Thanks. Do you know what information you need to get someone's naturalization papers? Do you have to know the year or what? Diana ---------- From: Joanne[SMTP:tjk@CSRLINK.NET] Sent: Monday, March 17, 1997 11:37 AM To: GEN-SLAVIC@MAIL.EWORLD.COM Subject: Naturalization records. This is in response to several questions in the past concerning the process of naturalization. It is taken from the March 1997 issue of Nas~e Rodina, the newsletter of The Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International: .....An act of 29 January 1795, replacing the first act of 1790, required that a declaration of intention be filed three years before admission as a citizen, and residence of five years in the United States and one in the state where the naturalization took place..... .....Since 1790 children under the age of twenty-two years have become citizens automatically by naturalization of the parent. Until 1922, a wife became naturalized upon the citizenship conferred her husband, and no separate filings were necessary. After an act of 22 September 1922 a married woman had to be naturalized on her own.....