Recent posts noted the availablility of WW I draft records on line. The records may have values even for ancestors who were too old to be drafted per this note form Rootsweb review: 1b. TIPS FROM READERS Finding Family in WWI Draft Records By Frances Willess When I think of draft registration, my mental image is of people 30 and under, so I was amazed when I found a World War I (WWI) Draft Registration form for my grandfather -- Washington Irving BEASLEY. He was born in 1875. I was even more surprised to find one for my husband's grandfather Francis Monroe BLAIR, showing he was born 3 November 1872. That was a double surprise -- the family has always shown his birth date as 1875. My dad, Fay BARKLEY, born in 1898, was on a train waiting to leave for the army on 11 November 1918 and was sent back home. So people need to check for their family members who were born as far back as 1870s. Even though they did not actually serve in World War I, they may appear in the draft card registrations now available online to subscribers at Ancestry.com. In addition to finding personal information about many relatives besides ancestors, I even found my grandmother's brother. We had always thought his name was James Adam HARVICK, but it was actually James Addison HARVICK. Those WWI Draft Registration records are a gold mine of genealogy and enabled me to find a "lost" branch of our family.