If you visit the the National Archives/Southeast Regional office in East Point,GA, you can make a request to actually see the card. First things first. NARA/SE, in East Point, is only a few miles away from the Atlanta airport and about 6 miles from downtown Atlanta. It is convenient from Marta (subway) with a bus connection. I suggest a car. Reservations are required to visit the Microfilm room. But you can often get last minute reservations for that day if you call at 8am. Depends. Reservations are made in four hour intervals. 8-12 and 12-4. On Tuesdays they have an evening slot from 4-8. If you make reservations and cannot attend, please notify them so they can allow another person to access the room. Parking is no problem and free. Do not take breifcases or pocketbooks inside as you will have to leave them in a locker they will provide at no charge. When you arrive, check the micro on WW I draft registration for your relative. When you locate them, get an assistant to give you the proper form to fill out. Note! I takes about two hours for them to retrieve the actual card. You have until closing to view it. Hope this helps someone. I used to visit NARA often before my workload curshed my research time. Oh, oh yes. You can access what records are available at that location on-line! Too much for me to tell you about. Godspeed.....Patrick HALL-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: > > HALL-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 167 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [Fwd: [WHITE] WWI Draft Cards - cl ["J. E. Leonard" <lenardo@bellsouth] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from HALL-D, send a message to > > HALL-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [Fwd: [WHITE] WWI Draft Cards - clarification] > Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 10:10:27 -0500 > From: "J. E. Leonard" <lenardo@bellsouth.net> > To: HALL-L@rootsweb.com > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --------------9B27166C7FDA3DEE84D1B6A7 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > --------------9B27166C7FDA3DEE84D1B6A7 > Content-Type: message/rfc822 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Disposition: inline > > Received: from mail3.bellsouth.net (mail3.bellsouth.net [205.152.32.6]) > by mail0.bna.bellsouth.net (3.3.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA17813 > for <lenardo@mem.bellsouth.net>; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 07:50:31 -0400 (EDT) > Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.27]) > by mail3.bellsouth.net (3.3.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA14048; > Thu, 19 Aug 1999 07:47:26 -0400 (EDT) > Received: (from slist@localhost) > by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA05476; > Thu, 19 Aug 1999 04:44:56 -0700 (PDT) > Resent-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 04:44:56 -0700 (PDT) > From: "Linda Haas Davenport" <lhaasdav@mindspring.com> > Old-To: "White List" <WHITE-L@rootsweb.com>, > "USGenWeb SW List" <USGENWEB-SW-L@rootsweb.com>, > "USGenWeb Discuss List" <USGENWEB-DISCUSS-L@rootsweb.com>, > "USGenWeb CC L List" <USGW-CC-L@usgennet.org>, > "USGenWeb All List" <USGENWEB-ALL-L@rootsweb.com>, > "Tulsa List" <OKTULSA-L@rootsweb.com>, > "OkRoots List" <OKROOTS-L@rootsweb.com>, > "OKGen List" <OKGEN-L@rootsweb.com>, > "NC Wash List" <NCWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com>, > "NC List" <NCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com>, > "Marion Co AR List" <ARMARION-L@rootsweb.com>, > "List Owners" <listowners-L@rootsweb.com>, > "Hass List" <HASS-L@rootsweb.com>, "Haas List" <HAAS-L@rootsweb.com>, > "GenMed List" <GENMTD-L@rootsweb.com>, > "Davenport List" <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com>, > "CCHelper" <CCHelper-L@rootsweb.com>, > "ARK List" <ARKANSAS-ROOTS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU> > Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 06:10:47 -0400 > Message-ID: <01beea2b$1b938aa0$cb6656d1@lhaasdavmindspring.com> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 > Subject: [WHITE] WWI Draft Cards - clarification > Resent-Message-ID: <iaDnGB.A.OUB.04-u3@bl-11.rootsweb.com> > To: WHITE-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-From: WHITE-L@rootsweb.com > Reply-To: WHITE-L@rootsweb.com > X-Mailing-List: <WHITE-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/2941 > X-Loop: WHITE-L@rootsweb.com > Precedence: list > Resent-Sender: WHITE-L-request@rootsweb.com > > I received about a dozen e-mails this morning all asking the same question > so I know that I was not clear in my post yesterday. If you forwarded my > message about the WWI draft cards being at the GA NARA branch will you > please also forward this message? > > The original draft card applications (registrations) for every state (the > entire US) are at East Pointe. According to the Archive Staff there are no > plans to split these cards and move any of them to any other NARA location > since East Pointe has been charged with the "custody" of these records. > > It is only the original cards that are in state / county / alpha order. > > Someone posted a message to one of the lists that NARA was planning on > re-filming the cards since they are now in state / county / alpha order. If > such a thing is underway it is unknown to the East Pointe archive staff and > they should know if such a thing was in the works. > > If you request a copy of your ancestor's draft card from any NARA branch > other than this one they will be searching the LDS microfilm and you will > have to know the state and draft board for them to make a copy. It is only > at the East Pointe location that you can request a copy by state and then > county and the copy will be made from the ORIGINAL card. > > If I'm still unclear please let me know. > > Linda > Home Page: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas/ > Marion Co AR: http://www.rootsweb.com/~armarion/ > Washington Co NC, Haas & Hass e-mail list manager > > ==== WHITE Mailing List ==== > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > ..........................WHITE MAILING LIST........................... > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: WHITE-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM AND THEN PUT ONLY THE WORD > UNSUBSCRIBE IN THE BODY. 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