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A Schuylkill History lesson Schuylkill Haven 1750 - 1975 thanks Mary Lou and the others!!
In 1811 Schuylkill County was formed from Berks County and Northampton County.
The northern triangle comprising Union,
East Union and North Union Twps. was not added to Schuylkill until 1818.
This triangle was taken from Columbia and Luzerne Cos.
Many of our ancestors migrated to another county - generally one close by. Please try searching in the following neighboring counties.. or Carbon County
I want to thank all the wonderful people who have contributed to our website. It's growing everyday. People are stepping forward to volunteer or sending me little tidbits to add to the site. Sometimes we forget about saying thank you. Soooooooo, before you thought I had. I wanted to say... Thank you very much for your contributions and help!!!
We need your town histories!!! Please help us get them all-
we don't want any left out. All our Schuylkill towns and boroughs are important.
We need more on all of them - let's make this the best site it can be. To help,
e-mail me let me know which town you want to do and I'll add you to the list of angels.  Excert: Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, Sat, Apr 26, 1890
ELSEWHERE: All the employees at Castle Garden have been discharged, the
Government having ceased to use the place as an immigrant landing station.
The first immigrant was landed at the Garden August 5, 1855, and the last,
Friday.
National Archives 900Market st. room1350 Phila. Pa.
Post-1906, naturalizations are confined to the Attorney General and courts of record of general jurisdiction, meaning the highest trial courts in the area. 8 US Code section 1421 was changed again in 1988 to provide that the US Attorney General is the naturalizing authority, and that the AG is authorized to delegate the authority to administer the oath of citizen- ship to any US District Court and to any court of record of general juris- diction in any state or territory.
The National Archives at 9th and Market in Phila. holds federal court records for VA, PA, MD,WV, DE
How to use and access NARA
2. put the word 'FORM' in the subject line 3. in the text of your message, include --the number of the form from the following list: GIL #7 (brochure for Military Service Records) Form #85 (Pension Records PRIOR to WW I and II) Form #86 (Military service prior to World War I, including the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, and Spanish-American War); Form 81 (Passenger Arrivals) Form 82 (Copies of Census Records) Form 83 (Eastern Cherokee Applications) Form 180 (Military service records, World War I and later). --the quantity you wish to receive. Requests which do not contain the word 'FORM' in the subject line get routed differently and will take more time to process.
will take you right to where you need to be to search.. 1. on the left side, click on the phrase 'New in the NAIL database', 2. on the next page, click on 'recently added data' on the left side 3. on the next page, it will list the newest additions, as you scroll down...it will tell you the specific key word/s needed to access each set of documents, newly added 4. at the top of that same page.....at the end of the 1st paragraph click on 'batches' 5. that will give you a list of dates showing previous additions to the NAIL database. 6. just click on a date and scroll down each list...
Indices to Philadelphia Federal Court naturalizations are on microfilm. They are at NARA Philadelphia and the National Archives in DC in room 400. In addition, the naturalization records themselves are on micro through about 1930 and available in both places.
Immigrant and Passenger Arrivals Click on catalog of microfilm publications, then on immigrant and passenger arrivals you can find the immigration and passenger lists available on microfilm. Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York do include the years 1871 and 1881. Some cities are indexed but after the 1840's New York is not. There are numerous reels of film for each of year. As far as I know the LDS has them all available for loan
~ 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. For more complete descriptions, and searching tips, visit:
Go to the following website -- Naturalizations: Researching Philadelphia Records which is about naturalization records at the Phila. City Archives. Fee for copy of Naturalizations on file at Phila. City Archives (1793 to 1930): $4.00 per set of papers for each name searched. If the naturalization occurred after 27 Sept 1906, contact the INS through Form G-639 (see the end of that web page for more details). The Immigration and Naturalization Service (I.N.S.) has duplicate records of all naturalizations that occurred after 27 Sept 1906. 26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY 10278 NARA: Naturalization Records )
The INS in Washington has files on people who were nationalized after Sept. 27, 1906. If any of your family were naturalized before Sept. 27, 1906 then those records are housed at the courthouse in the county seat where the nationalization occured. The telephone number as of June 97 was 1-800-870-FORM. Ask for Form G-639 and make photocopies . The request is under the Freedom of information Act (FOIA), it takes about 6 months to get a return, also bring a FOIA request, you don't have to state a relationship.
