US, Alabama—Naturalization Records, 1875–1959

FaithHamm

While doing review on the above, I found this and am unsure of which to choose. Either there is nothing filled in for the declaration of intent on the petition for naturalization or it is the same place as the court and in which the event place of the court is used for the event place. According to the instructions you would use the declaration of intent place. Am I correct in using the declaration place. I have saved this in my que and also have included a snip-it. I went to take a look at another one but it will not allow check out more than one batch at time.

I also realize that these are two separate things but on the petition for citizenship, it uses the where the court is instead of where the person has declared there intention as both say the same thing of "I have declared my intention to become a citizen of the United States." What is the differnce between the two?

The batch is "US, Alabama—Naturalization Records, 1875–1959[MQC4-T7J]"

Thank you in advance.

Maile L

I have been told that the Alabama instructions have been fixed. The locality example was incorrect.

erutherford

According to the example, it would be Oklahoma City. But that doesn't make sense, since every other project takes it from the top line. I don't make the rules. 🙅 The Declaration of Intention is the "first papers" in the naturalization process, which was generally filed after s/he lived in the US for two years. The Petition of Naturalization is the "second papers", which was filed ~3 years after the DOI.

Image 1 should be indexed with the information from the Petition. According to the PI:

When combining information from multiple documents on the same image, use the record number from the petition for naturalization. If the image does not show a petition for naturalization, use the record number from the document with the most recent date. This is an exception to the General Indexing Guidelines and should not be applied to other projects.

MinnWisRoots

FaithHamm,

Event Place: Alabama, United States of America

See How to Index a Petition for Naturalization (link below). Unfortunately, FS did not redbox the event place, but it is the same place as your batch.

I'm also reviewing this project and have found several batches where the Declaration of Intention was in a different state court than Alabama. People move.

https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/images?fs-cache=true&key=idx-deepzoom-image&image=55622145-5be7-45ca-877c-ea34ce52a844

From the How to Index a Declaration of Intention, Example 1: Note: The petition for naturalization should be indexed in a separate entry. Do not use information from the petition for naturalization to index the declaration of intention.

If both documents are on the same image, this project does not want them to be combined.

Melissa S Himes

The project instruction Example is in conflict regarding multiple images on the Alabama Project.

@Maile L or another moderator needs to sort this out with Indexing Operations. It is already at 42% indexed and 9% reviewed as of 11 PM EST 7/12. Thanks in advance!

Here are the incongruencies:

The Pop-Up:

• When combining information from multiple non-overlapping documents on the same image for the same individual, use the record number and record date of the Petition for Naturalization.

The Example:

The following Note appears only on How to Index a Declaration of Intention, Example 1. It does not appear on How to Index a DOI, Example 2, nor on the example of How to Index a Petition.

Note: The petition for naturalization should be indexed in a separate entry. Do not use information from the petition for naturalization to index the declaration of intention.

What to Look For In Reviewing Instructions:

• When combining information from multiple non-overlapping documents on the same image, use the record number from the petition for naturalization. If the image does not show a petition for naturalization, use the record number from the document with the most recent date.

We have always combined information on NAT projects when there are two documents about the same person on a single image and used the number from the Petition when available.

I would combine this into one record as @erutherford suggested.

Given name: Solomon or Samuel

Surname: Kauffman or Kaufman

(There is a name variation between the Certificate of Arrival and the Petition).

One could argue about whether a Certificate of Arrival is the same as a Certificate of Admission, or are they similar documents? The instructions haven't been too clear on that issue either, as of late. We have indexed Certificates of Arrival in many NAT projects.

Event Place: Alabama, United States of America

Regarding the Oklahoma reference, the person who has the image with the Declaration uncovered by the overlay of the Certificate of Arrival will capture the Oklahoma part of this gentleman's journey. It is probably reference image -1.

FaithHamm

Thank you @erutherford, @MinnWisRoots. @Melissa S Himes for answering my question.

FaithHamm

Thank you @Maile L.