To Joan B and others interested. Lancaster NE Declarations of Intent are indexed and can be found at - http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/library/ships/link/lancast.txt There is a Jacob Reich, age 34, born 30 Mar. 1884 Norka, Russia; last residence, Norka. He came via Liverpool to Philadelphia 20 Dec. 1911 on Ship Mariana. Date declaration of Intent filed 31 Jan. 1919. The complete record would be at the Nebr. State Historical Society, 1500 R Street 68508. Phone toll free (800) 833-6747. The declaration of intent would contain information on wife and children. Also, since Jacob died in Lincoln, his obituary is likely to be in one of the Lincoln newspapers. I believe they do lookups for a reasonable fee. There are four other Reichs who file declaration of intents. -----Original Message----- From: JoanB <JC_Biggs@email.msn.com> To: NEBRRoots-L@rootsweb.com <NEBRRoots-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, March 08, 1999 7:11 PM Subject: Re: [NEBRRoots-L] Naturalization Records >My grandparents were born in Norka, Russia and when they came to America >they settled in Lincoln, Nebreska. I would love to find their >naturalization records. Does anyone know where I would look for these. I >have been told that all had to wait until they had been here for 5 years >before they could become naturalized, but they lived in Lincoln until after >my grandfather passed away around 1942-1950. My grandmother then moved to >CA and it was there that she applied for and received her SS#. > >I am looking for the records of: >Jacob Reich & Anna Margarete Baker (Becker) Reich. They owned a little >chain of small grocery stores that were located around the University in >Lincoln. I never met my grandfather and did not know that we were of German >from Russia heritage until last year. They never told any of us children, >and since they spoke German with eachother and never taught it to us we >never knew what they were talking about. Now I understand why, but would >really love to find more information about my family. > > > >