From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sat Apr 15 21:14:04 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3G3E4jb003822; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 21:14:04 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3G3E3Kw009506 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 21:14:03 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k3G0fbFI006708 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:41:37 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k3G0fbwY006707 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:41:37 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k3FLh8FI006169 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:43:08 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k3G0FNFR012117 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:15:23 -0600 X-Envelope-From: Kith-n-Kin@cox.net Sat Apr 15 18:15:23 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3G0FNjb012108 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:15:23 -0600 Received: from fed1rmmtao06.cox.net (fed1rmmtao06.cox.net [68.230.241.33]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3G0Ec0v024920 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:14:56 -0600 Received: from TOWER ([68.0.155.47]) by fed1rmmtao06.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060416001433.ZTFB18224.fed1rmmtao06.cox.net@TOWER> for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:14:33 -0400 From: "Kith-n-Kin" To: Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] Re: ROOTS-L Digest V06 #167 Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:14:06 -0700 Message-ID: <004b01c660ea$b330ee60$6601a8c0@TOWER> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 In-Reply-To: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by admin.rootsweb.com id k3G0FNjb012108 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com I believe if someone got the "real" records, they would find that this "Alaska" as a state means something else entirely. The headers are: Name Birth Year Nativity State or Country Enlistment Date State Enlistment State Only in the "state" column do you find "alaska" used as we have noted here. There are 418,555 Alaska entries, mostly for folks not born or enlisting in alaska. If you do a "smith" search, you will find that several other entries have locations in this category other than the "nativity state" or "enlistment state", including a few with "U.S. At Large" - 1840 for Smith, 171,000 plus for a general search. I suggest there may have been "regions" or something else that is the reference here. It would be interesting to see an original form, (WD AGO Form 317 (used from 1941-45), WD AGO Form 372 (used from 1945-46), and Enlisted Reserve Corps Statistical cards. ) and see what this really meant. Anyone for a trip to NARA? Pat (in Tucson)