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Alien Registration Cards (Forms AR-3, I-151, or I-551), were first issued
in August 1940. All non-citizens had to register and be fingerprinted, and
there were penalties (up to $1,000 fine and 6 months in jail) for failure
to register.

A woman would not have needed (nor been allowed) to naturalize alone before her
husbands death. If he had naturalized, she would have been automatically
naturalized Read this article on Women & Naturalization.
http://www.nara.gov/publications/prologue/natural1.html

Read also:- The INS History, Genealogy and Education site
http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/aboutins/history/index.htm

If you like to visit or need some info about a town or something else, try
always to put in following address.

http://www.??????.be , where the questions marks stand for
the name of the town or city.

Just like:
http://www.antwerpen.be
http://www.oudenaarde.be
http://www.ieper.be
http://www.oostende.be
http://www.hasselt.be
http://www.charleroi.be
http://www.liege.be
http://www.leuven.be
http://www.leuven.be
http://www.gent.be
http://www.kortrijk.be
http://www.hasselt.be

You can always try to put a town or city in the place of those
questionmarks.
Sometimes you will have a bad address.

The Baggage Lists were kept by the officials at the port of
Philadelphia. These lists originated from an Act of Congress that had no
bearing on immigration other than an attempt to exempt the passengers
from paying duty on their personal belongings. They appear to have been
collected from cargo vessels as the names are written at the bottom of
the cargo manifest, just above the statement, "the names of all
passengers, distinguishing whether cabin or steerage passengers, with
the description and number of packages containing their baggage, tools,
or implements of a mechanical trade." Passengers names are not arranged
in any order. Approximately 40,000 passengers were recorded on 4,767
ships lists for the twenty years, 1800-1819.
The original baggage lists for 1800-1819 are housed in the Temple
University-Balch Institute Center for Immigration Research in
Philadelphia. National Archives and Records Administration microfilm
publication included the 1800-1819 lists. The lists have been
transcribed in their entirety and published as Passenger Arrivals at the
Port of Philadelphia 1800-1891, ed. Michael Tepper, transcr. Elizabeth
P. Bentley (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1986).

Norway
CANADA

According to my Funk & Wagnall:

"emigrate: To go from one country, or section of a
country, to settle
in another. A person *emigrates from* the land he leaves,
and *immigrates to* the land where he takes up his abode."
Also, according to my granddaughter's Macmillan Dictionary
for Children: "emigrate: To leave one's own country to
live in another. Her family plans to emigrate from the
United States to England." "emigrant: A person who leaves
his own country to live in another.
Peggy's parents were emigrants from Ireland." "immigrate:
To go to live in a country in which one was not born.
My grandparents immigrated to the United States from Poland."
"immigrant: A person who comes to live in a country in which
he or she was not born. My grandfather was an immigrant to the
United States from Italy."

The Peter Robinson Settlement of 1823 - 1825
http://www.kawartha.net/~jleonard/robinson.htm
http://home.eznet.net/~kinsella/genealogy/research/robinson.htm

Locating Parents
Subject: Using the Deed Records

Prior to the 19th century, when a daughter got married,
oftentimes she had a dowry. It was traditional for the
father to either cover a loan or accept a Note from his
son-in-law, who was assuming legal control of the dowry.
Remember that women did not have rights after they married
everything which they owned became the property and
responsibility of their husband. For example,
if a father gave some land to his daughter, when
she married, it went to her husband, and was frequently
merged with other farms, plantations, etc. which he owned.

If you know the husband's name, but not the father's name,
find out to whom he was making a mortgage payment. That
should tell you the wife's maiden name (her father).

Another thing to do is to notice that most deeds contain the
signatures of anywhere from two to four witnesses (in the
left-hand corner).

The first witness is always from the husband's side.
The second witness is almost always from the wife's side.
That is to protect her one-third dower right under the law.
Thus, clues to maiden names are sometimes found in witnesses
to old deeds.

