Family History requries Research as well as storytelling.

World War I Draft Registrations (notes from familysearch wiki):

24 Million Men, born between 13 September 1873 and 12 September 1900 (between the ages of 18 and 45) registered with with the Selective Service.The registration cards for all of the states and territories have been microfilmed in National Archive Microfilm Publication M1509 World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards and are part of Record Group 163 Records of the Selective Service System (World War I) The collection has been indexed and is available on FamilySearch.

If you aren't familiar with finding free records at FamilySearch, do this:

1. Register for a free account.
2. Then, log in to familysearch.org
3. Look at the opening page; there are about five headings; one of them is "Search".  Choose to search the familysearch "Wiki".  search for  

   United States World War I Draft Records

   https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1968530

   please e-mail me if you have questions, comments, or if you found this useful.  For a peek at what the uniforms looked like: https://www.historyhit.com/uniforms-of-world-war-one-the-clothes-that-made-the-men/

Today's family history challenge...HELP!

Seemed like a reasonable enough expectation; I wanted to find a possible ancestor at the Dry Springs Cemetery in Pinesville, Escambia County, Florida!

No, I had never heard of this particular cemetery or even the "town" of Pinesville.  So here are some of the steps I've taken and the results:

• See if this cemetery is featured at Findagrave.com: remember Findagrave is a free feature in the ancestry.com family.  It is best utilized when you do a free sign-in which will open to you some of their additional parts of the web site.  For example, I created at findagrave, a virtual cemetery for my discoveries on my maternal line.

• I didn't find a Dry Springs Cemetery.  And I didn't find the person I was searching.  My orginal source was a book in the collection of the West Florida Genealogy Society:  "Gravestone Registry of Escambia County, Florida; Volume I." 
• Next:  I put Pineville, Florida, into my search engine.  This is the result: https://florida.hometownlocator.com/fl/escambia/pineville.cfm, a confirmation that the place actually exists.  
• Then, I used the GNIS reference/link from the the above website.  There you get "driving directions" and other information.  Like: nearby  photos!   

Finally, I searched facebook and discovered another genealogy group devoted to people I care about and research, but nothing on Pineville or Dry Springs.  So, what next?

Here is my relative: J. C. Clark, born 3 May 1864; died 7 Jun 1956 in Escambia County, Florida.  Feel free to make a suggestion or stay tuned for any possible further finds!  I have added what I know about Mr. Clark to my RootsMagic Database so I wouldn't lose track of him.  

Finally, I did search the archives page at West Florida (University of): and didn't find much.  I sent an e-mail to the department head and he found an obituary!  

**Unrelated** Remember that if you are thinking about putting your family tree, online at FamilySearch.org, look first and make sure that your people are not already there!  For example, if you find your great grandfather already at that website, you will not need to enter him again.  Just connect to him and add only the folks that do not already have a profile.  This saves a lot of confusion, later on.  

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