This Index is all about immigrants – over 544,000 of them – and spans 137 years! They came to California for various reasons and took a chance for a new life as a US citizen. Finding an immigrant is easier due to multiple search options. Minimal info is not a problem!
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We (almost) all came from one or more immigrants. Sharon Monson’s clear portrayal, both through her description of the history of the paths immigrants have taken to citizenship throughout much of our history and through a moving modern citizenship ceremony, is wonderful. The MyHeritage card index collection for Northern California naturalizations provides a great launching place, thanks to those records, for so much further research. Here’s hoping for further such collections for the rest of the US.
So many nuggets. I better understand next steps based on the information I find. Thank you.
What a great speaker Ms. Monson is! She presented a very informative webinar on searching California Naturalization Records. I don’t have any ancestors who went to CA, as most of my main ones entered South Carolina in the 1700’s. Oh how I wish Ms. Monson or other speaker would do a webinar on people coming from Germany via Rotterdam in through the port of Charles Towne (Charleston) SC. It is so hard to find where they came from in Germany in the 1750’s! Thanks so much for Webtember – a wonderful series!
This was an excellent webinar. I liked all the information and will use it to find my ancestors. I also remembered back to the day when I had my naturalization ceremony in San Diego, California. Thanks for helping me to recall that great day.
This webinar was very informative. Being an African American, I’ve used similar information to trace my ancestor’s enslaved back to Scotland and Ireland. I’m going to use this information to research their ancestors.
Very informative, helpful & interesting presentation! Thank you, Sharon! Thanks to Legacy, Geoff & Marian! Great Webtember series!
She was easy to follow and understand. She was not in a hurry as so many others are to finish but presented in a manner that made this worthwhile.
Wow! The webinar just flew by. I loved the examples of how to search by only one piece of information. I was also fascinated by the pictures from the Naturalization Ceremony at Timpanogos Cave. Naturalization ceremonies are held here in Erie, but I never attended one.