US, Illinois—Naturalization Records, 1856–1991 [Part B] [MQKZ-GYL]
I got an image for application to take oath of allegiance. That is not in the paragraph under what to index and there is not an example. So does this mean it does not get indexed?
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These Oaths are for women who were born in the States, but lost their citizenship because they married an immigrant bewteen 1907 and before September 22, 1922. The act of 1936 (amended 1940) allowed women who had lost their citizenship by marriage to an immigrant to take the OOA again and have their citizenship restored. Between 1907 and 1922, the US had the Expatriation Act, which meant that US citizen women lost their citizenship and became the nationality of the immigrant husband. The Cable Act, effective 9/22/1922, repealed the Expatriation Act.
These are indexed as follows:
Given Name: Mary
Surname: Brin
Sex: female
Birth Day: 2
Birth Month: Nov
Birth Year: 1899
Birthplace: Pensauken, New Jersey
Spouse's Given Name: Eugene
Spouse's Surname: Brin
Record Day: 8
Record Month: Jan
Record Year: 1941
Use Image 1 as a guideline for Image 2. The record date will be the date the Oath was signed.0 -
That's very interesting, thank you!
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The very first popup for this project begins:
- In this naturalization project all documents pertaining to the naturalization process should be indexed.
Thus, despite the lack of a specific example of an Oath of Allegiance in this project's instructions, yes, this type of document should be indexed. I would do the first image as follows:
Record Number: 4266/5006
Given Names: Mary
Surname: Brin
Sex: female (based on the "Mrs." in her signature)
Color or Race: ctrl-B
Birth Day: 2
Birth Month: Nov
Birth Year: 1899
Birthplace: Pensauken, NJ
Spouse's Given Names: Eugene
Spouse's Surname: Brin
Spouse's Birth Year: ctrl-B
Spouse's Birthplace: ctrl-B
Record Day: 8
Record Month: Jan
Record Year: 1941(I am not completely certain that the record day shouldn't be the typewritten 4th from above the oath signatures. Clarification of the instructions to apply to more than just petitions and affidavits would be good.)
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There is no record number. It is a file number, and no direction on what the file number pertains to as we were not there in 1941.
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