{"id":12163,"date":"2020-09-10T17:49:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T22:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=12163"},"modified":"2020-09-10T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T22:49:11","slug":"world-war-i-and-ii-draft-registrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/10\/world-war-i-and-ii-draft-registrations\/","title":{"rendered":"World War I and II Draft Registrations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Even if your ancestor did not serve in World War I or World War II, they should have registered for the draft. Many of these cards are online free at <em>FamilySearch<\/em>. The &#8220;Young Men&#8217;s Draft&#8221; from World War II are free, but not indexed&#8211;but are in alphabetical order. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/search\/collection\/1968530?collectionNameFilter=true\">World War I Draft Registration Cards<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/search\/collection\/1861144\">World War II Draft Registration Cards&#8211;Old Men&#8217;s Draft<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/searchtip.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3713\">World War II Draft Registration Cards&#8211;Young Men&#8217;s Draft&#8211;free at FamilySearch<\/a>. (incomplete)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"307\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ww2mimkehabbena.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ww2mimkehabbena.jpg 474w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ww2mimkehabbena-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><figcaption>This is the World War II Draft Registration card for Mimka Johnson Habben (&#8220;Old Men&#8217;s Draft&#8221; registration). He did not serve in the war.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Get the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Genealogy Tip of the Day\u00a0<\/a><\/em>book. Great for reading cover to cover, browsing, taking notes in, or reading at random to get your research started. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if your ancestor did not serve in World War I or World War II, they should have registered for the draft. Many of these cards are online free at FamilySearch. The &#8220;Young Men&#8217;s Draft&#8221; from World War II are free, but not indexed&#8211;but are in alphabetical order. World War I Draft Registration Cards World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}