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The World War Two Draft Registration (Young Men’s Draft) for Ola Finis Lake from the State of Missouri. He did not serve in the military.<\/p><\/div>\n
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This is the World War II Draft Registration card for Mimka Johnson Habben (“Old Men’s Draft” registration). He did not serve in the war.<\/p><\/div>\n
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This is the World War I Draft Registration Card for Henry Ufkes. He did not serve.<\/p><\/div>\n
You can search World War Draft Registrations for US residents:<\/p>\n
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- World War I-<\/a>-at\u00a0FamilySearch<\/em> (read the “learn more” section if you’ve never worked with these before).<\/li>\n
- World War II–old men’s registration for the draft<\/a>–at\u00a0FamilySearch\u00a0(read the “learn more” section if you’ve never worked with these before<\/a>).\u00a0<\/em>This is incomplete–you’ll have to browse.<\/li>\n
- World War II–“young men’s” registration (these registrations cover the years 1940 to 1945 and includes information of young men aged 18-44. ). Some of these are on\u00a0FamilySearch (<\/a><\/em>visit their “US” page and click on your state of interest<\/a>. Currently they only have cards for Louisiana and Maryland (they are called “first draft registration cards 1940-1945”). Some of these are at\u00a0Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/em>(as an index \u201cU.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947<\/a>\u201d) and \u00a0Fold3.com<\/a><\/em> as image (with index). Currently these sites have more of them than\u00a0FamilySearch<\/em> does.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Draft registrations are just that: registrations. There is a difference between registering for the draft, being drafted, and volunteering. Usually all men between a certain age were required to register when there was a draft registration. Some men were drafted. Some men volunteered. If your male relative fit in the range of years of birth […]<\/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-7638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7638","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=7638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- World War II–old men’s registration for the draft<\/a>–at\u00a0FamilySearch\u00a0(read the “learn more” section if you’ve never worked with these before<\/a>).\u00a0<\/em>This is incomplete–you’ll have to browse.<\/li>\n