The only neccessary information is Full name, Date and Place of birth
(Exact or Approximate). Any other info will greatly speed the process.
Mail the form in an envelope to: You should receive a letter from the INS/FOIA acknowledging receipt, the letter will have a CO# on it that you will need if you should call.
Sponsors then did the same as now - Sponsors tell the INS that they will be financially responsible for the welfare ($ or a job) of the people that they are asking the government to admit. In 1882, Congress passed the first laws limiting the people allowed in the states. This act kept out criminals, those considered "insane" and those likely to become public charges. Also by 1882, there was an agreement to keep out Chinese immigrants - this was called the Oriental Exclusion Act. By 1907 there was an agreement that limited the number of Japanese laborers to the US and that was the year that 1.3 million people from all over were admitted. Within 10 more years, Congress passed much more restrictive laws - such as a law that required that an immigrant could at least read and write one language. In 1921, Congress passed a quota law, limiting the number of immigrants from each country. That law has continued to evolve to today with the last major changes in the late 1990s from the Shamrock-L list.
However, Not all of the World War I alien registrations were destroyed for all the states. For example, the Kansas registrations can be seen at the Central Plains Region branch of the National Archives, in Kansas City, MO. Check state by state for those Alien Registrations, because they are wonderful sources, and often even include a photo of the person.
Before July 4,1776, foreign immigrants who wanted to be naturalized swore allegiance to the King of England.
Philadelphia Naturalizations PA Naturalizations
First go to Roots web at Rootsweb Then on the left hand side click on the word "States" at this point you will need to scroll down the page until you find 'USA, State by State Resources:' Then click on the any of the states, in our case it would be 'Pennsylvania Resources Page' again scroll down this page until you reach the title "General Resources" and then click on the LDS research Outline for Pennsylvania
For anyone in the Philadelphia, PA area looking for pictures of ships, the FHC in Broomall, Delaware Co., PA has a copy of the Michael Anuta book "Ships of Our Ancestors". The center allows you to make photocopies @ $.10 per copy. The FHC is located on Paxon(Paxton?) Hollow Road just off route 320.
Delaware Genealogical Society 505 Market Street Mall Wilmington, DE 19801 The Historical Society of Delaware has a microfilm of passenger arrivals at the Port of Wilmington
If you have a family
member who died in one of the wars and is interred
in an over-seas cemetery, the State Dept. [upon
request and with no fee] will send you a beautiful
lithograph of the cemetery with an information
booklet describing it. They'll go out and photograph
the grave and for a small fee put flowers on it
[seasonal], due to weather hardships in foreign
countries. For more information on this go to:
World War I You need to distinguish between the World War I draft (persons born roughly 1872-1900) and the 4th registration for the World War II draft (persons born roughly 1877-1897). The original cards for the WW1 draft are at East Pointe. NARA Philadelphia has microfilms. They are arranged by draft boards. Within each draft board, the cards are (mostly) alphabetical. Not the world's best microfilming job, so be prepared for eyestrain, get a magnifying reader, and bring a supplemental magnifying glass. It does not take too long if you are looking for only one surname and it is not a common one. The original cards for the WW2 4th registration are at NARA Philadelphia for PA, MD & WV. They are alphabetical by state, so no index is needed.
Addendum to the above It is only the original cards that are in state / county / alpha order. Someone posted a message to one of the lists that NARA was planning on re-filming the cards since they are now in state / county / alpha order. If such a thing is underway it is unknown to the East Pointe archive staff and they should know if such a thing was in the works. If you request a copy of your ancestor's draft card from any NARA branch other than East Pointe they will be searching the LDS microfilm and you will have to know the state and draft board for them to make a copy. It is only at the East Pointe location that you can request a copy by state and then county and the copy will be made from the ORIGINAL card. Records for Army enlisted and officer personnel who are no longer on active duty are kept at the National Personnel Records Center (Military Personnel Records), 9700 Page Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63132-5100. (Their website is at http://www.nara.gov/regional/mpr.html, but it looks like you have to submit a written, signed request.) WWI draft registration cards were required of all males between the ages of 18 and 45 . If your subject was not already enlisted when the registration was required, there may be a card for him. For more info, see http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas/learningcenter/ww1draftcards.htm and http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ww1/draft/index.html.
