Hi Carol and Everyone: Nope, it's the other way around. They MAY or MAY NOT show up in a ship's passenger list, saved by the immigration department, but they will NOT show up in naturalization records. The sample page from a ship's passenger list, which is on the Archives webpage where you start your search for immigration records, http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/020118_e.html shows people from Britain listed. (well, it shows them, if your eyes are good!) http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/020202/images/aur_0003.jpg Naturalization (note our spelling is different) was the process of becoming a British subject, and they wouldn't need that if they were already British. Many people came across the Atlantic to land in a USA port, then traveled on to Canada. Have you thought about looking for them in records from Canada/US border crossings? On the Library and Archives Canada website, where it tells you about the ships' passenger list records, it says: Those arriving from or via the United States are recorded in border entry lists. Are you certain they came between 1925 and 1935? Library and Archives Canada has other records that are not accessible online. http://www.genealogy.gc.ca/10/1008_e.html This webpage gives you information on how to access earlier and later records, and also has suggestions for determining more closely the year in which your family entered Canada. Claudia Claudia Cole Independent Research Agent 304 - 1960 Lee Avenue Victoria BC V8R 4W8 Canada 250 598-7859 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Carol Chapman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 1:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [CAN-BC] Naturalisation Hi Everyone, can I firstly say a huge thank you to everyone who sent me advice on my CHURCHER family and emigration. Are there any naturalisation records on line? As my family were British it appears that they didn't need full immigration, so may not show up on immigration records (they are certainly not online on 1925-1935 list). So they may show up on naturalisation records? Thanks once again for your help. Carol Chapman wet and windy Sussex ==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== Visit the British Columbia Gen Web page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~canbc/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.6 - Release Date: 2/7/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.6 - Release Date: 2/7/2005