Buecher's Naturalization Index is the Circuit Court Record for St Clair County before 1906 - it was the only record required by law to be kept by the court, so, when the courthouse was replaced, the actual naturalization papers were pitched (many evidently had been damaged). Buecher's publication shows name, court term naturalized, and the number. Filby took Buecher's publication and added it to his (Filby's) Passenger and Immigration Lists series. IRAD in Carbondale now has the original Court Record book from which Buecher transcribed the naturalization information. More about St Clair's naturalizations and the other courts in the county that performed these services is on the SCCGS web site here http://www.compu-type.net/rengen/stclair/natl.htm You will **not** find the ship name or arrival date mentioned in declaration or natualization records **in St. Clair** if a person was naturalized * before* 1906. Diane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sonny Eardley" <geardley@mail.win.org> To: <ILSTCLAI-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 11:15 AM Subject: [ILSTCLAI] Passenger and Immigration Index >I understand that there is a list that was compiled by Robert Buecher for >the Naturalization records that were lost at the new court house in >Belleville . On Genealogy they list my great grandfather Jacob Pees >naturalization as 1860 on Page 29 . If the records were lost what is this >listing ? I am looking for the Passenger listing for him and his family . I >know they got the permit to leave Baumholder Germany in 1848 and I have >found them living in Port Washington Ohio on the 1850 census . I don't know >exactly when he came to Belleville or why buy I found him listed on the >1860 census living with the Thoma family . > Any help would be appreciated. > > Sonny > >