Parker, D. Roy

In 1936, the Works Progress Administration and the National Archives organized the Survey of Federal Archives (Federal Project No. 4).

The intent of the survey was to provide employment for white-collar workers and to ascertain the contents, location, condition, and volume of federal records throughout the country. In Texas, D. Roy Parker served as the regional director of the survey, until the program became part of the Historical Records Survey in 1937. The program was terminated in 1942.

In Texas, the survey renovated and rearranged over ten million documents and 362,452 volumes; transcribed 217,323 pages of records; prepared new name or subject indices to 1,169,762 property records and name indices to over four million birth, death, and marriage records; prepared new name indices to supplement 928,000 district and county court records; and inventoried probate case papers for 392,450 estates.

Moreover, the survey compiled and published inventories of all federal archives in the state.

From the description of Federal Archives Report, 1937 (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 751977270