My Trails into the Past

Everything is not online and I recently received from the National Archives the World War II Draft Registrations for my two grandfathers and for my husband’s father. During World War II, there were six draft registrations. The registrations are in two different groups at the National Archives. One group is the 4th registration, known as the “Old Man’s Draft” which registered all the men who were born between April 28, 1877 to February 16, 1897. [1] Images of this draft can be found on FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com as “United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942.” The other group are the rest, those men who were born between February 17, 1897 to July 31, 1927. These records are not available online and I had to order the records from the National Archives in St. Louis. Information about it is here . There is a special form you fill out for the registrant you’re seeking and when the archives personnel find the record, you’ll receive a letter with an invoic...

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has a new Saturday Night Genealogy Fun for us this week. 1) Are there persons in your genealogy database that has the same exact birth date that you do?  If so, tell us about him or her - what do you know, and how is s/he related to you? 2) Are there persons in your database that are your ancestors that share your birth day (but not the year)?   How many, and who are they? 3) Are there other persons in your database that share your birth day (but not the year)?  How many, and who are they? 4) For bonus points, how did you determine this?  What feature or process did you use in your software to work this problem out?  I think the Calendar feature probably does it, but perhaps you have a trick to make this work outside of the Calendar function. 1) I am the only one in my database to have the exact birthday of March 26, 1954. 2) I have no ancestor who shares my birthdate. I have 7,030 ...

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has a new mission for us: 1) Pick one of your sets of great-grandparents - if possible, the one with the most descendants. 2) Create a descendants list for those great-grandparents either by hand or in your software program. 3) Tell us how many descendants, living or dead, are in each generation from those great-grandparents. 4) How many are still living? Of those, how many have you met and exchanged family information with? Are there any that you should make contact with ASAP? Please don't use last names of living people for this - respect their privacy.   5) Write about it in your own blog post, in comments to this post, or in comments or a Note on Facebook. 1) My Great-grandparents were Johan Anton Hork (1843-1906) & Julia Ann Sievert (1854-1928) . 2) I used RootsMagic7 to make a Descendant’s Report. 3) Their descendants are (the best that I know): Children = 10 (all deceased) Grandchildren = 16 (1 still living) ...