HI JOE I saw your reply to Naturalization. I'm looking for John Phillip Thomas who immigrated from Wales to Scranton via Nanticoke c: 1880. Do your records go back this far? Thanks for the help. Shawn >From: GRSNP Prez <genealogy@usnetway.com> >Reply-To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com >To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: : [PA-LAC] Naturalization >Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:43:58 -0400 > >At 05:48 PM 7/21/2001 -0400, PFinnis@aol.com wrote: >>Hi List & Joe Bryer: >>I was wondering if there is an on-line database that I can check for >>naturalization records...my gggrandfather John Burke emigrated to the US >>in >>1850 He would have been @ 30 yrs. old(with wife in tow (?)I think, her >>name >>is Anna JUDGE Burke d. 1877) he lived in Minooka PA till his death in >>1878. >>And I am also looking for my other ggrandfather Michael Joseph WALSH & his >>wife Bridget LOWERY Walsh, not sure when they came over. >>Where would I look for this info? Any help on this would be greatly >>appreciated. >> >>==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== >>Visit the Genealogical Research Society of Northeastern PA >>http://www.cfrobbins.com/grsnp/ >>To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList > >Patti, >GRSNP has 24 John Burke's from Ireland in the Lackawanna County >naturalization database. >Selecting those John Burkes who would file between 1853 and 1877 narrows >the search field >to 8 hits. >I'll look at the films and do my best to select the "right" John Burke. >Hopefully one lived in >Minooka. I'll get back to you with my findings. Wish us luck. > >Only 3 Michael J. Walsh in the naturalization database. >One came through Canada. >I'll check those films this week, also and get back to you. > >I'm sorry the database is not searchable on-line. We are inputting >4,000 >new entries each >week and lack the manpower to keep updating the data to make it mass >searchable. >Maybe some day... >In the mean time we do not mind searching the master computer. >It only takes seconds..many of the early transcribers butchered many of the >surnames. >Hope we have helped. >Enjoy the search. >Joe Bryer > > >==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== >Have you seen the USGenWeb Pennsylvania Page? http://www.usgenweb.org/pa/ >To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp