While you are technically correct, I stand by my position. These were just what they say they are. A DECLARATION. A document that at that point was not necessarily verified. The naturalization was another matter. But if researchers are not finding the information they seek, they should look at the port of entry for the Declaration papers. I have found some this way. Dee Doyle -----Original Message----- From: Linda C. Ruscitto <ruscitto@buffnet.net> To: dmd <dmd@access-one.com>; NJESSEX-L@rootsweb.com <NJESSEX-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, December 28, 1998 1:57 AM Subject: Re: Naturalizations >At 08:34 PM 12/22/98 -0600, dmd wrote: >>I believe you are incorrect about the two year residential requirement. >>Otherwise, one would not find Declaration of Intent at the port of entry. >>Dee > > >Sorry, Dee, but according to the NARA, aliens were required to have resided >for 2 years before applying for a "declaration of Intent" (first papers). >The only exception to this rule was for honorably discharged veterans >(beginning in 1862). > >I don't know of any other reason for finding a dclaration of Intent at the >port of entry other than that was near where the alien resided at the time >he applied - which would be at least 2 years after immigrating to this >country. > >>> For more complete information visit the National Archives website at >>> <http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/natural.html> >>> >>> hope this helps, >>> Linda >>> E Amherst, NY

I believe someone on one of these 2 lists requested information yesterday on Jacob Hedden. I was too fast with my delete key and lost the message. Please resend, I may have something for you. Arlene Dunkum

I apologize anyone I have been calling has had their area code changed from 201 to 973 and this includes the greater Newark area. I apologize if I have caused any inconvience to anyone. Stacy

Most of Newark is in fact still 201 area code. Yes some 201 numbers have changed, but most of Newark is still 201.

Try this URL for CD lookups. http://www.seidata.com/~lhoffman/cdlist.html Good luck, Janice Danks patricia sachs wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone out there have FTM Vol.18 or Vol.27? I am looking for > a John Farkas Vol. is tree 1081 and Vol.27 is tree 1347. I would > appreciate a look up if possible. I am also looking for CD#354 lookup > for John Farkas. Thank you. > > Pat from Idaho > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > ==== NJESSEX Mailing List ==== > Visit the Essex County Genealogy Web Site at: > <http://www.rootsweb.com/~njessex/>

I'm interested in 'ordering' a copy of a will from the Essex County Superior Court. I have the address from the Essex County home page, but I need to know if there is a cost involved. Also, do I need to request probate papers separately? Or will they be included? The death was in 1921. Thanks! Katherine Pitts, Fayetteville, NY

Hi, Does anyone out there have FTM Vol.18 or Vol.27? I am looking for a John Farkas Vol. is tree 1081 and Vol.27 is tree 1347. I would appreciate a look up if possible. I am also looking for CD#354 lookup for John Farkas. Thank you. Pat from Idaho ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Hi Everyone: I'd like to share something with you that was posted on one of my other lists. Ancestry.com is offering a free month's use of their enormous database without any further obligation. http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/signup/decpromo.htm Researching: Burns, Byrne, Christensen, Dailey, MacNee, Mattern, McEvoy, O'Hara - Newark Burns, Byrne, O'Hara - Belleville Regards, Pat Giovanni Sunnyvale, CA

Hello Essex County Researchers, I just put on-line the following Essex County Information Boards: Obituaries Wills Pensions Bible Records Biographies Deeds These boards ARE NOT for queries, they are for information only. All postings by you, the user, will be informational. Any queries/questions posted on these boards will be deleted WITHOUT notice. These are the GenConnect policies as well as mine. Since these may be new to most of you I would suggest reviewing other sites with them. To do that go to the following link and just pick a state and a listing of counties with these boards will appear: <http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/usaindex.html> Thank you for your cooperation in this endeavor. One other quick note, one of the photos added to the Virtual Newark Site is of the Essex County Isolation Hospital in Newark. Thanks again and good luck, Glenn G. Geisheimer, Iselin, New Jersey: glenng@castle.net NJEssex Mailing List Administrator Essex County, NJ Genealogy: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njessex/ Virtual Newark, NJ: http://www.castle.net/~glenng/newark/newark.htm Essex County Query Forum: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NJ/Essex

>From Glenn's Virtual Newark site: St. Peter's Orphan Asylum and Kindergarten 21 Livingston Ave. 1893 In charge of Sister Mary Severina. Relocated to Denville, NJ Records are kept there. St. Mary's Orphan Asylum South Orange Road 1893 Receives orphans and half-orphans at three years of age and over. Records are kept at Associated Catholic Charities office in Newark.

