Kith and Kin Official Newsletter of the Marshfield Area Genealogy Group Inside this issue: Volume 36 Issue 1 May—June 2019 President’s Unusual Sources for Finding Female Ancestors Message 2 Posted on Amy Johnson Crow’s Blog, March 28, 2019 MAGG Officers 2 Name changes and a society that empha- Ancestry.com Adds sizes men in the records can make finding U.S. World War female ancestors tough. Note that I said II Draft Registration 3 & "tough," not "impossible." Let's consider Cards for 1942 12 some valuable sources that we might be overlooking. DNA Basics Chapter 5: How Generations Café Podcast, DNA Testing Episode 24 Works 4 - 5 You can listen to this episode by following Press Release: this link: https://podcasts.google.com/? NGS to Live feed=aHR0cDovL2dlbmVyYXRpb25zY2Fm Stream Ten ZS5saWJzeW4uY29tL3Jzcw%3D%3D Genealogy You can also listen on Apple Podcasts, Lectures During its Family History Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and most other Conference in podcast apps.) May 5 Length: 12 minutes. Book Review: Visiting Your Ancestral Town: Jane E. Wilcox of Forget Me Not Ancestry Walk in the Footsteps of specializes in female research and re- Your Ancestors searching in New York state. (That's a (3rd edition) combination!) Both of those topics means Now Available 5 that she has learned to get the most out of You might also want to check out my post all available records. Here is her advice on "3 Practical Strategies for Finding Fe- How to Plan a and some sources for finding female ances- male Ancestors." Successful Library Trip 6 tors. The key is to keep looking and to learn This Place Matters: Key Takeaways for Unusual Sources about all of the records that are available Historic for Finding Female Ancestors: in any given location where your ancestor Preservation Look at the ephemera (letters, diaries, lived. That includes going beyond just the Month, May 2019 7 journals, etc.) that you might already "regular" records like vital records and Odds and Ends have church records. What else exists? Explore from the 1940’s 8-9 Look for records dealing with every- and dig. (Jane describes herself as a digger. Clark County day life (doctors, midwives, store ledg- It's a strategy that pays off!) Wisconsin 10- ers, church records) (from https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/ Homesteaders 11 Research the men in their lives female-ancestors/) Upcoming Meetings 12 Page 2 Kith and Kin President’s Message Dear Friends, It’sHopefully that time you of all year have again your whengenealogy most researchof the leaves plans have ready left for the this trees, Summer heavier and jackets Fall. 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May 6th – North Wood County Historical Society Don’t forget that MAGG will be taking a research trip to the Regional Archives in Stevens Point, on Monday, Novem- Program: History of Wood County Parks ber 13. We will leave the new Kwik Trip Parking lot (the one south of Marshfield, near Hwy. 10) at noon. Research Presenter: Chad Schooley, Director of Wood County Parks and Forestry at the archives from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Check out their website (https://www.uwsp.edu/library/archives/Pages/ default.aspxJune) to2nd have – Historic your “research Preservation log” ready Association with any questions you may have. The link for the campus map and parking is: https://www.uwsp.edu/about/Pages/parkingMap.aspxProgram: History of the Adler Bakery Company. Please call the Schnitzlers at (715) 897-1910 if you Presenter: TBA would like to go. July 1st – North Wood County Historical Society Also, Saturday, JanuaryProgram: 20, is theMarshfield’s date for the Rollohomefield trip to the Corporation Wisconsin Historical through Society. Pictures More info to come. Happy Holidays Presenter: TBA (Continued on page 12, second column) MAGG Officers and Committees President: Vickie Schnitzler (2019) The Marshfield Area Genealogy Group is an affiliate of the Wisconsin State Genealogical Vice President: Jennifer Witzel (2018) Society. Secretary: Lorraine Rogers (2018) Treasurer: Noreen Moen (2019) Our purpose is to provide meetings and programs of genealogical interest and to Member at Large: Keri Likes (2018) provide instruction in genealogical proce- Member at Large: Lori Belongia (2019) dures. Also to collect, preserve, and dis- seminate genealogical data found in the Newsletter Editor: Vickie Schnitzler Marshfield area and/or relative to the peo- Program: Don Schnitzler ple of the Marshfield Area. Membership: Jennifer Witzel Meetings are held the fourth Thursday of the (Year office expires is in parentheses.) month except November and December. Membership Information Our membership year is from May 1 to April 30. Individual membership per year is $12.00 and a Family membership is $15.00 per year. For hardcopy newsletter add $6. Membership Forms can be downloaded from our website http://www.marshfieldgenealogy.com/ and returned with payment to us at: MAGG, P.O. Box 337, Marshfield, WI 54449. Volume 36 Issue 1 Page 3 Adds U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards for 1942 From Dick Eastman’s Blog, March 29, 2019 A record set from the U.S. National Archives and Which states are currently available in this da- Records Administration called United States, Selec- tabase? tive Service System. Selective Service Registration This database currently contains draft cards for the Cards, World War II: Fourth Registration. Records of following states: the Selective Service System, Record Group Number Alaska Nevada 147, National Archives and Records Administration is Arizona New Hampshire now available at: https://www.ancestry.com/search/ Arkansas New Jersey collections/wwiidraft. The following description of the California New York records was written by Ancestry.com: Colorado New York City The U.S. officially entered World War II on 8 De- Connecticut North Dakota cember 1941 following an attack on Pearl Harbor, Delaware Ohio Hawaii. Just about a year before that, in October Hawaii Oklahoma 1940, President Roosevelt had signed into law the Idaho Oregon first peacetime selective service draft in U.S. his- Illinois Pennsylvania tory, due to rising world conflicts. After the U.S. Indiana Puerto Rico entered WWII a new selective service act required Iowa Rhode Island that all men between ages 18 and 65 register for Kansas South Dakota the draft. Between November 1940 and October Kentucky Texas 1946, over 10 million American men were regis- Louisiana Utah tered. This database is an indexed collection of the Maryland Vermont draft cards from the Fourth Registration. The Massachusetts Virginia Fourth Registration, often referred to as the “old- Michigan Washington man’s registration”, was conducted on 27 April Minnesota Washington DC 1942 and registered men who born on or between Missouri West Virginia 28 April 1877 and 16 February 1897 – men who Montana Wisconsin were between 45 and 64 years old – and who were Nebraska Wyoming not already in the military. Information available on the draft cards includes: The original draft registration cards for the following * Name of registrant states were destroyed several years ago and were * Age never microfilmed before they were destroyed. * Birth date Therefore, there will never be records for these * Birthplace states in this database: * Residence Alabama Mississippi * Employer information Florida North Carolina * Name and address of person who would always Georgia South Carolina know the registrant’s whereabouts Maine Tennessee * Physical description of registrant (race, height, weight, eye and hair colors, complexion) Locating Originals: Additional information such as mailing address (if The original draft cards are held by each state’s Na- different from residence address), serial number, tional Archives and Records Administration (NARA) order number, and board registration information Regional Branch. All of these cards are also available may also be available. on microfilm from the Family History Library (FHL) and/or NARA. For individuals who lived near a state border, some- times their Draft Board Office was located in a How are the Cards Organized? neighboring state.