I have just added the Albany County naturalization index (declarations of intention) for the Irish born where the specific county of birth is mentioned to the Albany County section of my website for the year 1853: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/Albany/ The indexes now go from November 1842 to December 1853. I have finished the film which goes to the middle of 1854 but have ordered two new films which will go to 1864 and hopefully I will find my McEntees in them. If you would like to learn more about the naturalization/citizenship process, I put an informative page about the subject on the Rensselaer website about ten years ago: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyrenss2/naturalization/ If anyone has found an ancestor from these postings and now knows the county of their birth, we would love to hear about it. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com