{"id":2542,"date":"2008-05-19T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T07:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/19\/world-war-i-draft-registration-card-for-emil-niedzialkowski\/"},"modified":"2015-06-21T14:40:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T21:40:37","slug":"world-war-i-draft-registration-card-for-emil-niedzialkowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2542","title":{"rendered":"World War I Draft Registration Card for Emil Niedzialkowski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While searching for additional records on the family of Emil Niedzialkowski, I found his World War I Draft Registration Card.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18149\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/WW1-Niedzialkowski-Emil-Obverse-1918.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18149\" class=\"wp-image-18149\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/WW1-Niedzialkowski-Emil-Obverse-1918.jpg\" alt=\"World War I Draft Registration Card for Emil Niedzialkowski (Obverse)\" width=\"400\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/WW1-Niedzialkowski-Emil-Obverse-1918.jpg 817w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/WW1-Niedzialkowski-Emil-Obverse-1918-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/WW1-Niedzialkowski-Emil-Obverse-1918-789x1024.jpg 789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">World War I Draft Registration Card for Emil Niedzialkowski (Obverse)<\/p><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>World War I Draft Registration Card for Emil Niedzialkowski &#8211; Front<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18151\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/WW1-Niedzialkowski-Emil-Reverse-1918.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18151\" class=\"wp-image-18151\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/WW1-Niedzialkowski-Emil-Reverse-1918.jpg\" alt=\"World War I Draft Registration Card for Emil Niedzialkowski (Reverse)\" width=\"400\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/WW1-Niedzialkowski-Emil-Reverse-1918.jpg 807w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/WW1-Niedzialkowski-Emil-Reverse-1918-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/WW1-Niedzialkowski-Emil-Reverse-1918-774x1024.jpg 774w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">World War I Draft Registration Card for Emil Niedzialkowski (Reverse)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">SOURCE: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,\u201d digital images, Ancestry.com (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/\">http:\/\/www.ancestry.com<\/a> : accessed 18 May 2008), Emil Joseph Niedzialkowski, serial no. 5093, order no. A7687, Draft Board 3, Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut; citing World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, NARA microfilm publication M1509C, roll CT35.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the images above to enlarge them. Click on the link for a <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/WW1-Niedzialkowski-Emil-1918.pdf\">PDF Copy<\/a> of the World War I Draft Registration Card for Emil Niedzialkowski.<\/p>\n<p>The record states that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Emil Joseph Niedzialkowski resided at 797 N. Main, Waterbury, New Haven County, Conn.;<br \/>\nHis Serial Number was 5093;<br \/>\nHis Order Number was A7687;<br \/>\nHe was 35 years old and was born on 22 Jun 1883 in Russia Poland;<br \/>\nHe was of the white race and was a non-declarant alien;<br \/>\nHe was a tool maker for Chase Metal Works, Waterbury, Conn.;<br \/>\nHe listed his wife, Josefa Ploska Niedzialkowski, at 797 N. Main, Waterbury, Conn. as his nearest relative;<br \/>\nHe was of medium height and medium build, with blue eyes and brown hair;<br \/>\nHe had no other obvious physical characteristics;<br \/>\nHis card was signed by Louise Solimin, registrar for Local Board 3, Court House, Waterbury, Conn.<br \/>\nHe registered on 12 Sep 1918.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I still have no proof that Emil Niedzialkowski is related to me, but the fact that he shares the Niedzialkowski surname with my maternal grandfather and came from the same village in Poland as my great great grandfather suggests there may be a connection.<\/p>\n<p>This record provides me with an additional piece of information I did not have before. It appears that the maiden name of Emil&#8217;s wife is Ploska.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Copyright \u00a9 2008 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While searching for additional records on the family of Emil Niedzialkowski, I found his World War I Draft Registration Card. <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2542\">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":false,"_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":[100],"tags":[373,372],"class_list":["post-2542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niedzialkowski","tag-draft-card","tag-world-war-i"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-F0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542","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=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18153,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions\/18153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}