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[[Portal:United States Military Records|Portal:United States Military Records]]>[[North Carolina|North Carolina]] | [[Portal:United States Military Records|Portal:United States Military Records]]>[[North Carolina|North Carolina]] | ||
Many military records for [[ | Many military records for [[North Carolina|North Carolina]] are at the National Archives. Microfilm copies of many of these are at the Family History Library and at other federal and state archives. A comprehensive description of military history and records of North Carolina is given in Chapter 33 of Helen F. M. Leary’s ''North Carolina Research: Genealogy and Local History ''listed in the "For Further Reading" section at the end of this outline. See also: | ||
Neagles, James C. ''U.S. Military Records: A Guide to Federal and State Sources, Colonial America to the Present''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry, 1994. Ancestry is a trademark of Ancestry, Inc. (Family History Library book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=704356&disp=U%2E+S%2E+military+records%20%20&columns=*,0,0 973 M23nu].) This book describes federal military records, then discusses each state individually. Pages 308–313 provide details of military records housed in various archives in North Carolina, many of which are not microfilmed. | Neagles, James C. ''U.S. Military Records: A Guide to Federal and State Sources, Colonial America to the Present''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry, 1994. Ancestry is a trademark of Ancestry, Inc. (Family History Library book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=704356&disp=U%2E+S%2E+military+records%20%20&columns=*,0,0 973 M23nu].) This book describes federal military records, then discusses each state individually. Pages 308–313 provide details of military records housed in various archives in North Carolina, many of which are not microfilmed. | ||
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United States. Selective Service System. ''North Carolina, World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918''. National Archives Microfilm Publications, M1509. Washington, DC: National Archives, 1987–1988. (On 81 Family History Library films beginning with 1765557.) | United States. Selective Service System. ''North Carolina, World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918''. National Archives Microfilm Publications, M1509. Washington, DC: National Archives, 1987–1988. (On 81 Family History Library films beginning with 1765557.) | ||
Also online at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/WWIdraft.html<br> | Also online at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/WWIdraft.html<br> | ||
To find a person’s draft card, it helps to know his name and residence at the time of registration, since the cards are arranged alphabetically by county, within the county by draft board, and then alphabetically by surname. Counties may have had more than one draft board. | To find a person’s draft card, it helps to know his name and residence at the time of registration, since the cards are arranged alphabetically by county, within the county by draft board, and then alphabetically by surname. Counties may have had more than one draft board. | ||