Contents: This finding aid does not include all the information included on the cards but gives enough for researchers to be able to identify the registrants. These points should help:

(1) Registrants were residents of Kirksville and Caucasians unless otherwise stated.

(2) Women who did not work outside the home used various terms such as housekeeper, homemaker, housewife, etc. to describe their occupation. We have tried to be consistent here, using the term "homemaker" when it is obvious that the registrant meant she taking care of her own home and family and "housekeeper" when she was being paid for that type of work in someone else's home.

(3) An asterisk [*] indicates employed teachers who were also Normal School students at the time of registration (1917 summer session).

(4) Some registrants used their husbands name or initials rather than their own given name (i.e., Mrs. John D. Doe or Mrs. J. D. Doe rather than Jane Doe), as was the "proper" style of the day.

(5) Quite a few registrants read "Country of Birth" as "County of Birth" and completed that blank accordingly; a few were even more specific, so more information may be available on the cards than is readily apparent.