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Subject: Re: [USA-NATURALIZATIONS] Naturalization papers-Swedish Immigrant
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 16:07:34 EDT


Hi Bente,

Do you have him in the 1920 census? The 1930?

Did he Americanize his name? My father's cousins, originally named Jens and
Aage, became James and August in the USA. Figure out what his "most likely"
name change might have been and search under that as well as under his original
name. Surnames like Andersson or Andersen often became Anderson in the U.S.

Is it possible you lost track of him because he died before 1920? In the days
before antibiotics a cut finger could kill you in a couple of days, no matter
how healthy you were before the injury.

Did you look for him in the SSDI? Look for anyone born on his birth date and
see if he turns up. That's how I found the American names of my father's two
cousins who immigrated in 1924.

Did he fill out a draft registration card for World War I? World War 2?

The Family History Library < www.familysearch.org > has microfilm indexes (by
last name) of naturalizations at many jurisdictions. The actual papers are
also available on microfilm. Just go to your friendly local LDS (Mormon) church
and order the microfilms.

Most of the 20th-century immigrants in my family filed their first papers as
soon as they arrived at their destination, and almost all of them filed at the
nearest U.S. District Court, so in your place I'd check the one in Chicago
first.

Happy hunting.

Betty



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