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From: "Linda K. Schwartz" <>
Subject: Re: Naturalization Update
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 15:58:50 -0400


What's the Norcal Genealogy Index mentioned below and where do I find it?
Thanks.

--------------------------------At 07:39 PM 05/15/1997 +0000, you wrote:
>Now that we have most of the NORCAL members back on board, I would like to
>let everyone know that I have replaced a naturalization article on the
>NORCAL Genealogy Index with an updated version.
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>Several weeks ago, I put an article titled NATURALIZATION DOCUMENTS AT THE
>NATIONAL ARCHIVES-PACIFIC REGION (San Bruno) on the Index web page. It was
>a temporary article that was to be replaced by one that I co-wrote with Dan
>Nealand, an employee of the National Archives, San Bruno. Dan did a
>fantastic job and included a lot of pertinent information about documents
>and indexes at other courts in and out of California in addition to those
>from the U. S. Courts in San Francisco. I realize that we should generally
>avoid including in the NORCAL Index any information that does not pertain to
>California, but because early Californians frequently moved to or from
>nearby places like Nevada and their naturalization papers might be found in
>these other locations, I left this information that Dan suppllied in the
>article. This information will also be of help to people who do not realize
>that many records from various courts in Nevada, Hawaii and other locations
>are now located at San Bruno. Another interesting fact is that the
>naturalization records from the Marin County Superior Court, 1852-1957 are
>also located at the Archives. This is extremely unusual as this is a State
>court and those records do not normally end up at a Federal facility like
>the National Archives. These records "should" include ALL naturiaizations
>done in Marin County during the period cited.
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>Also included in a section on "RESEARCH BY MAIL". If you can't get to the
>Archives to look up the records yourself, you may still be able to obtain
>copies by using this information.
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>Good Luck,
>Ken T.
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