Abbreviations of ships referred to in many search sites.

SS = Steamship
Yt. = Yacht
Sw.= Snow
Stm. = Steamer
St. = Schoot
Sr. = Schooner
Sp. = Sloop
Sk. = Smack
S. = Ship
Pol. = Polacre
Lr. = Lugger
K. = Ketch
H. = Hoy
G. = Galliott
Dr. = Dogger
Cr. = Cutter
Bn. = Brigantine
Bg. = (Hermaphrodite)
Bk. = Bark or Barque

A statement by the Captain of the JANE DUFFIES,
in his defence for being charged for carrying too
many passengers, in violation of the "Passenger Act."
His statement contains the names of some of
the children on board as part of his explanation.
Children were calculated thus:-
Children between 9&13 eg.
18 children = 9 statute adults
Children between 1&8 eg.
27 children = 9 statute adults
Infants, less than 1 year were carried free
Adults, anyone 14 years and older

I beg leave to submit for your consideration,
the following statement in extenuation of any
blame that may be charged to me or the Owners
of the Ship "Jane Duffies" for breach of the
Passenger Act, and to request that you will
be pleased after being satisfied as to the
correctness of the allegations mentioned in
my statement to recommend that the penalty
this day paid may be remitted.

By the passenger list of the said Ship it
will be found that the aggregate number of
superficial feet in the several compartments
set apart for Steerage and intermediate
passengers are 1861 feet and that the total
number of statute adults the Ship can legally
carry is _186_. That the number of souls on
board of the said vessel by the same list is
_251_ twelve of whom children under twelve months.
Total number of adults _186_.
The difference therefore between the list and
the estimated number is to be attributed to some
of the ages of the passengers being stated at
a lower rate, than mentioned by the same
passengers on their arrival at Quebec when
examined by the officer of Customs and upon
reference to the list you will find ...

That .. Ellen HEDDEN was entered as aged 6
months when upon examination she appears to
be aged 22 months
Margaret LAMB entered as 10 months and appears
2 years
Elizabeth WRIGHT, 13 years appears to be 15 years
Elizabeth McKEE, 10 months appears 17 months
Isabella GILLESPIE, 13 years appears 14 years
Sarah McCONN, 13 years appears 14 years
(Christina) [??]
Peter WILSON, 8 months appears 23 months
Jane McPHERSON, 8 years appears 9 years
John CALDWELL, 13 years -14 years
Joseph CALDWELL, 11 months-20 months

The foregoing facts are submitted with a
view of showing that the increase on board
of the Ship is not in the number of individuals,
but in the age being given by their parents or
by others in a manner to deceive and not by
any fault or fraud on the part of the
Owners or the Master of the vessel.

To Henry Jessopph Esq.
Your Obedient Servant
Coll. H.M. Customs
Hugh Mc Donell Quebec

NATURALIZED
If your ancestor became naturalized,
these documents many times would have
the date, port, and ship of arrival.
There are THREE documents to obtain for
Naturalization.
(1) Declaration of Intent filed first and
called First Papers. Here renouncement to
a foreign government and intent to become
a United States citizen were pledged.
This was usually two years before application
to become a citizen was done. Even if the
alien never became a citizen, the Intent
Papers should be on file.
(2) Petition for Naturalization
was the second step filed with the court.
The alien would have to had met residency
requirements of five years in the United States,
one year in the state, and declared intention
to become citizens.
(3) Final Papers or Certificate granting
citizenship. Be sure to get all three.
The first two contain the most information,
such as, full name, date of birth, place of
origin, date of arrival, ship arrived on,
who their sponsor was, where they were
living at the time of petition.
To write for citizenship/naturalization papers,
from September 26, 1906:
Immigration & Naturalization Service
FOIA/PA Officer, Chester Arthur Building
425 I Street N.W.
ULLICO Building
2nd Floor
Washington D.C. 20536
Phone:202-514-3278 Fax: 202-514-3902
Ask for Form G-639 or in a letter
"RE: Freedom of Information Act",
give Name, Date of birth, and place of birth,
date of Naturalization if you know it.
Note that the Naturalization Act of
June 29, 1906 required issuance of a
"Certificate of Arrival" for aliens filing a
Declaration of Intention. Be sure to request
this document...it will give you the name,
date, and port of arrival.
For citizenship documents before
September 26, 1906 you should write to the
INS Regional Archives, if done in a federal
court; OR write to the state court,
OR county clerk's office.
The federal census can also help you with
year of arrival, especially the 1900 and 1920.
The 1900 Federal Census was done on 1 June.
It provides the names of each person in the
household & their relationship, race, sex,
month & year of birth, age at last birthday,
marital status, years married, number of
children born & living, if foreign born,
place of birth of each person and parents,
year of immigration & number of years in US,
citizenship status, occupation, read/write,
language, home rented/owned, address, home/farm.

