Friends at Beara, I look for records for initial papers near where they landed and then look three to five years later for the final papers in the place where they settled (at the nearest big city often). Example, my Muldoons came in through New York and Philadelphia, immediately went to Wheeling, Virginia. Original papers are in Wheeling, even though they lived in Pease Township, Ohio (also called West Wheeling). Final papers were filed in Missouri, where they emigrated to after suffering through the Civil War. It can take some creativity to find the papers, but it's worth looking. How much information is in them depends on the practices of the county. No one has found any listing of the place that they came from in Ireland, but I'm searching the most likely three counties. Theresa > Thanks, Mike. Looks like five years. > > > > James P. Murphy > > Stuart, Fla. > > > > > > From: Mike Saunders [mailto:csaunders65@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2015 2:46 PM > To: James P. Murphy; beara@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [BEARA] Fall River Naturalizations > > > > This link may answer your question. Mike > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization_Act_of_1790 > > > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 1:23 PM, James P. Murphy via <beara@rootsweb.com> > wrote: > > I add my thank you, Ed, for this most helpful post. > > > > Can you tell us how many years, typically, there were between the person's > arrival date and the date of the naturalization papers? This would help > those who have firm or approximate dates of arrival know in which year's > records they should search. The answer will most likely be "it varies" but > you have to start somewhere. My great-grandparents arrived, I think, about > 1875 (Timothy Murphy of Reentrisk). > > > > James P. Murphy > > Stuart, Fla. > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > --------------------------------------------- This message was sent using SnowCrest WebMail. http://www.snowcrest.net