FindmyPast adds US naturalisation and passport records

FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk) has added two collections which may be of interest if your ancestors migrated to the United States:

United States Naturalization Petitions 1905-1950
https://blog.findmypast.co.uk/united-states-naturalisation-petitions-1908632867.html
http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/united-states-naturalization-petitions

United States Naturalization Petitions contains more than 7.8 million records spanning the years 1905 to 1950. The collection currently covers four states: Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania, and allows you to discover when and where your immigrant ancestor was born, how old they were when they first crossed the Atlantic and their port of entry. Images of the original documents may even include a photograph of your ancestor.


US Passport Applications and Indexes
https://blog.findmypast.co.uk/us-passport-applications-and-indexes-1908610405.html
http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/united-states-passport-applications

Discover when, where, and why your ancestors travelled with over 800,000 US Passport Application records. Applications may also include a physical description, your ancestor's occupation, residence, naturalisation details, the name of their spouse, date of birth and place of birth. Most applications are one to two pages in length and, from 21 December 1914 onward, photographs of applicants are also included. Photographs can be found on the second page when viewing images of the original document.

This collection of regular passport applications has been compiled from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) collection M1490. Images of the original documents are included and may reveal additional details of your ancestor's citizenship, such as when and from where they immigrated, by what means they arrived in the United States, and when they were naturalized. For those born in the United States, you may learn details of their fathers' naturalization such as their full name, birthplace, and date and place of emigration. Additional details were also recorded such as the applicant's eye colour as well as descriptions of their mouth, nose, forehead, chin, complexion, face, and hair colour.

NARA publication M1490 Passport Applications, 1906-March 31, 1925 covers 2 January 1906 to 31 March 1925.

Further details via the links.

Chris

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