To Write for Passenger Arrival Document
General Reference Branch
National Archives and Records Admin.
7th and Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20408
Form 81 - for Ship Passenger Arrival Records
Cost $10.00 or go to your local LDS FHC
library and look up the document on microfilm
for about $3.25 a film.
You must know the arrival date, port, and ship
though Many arrival ports have an index you can
search for your surname....example
Passenger Arrival Indexes for arrivals to
New York City are available on microfilm in the
LDS FHC library for the following years....
Index 1820-1846 is Alphabetical on National
Archives microfiche #M261 for 103 rolls of film.
Microfilms for the Passenger Lists 1820-1897 on
NA#M237
Index June 16, 1897-June 30, 1902 is Alphabetical
on National Archives microfiche #T519 for 115
rolls of film.
Microfilms for the Passenger Lists 1897-1924 on
NA#T715-3515
Index-Soundex for July 1, 1902 - December 31, 1943
on N/A microfiche T621 for 755 rolls of film.
Microfilms for the Passenger Lists 1924-1932 on
NA#T715: 3517-5118
Index Soundex for 1944-1948 on N/A M1417 for 94
rolls of film.
Microfilms for the Passenger Lists 1932-1957 on
NA#T715 5219-8892 As you can see, there is no
index for the years 1847-1896.
Detroit Passenger Arrivals; the following years
are on microfilm.. 1906-1954*, 1946-1957
Indexes for *years.
Boston Passenger Arrivals; the following years
are on microfilm.. 1820-1891*, 1899-1940*,
1891-1943* Indexes for *years.

Irish & Liverpool Arrivals see web site
http://members.tripod.com/~rosters/index.html"

You can find a full list of the films, with
their dates and the volume and page numbers at
this URL
http://www.archives.ca/www/svcs/english/ships-e.html

The passenger manifests are on Microfilm at
the National Archives of Canada, in Ottawa (NAC).
The Ships are placed on the reel, in order of
arrival. You can borrow theses reels on an
Inter Library Loan (ILL). You can find the
details for this procedure at this URL
http://www.archives.ca/www/Genealogy.html

SURNAME SEARCH
http://istg.rootsweb.com

There are details of the Hamburg America Line
ship ITALIA(2) at -
http://www.fortunecity.com/littleitaly/amalfi/13/ships.htm

For photographs, try these -
Steamship Historical Society of America,
Langsdale Library, University of Baltimore,
1420 Maryland Avenue, Baltimore MD, 21201.

http://www.sshsa.org/
http://home.att.net/~paul.petersen/ships.htm

Railroad;
Perhaps no decade of rail growth in the
United States was more important than the
years following 1850. What had been a
scattering of short lines from Maine to
Georgia then grew into a rail network serving
all the states east of the Mississippi River.
By 1860 the total mileage was more than
48,000 km (30,000 mi), with much of the new
construction in the West, especially in Ohio,
Indiana, and Illinois. Many of the new lines
in these states were extensions of such eastern
lines as the New York Central, the Pennsylvania,
the Erie,
and the Baltimore & Ohio.
Ref; Grolliers Encyclopedia.
so....figure by 1860ish the shipping
lines would have begun offering ship-rail ticket
passages to the u.s.midwest....

