[or-roots] WWI Registration Card Question

[Roy Blaine]

A much simpler explanation is one to which I am entitled - the "grandfather clause."  There is (or was) a British law that allowed a person who could show their grandfather's British passport to declare themselves a British subject.  My grandfather was born in South Africa under British colonial rule, therefore...
 
Roy N. Blaine



From: ross1948 at bendcable.comTo: or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.usDate: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:11:46 -0700Subject: Re: [or-roots] WWI Registration Card Question

Thanks to all of you for your responses!  
 
Each piece of the puzzle adds a new dimension to our heritage.  
 
I've been looking for this grandfather for many years and however "right" or "wrong" or "questionable" the information is, it was great to find something to use as a "junping off point".  And....a rewarding part is that I know it to be him as the signature matches other items that I have written by him.  
 
Thanks again for fielding this question for me.  Now...to find him on some census record....  
 
I'll just throw this out....Harry Walter Hoadley   DOB 13 September 1890 ~ Bronson, Kansas       Death December 1967~ Portland, Oregon Parents birth place both Ohio  Home in 1910 USS Pennsylvania, US Navy   Had a wife and two children and lived in Carterville, Missouri in 1916.....
 
Julie 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Chris & Bill Strickland 
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Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 11:45 AM
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George Ross wrote:


  <>My question, is there any particular reason that he would write ...There is a lot of mis-information written in the official record, sometimes intentionally (maybe I can get out of the draft if I give this answer), sometimes accidentally (question misunderstood or improperly transcribed), or maybe the individual just didn't know any different (his folks maybe were British or of British heritage and he just always assumed he was, too) -- ahh, the excitement of  'the hunt' -- "The Truth is Out There", finding it can be elusive, or finally find it, and then DNA proves otherwise (milkman syndrome, I call it) ...Bill Strickland



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