I am having difficulty in both FamilyTree Maker 2010 and the ancestry.com web site looking at the draft cards of Harry Leslie Stratton and Maurice Creamer Stratton.
Questions:
1. I wrote an email to support. What is the usual length of time for a response?
2. Now that I know that these records exist, are there any other sources for it?

There were many many errors made by Ancestry.com in the course of digitizing from the National Archives microfilm of these records. Images off center, or not copied at all, for example. The 1942 draft records coupled the front and backs of different cards for several states.

Some of the microfilms themselves were poor quality, so unreadability may be in the original microfilm available to the public.

If you go back to Ancestry's so-called "record" (extract from the image, which is the image of the actual record) it will tell you what microfilm publication /group and microfilm roll number the records you want are on. Write the numbers down.

Then your local library's Inter-Library Loan service can borrow the microfilm from the National Archives for you, for a few dollars per microfilm roll.

Or you can go to a National Archives Regional Center and see if they have this microfilm there (not all centers have all the National Archives Microfilm).

Yeah, all that, or just report them as a "Missing Image" which is the case here. And report them daily. Who knows...

Another web site has some WWII draft records-although only about 8 or 10 states-these are browse only. If you post here which state, I will look through these records. Or if you contact me at mbmjlm22@aol.com I will give you the link.

Wouldn't work for me, either, and I discovered none of them are working for Draft Board 2. I did report them as missing images but you may want to followup with Ancestry that it's all the images for draft board 2 that aren't working. I don't know how long it will take Ancestry to reply to you or how long it will take for them to fix the problem. Some things they can fix pretty quickly, some not so quick.

pilot.familysearch.org only has WWII draft cards, not WWI.

Besides ordering them from NARA, another option is your local family history center (FHC) but they say you have to use a hugh reduction microfilm reader and I don't know what that means. You should ask about that at your local FHC before ordering the films.

The microfilm you would want to order would be:
FHL US/CAN Film #1712094
Title: NEW JERSEY Cumberland County, no. 2, L-Z East Orange City, A-C
Author: United States. Selective Service System

That would have both your guys on it from draft board 2.

In case you're not aware of this, you can also get copies of World War I soldier's unofficial service records from the NJ State Archives. You can learn more at http://www.state.nj.us/state/darm/links/reference.html

Good luck.
Jo

I forgot to add that you can also order the WWI Draft Registration cards online directly from NARA.

http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/military/ww1/draft-registr...