{"id":4619,"date":"2017-05-02T12:30:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T12:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4619"},"modified":"2017-05-02T12:30:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T12:30:50","slug":"searching-by-gender-in-the-wwii-us-draft-cards-for-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4619","title":{"rendered":"Searching By Gender in the WWII US Draft Cards for Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sense of humor found this funny.<\/p>\n<p><em>A<\/em><em>ncestry.com<\/em>&#8216;s\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-865524-11714212?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D2238\">U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947<\/a>\u201d contains an interesting search option: gender.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4620\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ww2females.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"889\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ww2females.jpg 889w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ww2females-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ww2females-768x521.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px\" \/><br \/>\nJust to be certain I searched the database using female gender as the only search option. Sure enough, there were no women registered.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-4621\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/noladies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/noladies.jpg 678w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/noladies-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><br \/>\nWomen served in World War II&#8211;my grandmother&#8217;s sister was in the Women&#8217;s Army Corps.\u00a0But she did not register for the draft because women didn&#8217;t have to.<\/p>\n<p>So there should not be any women in the database. I guess I should be happy that the search resulted in zero matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sense of humor found this funny. Ancestry.com&#8216;s\u00a0\u201cU.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947\u201d contains an interesting search option: gender. Just to be certain I searched the database using female gender as the only search option. Sure enough, there were no women registered. Women served in World War II&#8211;my grandmother&#8217;s sister was in the Women&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}