Thanks, Alan, I understand now that it is restricted to those countries in which the soldier was born. The choice of countries in the search feature covers19 countries of Europe in which they were born and of course, USA & Canada. Regards, Ray Christmas, NZ. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Munford" <alan.munford@btinternet.com> To: <HAMPSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 10:06 AM Subject: RE: [Ham] Ancestry - WWI Draft Cards Free from Nov. 12-25, 2005 > Ray, > > It is only draft for USA army, but the info does include where they were > born. I found a possible relative born on Isle of Wight from the list > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ray Christmas [mailto:ray.christmas@inspire.net.nz] > Sent: 12 November 2005 20:48 > To: HAMPSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [Ham] Ancestry - WWI Draft Cards Free from Nov. 12-25, 2005 > > Thanks for that Alan but on accessing it, New Zealand must have dropped off > the edge of the world map. Every country except NZ is listed as a choice. > We (NZ) suffered 18,000 casualties in the 1st WW when our population was > barely 1 million.in the trenches of Flanders, the 'flower' of our young > manhood blown to bits. > > I suppose the sponsors of this site will get us included one day. > > Kind regards, > Ray Christmas, New Zealand. > > > > Ancestry has completed indexing and digitizing nearly 24 million World > > War One Draft Registration Cards (1917-1918). To celebrate they are > > offering free access to this database with registration (your name and > > email address) from November 12-25, 2005. To take advantage of this > > offer you must go to the webpage below and click on the WWI Draft Cards > > link near the top... > > > > Online World War One Indexes & Records > > http://www.militaryindexes.com/worldwarone/ > > > > Feel free to share this post with other genealogy mailing lists you are > > subscribed to. > > > > > ==== HAMPSHIRE Mailing List ==== > Spring clean your tree and see if you can dust off some new rellies > Visit the knightroots website at www.knightroots.co.uk > also Hampshire Look up Exchange at http://members.madasafish.com/~caroldolton/index.htm > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.0/167 - Release Date: 11/11/2005 > >