Juliana Smith reported this week that Ancestry.com had just posted an additional 987,415 U.S. Naturalization Records. The current update is made up of digitized original records from California, New York and Pennsylvania.
According to Juliana’s blog, “Ancestry released the images with a light index including name, state, record type, court type, court, court location, naturalization number, roll description and archive series.”
It is planned that the records will be further indexed using the World Archives Project. I think that’s a great idea. Kinda’ like we can have our cake and eat it too.
I searched for anyone with the surname of Canfield, and came up with 15 separate files. They ranged from as little as one page with fairly skimpy personal information to several pages with expensive data, depending whether they were Petition for Naturalizations or Declaration of Intentions – and the time period in which they were produced. Newer documents have a lot more information than those produced in the early years. These files can have all kinds of information about our ancestors, including birthdates, and places.
Search the U.S. Naturalization Records found at Ancestry.com.