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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Signing a Golden Registration

This Illinois native was born in 1877 and signed his World War II Draft Registration Card in Golden, Illinois.

7 comments:

  1. I will take a wild stab at this one...
    John Lusken Garrelts??

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  2. My guess is John Lusken Garrelt. How'd I do?

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  3. Tricky this one -- but I'll go for
    John Luken Garrelts ?

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  4. Hello from Ostfriesland, Germany, I guess:
    John (Americanized from Johann or Jan) Lueken (Genitive of the East Frisian given name "Lüke or Lueke" as a patrony Garrelts (also a patronym, after the given name Garrelt).

    Thus, Tom above is very near!

    Best,

    Jürgen Adams

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  5. Jürgen is correct about the origin of the name--the person who signed this registration was of Ostfriesen heritage, although he was born in the US. This gentleman in the illustration used John Lucken Garrelts.

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