Search for your ancestors in free Naturalization Records in U.S.A. and Canada. Find Declarations of Intent, First Papers, Alien Registrations, Passport Applications, Naturalization Petitions and Citizenship Certificates. Search substitute naturalization records - ships passenger lists, census records, oaths of allegiance, voters registration lists and more!
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A search of local newspapers where your immigrant ancestor settled can provide much information, such as obituaries, ship arrivals, immigrants being treated for illness, lists of indentured servants or apprentices (did your ancestor arrive as one?), queries on missing friends or relatives from family in the originating country, marriage announcements, notices of estate and will probates.
Newspapers hold a great deal of immigrant information. You should search newspapers for the immigrant's port of arrival on a ship, and for areas where your ancestor settled, as well as ethnic newspapers
Following are some items you might expect to find in newspapers
Ship Arrivals
Lists of passengers
Immigrants who were ill and hospitalized
Immigrants arriving as indentured servants
Queries from relatives or friends for missing persons
Marriage Announcements
Birth Announcements
Death Notices, Obituaries (Often the native town or country of an immigrant is noted in an obituary. Friends, family, year of immigration are also frequently mentioned)
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Schaefer, Christine. Guide to Naturalization Records of the United States (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1997)
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