US Virginia WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918

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Things That You Need to Remember:

• When the card says declarant, mark the field <Blank> unless there is a nation of citizenship listed on the card.
• You may download batches that are an index. They contain only a name and a page number. These would be marked as No Extractable Data and submitted.
• "Native Born" should be indexed as United States
• (Mar 9) - States other than the state in the project name are included. Please index them anyway.
• Citizenship for those on Indian Reservations- Enter United States as they are "wards" of the US.
• Q. How is Washington DC indexed? A. Washington is entered in the city field and District of Columbia is entered in the state field.
• Q. Can an individual’s place of citizenship be used for birth country? A. The field helps tell us if the person was “native born (natural born)” it should be indexed as United States. However, if another country was listed as the country of citizenship, that should not be used as the country of birth. A person can be a citizen of a country other than his/her birth country.
• I know this is a positive group and this will fall on well-educated ears but would the arbitrators looking at WW1 drafts please remember that just because a person declares he is a citizen of country X does not mean that he was born there!
• On some of the registration cards, some towns like Mt. Pleasant, the Mt. is never spelled out. It is always listed as Mt, no period. There are more such examples all over.
• the middle name should be indexed, not left off.
• It needs to be specified here that if it says "Natural Born" or "Native Born," you mark US as the country of birth. But I'm getting people marking the US as the country of birth if it's marked "Naturalized Citizen," which means they were born in another country, then came here and became citizens.
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