Hi Daniela, I found them in the National Archives online Catalog https://catalog.archives.gov, which is a little different than the National Archives website itself. At the catalog I searched initiall

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Okay I don't know why I didn't find this when I looked before, but it would appear the records are at NARA in DC, included within RG 21. From their catalog (ONLY items that would cover 1922): NAID 769

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Sally is right that there's no one answer for all times and places. It appears the Supreme Court of DC was like a "county court" in Washington DC for some time, including 1922. A cursory search did no

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Hello Alex, Another poster makes a good point, this immigrant family may have come to the US via Canada, a popular option for people traveling from Britain/Northern Europe/the Baltic in the 1880s and

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I wasn't able to view the attachment, but assume you are talking about an arrival at New York on the Rjindam Aug 20 1906. Chane is going to her husband, and Sima is going to the same person. Sima is g

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Hello Judith, Those numbers in the Cause of Death column on Customs Lists have long been a source of confusion. They are annotations made later by gov't statistical clerks when "coding" the documents

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RR is for "railroad." In this case, a woman and her daughter traveling alone, it probably means they were released to the custody of the railroad for delivery to the waiting relative. In some such cas

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Mort makes an important point about the opportunity for errors during transcription. I would only add that there were multiple opportunities for such errors and that might make the problem worse in so

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Hi Lee, just my two cents' but I certainly think it possible Jake traveled as a child with some other family, under their surname, as if he was part of their family during the voyage/travel. These pas

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Hello Sarina, I would send a copy of the index card to the National Archives in New York City (newyork.archives@...) and ask them for help locating the Petition for Naturalization. FYI, the numbe

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Ellen, From what you describe, your grandparents should have visa records on file with USCIS--the question may be where they are filed, or whether the search results you obtained were accurate. I cann

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Someone who immigrated to the US in 1958 (assuming they were admitted on an immigrant visa) would be eligible to naturalize 5 years later (sooner if they were married to a US citizen). As long as they

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