Carol: What is the site for this info? Bill Forshay - San Antonio, TX ________________________________ From: Carol Anne <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, April 10, 2011 2:35:23 PM Subject: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Ancestry.com Civil War Draft Transcription Warning! The draft registration seems to be very badly transcribed! Use your imagination when searching for your ancestor! I was looking for Erwin (Ervin, Irwin, Irvin) Moberly, who was living in Perry Township, Martin Co. IN. He was born in Tennessee. I know from experience that his surname can be spelled 100 different ways, so I typed in mob* with the wild card to find all surnames beginning with Mob, left the given name blank, and filled in Martin Co., IN. Nothing. Then I removed the surname and went through all the Martin Co., IN entries. Nothing. Then I just filled in the given name (tried Erwin first) and "Indiana". I got a very strange looking result: Erwin Morbly, Percy Township, Castro Co., IN. Born in Pennsylvania. First of all there's no county in Indiana named Castro! When I looked at the actual image, it said Perry Township, not Percy, and the other township names on the page I recognized as being in Martin Co.. His place of birth read "Tenn", not "Penn". I finally spotted the county name, but the binding was so tight only the last 3 letters were visible, but how anybody got "Castro" out of it I don't know! His surname was indeed written "Morbly", but I'm used to that sort of thing. So be creative when searching, and if you get a strange result that looks like it sort of fits, but it's all wrong, be sure to check out the actual image anyway. Carol Anne On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Jim Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > I've learned that all of most of my ancestors dodged the draft! I > guess that says something in and of itself. Any idea how difficult > that would have been to pull off? > > -Jim Miller ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Ancestry.com The specific database is at http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1666&enc=1 I think they may be offering free access to this particular database for a limited time. I didn't pay much attention though, because I have a subscription. Carol Anne On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Bill Forshay <[email protected]> wrote: > Carol: > >      What is the site for this info? > >                   Bill Forshay - San Antonio, TX > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Carol Anne <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sun, April 10, 2011 2:35:23 PM > Subject: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Ancestry.com Civil War Draft Transcription > > Warning! > > The draft registration seems to be very badly transcribed! Use your > imagination when searching for your ancestor! > > I was looking for Erwin (Ervin, Irwin, Irvin)  Moberly, who was living > in Perry Township, Martin Co. IN. He was born in Tennessee. > > I know from experience that his surname can be spelled 100 different > ways, so I typed in mob* with the wild card to find all surnames > beginning with Mob, left the given name blank, and filled in Martin > Co., IN. Nothing. Then I removed the surname and went through all the > Martin Co., IN entries. Nothing. > > Then I just filled in the given name (tried Erwin first) and > "Indiana". I got a very strange looking result: > > Erwin Morbly, Percy Township, Castro Co., IN. Born in Pennsylvania. > > First of all there's no county in Indiana named Castro! > > When I looked at the actual image, it said Perry Township, not Percy, > and the other township names on the page I recognized as being in > Martin Co.. His place of birth read "Tenn", not "Penn". I finally > spotted the county name, but the binding was so tight only the last 3 > letters were visible, but how anybody got "Castro" out of it I don't > know! His surname was indeed written "Morbly", but I'm used to that > sort of thing. > > So be creative when searching, and if you get a strange result that > looks like it sort of fits, but it's all wrong, be sure to check out the actual > image anyway. > > Carol Anne > > > > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Jim Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've learned that all of most of my ancestors dodged the draft! I >> guess that says something in and of itself. Any idea how difficult >> that would have been to pull off? >> >> -Jim Miller > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >