{"id":6010,"date":"2017-01-10T08:43:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T14:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6010"},"modified":"2017-01-10T01:03:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T07:03:48","slug":"world-war-i-draft-registrations-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/10\/world-war-i-draft-registrations-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"World War I Draft Registrations in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the United States, there were three registrations for the World War I draft. Each used a slightly different registration card.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>First Registration.<\/b>\u00a0Conducted 5 June 1917. This registration was for men born between 6 June 1886 and 5 June 1896&#8211;who were between twenty-one and thirty-one years of age.<\/li>\n<li><b>Second Registration.<\/b>\u00a0Conducted 5 June 1918. \u00a0Men born between 6 June 1896 and 5 June 1897 (those who had turned twenty-one years of age since the previous registration). Men who were supposed to register and had not were also included. On 24 August 1918\u00a0there was a supplemental registration for for men had turned twenty-one years of age since 5 June 1918.<\/li>\n<li><b>Third Registration.\u00a0<\/b>Conducted\u00a012 Sept 1918 and was for men born between 11 Sept 1872 and 12 Sept 1900. This included men aged eighteen to twenty-oneand thirty-one to forty-five.\n<p><div id=\"attachment_6012\" style=\"width: 839px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/world-war-1-corner.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6012\" class=\"wp-image-6012 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/world-war-1-corner.jpg\" alt=\"world-war-1-corner\" width=\"829\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/world-war-1-corner.jpg 829w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/world-war-1-corner-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/world-war-1-corner-768x423.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/world-war-1-corner-624x344.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The First Registration for World War I included a corner that was torn off if the person was of African descent.<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These <a href=\"https:\/\/familysearch.org\/search\/collection\/1968530\">cards are available on\u00a0<em>FamilySearch.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the United States, there were three registrations for the World War I draft. Each used a slightly different registration card. First Registration.\u00a0Conducted 5 June 1917. This registration was for men born between 6 June 1886 and 5 June 1896&#8211;who were between twenty-one and thirty-one years of age. Second Registration.\u00a0Conducted 5 June 1918. \u00a0Men born [&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-6010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010","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=6010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}