{"id":8611,"date":"2018-07-05T09:09:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T14:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8611"},"modified":"2018-07-05T09:09:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T14:09:17","slug":"using-the-us-1940-1947-draft-registrations-at-familysearch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/05\/using-the-us-1940-1947-draft-registrations-at-familysearch\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the US 1940-1947 Draft Registrations at FamilySearch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>FamilySearch\u00a0<\/em>has posted 1940-1947 US draft cards on their site. As of this writing, they are posted &#8220;as is.&#8221; The cards available are there, but:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>they have not been &#8220;checked&#8221; by\u00a0<em>FamilySearch<\/em><\/li>\n<li>they are out of order<\/li>\n<li>there may be transcription errors in the &#8220;guide cards.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8612\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/usingww2draftregistrationsfamilysearch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/usingww2draftregistrationsfamilysearch.jpg 791w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/usingww2draftregistrationsfamilysearch-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/usingww2draftregistrationsfamilysearch-768x583.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/usingww2draftregistrationsfamilysearch-624x473.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Be patient when using the cards. They are in alphabetical order by name of registrant, but the rolls of cards are not currently in alphabetical order on the\u00a0<em>FamilySearch\u00a0<\/em>catalog. You will need to find the appropriate set of cards that contains the name of interest.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;guide cards&#8221; were created by manually transcribing the cards. There may be errors. In the illustration, it appeared that the cards went from a roll the ended with Earl Trarer to one that began with Ernest Traver. That left no apparent roll that would contain Trautvetter.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out that the card that looked like Earl Trarer actually said Traver when it was looked at.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that these cards have been placed on <em>FamilySearch <\/em>recently and that there may be other transcription errors on the &#8220;guide names.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those who wish to search the cards can find<a href=\"http:\/\/searchtip.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3713\"> a link to the direct\u00a0<em>FamilySearch\u00a0<\/em>catalog page on our &#8220;Search Tip of the Day&#8221; site.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FamilySearch\u00a0has posted 1940-1947 US draft cards on their site. As of this writing, they are posted &#8220;as is.&#8221; The cards available are there, but: they have not been &#8220;checked&#8221; by\u00a0FamilySearch they are out of order there may be transcription errors in the &#8220;guide cards.&#8221; Be patient when using the cards. They are in alphabetical order [&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-8611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611","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=8611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}