Anyone not born in the United States and not an American citizen would be a foreign national, including those born in England."A foreign national is a person present in a country who does not currently have the right to permanent residency of that country."Although the following links refer to World War II, there may be some relevant and useful information.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_internmenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_American_internmentAaron> From: roland.moira@tiscali.co.uk> To: greatwar@rootsweb.com> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 21:06:16 +0100> Subject: Re: [GREATWAR] Internment of foreign nationals.> > Hi Janice,> > There is a strong chance that your ancestor was interned. Many people with > clearly German names, but with no sympathy for the Nazi cause, were rounded > up and interned for the duration of the war as the authorities felt they > could have been fifth columnists. A good number of them were held in a well > known camp on the Isle of Man.> > Roland Hayward> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Janice Duke" <mshx@optonline.net>> To: <greatwar@rootsweb.com>; <GREATWAR-L@rootsweb.com>> Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 1:02 AM> Subject: Re: [GREATWAR] Internment of foreign nationals.> > > > Hi Barbara/Listers,> >> > As I reread your subject line & query, I have the following thought. If> > your person was born in England, he would not be a foreign national.> >> > Janice> > USA> > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Barbara Short" <b.short@virgin.net>> > To: <GREATWAR-L@rootsweb.com>> > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 6:31 PM> > Subject: [GREATWAR] Internment of foreign nationals.> >> >> >> Can anyone advise on how I can discover whether an ancestor with a German> >> name ( although born in England ) was interned during WW1 ?> >>> >> He was running a long established business, but family legend ( well, my> >> brother-in-law ! ) insists that he was interned.> >>> >> Barbara _________________________________________________________________ Play free games, earn tickets, get cool prizes! Join Live Search Club.  http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid=CLUB_wlmailtextlink