It wasn't me who said that, I just replied to Bea, but a good point. Was thinking somewhere down the lines of that myself. My Great Grandfather naturalized in 1912 and the reason he gave to be British, was he wanted to vote. Debbie Bozkurt Outer Hebrides On Jan 28, 2008 8:28 PM, david and lesley <bbqman@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > Hi Debbie, > just curious about something you have alluded to in the following... > > "but on electoral registers it has also been recorded as > > Shaffer and Sheffer. "... > "and like the rest of > > that branch of the family did not get naturalised when arriving," >