In some states (PA for one) a Bonus was granted to World War I and World War II veterans returning to their home state. PA [and other states as well] has these applications for bonuses at their State Archives. Other states may have similar records. The service number is also shown on these State Bonus Applications [However, Bonuses were paid by many jurisdictions. Veterans were usually required to furnish a copy of separation papers but not always. The biggest problem here is that a great many veterans never applied.] The VA may or may not have a service number because it isn't needed. The VA assign their own file numbers.
Mail requests require a $10 fee.
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/ WWI veterans were to receive their bonuses 17 years after the war; briefly said, protested and finally marched on Washington during the Depression, were finally granted their bonuses in 1934.
The "codger's draft registrations" are available, and for PA and MD, easy to use because they are alphabetized by state. They also have great information, like date and city of birth, employer, name and address of next of kin. They are easy to read. They have more detailed personal descriptions than the WW1 cards. 1. Not everyone obligated to register did so. 2. NARA has the original file cards, not microfilm, so you cannot simply arrive and expect to inspect. You need to give them a day's notice of your arrival, and the specific surnames you will be seeking, so they can bring those boxes of cards in from storage. To get a World War II record that is not open to you through the Archives, try the nearest office of the Veterans' Administration.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union was organized in 1874 by women who were concerned about the problems alcohol was causing their families and society. The members chose total abstinence from all alcohol as their life style and protection of the home as their watchword. ~~~ From their website ~~~
The Sacramento German Genealogy Society issued the "German Card for Genealogical Research", plastic, folds into 2 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.,includes German script, symbols, terms, soundex and more. SGGS, P.O. Box 66061, Sacrament, CA 95866-0061. Useful and portable. Present Price unknown
Bureau of Archives and History P.O. Box 1026 Harrisburg, PA 17108 sells warrantee twp maps which show the original land grants within present township boundaries as well as names and other information for the original warrantee and patentee. contributed by Rene Phelan
Keep in mind when dealing with an Abstract - they can contain lots of other information besides names, dates and legal descriptions. Often they contain transcriptions of Wills, Divorces, various lawsuits, etc.
Records of U.S. Merchant Marine Personnel are now kept by the U.S. Coast Guard in Washington, D.C. However, back in those days (1895-1905) the U.S. Merchant Marine records would have been kept by the following U.S. Gov`t Depts.
1852-1903 Dept. of the Treasury If such records are still available they would be in the National Archives. Under records group RG 41.2.4 Records relating to vessel personnel
The U.S.C. G. present day files.
Since 1974, the Buckley Amendment prevents any school receiving federal funds from revealing any student information without the written consent of the student. That would definitely apply to the student's academic record. Some schools believe that, before publishing a directory of names and addresses of students, they must give students the opportunity to "opt out" of it by checking a box on the registration forms. This may not apply to students and former students presently living, or whether the right descends to the heirs of the former student. May also not be grandfathered.
Social Security Administration Office of Central Records Operations FOIA Workgroup P.O. Box 17772 300 N. Green Street Baltimore, Maryland 21290
Tell them you are invoking the Freedom of Information Act,
5U.S.C. Section 552, and you are requesting a copy of the SS-5 application
for the following person. Hints on searching in the social security death index The SSDI (Social Security Death Index) is based on the Social Security benefit paid at the time of the death of the individual. It has nothing to do with whether or not the person was already receiving Society Security benefits, which are benefits paid to living people after retirement. Until the early 1950s, farmers were not on Social Security, so many farmers are not listed for their deaths, even though they died after that date. In short, there are various reasons for names not to be on the Social Security Death Index.
A nine-digit Social Security number is composed of three parts: the area number, the group number, and the serial number.
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