Linda It depends what time frame you are looking at and where they came from. In the early days those from English colonies did not need to be naturalized, but if they came from other countries and wanted to receive a pension or own land (and I stand to be corrected) needed to be naturalized. The National Archives have a searchable web page for these. Good luck Carmel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda MacDonald" <lindamacdon@yahoo.com> To: <AUS-MELBOURNE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 1:47 AM Subject: [AUS-MELB] Naturalization papers > Hello, > Can anybody tell me if immigrants were naturalised, and if so, where > would the naturalization papers be found. > Thank you and best wishes, > Linda > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates. > > > ==== AUS-MELBOURNE Mailing List ==== > Hey have you updated your AntiVirus program lately ? ? > Is your AVG continuously activated while online ? ? > Does your AVG continue to check each and every email as it is down loaded > ? ? > Does your AV continue to check every Website you inter into ? ? > Better to be safe than sorry . . . let HouseCall check out your system > FREE ! > http://housecall.antivirus.com/. > other sites you might want to check out . . . > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~clifflamere/Aid/AID-VirusProtect.htm > -this one mentioned in Missing Links Vol. 5 No. 44 > http://antivirus.cai.com/ > - this one was mentioned on the Listowner List > http://www.grisoft.com/html/us_index.cfm > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >