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Sorry for the length of this, but this may help a lot of people interested in the info you can get from these WWI Draft Cards.
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Subject: [WHITE] WW1 Draft Cards - Final Update
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Last update on the WW1 Draft Card Uproar.
I have found a researcher who will copy your cards at a reasonable price.
The genealogy e-mail lists prohibit the posting of information on
professional researchers so I cannot give you the information here. At the
bottom of this message you can see how to get the information.
And today we now have a notice in Rootsweb Review explaining that I was in
error about my posting and quoting the Regional Manager at the GA NARA. It's
certainly nice to have my credibility trashed <huge sigh>
I'm not going to fight this battle any longer folks.
I sat up a page at my home web site that will tell you about the WW1 Draft
Cards and give you the information on the lady who will do the look-ups and
copies of your cards. If you have hung in here thru all this mess and want
copies of these cards then please take the time to go look at the page.
I'm still not sorry for my post. I believe the WW1 Draft Cards are a
wonderful resource for all of us searching for our ancestors during the
1917-1918 time period. But I am tired of the bashing I'm getting about now.
You can see the information at:
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas/learningcenter.html
Linda
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From: "Linda Haas Davenport" <lhaasdav(a)mindspring.com>
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To everyone: I also received a post today about the cost being $10.00 I'll
call the archives today and see what is going on. When I was there last
Tuesday and asked about costs I was told the only cost was the cost of the
copies.
I'll let everyone know what the archives staff has to say in the morning.
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Subject: [WHITE] WWI Draft Cards - clarification
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I received about a dozen e-mails this morning all asking the same question
so I know that I was not clear in my post yesterday. If you forwarded my
message about the WWI draft cards being at the GA NARA branch will you
please also forward this message?
The original draft card applications (registrations) for every state (the
entire US) are at East Pointe. According to the Archive Staff there are no
plans to split these cards and move any of them to any other NARA location
since East Pointe has been charged with the "custody" of these records.
It is only the original cards that are in state / county / alpha order.
Someone posted a message to one of the lists that NARA was planning on
re-filming the cards since they are now in state / county / alpha order. If
such a thing is underway it is unknown to the East Pointe archive staff and
they should know if such a thing was in the works.
If you request a copy of your ancestor's draft card from any NARA branch
other than this one they will be searching the LDS microfilm and you will
have to know the state and draft board for them to make a copy. It is only
at the East Pointe location that you can request a copy by state and then
county and the copy will be made from the ORIGINAL card.
If I'm still unclear please let me know.
Linda
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Good Morning everyone: I played hooky from work yesterday and spent the day
at the NARA Branch in Atlanta and it jogged my memory to pass on some
information to everyone.
Prior to the US's entry into WW1 (approx. 1917-1918) every male between the
age of 18 and 40 was required to register for the draft. The information
found on the card was provided by the individual himself. The registration
cards vary in information depending on the individual draft board. But by
and large the cards include: The full name of the person (this means first,
full middle name, any additional middle names and last name); the current
address of the man; his age; his birthdate (some include his place of
birth); whether he is a US citizen or a naturalized citizen (some ask if his
father was a naturalized citizen and his father's race); his race; his
occupation; where he is employed (name of employer); address or location of
employment; name and address of his next of kin; some cards ask if the man
is married or single and how many people he supports. The card is signed by
the draftee. On the back of the card his physical description is noted:
Height is broken down by short, medium, tall although some cards give the
actual height in feet and inches; Build by slim, medium, stout although some
cards list actual weight along with the build; color of eyes and hair; any
deformities or injuries are listed (such as one arm missing, blind in one
eye, etc); the name and address of the draft board and the date.
When these original cards were transferred to the East Pointe NARA branch
the LDS spent about 3 years microfilming these cards. There are hundreds and
hundreds of boxes and the LDS opened one box at a time and filmed them - in
state order. However, within each state the cards were filed by draft board,
not by county or by draftee. This makes the searching of the microfilm
difficult to say the least.
The good news is that the Friends of the National Archives took each box
after it was filmed (and checked) and sorted all of these thousands and
thousands of cards into - state and then COUNTY order and then in
alphabetical order by surname and put then in new boxes. The Friends deserve
all the kudos we can give them for this monstrous task.
So ... rather than spending hours and hours searching the LDS microfilm you
can order copies of the original cards from NARA. if you know the county
your ancestor lived in between 1917-1918.
And BTW - Ancestry.com lists WW1 Draft cards in their searchable data bases,
however I know for a fact that there are 22 cards for the surname WHITE
found in McIntosh Co, OK and Ancestry only gave me 4 of them so don't depend
on that site. I was told yesterday that some reps from Ancestry had visited
the archives a couple of weeks ago to talk about filming the cards, took one
look at the hundreds and hundreds of boxes and simply left.
For copies: Send a letter requesting copy(s) to:
NARA
Southeast Region
1557 St. Joseph Ave
East Point, GA 30344
In your letter be sure to say you want copy(s) of the WWI Draft application
Cards. Include the name of your ancestor and his race, the state and the
county. If you want copies of ALL of the cards with a given surname, ask
them the cost of the copies and send a SASE for them to let you know the
copying cost. In your letter be sure and say you want a copy of the FRONT
and BACK of the card. Be sure to send a SASE for the return of you copies.
The cost for the copy is 50 cents - 25 cents for the back and 25 cents for
the front. If you only want one copy send a buck and say the difference is
to be given to the Friends of the Archives, because after all they did all
this wonderful hard work for you <VBG>
If you have any other questions about the cards please write to me and I'll
try to help. I've been "delving" into these cards for the past few years.
But PLEASE don't ask me to get the copies for you. It is difficult for me to
take the time off from work to visit the archive to do my own research <g>.
And feel free to pass this on to any of the lists you are on.
Linda
Home Page: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas/
Marion Co AR: http://www.rootsweb.com/~armarion/
Washington Co NC, Haas & Hass e-mail list manager
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kfornwall(a)hotmail.com wrote:
<I am a descendant of James WRIGHT and Agnes CHESNEY (b. ~1850 in Ontario).
Agnes was the daughter of James and Margaret CHESNEY. I am looking for may
information on the Huron Co. CHESNEYs. As far as census records are
concerned, it appears James moved here in the 1830's-1840's with several
brothers. Any information a help!>
While I can't find a direct connection to Agnes CHESNEY or her father James
CHESNEY in my notes, I do have a Jane CHESNEY who married David McClure in
Co. Antrim, Ire. and reportedly moved to Ontario, Can., around 1830. Jane
CHESNEY b. 1809, d. 1896; David McClure b. 1801, d. 1876; they had 10
children born between 1831 and 1853. Jane CHESNEY had several brothers;
could they be the ones you find in the census records?