--part1_b541153e.2524cd0a_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Although this is not info specific to our area, I thought it was a piece of good general information that might help someone in their search. Sansu --part1_b541153e.2524cd0a_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <GEN-NEWBIE-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-za02.mx.aol.com (rly-za02.mail.aol.com [172.31.36.98]) by air-za03.mail.aol.com (vx) with ESMTP; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 05:31:34 2000 Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.27]) by rly-za02.mx.aol.com (v61.9) with ESMTP; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 05:31:23 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA08536; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 02:21:12 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 02:21:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Akramar53@aol.com Message-ID: <701a9d76.2524855e@aol.com> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 05:20:30 EDT Subject: Alien Registration and Declaration of Holdings Old-To: GEN-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 26 Resent-Message-ID: <b8eiOC.A.-EC.Huy83@bl-11.rootsweb.com> To: GEN-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: GEN-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <GEN-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/89702 X-Loop: GEN-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: GEN-NEWBIE-L-request@rootsweb.com Good Morning, listees In my search for immigrant ancestors, I have come across an interesting document on many of them. I have not seen these mentioned for other states, but in Minnesota, any immigrants who were not naturalized by Feb., 1918, had to complete an Alien Registration and Declaration of Holdings form. This form is interesting in that it had 35 questions to be completed by the registrant, including the basic name, address, birthdate/place. It was also recorded of the place and ship of arrival, occupation and whether or not the person wrote or spoke English. One question required names and ages of any living children, whether there were any relatives with any foreign army warring with the US and its' allies, whether the individual filed for the WWI draft, whether the first papers were filed or not and if not, why. The individual also was requested to list any property owned by them outside of the state, and then list anything of monetary value they presently owned. I have found this form to be helpful in gaining some insight into some of my ancestors. Does anyone know whether these were filed in other states? The forms were processed under the Commission of Public Safety and were to be forwarded to the State Auditor, at least in Minnesota. I found mine at the MN Historical Society, indexed by county. Just curious, as this would be a nice tidbit to pass onto others searching immigrant ancestors. Anna in MN ==== GEN-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== Remember the newbie list has a web page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie Click on Guidelines for some free beginning genealogy lessons, graciously furnished by Jean Legried. --part1_b541153e.2524cd0a_boundary--