US, Ohio—Naturalization Records, 1911–1956 [Part E] [MQ5P-DHP]
I have an oath of allegience for my first image for a Vasilios Koutolis. My second image is a witness document for the petition of a Charles Mindeck. According to project instructions witness documents are to have relavent information included in the indexing of the first image but to be marked as No, No Extractable Data on their own. Does that apply to a scenario like this where the images clearly relate to two different people's petitions?
I've had this scenario more than once now but the first couple of times the names between images were similar enough that it seemed like they easily could have been an Americanized version of the initial person's name. This instance though seems far from that possibility.
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The Oath is the final step in the naturalization process, so when Vasilios took the Oath, he became a naturalized citizen and his process is over.
We also do not assume anything. If the names are on the same image, you will index the name, and all aliases, separating them by the word Or. If the names are on different images, you will index them separately.1
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Fabulous! Thanks for the help. Getting back into indexing after a while and immediately got hit with an unfamiliar process.
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Charles' statement isn't a witness statement. He served in the Army from 1917-18. The government said, in order to get men for the First World War (the service were woefully understaffed when the US entered the war), that if you, an immigrant, came and fought, then the government would fast-track your application. Instead of taking 5-7 years (on average) from start to finish, immigrant WWI veterans went to the front of the line, so they could become a citizen in as little as one day. Applicants using this way had to provide a document that they served during the war.
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