{"id":245,"date":"2006-06-05T22:18:41","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T05:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/05\/more-world-war-ii-draft-registration-cards\/"},"modified":"2019-01-27T16:09:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T00:09:39","slug":"more-world-war-ii-draft-registration-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/245","title":{"rendered":"More World War II Draft Registration Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 26, 2006, I posted an entry about the World War II Selective Service Registration Cards .\u00a0 The <a title=\"Family History Library\" href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/locations\/saltlakecity-library\"><span style=\"color: #b85b5a;\">Family History Library<\/span><\/a> (FHL) holds 166 microfilm reels of World War II Selective Service System Registration Cards for the state of Massachusetts .\u00a0 These are the Draft Registration Cards for the Fourth Registration conducted in 1942 and include men born between 28 APR 1877 and 16 FEB 1892, although I have found cards for men born out of this\u00c2\u00a0range of dates .\u00a0 The original cards are located at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/boston\">National Archives at Boston<\/a> .\u00a0 Note:\u00a0The FHL holds\u00c2\u00a0copies\u00c2\u00a0of World War II Selective Service System Registration Cards for other states, too.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ancestry.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ancestry.com\">Ancestry.com<\/a> has started to digitize these cards .\u00a0 As of today, June 5, 2006, cards from the following states have been digitized:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arkansas<\/li>\n<li>Connecticut<\/li>\n<li>Delaware<\/li>\n<li>Indiana<\/li>\n<li>Maryland<\/li>\n<li>New Hampshire<\/li>\n<li>New Jersey<\/li>\n<li>New York<\/li>\n<li>Pennsylvania<\/li>\n<li>Puerto Rico<\/li>\n<li>Rhode Island<\/li>\n<li>Vermont<\/li>\n<li>Virginia<\/li>\n<li>West Virginia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most of my relatives were in Massachusetts at the time of this draft and so their cards are not yet digitized on Ancestry.com .\u00a0 No matter, since I scanned quite a few cards when I was in Salt Lake City in April.<\/p>\n<p>Two of my uncles (Mike Danko and Joe Danko) married\u00c2\u00a0into the Skowronski family in Worcester and I found\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/WW2-Skowronski-Alexander-1942.pdf\">WW2\u00c2\u00a0Draft\u00c2\u00a0Card for Alexander Frank Skowronski &#8211; 1942<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/WW2-Skowronski-Paul-1942.pdf\">WW2\u00c2\u00a0Draft\u00c2\u00a0Card for Paul Skowronski &#8211; 1942<\/a> .\u00a0 Alexander Frank Skowronski was the father-in-law of both my Uncle Mike and Uncle Joe.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Frank Skowronski WWII-o\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/WWII-Draft-Skowronski-F--o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image239\" style=\"width: 461px; height: 298px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/WWII-Draft-Skowronski-F--o.jpg\" alt=\"Frank Skowronski WWII-o\" width=\"461\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Frank Skowronski WWII-r\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/WWII-Draft-Skowronski-F-r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image240\" style=\"width: 320px; height: 403px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/WWII-Draft-Skowronski-F-r.jpg\" alt=\"Frank Skowronski WWII-r\" width=\"320\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WWII Draft Card for Alexander Frank Skowronski<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"WWII Paul Skowronski-o\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/WWII-Draft-Skowronski-P-o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image242\" style=\"height: 329px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/WWII-Draft-Skowronski-P-o.jpg\" alt=\"WWII Paul Skowronski-o\" width=\"454\" height=\"329\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"WWII Paul Skowronski-r\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/WWII-Draft-Skowronski-P-r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image243\" style=\"width: 323px; height: 456px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/WWII-Draft-Skowronski-P-r.jpg\" alt=\"WWII Paul Skowronski-r\" width=\"323\" height=\"456\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">World War II Draft Card for Pawel Skowronski<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Notice that Alexander stated that he was from Groad, Poland, and Paul stated that he was from Grondy, Poland .\u00a0 As far as I can tell, they were both from Gr\u0105dy, Russia-Poland, and I have struggled to find out exactly where that was, since there were 29 locations\u00c2\u00a0in Russia-Poland named Gr\u0105dy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\">Copyright \u00a9 2006 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 26, 2006, I posted an entry about the World War II Selective Service Registration Cards .\u00a0 The Family History Library (FHL) holds 166 microfilm reels of World War II Selective Service System Registration Cards for the state of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/245\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[133],"tags":[251],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skowronski","tag-worcester-massachusetts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-3X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20909,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/20909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}