Hey, wait a minute. That text site <http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/wwidraft.txt> sez this about half down the url page: "To have the National Archives staff search these records for you, get a "World War I Registration Card Request" form. You can request the form from <archives@atlanta.nara.gov>, or write a letter to: National Archives - Southeast Region 1557 St. Joseph Avenue East Point, GA 30344 (404) 763-7383 <http://www.nara.gov/regional/atlanta.html> The Southeast Region archives will search the cards for you, and bill you $10.00 for each card found. There is no charge for searches when a record is not located. The response time is about two weeks. For each card requested, you must supply: - the full name of registrant, - approximate date of birth, - the place of residence when he registered: !*** A street address is required for urban areas ***! For rural areas, the name of the town or county is usually sufficient." Did you just order the form by email or were you able to order the card itself by email? And, if you ordered the card copy by email, did you use that email address in the above instruction???????? We need more info on your ease in getting the copy. Thanks. Oh, Bill, I know when Soc Security came along and many didn't have a birth cert then WWII and still no birth cert, and they HAD to have one. If they wanted to change the spelling of/or just their name, that was the time and many did. The Bible record might say Mom gave a child the name Edward and on his birth cert he is Milton George. They were also advised if they wanted to shorten or Americanize their names that making a delayed birth cert was the time to do it. Just a thot on Gusky. This might have been a form of the case with him going into WWI Gloria At 08:11 PM 11/30/99 -0500, you wrote: >A first for me... I'd sent away to NARA Atlanta for a WWI draft >registration for WILLIAM GEORGE GUSKY/GAYOUSKY, my grandfather who'd >lived in White City and Wilsonville. Put in the request to NARA by >e-mail, and got it today in exchange for a $10 check and a very short >wait. I'm glad to have it, but as frequently happens, it brought some >confusion as well as some light. > >The surname on the registration was GUSKEY instead of GUSKY, and my >grandfather signed it exactly the same way, though he'd signed his >marriage license as GAYOUSKY and my father was baptized as GAYOUSKI. >The draft registration gives his birth date as April 5th, 1880 (the >zero is clear and unequivocal, not a scrawly six), although his >marriage license and other resources say 1886. Age was given as 38, >which squares with the birth date, but he reported 25 in the 1910 >census and 37 in the 1920 census. Puts me in mind of the saying that >a man with a watch knows what time it is, while a man with two watches >has no idea. > >The good news is that the back of the card has a physical description >showing medium height, stout build, blue eyes, and light brown hair. >Kinda compensates for the black and white photos. The rest of the >information included permanent home address; nearest relative (his >wife, and they pretty well butchered her name); race; citizenship = >naturalized; occupation = coal miner; employer = Consolidated Coal >Co.; date of registration = Sept 12, 1918. > >I was hoping the registration data might include parents or place of >origin, but I suppose that will have to wait for the naturalization >papers I've requested. With luck, maybe there won't be too many more >data conflicts. > >-- >Bill Gusky >DeLand, Florida >"Too soon oldt, und too late schmart!" > > >==== ILMACOUP Mailing List ==== >To post a message so everyone on ILMACOUP-L or ILMACOUP-D receives it, send the message to: > ILMACOUP-L@rootsweb.com > It will then be sent on to everyone in both ILMACOUP-L or ILMACOUP-D. > >