Writing to the counties of Mass. proved fruitful for Naturalization records until a couple of years ago, TODAY all county records in Massachusetts are sent to BOSTON and unfortunately you can't work from original records but microfilmed and copied (and sometimes copied incorrectly) records. So unless, your little courthouse and library held onto their records (some did make copies) one is directed to JFK Federal BLDG. ROOM E123, BOSTON,MA 02203. Time is fleeting in terms of research. Now we're dealing with second and third hand information. Ann-Marie >>I am not sure of the legalities but from a practical perspective, my >>grandfather arrived in the US sometime in 1902, (I have never found the >>actual record but I found this date from his second arrival in 1912) anyway, >>he submitted his Declaration of Intent at Batavia, Genesee County, NY in >>April of 1905 after he married my grandmother. >> >Write to the county for all naturalization papers. ---------------------------------- Sam & Ann-Marie Kuczun University of Colorado, Boulder kuczuns@spot.colorado.edu