GREAT BRITAIN SEARCH
The General Register Office's Marine
Registers record births and deaths at
sea on ships registered in Great Britain
or Ireland from 1 July 1837. These are
available through LDS libraries everywhere.
The IGI covers events 'at
sea.' Less well known however are the records
held at the Public Record Office in Kew, England.
If the name you are seeking does not appear
in the Marine Registers
of the GRO, then you should consider a search
in the records held at Kew.
Briefly, the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854
required masters of UK registered ships to deposit
logs of their voyages with the
Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen.
Details of births, marriages and deaths of
passengers were extracted, entered into
registers, and the
details forwarded periodically to the GROs of
England (and Wales), Scotland and Ireland.
(Note however that marriages were not recorded
by the GRO who hold no marriage records in
the Marine Registers.)They are held in the
following series of records:
1. BT158 Births, Deaths and Marriages of
Passengers At Sea 1854 - 1890 These have been
filmed and may consequently be available
through your LDS library. Note that marriages
were recorded only up to 1883 and births only
up to 1887.
2. BT159 Registers of Deaths of British
Nationals at Sea 1875-1888
2a BT160 Registers of Births of British
Nationals at Sea 1875-1891
These have also been filmed and may be
available through your LDS library.
These registers also include deaths of seamen.
3. BT334 Registers and Indexes of Births,
Deaths and Marriages of Passengers and Seamen
at Sea, 1891-1972
In an ideal situation, all these entries
should appear in the GRO Marine Registers
but in practice there are many omissions as
records were not always forwarded. The GRO
Marine Registers themselves began much earlier
than the BT records mentioned above but again
there are many omissions in the early years.
As stated, marriage records are not recorded
in the Marine Registers. It will be seen
therefore that in order to search for a record of
an event at sea, it may be necessary to search
all of the above sources. Recognise also that
until the Registration Act of 1874, Masters were
not required by law to notify the RGSS of births
and deaths on board and although the events
should have been entered into the log this was not
always done.
Finally there is also a class of miscellaneous
returns at the PRO:
4. RG32 General Register Office: Miscellaneous
Returns of Briths, Marriages and Deaths.
These record births, baptisms, marriages, deaths
and burials of British subjects, nationals of
the Colonies, Commonwealth and countries under
British jurisdiction, on British and foreign ships.
These records are available on film, are indexed
in RG43 also filmed, and may therefore be
available through the LDS library system.
This is just an overview of the most likely
sources for locating information of events at sea.
You may wish to view the information and on-line
leaflets at the PRO's website http://www.pro.gov.uk
If after extensive searching in all the above
sources you are still unable to confirm the birth,
marriage or death of your ancestor as expected,
you may have to consider whether this story was
just a romantic notion... always
check the normal GRO registers of birth, marriage
or death if you are unsuccessful in the marine
registers - you could be surprised.

I just heard a terrific presentation on immigration
through Ellis Island.If someone was twelve years or
older, he or she was considered old enough to
be sent back to the old country alone--even if he or
she came with parents or guardians--if he or she
wasn't considered fit to remain in the U.S. It's
unthinkable to most of us today but that was the policy.
On the other hand, at that age he or she might be
allowed to remain here while his or her
parents and family were not; and if he or she wished
to return to the old country with his or her rejected
family members, it wasn't a sure thing to
be allowed to do so since most of the immigrants used
all or almost all of their money getting here in the
first place. The shipping company was
expected to send them home (to pay for it if the
immigrants could not) and
they weren't usually interested in allowing nonpaying
passengers to accompany those they had to take back.

