12T12:50:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T12:50:36","slug":"was-granddad-in-the-ccc-in-the-1930s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6888","title":{"rendered":"Was Granddad in the CCC in the 1930s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family tradition has it that my maternal grandfather, John H. Ufkes (1917-2003), served in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Traditions can often be wrong, so it&#8217;s possible that there are no such records. I&#8217;ve made a request for the records and will have an update when the records have arrived or I have been told there were no records.<\/p>\n<p>The National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/st-louis\/archival-programs\/civilian-personnel-archival\/ccc-holdings-access.html\">has the records<\/a>\u00a0and will search them via mail and send copies for a fee. I&#8217;ve made a request through a professional researcher to hopefully expedite the process. Fortunately Granddad&#8217;s name isn&#8217;t too common, so the fact that I don&#8217;t have some of the details they need may not be a problem. If the name was Smith, I might need to have more specifics.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Join me for my upcoming\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=6826\">online AncestryDNA class.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family tradition has it that my maternal grandfather, John H. Ufkes (1917-2003), served in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Traditions can often be wrong, so it&#8217;s possible that there are no such records. I&#8217;ve made a request for the records and will have an update when the records have arrived or I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}