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From: "Judy Lock" <>
Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] Naturalizations
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:45:27 -0500
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Ellen Chambers" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] Naturalizations


> In all the census, there was no date listed just a check that he was
> naturalized. He & his brothers were brought over to join their parents in
> 1850, long before Ellis Island. We had thought that since he was in the
> Civil War perhaps he automatically became a citzen after the war.
> However, that type of citzenship we were told did not happen until recent
> times. His brothers were naturalized in the 1870s, one in MD & other in
> MA.
>
> Tried both Washington County (we have that book which lists
> naturalizations to 1880 and Cumberland on this past Thursday. We know he
> held public office by 1880 and had a business in Frostburg, by 1880.
>
> Mary Ellen
>
> Marge <> wrote:
> They usually have the naturalization date, if some one was indeed
> naturalized, on the census. Check that out first. This would give you a
> time
> period and make it easier to check. Also run their name thru Ellis Island
> if
> they are in the correct timeperiod.
>
>
>
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