On Tuesday, August 8, 2000, Mel Fletcher <canuck@gol.com> wrote: > I'm under the impression that U.S. Natualization is a voluntary act for > foreign born persons. Yes. > On the 1870 Wausau Census it shows my ancestor George Rhodes, born in > England, as being eligible to vote. Would this mean that a person who is > eligible to vote has to be a Naturalized Citizen? Yes. Although there are always errors in this process, such as the many former, buried citizens of Chicago reputed to have continued to vote :-). I was surprised to find that an ancestor of mine was appointed a petit juror in 1810, two years before he declared his intention to naturalize (though I don't know for that he actually served). > If so, would those records be found in the local court house or the Federal > Court? Could be either, but most likely the former. > And is it posssible to find an index online? Not that I'm aware of, at least not in general for naturalizations this early. S R C A cott obert ranston nderson phssra@physics.emory.edu