At 08:26 AM 2/24/98 EST, you wrote: >In a message dated 98-02-24 03:56:09 EST, you write: > ><< Barb, > I don't know anything about Westmoreland County, but Armstrong County will > provide copies of naturalization papers which will tell you where ancestors > were born. The papers also provide the date of arrival in the US. This > makes it very easy to find them in the Philadelphia Passenger List Index. > You might ask the appropriate people in Westmoreland if you can get copies > of their naturalization papers. > Copies of mine are on the Armstrong County GenWeb Family Folder page. > Ken T. > >> > >Ken: > >Thanks for the info. He stayed in the Phillie area for 2 or 3 years first in >Northampton Co. Would his records be there or over here or both? I >appreciate your help. > >Barb === Barb, That is not an easy question to answer. Some papers could be in one place and the balance in another place. Or they could all be in one county. You should probably write to any county they lived, but start with the one where they lived the longest. If you find their Petition first, that might tell you where to find the Declaration of Intention. Ken T. k.tessendorff@worldnet.att.net Researching HALL & COOK in Armstrong, PA & Modoc, CA CUMMINS & MURDOCK in Calaveras, Colusa & Modoc, CA