{"id":6830,"date":"2017-06-23T18:25:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T23:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6830"},"modified":"2017-06-23T18:25:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T23:25:53","slug":"world-war-ii-draft-cards-may-document-parental-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/23\/world-war-ii-draft-cards-may-document-parental-information\/","title":{"rendered":"World War II Draft Cards May Document Parental Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether a record is helpful depends upon what is known about the family. This World War II draft card (taken from <em>Ancestry.com&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpbolvw.net\/click-865524-10470501?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D2238\">U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947<\/a>\u201d), but available from the National Archives, provides evidence of the father&#8217;s name and residence as of the time of the registration. It also provides evidence that the father was alive at the time of the registration. In some cases that could be a really big clue.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6831\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4951\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6831\" class=\"wp-image-6831\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/truman-sparks-ww2-draft.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/truman-sparks-ww2-draft.jpg 793w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/truman-sparks-ww2-draft-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/truman-sparks-ww2-draft-768x472.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/truman-sparks-ww2-draft-624x383.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">World War II Draft Registration Card for Truman Lester Sparks<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether a record is helpful depends upon what is known about the family. This World War II draft card (taken from Ancestry.com&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947\u201d), but available from the National Archives, provides evidence of the father&#8217;s name and residence as of the time of the registration. It also provides evidence that the [&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-6830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830","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=6830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}