Thursday, June 30, 2005

WWI Draft Registration Cards

Well, ancestry has actually done something really, really fine.

They seem, in a lot of ways, to be rather clueless about proper genealogical research, but they sure do throw a lot of wonderful resources on the web (if you're willing to pay for them).

But these Draft registration cards take the cake.



I just wish they'd get Missouri up.

The great thing about them is that they cover about 95% of the adult male population in the US in the 1917-1918 time period. And they include birthdates and signatures. Sometimes the birthdates are wrong, but I'm using the signatures as best evidence of how these guys really spelled their names.

Lovely.