While true there was a 5 year limit before the intention papers expired, not everyone followed the rules. I requested the papers from a midwest location (LaPorte, IN) and they found nothing. I knew they were there and asked the clerk to check more carefully. She found them and said she only looked five years back the first time. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "william herman" <waherman61@yahoo.com> To: <croatia@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [CROATIA] Researching Bolanca, Makilja (Primosten),Basetich (location unknown) Hrska, Gervais,Pittle (Severin na Kupi, Gorski Kotar) > Sarah I know in Wisconsin the > Declaration of Intention and the 2nd paper are both > kept. In Wisconsin the papers were filled out at the > county courthouse and they are now at Area Research > Centers around the state. There are about 13 Area > Research Centers in Wisconsin usually at a state > college campus. I have found in some cases only the > first papers on file, people never completed the > process to become a citizen. I have found in some > cases people filled out a declaration of intention > twice because the time limit ran out. I think the > declaration of intention was only good for 5 years. It > would seem like a lot of trouble to go through the > declaration of intentions and throw away the people > that didn't file the 2nd paper. You didn't have to > file the 1st and 2nd paper in the same county so the > county wouldn't know who filled the 2nd paper. > > Bill H. > --- Sarah Mueller <sarmar1@msn.com> wrote: > >> We learned recently that my grandfather filed his >> Declaration of Intention to become a citizen in >> Helena, Montana in 1913, but never completed the >> process to become a citizen. Does anyone have any >> idea if "Intent" papers were retained locally or >> nationally (at the national archive in D.C.) if a >> Petition was never filed? >> >> Sarah >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email >> to CROATIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word >> 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >> the body of the message >> > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Don't get soaked. Take a quick peek at the forecast > with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CROATIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >