Hi Judy, it depends on whether they were naturalized before or after 1906. The way you find out is check the 1930 census. After 1906 there is a federal index because after a Sept. date "While naturalization proceedings could have taken place in any U. S. District Court, or in any court of record, all proceedings were required to be recorded by the clerk of the court and a copy sent to a central office". The URL with the URL for that office is here: http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson16.htm Before that it's a problem determining which court naturalized them. IF they were naturalized. You would still start with the censuses to get an idea when/if they were naturalized. There's some few naturalization record indexes here: http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/naturalization.html You can get more from LDS....as I know from an endless search for my great grandfather in Michigan. Depending on teh date women may have had derivative naturalization because the husband was naturalized or a minor daughter was naturalized when her father was. ALl depends on the dates as the laws changed rather quickly. Best of luck, Linda Merle ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Judith Brown" <mombrown1@verizon.net> Reply-To: <mombrown1@verizon.net> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:40:24 -0400 >I contacted the NARA in Philadelphia looking for the naturalization papers >for my family. They found my three uncles but not my mother and >grandparents. I was surprised that my uncles waited 15 years before >becoming citizens. > >Obtaining them is so easy. You email them with the information and you get >a message that they have received your request. A week later an email >arrived with what they found. It will cost $10 to obtain the three records >they found. > >Where do I go next to find my grandparents and mother? > >Judith Brown > >www.pafairtax.org >  >"We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring >for our children the American dream that wealth is denied to no one, that >each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability >will take him.” – Ronald Reagan >  >“The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the >principles on which it was founded." --C. L. De Montesquieu > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.fea.net