For citizenship by descent cases, U.S. WWI draft registration cards can sometimes provide secondary evidence to prove something critical in the case.

It can also just be cool to have for your family genealogy.

WWI draft cards include:

- The registrant's country of citizenship;

- What stage the registrant was in U.S. naturalization process (i.e. did they file "declaration of intention" yet)

- The registrant's race;

- The registrant's date of birth;

- The registrant's nearest relative (oftentimes the wife)

As I've written many times before, after proper screening for eligibility, the hardest part of citizenship by descent cases is proving the eligibility via certified or original documents.

This is doubly true for cases needing to trace ancestry back 100+ years.

You can request a certified copy of a U.S. draft registration card from the U.S. National Records Archive ("NARA"). 👇👇👇

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