You should post your query to the Cook County, IL mailing list, but I would imagine those records pre-fire were destroyed. If he were alive in the 1880s-1890s, there are voter's registration lists for Chicago which would say when/where he naturalized. There is more information about those voter lists here: http://www.rootdig.com/voters/chicago.html Michael http://www.rootdig.com On 6/24/05, MandMWilda@aol.com <MandMWilda@aol.com> wrote: > My great great grandfather Ahrand Will, applied for citizenship in Chicago > in approximately 1858. He had come from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany in 1854. > Thank you for any help with this. > > Wilda > > > ==== ILROOTS Mailing List ==== > IMPORTANT - Occasionally "off topic" messages and/or "spam" are posted on the Illinois Message Board which is gatewayed to this list. When this happens, Please just hit your delete key. If you respond "on list" to the offending message and send it back to the list with your reply, you may be placed on "moderation" status for one month. Thank you for your cooperation. > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > > -- Michael John Neill http://www.rootdig.com/