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Collection: 10041 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: American Legion Auxiliary, Lloyd Spetz Unit No. 1 Records
Date: 1919-2002
Summary: Minutes, histories of the Auxiliary (1919-1970) and cradle roll cards with information about children of veterans that were created and maintained by the Auxiliary to facilitate charity work for veterans and their families. The cards are available in a spreadsheet.The American Legion Auxiliary Cradle Roll is a record of children born to military men and women of World War I that lived in North Dakota. It contains (if known) the child’s complete name, date of birth, father and mother's names, the city they lived in, the enlisted or inducted date in the military, branch of service, Company and Division last served in, date released from the service, American Legion that they were a member of and the fathers date of death. There are also 75 names that belonged to an American Legion in Westby, Montana. North Dakota became the foster department of the Westby Legion post for 19 years (1923-1942). In 1942 the post asked permission to transfer back to Montana. __Each unit history contains information about the Auxiliary’s activities and elected officers, and most contain photographs. The photographs in the histories have been numbered and described in this document. The histories are housed in chronological order, and an attempt was made to number the photographs in the same manner. Several of the unit histories were originally mislabeled and as a result, the photograph numbers are not exactly in order. The cradle roll information was created and maintained by the Auxiliary to facilitate charity work for veterans and their families. Each card was typed into the spreadsheet below, and the original cards are housed with the collection. “Child Welfare and Cradle Roll: A committee of three forms the child welfare committee. This committee has made a survey of the community to locate the orphans of the disabled veterans. They are very accurate in securing names of all eligible members to the cradle roll and have a card index file system of the entire cradle roll.” (1919-1930 Unit History Book)
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