This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McNAMARA Classification: Immigration Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zV.2ADI/1831 Message Board Post: Hello, I am hoping to find the Voter Registration of Joseph Michael McNAMARA which might reveal when and where he filed papers. He would have been 21 by April 18, 1876 or 1877, but may not have been naturalized by then. [I have two birth years on various documents ie: 1854 and 1855, Ireland. First I can document this elusive guy is when he married in Berkeley, Alameda County, California, on 1 April, 1883. According to his death certificate [1934], he arrived in the US in 1866 [location unknown]. According to same document he had been in Berkeley since 1874. Informant was his first born son. Information could be guesses. I cannot locate him in Berkeley nor Alameda nor California in the 1880 census. There is a "michael McNamara in Hollister, San Benito County in the 1880 census. Easy to hop a train from there to Oakland. Anyone have any magic solutions to this problem?