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Midwest Computer Genealogists newsletter for March, 2003 Volume 10 Number 3
The Midwest Computer Genealogy group usually meets the 3rd Saturday of
each month with a 9 AM start time. Our March 15th meeting
will be at Foxwood Springs in Raymore. Foxwood Springs is about
a mile east of highway 71 on highway 58. Foxwood's web site is http://www.foxwoodsprings.org
The program for the March meeting will be a general question and
answer discussion so be sure and bring your questions and problems and
will see if there can be a solution found for them.
Other groups that meet:
For information on The Family Origins users group which usually meets
at the Blue Valley Library, 151st and Antioch usually on the first
Saturday of each month from 9 AM to 11 AM but in April the meeting
will be on the second Saturday or April 12th. The new Blue
Valley Library address is 9000 W. 151st St. Please contact Jim
Stout at jimstout@earthlink.com or Rowena Shaffer at
snowtop@juno.com.
for more information. By the way if you have questions about FOG
and its programs you may e-mail them to Jim Stout he likes to know
what we need help on.
To check on the status of FOG use this revised URL: http://chezjacq.com/fog
and to check on MCG use:
The TMG (The Master Genealogist) group Meeting is held the 2nd
Saturday of each month starting at 10:00 AM. ( I goofed last
month and put down the wrong day, thought I coped it from an email and
pasted it in) The meeting is at the Cedar-Roe Library at 5120 Cedar in
Roeland Park KS this is (West of the shopping center). For
questions contact Judy Revare at 913-491-1768 or email to judy@revare.com.
You can also check the these web sites for TMG for upcoming news ; http://chezjacq.com/tmg
and http://jacq.org/tmg.
Combination Secretary and President's Comments for the month.
Well here we are moving into March and with the way that March is laid
out on the calendar it seems that I have to have this done about as
soon as the month started. First off I keep getting those email
messages telling about all this money that is available in these newly
developing nations and how a family member has been killed and his
assests taken by the government but they have this hidden money and
need help to get it out. I took one to the police in
Independence and they looked at but all they said was we can not do
anything about it as no crime has been done. It is not illegal
to to mail out a story such as this. I see there must be some
that fall for as it as the newspaper told of a man somewhere in the
states who had fleeced people out of $200,000 and he than invested
this amount to get the money from the above sort of email deal.
Not only that but he put an additional $500,000 of his own money into
the con. Guess he wasn't too smart with all his experience.
This week I got two in one day and I have always wondered where they
got the email addresses and then I seen sometime that told me how it
was done. The two I got were different addresses for me but I
also noticed that the officers of the MCG group who are listed in our
newsletter and on the website were also listed in the email address so
I am guessing that whoever is sending these messages has a search
engine of some sorts that goes to all web sites and extracts out all
email addresses it finds and then sends out an the message to all it
found. I am in this newsletter with two addresses as such as I
can leave out 'worldnet' and it will go through just fine. What
a way to use our technology to make a buck.
In February we had 28 in attendance for the presentation by Marilyn Finke
on the use of immigration and naturalization records which can be
found in Kansas City at the National Archives and Records
Administration center on Bannister Road. I am going to put in
the handouts from the February meeting for all those who were not in
attendance so they can have it for reference.
Don
Finding Your Ancestor in Immigration and Naturalization Records
Marilyn R. Finke
NARA - Central Plains Region
2312 E. Bannister Road
Kansas City, MO 64131
Contact your editor for Marilyn's phone number or email address if
needed
(See editor's comment below for reason)
Naturalization Timeline
1790 First federal activity. Citizenship required a two-year residency
in the US and one year in the state, to be of good character, and to
be performed in a court of record. Children of citizens were
considered to be citizens.
1795 Additional requirements were added: a 3 year residency to file a
declaration of intention, a 5 year residency requirement (with I -year
in the state of residence) to file final papers, and required
renunciation of titles of nobility and foreign allegiance. Act
provided derivative citizenship for wives and minor children.
1798 Additional requirements stated that a copy of the return was to
be sent to the Secretary of State, and residency was increased to 14
years. Aliens considered to be dangerous were removed to country of
origin. Repealed in 1802.
1804 Widows and children of an alien who died before filing his final
papers were granted citizenship.
