You definitely can get copies of such things as naturalization papers by mail from the Regional Archives in NYC. You can e-mail or snail mail your request to them. This is their URL: http://www.nara.gov/regional/newyork.html Janice Danks DMS59Dart@aol.com wrote: > A lot of you asked me some questions. I hope this answers most of them. If > you have more, feel free to ask. Dave. > > The federal archives is located in the Soho district of Manhattan on the > corner of Varick and Houston Streets, on the 12th floor. I have no idea if > anything can be ordered by mail. All the papers I got at the New York > Archives were from the Federal Court in the Newark, NJ District and they were > the originals. >