Melanie, It depends on what year the naturalization took place. If the person was naturalized after 1906, the papers will contain alot of information - birth, where born, etc. Besides Ancestry check the Italian Gen site. They now have naturalization records - footnote too. I just ordered naturalization papers for someone who was naturalized in 1933 in the Southern District Court. The documents had a wealth of info. You can do it online. Other papers from the 1860s did not have any genealogy information. Ellen Message: 2 Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 09:38:04 -0400 From: "Melanie" <megan@cfl.rr.com> Subject: [IRISH-NYC] Petitions for Naturalization To: <irish-new-york-city@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <085001c81e1e$c36e7f70$020ba8c0@LAPTOPEGAN> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original I was able to find copies of the Petition for Naturalization for several of my NYC ancestors on Ancestry.com. If anyone is familiar with these, I had a couple of questions. Is it possible to order the full document showing naturalization using this information, or must this be researched in person at the NARA office in NYC? Also, would those papers offer any more information than the Petition does? Melanie Orlando ------------------------------ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com