Never Assume Who that Permanent Address Isn’t

Research revealed that this 52-year draft registrant listed his mother as his “permanent contact” on this US World War II “Old Men’s Draft Registration” card. That’s not who I thought it was because of his age and the fact that the last name didn’t “match.” The name needed to be researched as it also could have been a sister or a married daughter.

This card almost wasn’t looked at “because what can it really tell me?”

I found out just what it could tell me–a name that I didn’t have before.