Peggy, Have you tried the Naturalization indexes on the Italian Genealogical Group's web site to find James Bradley's petition number? I tried the Eastern District and found 6 people with that name. Maybe you can tell the right one by the date? Here is the web site in case you don't have it: http://www.italiangen.org/default.htm Vivian in South Carolina On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:29 PM, gc-gateway@rootsweb.com < gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: peggypeggy40 > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.kings/15596.1.1.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > I think my grandfather told the census taker anything at the time. Because > on 1920 census he has different dates and again different on 1930 census.. > So it's making it very hard to find their arrival to New York. I tried to > find his naturalization and was told by mail that the dates were wrong. and > I got the dates off the 1930 census.. So I think they made up a lot of the > dates.. > Thank you for your help > I'll keep looking I know they are out there somewhere.. > > I >