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

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