1819 Legislation requiring passenger lists be given to collector of
customs.
1824 Residency time between filing a declaration and final papers was
shortened to two years. Alien minors naturalized at 21st birthday if
they had lived in the US for five years.
1855 An alien female who married a US citizen was considered to be a
citizen. Repealed in 1922.
Castle Garden opens in New York City.
1862 Aliens over 21 who were discharged honorable from Army service
did not have to file declarations and could become citizens after one
year residency.
1868 With passage of the 14 1h Amendment, African Americans became
citizens.
1872 Chinese were excluded from becoming citizens. Repealed in 1943.
1888 First act since 1798 providing for expulsion of aliens was
passed.
1891 Bureau of Immigration established. Health qualifications were
added. Polygamists, and those convicted of certain crimes or who
carried certain diseases were excluded from citizenship.
1892 Ellis Island replaced Castle Garden as the "reception
center" in New York City.
1894 Bureau of Immigration established. Aliens serving in the Navy or
Marine Corps could be naturalized under the same provisions of the
1862 law.
1906 Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization was established,
providing uniform rules. Alien registration was required. Residency
requirements were changed to two years to file intent and five years
to file final papers. Derivative citizenship was still practiced.
1907 A female US citizen who married an alien lost her US citizenship
and took on the nationality of her husband. Repealed in 1922 but
citizenship not restored until 1936.
1918 Aliens serving in US forces during World War I could be
naturalized without any residency requirement.
1921 The first Immigration Act to establish quotas of immigrants based
on national origin was enacted.
1922 Women 21 years of age and over were entitled to citizenship.
Derivative citizenship was discontinued. Residency requirement to file
a declaration of intention was waived.
1924 The citizen act of June 2, 1924 provided that "all
non-citizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the United
States be, and they are hereby declared to be, citizens of the United
States." This included Indians living on tribal reservations.
Also, first permanent quota law was passed.
1936 Women who lost citizenship when marrying aliens could regain
citizenship by taking oath of allegiance.
1940 The Alien Registration Act required registration and
fingerprinting at a local post office within 30 days of arrival.
1946 War Brides Act passed to assist foreign-born spouse and/or
children of returning U.S. armed forces to immigrate.
1952 The Immigration and Naturalization Act Amendment abandoned the
country of origin system of setting quotas on ethnic groups and
gathered other laws into one statue.
1953 Ellis Island closes.
1965 National Origins Quota System abolished; replaced by numeric
system.
NOTE: Naturalization is voluntary. According to Census Bureau, of the
foreign born persons listed on the 1890-1930 censuses, 25% had not
become naturalized or filed their first papers. 07/2002
Second handout
IMPORTANT NATURALIZATION PROCESS TERMS
Marilyn R. Finke
1.Declaration of Intent (First Papers): Filed by the immigrant when
they apply for citizenship. May include little or much
information but does include renounced allegainace to the foreign
sovereign of homeland and theat the individual intends to become a
citizen. One copy is placed on file at time and location of
declaration while the second is given to the immigrant who turns it in
when the petition is filed.
2. Petition (second or final papers): Formal application to the
court by individual who met residency requirement (usually 3 - 5
years) and included their declared intention to become a citizen.
Naturalization papers are filed in the court by petition number.
3. Certificate of Naturalization: Issued upon completion of all
requirements for citizenship. Record goes to the new citizen -
kept is the stub. Most contain only name of individual, name of court,
and date of issue.
3. Certificate of Arrival: Provided upon arrival listing ship
name, port, date, etc. Often turned in at the time of petitioning and
found with the petition.
5. Ship Passenger Lists: Another name for the ship manifest.
This list is composed of boarding passengers and made at the port of
departure. Called a list but actually a Manifest of Alien Passengers
(ship manifest). The list was for the US Immigration officer at Port
of Arrival. Passenger lists are arranged by port; thereunder
chronologically by date of arrival.
6. Emigration/Emigrant: One who leaves a location or country and
travels to another.
7. Immigration/Imm !grant: One who arrives and settles at a new
place having left another location or country.
@ MRF 2/2003
(Never knew how much a scanner with OCR could do for you. Scan
papers, then into the OCR and then paste.)
This and that from our members.
