Petition for Naturalization and Oath of Allegiance

avaggio

I'm working on "US, California—Naturalization Records, 1903–1991." There are two images, (pg. 1 and 2) of one GPO document, with the Petition on the first image (page), and the Oath (for the same individual) on the 2nd. There is no new record number on the 2nd page, so I'm not sure if I'm supposed to reenter the number from the first page. Also, although the petitioner signed the oath, further down on the page there is a printed part of the form that says, "Oath of allegiance waived: List No." and on the line following that there is a date stamp. That is the only date that appears on the 2nd page. Am I supposed to index the second page at all? If so, what do I duplicate from the first page (e.g.: record number, birth date)? I've looked at the instructions and can't figure it out. I've done other indexing a long time back, and wasn't so confused! Thanks!

maryellenstevensbarnes1

@avaggio and @aletabilladeau1 Do not skip the Oath of Allegiance - simply index it as shown in the example given in the Project Instructions at https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/images?fs-cache=true&key=idx-deepzoom-image&image=887c531c-8868-4c0a-95f7-3040d69ee312 Do not add anything from the Petition on the first image altho you may use it to check the spelling of the Given and the Surnames. 😎

erutherford

An OOA is its own separate document and is indexed as such, just like you would index a Petition or Declaration, however only the name and the date are index on an Oath. There is usually only one date on the OOA, and with the Oaths that have "Oath of allegiance waived: List No.", which is something that was a "recent" (for our purposes) addition to the Oath, that's what you'll index. There is an example of an Oath under Project Instructions/What To Index.

I will also say that I highly recommend reading all of the Instructions (minus the GIG) before starting your first batch on new (to you) projects. I've been doing this since 2015 and I still read the PI on new-to-me projects, even if I've done 364815214 batches of the same type of project before, just in case there's a different instruction that's on Project B that wasn't on Project A.

aletabilladeau1

I have the same question- just a signature on the oath- of the person from the petition already indexed. I think I should skip the whole second page?

maryellenstevensbarnes1

@erutherford Are you saying yes to index the List No. because the example does not show an Oath waived and no instruction that I saw talks about the List No. ?

erutherford

That's usually where the record date is found on the California OOAs that are post-1978 (ish). I have never seen a waiver number.

avaggio

Thanks, everyone. While I did read the instructions, I still found them difficult to interpret, so it was helpful to have your input!