{"id":3674,"date":"2023-03-20T21:26:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T01:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/?p=3674"},"modified":"2023-03-20T21:26:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T01:26:54","slug":"finding-genealogy-linkages-through-depression-era-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/20\/finding-genealogy-linkages-through-depression-era-photographs\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding genealogy linkages through Depression-era photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"3675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.atlcustoms.com\/goodgenes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/03\/omaha-fontanelle-housing-wpa-pix-1938.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3675\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Through their residency in these PWA housing complexes, African Americans were able to save money and plan for their future. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/2017762816\/\">PWA (Public Works Administration) housing project for Negroes<\/a>.\u201d Omaha, Nebraska, November 1938.<br>Photograph by John Vachon, 1914\u20131975. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC, 20540.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wading through the thousands of files in the Library of Congress, this one stood out because it is the housing projects where my father, Dr. Rodney S. Wead, lived while boy growing up in Omaha, Nebraska. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We don&#8217;t know the man and young people in the picture. It was taken three years after Wead was born; his family had not moved into the housing development. In fact, Wead said that they were delighted when they moved into the Logan Fontanelle Housing facility because it was a &#8220;big step up&#8221; from their impoverished housing a few blocks away in a crowded rooming house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Found my father&#8217;s housing unit<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keep searching archives. I did. Once my father viewed the photo (see below), he identified the now famous individuals whose families lived in Logal Fontenelle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Often, we are hit with brick walls in our ancestral searches. There are thousands of photographs that were taken across the country of its citizens &#8212; especially Black Americans &#8212; as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt&#8217;s New Deal or <a href=\"https:\/\/northomahahistory.com\/2015\/08\/20\/a-history-of-the-logan-fontenelle-housing-projects\/\">Works Progress Administration program that included Omaha<\/a> during the 1930s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"3678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.atlcustoms.com\/goodgenes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/03\/logan-fontenelle-homes-photo-by-library-of-congress-pwa.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3678\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Dr. Rodney S. Wead identified several housing &#8220;apartments&#8221; and youth who were residents of the Logan Fontenelle development. <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wading through the thousands of files in the Library of Congress, this one stood out because it is the housing projects where my father, Dr. Rodney S. Wead, lived while boy growing up in Omaha, Nebraska. We don&#8217;t know the man and young people in the picture. It was taken three years after Wead was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[289,456,693,770,1012],"class_list":["post-3674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancestral-historal","tag-african-american-history","tag-depression-era","tag-logan-fontenelle","tag-omaha","tag-wpa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}