US, Illinois—Naturalization Records, 1912–1933, Oath of Alleg & Pet for Nat are diff people
I keep getting batches where the Oath of Allegiance is for a different person than the Petition for Naturalization on the next image. I did one where I just entered the correct names, but not sure if that is a problem.
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Different people could mean a couple of things:
The Petitioner asked for their name to be changed. PETS from 1900(ish) to about 1930 will be indexed on the Oath under Order of Court Admitting Petitioner. Post 1940(ish) PETs will have that information on the front side of the document and the new name will be part of the Oath.
You are indexing a Witness. Information about Witnesses are not indexed.
You have two entries, the Oath for the immediate predecessor of the PET, and the PET for person #2. Oaths and PETs are indexed separately, even if they are for different people, because the Oath is step 2 of the second step and the Oath is the last part of the Immigration process.
You may have pages that are stuck together. Sometimes, records that are 100+ years old will do that. Heck, I've accidentally put two stamps together and they don't come apart. I did that last Thursday. It's a wonderful idea if you have three stamps left. 😐️ I ordered more the same day.
To make sure what's going on, please share your batch code. The batch code is located at the top of your indexing screen and looks like [MQ2J-6G2]. The batch code can also be found under Batch/About Batch or Help/Share Batch.0 -
In the Famous Relative's naturalization in 1955, the Oath of Allegiance is the final section of the paperwork. Whatever comes after it on the film is naturally for someone else.
Ditto for his ex-wife, in 1948. Image 215 ends with Cornelia's Oath; image 216 is someone else's certificate of arrival.
Indexing batches are just consecutive images, without regard to their content, so you shouldn't be forcing them to be for the same person. They very often aren't.
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