During our discussion of immigration and naturalization records at our last Genealogy Networking Group meeting, we also touched on Alien Registration records. Those of us with immigrant ancestors who had not become citizens by 1940 or who entered the United States during the war will want to look into these little known but information rich…
At our Genealogy Networking Group last week we discussed naturalization records: what they are, information they contain, and where to find them. Naturalization records are created when an immigrant ancestor applied to become a United States citizen. Several important facts to know about naturalization records are: Many laws have been passed over the years governing…
At a recent meeting of the Lake County (IL) Genealogical Society, Jeanne Larzalere Bloom gave a fantastic talk about passenger lists. There’s a lot more to them than just finding your ancestor’s name and date of entry into the United States. I can’t reproduce her entire talk, but here are a few tidbits that are…
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