New LIVE Databases!
In September we have released 6 new live databases!!
- Georgia Civil War Correspondence 1847-1865
- U.S., Navy Casualties Books, 1776-1941
- Montgomery County, Indiana Index to Birth Records, 1882-1920
- Bartholomew County, Indiana Index to Birth Records, 1883-1920
- USHMM – Records of the World Jewish Congress in Romania
And, we need a drum roll for this one…
- New York, Naturalization Records, 1897-1944 – This project took a little over 3 years to complete with over 700,000 names being keyed by 8577 contributors!
Overall there were 9724 contirbutors who indexed the 950,000 records that are now freely searchable on Ancestry. Thank you for all of the time and effort you contributed to these six projects! You are AMAZING!
You spent 3 years and persuaded 8577 people to key over 700,000 names and then only digitized the first page of the naturalization file?
In most cases, there are additional documents attached, including the Certificate of Arrival and the Declaration of Intention.
Also, when these additional pages were folded over to go to the next Naturalization Petition, they obscured most of the back of the Naturalization Petition. On the back are very important facts — especially whether the petition was actually granted. And, if not, the reason for the declination. Also, the back of the page will show the date of naturalization and any court ordered name change granted at the time of the naturalization order.