Hope this helps your friend. A large portion of Bavarian Catholic church records are online and can be research.Check this link out. http://matricula-online.eu/pages/intro.php Click english->research->approve->Germany then choose the city/church. Good luck! --- On Wed, 3/30/11, Ursula <ubatrans@comcast.net> wrote: From: Ursula <ubatrans@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [G-P-L] Hello Baerbel - Need Info on Naturalization To: germany-passenger-lists@rootsweb.com Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 7:26 PM Hello Baerbel, My, oh my, thank you so much for posting the holdings. I shall print them out for future reference. Unfortunately, I neglected to add that I'm searching for naturalizations prior to 1900, in fact the year of naturalization was 1872. However, I'm happy to see the list as it may help someone else. With prior years not being available, this explains why the National Archives in Chicago was unable to assist me. That's too bad as the friend who I'm trying to help will never know the names of his ggrandparents. The only other alternative would be to locate the birth certificate / church book entry of his son, John W. Fuchs, who was born in 1863 in Nuernberg. Of course this chance is slim to none as there probably were several churches in that city and there is also the chance that Nuernberg may not have been the actual place of origin but rather a place in the immediate vicinity. I hope I haven't caused you too much of a headache! :-) Thank you so much for your help in this matter. Ursula ____________________________________________________ There will come a time, when you'll have no more time. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Baerbel Johnson" <JohnsonBx@familysearch.org> To: germany-passenger-lists@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 4:05:41 PM Subject: Re: [G-P-L] Hello Baerbel - Need Info on Naturalization Hi Ursula, I am sort of reading along while banging my head against the proverbial Wiki wall.... I found these records http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=511427&disp=Naturalization+records%2C+1913%2D1928  &columns=*,0,0 Naturalization records, 1913-1928 Authors United States. District Court (Michigan : Eastern District) (Main Author) For all the latest News, please visit our Homepage: http://www.germanyroots.com Please visit and participate in our new forum http://www.germanyroots.com/phpBB3/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message