Dear List, Thanks to the help from this list, I received the petition for my John HEGEDISH yesterday in the mail! This gives his birthdate, the town has a ~~~ through it, but it states HUNGARY! It states the day he arrived and the day he "declared his intention to become a citizen." There is a handwritten notation, "Alien under 18 years of age No. 3324" and then it is signed on the same date, which is the same date of his declaration. Would that be because he was under 18 at arrival? It shows his occupation as a tin plater???? Back to one of my earlier questions: Slovak vs. Magyar. Is it possible that his wife was Slovak and that is why he said that he was? (family stories are such that she was quite the lead foot in the family~not very kind, to put it mildly) This document does not show the town, therefore I hope to rely on baptismal records of the children to figure it out. Besides the baptismal records, does anyone have any good ideas? Angela Grand Rapids,MI
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:58:23 EDT, JANDA143@aol.com wrote: >This gives his birthdate, the town has a ~~~ through it, but it states >HUNGARY! It states the day he arrived and the day he "declared his intention to >become a citizen." There is a handwritten notation, "Alien under 18 years of >age No. 3324" and then it is signed on the same date, which is the same date >of his declaration. Would that be because he was under 18 at arrival? I received this answer from a question I posed on alt.genealogy a while back... "From 1824 to 1906, minor aliens who had arrived in the United States as a minor at least 3 years before their 18th birthday could petition for naturalization at the age of 21." Maybe this has something to do with the comments on the petition. >Back to one of my earlier questions: Slovak vs. Magyar. Is it possible that >his wife was Slovak and that is why he said that he was? Prior to WWI, there was only the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary. So many Slovaks would identify themselves as being from Hungary (Magyar). -- Dennis M. Kowallek kowallek@iglou.com ******************