{"id":9650,"date":"2019-02-18T08:55:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T14:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9650"},"modified":"2019-02-18T08:55:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T14:55:51","slug":"draft-registrations-are-not-military-service-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/18\/draft-registrations-are-not-military-service-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Draft Registrations are Not Military Service Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9651\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/draft-registration.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1582\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/draft-registration.jpg 1582w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/draft-registration-300x58.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/draft-registration-768x149.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/draft-registration-1024x198.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1582px) 100vw, 1582px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Records of military draft registrations are not the same as military service records. Draft registration requirements have varied over time and usually required males of a certain age to register. There may also have been citizenship requirements (or not) and the upper end of the registration age may not be what a person expects. Draft registrations serve as a quasi-census of those who were required to register. The appearance of a name on a registration does not imply that the person actually saw military service. They should be searched whenever a &#8220;person of interest&#8221; fit the registration qualifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Records of military draft registrations are not the same as military service records. Draft registration requirements have varied over time and usually required males of a certain age to register. There may also have been citizenship requirements (or not) and the upper end of the registration age may not be what a person expects. Draft [&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-9650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650","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=9650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}