what is the wife's name? There are a lot of Andrew Sabols on Ancestry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Sabol" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 1:23 PM Subject: [NYWESTCH] Naturalization Question...where to next? > Not sure how I should approach this so I'll post to the board: > > My g-grandfather immigrated sometime around 1885 from Slovakia. His future > wife immigrated around the same time give or take a year maybe two. If the > city directory I saw was them, they were briefly in PA in the late 1880s. > Story goes they went back to the old country (at least the wife and kids) > and returned in 1902. I do have the passenger list where she and the kids > came into NY. After 1902 they were in Yonkers until his death sometime > around 1914. at which point his widow and kids went back to PA where they > were in the late 1880s. As you can see I cannot pin down hardly any > documented details on them yet. > > If I want to search naturalization records from a person who lived in > Yonkers, should I just search for any name that resembles "Andrew Sabol"? > Would it do me any good to search for naturalization papers on his wife? > If so, should I use her maiden name or married name? Is there a specific > index of naturalization petitions I should be looking for since they lived > in Yonkers? > > > I don't even know if he became a naturalized citizen but I recall seeing > once upon a time a list of numerous names similar to Andrew Sabol that > filed a petition. If I have to I'll purchase a copy of every darn one just > to try and find one solid detail of this elusive couple. > > > > Regards, > > > Paul G. Sabol > > > "Pain or damage don’t end the world, or despair or beatings. The world > ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand > it like a man—and give some back." - Al Swearingen > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > Browse or Search the Mailing List Archives of postings sent to this list > over the years. Visit > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/usa/NY/westchester.html#NYWESTCH > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message