There are females in the World War II draft registration cards. Many of them.

They are not registrants–they are listed on many cards under the “name of person who will always know your address.” Often they are the mother, wife, or sister of the registrant. The currently incomplete index for these cards at Ancestry.com‘s “U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947” does not always treat them in the same way. But it is very likely that a female relative will appear in this database.

Miss Velma Rampley appears as her own “record entry” shown in the results list taken on 3 May 2017. Not all of the “people who will know your address” appear in Ancestry.com‘s “U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947” with their own separate database record. They may appear as part of the information extracted in a draft registrant’s database record, but they do not all get their own separate database entry.

Velma appears in the index with her name and residence only.

Note that there is no other information listed for her other than her name, her residence, the registration date, and the fact that Vester Rampley also was in her household.

The registration card does not indicate that they are living at the same address nor is the relationship given. There’s not any evidence on the card to support that they were living in the same household at the time of the registration.

Those who do “automatic” import of the extracted data from Ancestry.com‘s database into their own database will end up incorporating that “same household” information into their genealogical database.

I’m glad Velma’s name is indexed.

I’m not so happy Ancestry.com listed them in the same household.

Remember one example is anecdotal. However it does serve to remind us of the importance of actually reading the record.