In a message dated Sun, 8 Sep 2002 10:35:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > The Northwest Indiana Genealogical Society some years back photocopied all available naturalization records for Lake and Porter Counties held in those counties and published an index to these records. These copies, while owned by the Society, are kept on file at the Valparaiso Public Library The index and records are available at Lake County Library as well, and the reference desk people are very helpful if you ask for a record. But....not ALL lake co naturalizations are there. Some are held in Hammond at one courthouse, and some are at the Superior Courthouse in Hammond I think. Gary doesnt know where there's are. The two sites in Hammond...now those arent in the index at the library by the genealogy society, theyre on microfiche at the courthouses....and the two courthouses have totally seperate records. Just like birth/death records...how here a few towns kept their own (East Chicago, Hammond and Gary...you have to go to those respective health dept's to get them) but the rest of the county's records are in Crown Point...even if you get a clerk that says theyre not. Kathy -from the most disorganized county in the world