Friday, June 10, 2016

More family fun. Oh, Joy!

My folks are back visiting, which is a good thing. I spent some time with my mom looking at various photos of her family's headstones in West Virginia. I gave her a quick lesson on FindAGrave.com and FamilySearch.org.  We found draft registration cards of her maternal grandfather, Floyd JOY, at FamilySearch.org.  I present them below.


"United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-25143-22776-77?cc=1968530 : accessed 10 June 2016), West Virginia > Wirt County; A-Z > image 651 of 1486; citing NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

"United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11668-181028-79?cc=1861144 : accessed 10 June 2016), 004135276 > image 2169 of 3213. Citing NARA microfilm publications M1936, M1937, M1939, M1951, M1962, M1964, M1986, M2090, and M2097 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
Note: I have edited the original image files, to straighten, remove extra space, and rotate the images.  The links in the captions will provide a true representation of the images.