SOME FUNNIES
Can a first cousin, once removed, return?
Cemetery: (n) A marble orchard not to be taken for granite.
Crazy.... is a relative term in MY family.
Genealogy: Chasing your own tale!
Genealogy: It's all relative in the end anyway.
Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people.
I trace my family history so I will know who to blame.
It's hard to be humble with ancestors like mine!
Life takes it's toll. Have exact change ready!
Searching for lost relatives? Win the Lottery!
That's strange; half my ancestors are WOMEN!
Do I even WANT ancestors?
Some I found I wish I could lose.
Every family tree has some sap in it.
FLOOR: (n) The place for storing your priceless genealogy records.
Friends come and go, but relatives tend to accumulate.
Genealogists never die, they just lose their roots.
Genealogy: A hay stack full of needles. It's the threads I need.
Genealogy: Collecting dead relatives and sometimes a live cousin!
Genealogy: Where you confuse the dead and irritate the living.
Heredity: Everyone believes in it until their children act like fools!
I looked at my family tree...there were two dogs using it.
I think my family tree is a few branches short of full bloom.
Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.
My ancestors are hiding in a witness protection program.
My family tree is a few branches short!
Research:

http://www.ellisisland.org/hotlinks.html
http://www.i-channel.com/features/ellis/
http://www.ellisisland.org/contact.html
http://www.mcny.org/al-12.htm
http://www.cityinsights.com/nyellisi.htm
http://www.worldmonuments.org/ellisis.html
http://www.neco.org/
http://www.ecoscope.com/ny31.htm
http://www.ny.com/museums/ellis.island.museum.html

A lot of estate labourers were employed under a system resembling
"debentured" service. They owned nothing and had rights to nothing, so if
the living conditions were bad enough, or if there was other motivation,
many of them simply ran off, or tried to, defaulting on the terms of their
employment, ie. the amount of labour-years owed the estate owner or to avoid
paying the appropriate fee to gain their release from service. Since that
was a crime some changed their name to escape detection. Living
conditions for these people generally got worse as population levels
increased. There were several major outbreaks of plague in Poland and East
Prussia which depopulated areas at various times, even in the 18th century,
which created a demand for
peasant farmers and artisans etc. to replace those who had died. That
situation brought better living conditions generally as labour was in high
demand. As the settlers families grew however land would become scarce again
and the surplus labourers would again have it rough.... essentially selling
their labour for whatever they could get, or emigrating if they were able.
As the German industrial revolution got into full swing towards the end of
the 19th century there was a lot of economic migration off the land into
western Germany (Westphalia).
Of course if a man was bound and bent to be a farmer there was no more
opportunity there than anywhere else in densely populated Europe, so the
Americas or the Russian colonies appealed to those people.

Other groups of people that changed their names were Polish serfs escaping
north into
Prussia to become freemen and political refugees of all sorts seeking
anonymity anywhere.

I thought this might be of some interest to people. It is from the 1893
Canadian Immigration report:

Prepaid Passages

No influence has been more powerful in procuring a satisfactory class of
settlers for the western States of the American Union than the prepaid
passage system. It was the outgrowth of a desire on the part of successful
settlers to help their less fortunate relatives to emigrate with their
families, and local organizations were formed which enabled the settler to
render this sort of assistance to his friends in advance even of his having
saved enough money of his own for the purpose. The railway companies and
steamboat agents and the local bankers usually combined for procuring the
prepaid tickets, taking in many instances chattel mortgages or other forms
of security for the payment of the money. If the interest charges upon
loans of this description were not exorbitant, as I am afraid they
sometimes were, it would be highly desirable in the public interest that
similar organizations for similar purposes should be encouraged in Manitoba
and the North-west Territories. The report of Mr. Down, our Bristol agent,
would indicate that the prepaid system has been applied to some extent
already, and the spread of it would be of great benefit, not only to the
emigrating classes themselves but to this country as well. Doubtless, as
settlement increases and farmers succeed, this method of assisting to
settle up the various districts and at the same time to bring their old
friends once more within their own circle will be more generally resorted
to by the people.

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