Marker Search. Marker Calendar. Events Calendar. Page Content. If the immigrant was naturalized in Philadelphia, consult Philadelphia Naturalization Records. If the final date of naturalization includes a notation of SC, these records will be held by the State Archives.
District Courts, the Supreme Court, and all courts of record having a seal, a clerk, and jurisdiction in actions at law and equity in which the amount in controversy is unlimited. Some of these records may be indexed, and filmed see the availability section below but most must be accessed by using the Genealogy Program at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. For more information see the United States Naturalization wiki page.
The first naturalization law in the United States occurred in Laws changed many times over the years but the basic process was:. See United States Naturalization for more details about the naturalization process in the United States.
Pennsylvania Research Outline. Memories Overview Gallery People Find. Sign in Create Account. Family Tree. From FamilySearch Wiki. Significant changes in the naturalization law were enacted in Naturalization jurisdiction was restricted to federal and state courts having unlimited civil jurisdiction. Under the act the U. After , naturalization forms were distributed only to certain courts. In recent decades, the U. District Courts have handled most naturalization proceedings.
Between and an alien woman became a citizen automatically if she married a native-born or naturalized citizen. After , a married woman alien had to obtain naturalization on her own. Non-native minor children became citizens when their parents were naturalized.
Former black slaves were made citizens by the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U. Constitution in Expedited naturalization proceedings have been available to aliens who are Army veterans, since ; Navy veterans, since ; and wartime enlistees, since The U. Inquiries and requests for search form should be addressed to: U. When first developed in Philadelphia, this document would provide such information helpful for genealogical pursuits.
Generally, the information contained within the Declaration had the date of the declaration, name, birthplace, birthdate, and approximate age of the declarant, nativity, name of the monarch, port of embarkation, port and date of arrival, and declarant's signature or mark.
Between and , the various courts abandoned this form in lieu of a shorter form which has only the date of the declaration, name and approximate age of the declarant, nativity, name of monarch, and declarant's signature or mark.
This law was intended only for army veterans - navy and marine veterans were not covered under this law, but under a similar law passed on 26 July However, the Philadelphia courts were apt to wink at this restriction and numerous veterans of the naval, marine and other services used their service discharges to become citizens under the law.
It will state the date and court before which the applicant made his declaration, the applicant's desire to become a citizen, a voucher from an existing citizen as to the applicant's moral character, date of the petition, and the applicant's signature or mark. Minor's petitions will provide the year and port through which the applicant arrived.
Before , in the Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions Courts, one will usually find a declaration for the minor filed on the same day within the declaration records of the respective courts. Military petitions will provide the name of the company and regiment, length of service, and date of honorable discharge.
After , the petition for naturalization provides the following information: name; address; occupation; birthdate; birthplace; emigration date and port; port and date of arrival; date and court of declaration; name, age and birthplace of wife, if any; name, birthdates and birthplaces of children, if any; affidavits of petitioner and witnesses; oath of allegiance; order of court admitting petitioner; and number and date of certificate of naturalization.
At no time in American history did a person have to return to the same court in which he filed his declaration of intent in order to file his petition for naturalization. One will find in the petition files of the various courts declarations taken before courts from Maine to California. He or she did not need to become a citizen in order to buy or sell property, hold a job, get married, or to do anything of a personal or social nature.
This connection between naturalization and the franchise explains why the majority of naturalizations occur during Presidential-election years. During any year, the majority of petitions are filed in the weeks just before the primary or general election. It also explains why very few women bothered to become citizens on their own.
Generally, he also had to reside in the State of Pennsylvania for one year before this action. During the 19th century, no maximum time period existed for the filing of naturalization petitions. Nor did anyone have to become naturalized in order to own property, hold a job, or any thing else that he wanted to do, except vote. Cases exist in which a person might have arrived before but not filed for naturalization until after The provision that a person had to be naturalized before casting a vote accounts for the fact that the peak years for naturalization are those of presidential campaigns.
As noted above, military service was taken in lieu of both a declaration of intention and four of the five years of residency. Before , this period of waiting was three years.
Again, the only exception that the Archives staff has noticed occurs when a person has signed the declaration document and proven that he arrived as a minor which allows him to file his final petition on the same day.
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