Hi All and Happy New Year... Just thought this might save someone time. The area code for Newark is now 973 and no longer 201. I noticed a couple posts giving the wrong area code. Just trying to save a redial... Stacy stayc400@aol.com

Hello Essex County Researchers, I hope everyone had a happy holiday. I've added some more photos to the Virtual Newark Web Site. One is an aerial view of part of Woodland Cemetery. I've also added the original map of Newark 1666 showing the residential lots and an altered version showing today's streets. For those of you who have experienced a loss of mail please note that Rootsweb has done some upgrading that may have affected some service. In the future please remember that this list doesn't get mail everyday and if you suspect a problem please email me privately. This avoids non list mail going to the list AND keeps unwanted bounces from my personal mailbox. At any one time I am "carrying" up to 5 list members that are having ISP problems. So every time a message goes to the list I can get 5 bounces in my mailbox. I would also like to know if there is any interest in adding addition "boards" to the Essex County Genealogy Web Site, such as Obituary, Wills, Biography, Deeds, Bible Records, or Pensions? Examples of these types of boards may be found at: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~nccherok/post.html> Thanks, Glenn G. Geisheimer, Iselin, New Jersey: glenng@castle.net NJEssex Mailing List Administrator Essex County, NJ Genealogy: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njessex/ Virtual Newark, NJ: http://www.castle.net/~glenng/newark/newark.htm Essex County Query Forum: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NJ/Essex

Still banging my head against this brick wall! This orphanage was run by nuns. Seton Hall has not been helpful. The names of the 4 children are: ROMANSKI, Irene, Elsie, Anna and Joseph, ages 2 yrs. to 8 yrs. Is the 1925 census available anywhere? Thanx for any help, Barbara.

Pat - The Newark telephone book doesn't list a St. Benedict's Church. However there is a St. Benedict's Pre School at 79 Barbara St. (201-589-5626) & a St. Benedict's Grammar School (201-589-7295) on Komorn St., runs parallel to Barbara St. one block away. There's also a St. Benedict's Preparatory School (201-643-4800) on Martin Luther King Blvd., but that's quite a ways from Barbara St. Bob Healy patricia sachs wrote: > > Hi, > > Would like to know if anyone knows of a St. Benedicts church > (Catholic German)in Newark. It changed from St. Josephs in 1867. I > think that it was located on Barbara Street at that time. Did it change > names again or is it gone? > > Pat from Idaho > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > ==== NJESSEX Mailing List ==== > Know the town name but not county? Search: > <http://www.state.nj.us/infobank/locality.htm>

Hi Pat, The LDS has microfilmed the records from St. Benedict's Church. Also, I believe the Essex County website lists information about this church. It was a German church. The LDS microfilms: #1398623 baptisms 1857-1913 marriages 1864-1894 and confirmations and communions #1398624 marriages 1894-1935 deaths 1866-1919 communions and confirmation 1894-1914 Janice Danks patricia sachs wrote: > Hi, > > Would like to know if anyone knows of a St. Benedicts church > (Catholic German)in Newark. It changed from St. Josephs in 1867. I > think that it was located on Barbara Street at that time. Did it change > names again or is it gone? > > Pat from Idaho > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > ==== NJESSEX Mailing List ==== > Know the town name but not county? Search: > <http://www.state.nj.us/infobank/locality.htm>

Pat from Idaho requested info on St Benedict's Church Try http:www.castle.net/~glenng/newark/church/churches.htm Your church is there - this is a great site. Barbara

Thanks to all who gave me help with St Benedicts in Newark. Pat ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Hi, Would like to know if anyone knows of a St. Benedicts church (Catholic German)in Newark. It changed from St. Josephs in 1867. I think that it was located on Barbara Street at that time. Did it change names again or is it gone? Pat from Idaho ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

For those who have been asking about Orphanges: I have the following (copied from the Census Rolls) orphanges in Newark. Most contain little information - name,age,place of birth. 1915 St. Mary's Orphan Asylum St. Peter's Orphan School Foster Home 1905 Little Sisters of the Poor Hebrew Orphan Asylum 1860 Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum Maureen KNAPP De Bolle St. Augustine, Fl.

On 28 Dec Robin sent the interesting article about the closing of the Newark Isolation Hospital. For further information, I send notes given to me by my uncle, who was b. 1902. His mother's two oldest brothers died in the 1872 smallpox epidemic which swept Newark. "Even as a child I [my uncle]) can remember the Pest Houses to which persons were taken for isolation . . .; and with the limited medical knowledge of those days you were very, very lucky to survive. Newark's Pest Houses were down near Weequahic Park [south end of city] on an isolated piece of dry salt meadow. They were a group of 6 or 8 houses, each for a different 'pest', and were like 4-story wood tenements. This made it economic to burn one down when too 'pesty'." Twin friends of my mother's were sent to the Isolation Hospital, when they developed smallpox in the early 1900s. Fortunately, they survived and grew to adulthood. I am sure the buildings were gone before the 1930s. Muriel S. Parker Bradford, ME ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]