The following is from Jack Revare for your information. I have
been a member of the Kentucky Historical Society for several years.
The Society has a monthly publication, "Kentucky Ancestors",
that is excellent. The society has just added a new perk--access
to Heritage Quest online. You can search census images for
certain years. HQ also has access to the "Sanborn
Maps". These maps showed addresses and names of houses that
were eligible for Fire Department coverage. If you would like to
consider joining, go to this website: http://www.kyhistory.org/About_KHS/KHS_Membership.htm
From Don Bjuland; I got a notice in the TMG newsletter that a
new upgrade to TMG 5 was available to download so I tried it and it
took 50 minutes to download the 11 meg file. The upgrade
installs itself without much help. After it got done installing
I must say it changed the way TMG operates. Sort of need to go in and
learn how it works again. Most of the changes were in the report
drop down section. TMG 5 is available on a grow as we develop
basis and is interesting to see what they do with it.
From an email I got. Looking for search engines the message say
to go to www.google.com.
Type the phrase "search engines" (type the quotes too) press
ENTER and voila! (Haven't tried it yet) But here is a
listing of some other seach engines for your information; http://vivisimo.com,
http://dogpile.com/,
http://www.rat.de/kuijsten/navigator
Looking for Ireland information: There are several lists for
Ireland depending on where you are interested in.
The mail lists covering the United Kingdom includes Ireland so if you
go to www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_country-unk.html
you will find each area listed.
Here is a site to go too if you want to take an intelligence test: http://www.dur.ac.uk/t.m.jackson/intelligentietest.htm,
It was a different type of test and they had no prizes.
The Canadian West, http://www.archives.ca/05/0529/052901_e.html.
From the National Archives of Canada, this Web exhibition includes
over 200pictures, maps, and documents on European exploration and
settlement ofestern Canada, from the 1600s to 1930. The Canadian West
also features materials on the effects of European immigration on
indigenous peoples of Canada. There are three major sections:
Anticipation, Contact, and Accommodation. Anticipation contains early
maps, primarily from the eighteenth century, that show European
cartographers' best guesses at the lay of the new land. Indian treaty
medals and photographs of students at Indian industrial schools in
Manitoba and Saskatchewan are some of the illustrations in the Contact
section. In Accommodation, see items documenting the urbanization and
industrialization of Canada, such as a map of Tuxedo Park, a proposed
development of Winnipeg, and road maps from the 1920s. Visitors can
choose to browse the collection by media type, year, or title by
clicking the Index. There are also links to related Websites, a
reading list, and a Thematic Research Guides link, which leads to
databases of genealogical information and patent letters from
ArchiviaNet, the National Archives online research tool. From
email list.
The following is from an email list: I am really happy to
announce that the NYGBS has added Heritage Quest Online to it's
already large resources. If you join NYGBS ($60 per year), you
will get full access to many data bases and now to Heritage Quest
which has all the federal census images from 1790 to 1930 with indexes
to many and within a few months will have indexes to all. Plus,
they have a library including many directories which you can search
and browse. A few months ago I subscribed to Genealogy.com which
merged with HeritageQuest. At Genealogy.com for only the
censuses, it cost me $99 per year. I don't know what
Ancestry.com costs but I would bet that NYGBS is cheaper. Plus,
their images are great and you can increase them to 400% to help on
your eyes. You can save an image and print an image.
Here is a useful site for genealogists. It is www.topozone.com.
You can download a map for any place in the USA. From Jack
Revare.
It seems that Family Orgins has come to the end of its road and a new
product has been developed to replace it and it called RootsMagic,
version 1.0 if you wish to learn more about it please go to the
following URL.
http://www.rootsmagic.com/updates.htm
They have a special at a reduced price until March 15th. From
the FOG group emails
Reminder if you change your email address let me know as the
newsletter will not be delivered and I will probably remove your name
from the address list. Gets to be fun to run down the new
addresses each month. Just send the new address to dbjuland@att.net
and I can then update my address list.
Contact members of the MCG group are as follows:
Don Bjuland (editor) dbjuland@att.net
Group dues are still $12 a year and the year runs from June 30th to
July 1st of the following year. New member dues are prorated at
a dollar a month for balance of club year remaining.
You may send your dues payment to
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