Thanks for the tip. In 30 seconds, I found the WWI Draft Registration for my Grandfather. Now, I have to just figure out what it says, at is pretty blurry. I'm primarily interested in line 5, as I am not sure of what town in Hungary he was born. Any interpretations? http://www.johngwalter.com/bagin_wwi_dc/ -----Original Message----- From: Jan Ammann [mailto:janammann@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 1:09 PM To: HUNGARY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [HUNGARY-L] Free Database - USA - WWI Draft Registration Cards Hello Listers...... Well, another "good source" is again free this time for two weeks...July 4 to July 17. Go to this website: http://www.accessgenealogy.com/military/ww1/draft.htm "Ancestry has opened up its World War 1 Draft Registration records for visitors of Access Genealogy for free. The only thing required to view the records is an email address and your name. No credit card required! This is not a 14 day trial of all of their material. It is strictly limited to their World War 1 Draft Registration images. I went to the site (after clicking on its address on the accessgenealogy site and started searching. Even after I clicked to see the image, I was not asked for anything. However,I have registered there in the past and perhaps that is why. This database covers the years 1917 and 1918. It shows the person's name, age, birth date, where born, citizenship, where living now, occupation, employer, dependent relatives, and a good physical description. Hope everyone finds something useful!! Cheers, Jan

Looks like Davics to me. All of the ones I found were also blurry. Elizabeth V. Cardinal evc1369@comcast.net

Interestingly enough, the data on this card does not correspond to other data that I have. For example, it is dated 1917, and he lists a wife and child. He had three of his five children by that date. It also lists his employer as Diamond Alkali (which was the largest employer in the town from about 1912 to 1978), but on his retirement notice in 1957, it said he began working there in 1921, and the 1920 census lists his employer as the B&O railroad (they had a large yard in the town, a block from Orchard Street). Birth date is now the third version that I have. (all 1888) I guess it could have been a language barrier, as I doubt that he spoke very much English. He didn't right up to his death in 1975. Any ideas? -----Original Message----- From: John G. Walter [mailto:jgw@johngwalter.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 3:38 PM To: HUNGARY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [HUNGARY-L] Free Database - USA - WWI Draft Registration Cards Thanks for the tip. In 30 seconds, I found the WWI Draft Registration for my Grandfather. Now, I have to just figure out what it says, at is pretty blurry. I'm primarily interested in line 5, as I am not sure of what town in Hungary he was born. Any interpretations? http://www.johngwalter.com/bagin_wwi_dc/ -----Original Message----- From: Jan Ammann [mailto:janammann@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 1:09 PM To: HUNGARY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [HUNGARY-L] Free Database - USA - WWI Draft Registration Cards Hello Listers...... Well, another "good source" is again free this time for two weeks...July 4 to July 17. Go to this website: http://www.accessgenealogy.com/military/ww1/draft.htm "Ancestry has opened up its World War 1 Draft Registration records for visitors of Access Genealogy for free. The only thing required to view the records is an email address and your name. No credit card required! This is not a 14 day trial of all of their material. It is strictly limited to their World War 1 Draft Registration images. I went to the site (after clicking on its address on the accessgenealogy site and started searching. Even after I clicked to see the image, I was not asked for anything. However,I have registered there in the past and perhaps that is why. This database covers the years 1917 and 1918. It shows the person's name, age, birth date, where born, citizenship, where living now, occupation, employer, dependent relatives, and a good physical description. Hope everyone finds something useful!! Cheers, Jan

My great-grandmother, it seems on every document that lists her age, well, it would calculate back to a different birthdate every time. I think the difference was about 15 years! And as time went on, well, I can't exactly say she was getting younger, but, like, 10 years would go by and it would have that she was 3 years older than she was 10 years before. I don't know if this is what we see today with people lying about their age. Or, well, if she just didn't pay that much attention. Maybe she'd say she was "Oh, about 52" when she was really 57. Maybe she'd shrug and whoever was writing down the information would make their best guess. I'm talking about census documents, etc, over a long period of time. If the birthdate differs by only about 2 weeks, I'd say it the Julian/Gregorian calendar thing. Some of my Greek Catholic ancestors "converted" their birthdates in America, and some kept the old dates. - Elaine On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 21:54:39 -0400, "John G. Walter" <jgw@johngwalter.com> said: > > ...Birth date is now the third version that I have. (all 1888) > ... > Any ideas? >

Dear Listers, Our family WWI Draft Cards, too, contain inaccurate dates. I got the feeling that some company employee at the mine may have completed the information as best he knew and grandfather just signed the paper. Julie