Here is an excerpt from the Ancestry daily email. I tried NAIL and searched the Landing Reports of Aliens. It is wonderful...if only I could find some of my ancestors! The scanned images are slow loading because they are BIG, but they are worth the wait. Annette netandmike@nni.com NEW DATA ADDED TO NAIL (NARA ARCHIVAL INFORMATION LOCATOR) <<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>> ======================================================= The new additions to NAIL for the month of January, 1999 have been posted and are now available for searching at the National Archives and Records Administration's website. New documents include: ~ United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Landing Reports of Aliens, 1798-1828 "3 multi-page volumes have been digitized from this series. The digitized documents relate to Section 2 of an Act passed on April 14, 1802, which required all persons who were aliens and desired naturalization to report to the Clerk of the Court. They were to provide the Clerk with certain information and were then given a certificate of this registration. Information requested was: name of alien, race, place of birth, age, nationality, occupation, date and place of arrival in the United States, and the reason for entering the United States. . . To retrieve the 3 multi-page documents, select the 'NAIL Digital Copies Search Form' and enter 'Landing Reports of Aliens" in the first Keywords box. ~ Naturalization Petition and Record Books, 1943-1978 "327 documents from this series have been digitized. The digitized documents relate to naturalization records created by the United States District Court, Sixth Division of Minnesota (Fergus Falls). Among the digitized items are declarations of intention, petitions for naturalization, certificates of loyalty, and certificates of arrival. Information about a petitioner includes his/her name, residence, nationality, date and place of birth, date of admission into the U.S. for permanent residence, marital status, and number of children." ~ Selected Naturalization Petitions, Declarations, and Oaths, 1798-1861 "14 multi-page documents from this series created by the United States District Court, Southern District of Georgia, Savannah Division, have been digitized. Naturalization records document an individual's intention and petition to the United States requesting citizenship. The three phase naturalization process is then completed by the oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. Additional information such as applicant's age, occupation, and arrival information is often found in these records. . . To retrieve the 14 multi-page documents select the 'NAIL Digital Copies Search Form' and enter 'Naturalization petition' in the first Keywords box, and 'Savannah' in the second Keywords box." ~ Indian Scout Muster Rolls "One multi-page document has been digitized. This alphabetically arranged index lists the name, enlistment number, month and year of registration for Arizona Indian scouts. This information may be used in conjunction with National Archives Microfilm Publication M233, Register of Enlistments in the US Army, 1798-1914, rolls 70 and 71 to locate the enlistment register entry for each man. The index was compiled to verify scouts' service for eligibility of pensions made available by Congress starting in 1928.". . . To retrieve the digitized document, select the 'NAIL Digital Copies Search Form' and enter 'Arizona Indian Scout' in the first Keywords box. ~ Intelligence Division Reports on Passengers, 1918-1919 "11 documents from this series have been digitized. The series consists of brief reports circulated by Customs Intelligence concerning foreign nationals experiencing problems with passports or other papers; foreign nationals under suspicion of being sympathetic to Imperial Germany during World War I; American citizens wishing to leave or enter the United States, or who have died or disappeared; and any other "suspicious characters. . . To retrieve the 11 digitized images, select the 'NAIL Digital Copies Search Form' and enter 'suspicious enemy aliens' in the first Keywords box." Other datasets that were added include: ~ Selected Documents from the Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs ~ Selected Documents Relating to the War in Vietnam ~ Cherokee Field Office Records, 1963-1983 ~ Selected Photographs from the Eleventh Naval District ~ Selected Photographs Relating to Federal Construction ~ Selected Photographs Relating to the Flathead Irrigation Project and the Wind River Agency ~ Selected Photographs from the Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District ~ Selected Documents Relating to the Southern Ute Agency, the United Pueblos Agency, and the Blackfeet Agency ~ Selected Photographs from the Phoenix and Navajo Area Offices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. ~ Wheeler Expedition Stereoscopic Photographs, 1871-1874 ~ Photographs in the Sir Henry S. Wellcome Collection, 1856-1936 ~ Selected Photographs from the Forest Service Historical Files, Rocky Mountain Regional Office, 1900-1965 ~ Selected Documents Relating to Cape Hatteras National Seashore, 1953-1960 ~ Spiro Agnew Precedent Case Files, 1933-1973 ~ Criminal Records, Selected Case Files, 1841-1969 ~ Selected Correspondence Files from the National Park Service, Philadelphia, PA, 1952-1967 ~ Records Related to Criminal Case 31712, U.S. v. Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino, Treason ("Tokyo Rose Case"), 1942-1969 ~ Selected Records Related to Significant Pacific War Theater Battles, 1941-1945 ~ United States District Court, Northern District of California, San Francisco. Criminal Case Files ~ United States District Court, Northern District of California, San Francisco. Civil and Appellate Case Files, 1853 -1912 ~ Master Correspondence File, July 1917-January 1919 ~ Selected Documents from the Central Classified Files, 1927-1953 ~ Selected Documents from the San Francisco District Office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. For more complete descriptions, and searching tips, visit: http://www.nara.gov/nara/recdata.html You can search NAIL at: http://www.nara.gov/nara/searchnail.html