Certificates for citizenship

Thanks to Jill Cruse for providing images of original records.

Images are being transcribed for easy find by search engines.

Emigrants who settled here before 1880 went to the nearest courthouse to sign a certificate of intent to become a citizen.

Translations of images, necessary formatting, page design and uploading provided by donkelly, County Coordinator of DesMoines County, Iowa.

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If you need a copy of Naturalization papers or Declaration of Intent you can pay the $5.00 an hour fee plus the 25 cents a page copy cost offered by Des Moines County Genealogical Society, PO Box 493, Burlington, Iowa, 52601.

That is much cheaper than going through the courthouse. The DSMGS is absolutely wonderful

Kathy