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