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Passenger Records and Naturalization Records Nat papers.qxd 12/12/2007 3:40 PM Page 1 DIANE L. RICHARD EXPLAINS HOW YOU CAN USE ONE TO FIND THE OTHER — AND VICE VERSA Passenger Records and Naturalization Records WITH THE PLETHORA of websites YLISTARO, FINLAND PROBABLY A his life in the US, I would see if he that contain passenger records SWEDISH PORT COPENHAGEN, was naturalized in that court, and online, it’s easy to presume that DENMARK NEW YORK PEABODY, if so, learn what the paperwork finding your ancestor’s arrival in MASSACHUSETTS said about when they emigrated the US or Canada (or departure My maiden name is Acey. It is a and on which vessel. from Europe) will be a breeze! pretty unusual name. Armed with I still remember that phone Unfortunately, that’s not always that and knowing that my father’s call. The clerk was searching the true. family was from Finland and lived naturalization files and she said: Due to spelling variations, the north of Boston, I set out to find the “We don’t have an Acey, but we large number of ports, records that family’s passenger records. This do have a Matti Kujanpää a.k.a. have not survived and other fac- was back when they weren’t online Acey.” That was the day that I tors, a supposedly straight search at and one visited a NARA regional learned that my unusual surname Ancestry, http://www.ancestry.com/; archive or a Family History Center. wasn’t even the original unusual Ellis Island, http://www.ellisisland.org/; When I looked at the records surname! Somewhere between Castle Garden, http://www.castle for Boston and New York (the most emigrating in February 1900 and garden.org/; AncestorsOnBoard, likely port for an early 1900s the census taken on 2 June 1900, http://www.ancestorsonboard.com/; Finnish emigrant), I could not find the name changed from Kujanpää etc., may not reveal your ancestors. Acey (or Esi as it was spelled in the to Acey. Though you may have From the naturalization found naturalization paper- papers, I learned that the work. family came over on the SS Or, you may have Thingvalla in 1900, sailing found a passenger record, to New York from know your ancestor was Copenhagen. It was then naturalized, but cannot easy to find the family in find the naturalization the Ellis Island passenger paperwork. You may have records and their passport your ancestor living in the records (via the Institute of US or Canada, but cannot Migration, http://www. find either a passenger migrationinstitute.fi/index_e record or a naturalization .php), though the record of record. You are certain that their departure from at some point they arrived, Finland does not appear to though they may not have have survived. The family become a citizen. appears to have originally My great-great-grand- sailed out of Hanko, parents, for example, never Finland, probably to became US citizens, though Certificate of Citizenship for Matti Acey, born in Finland, Gothenburg, Sweden or they lived here for more and became a naturalized US citizen on 23 March 1933. another Swedish port and than 30 years. My hus- then to Copenhagen, band’s great-grandfather lived in 1900 census). Even recognizing Denmark. the US from 1906 until his death in how it could be misspelled, search- This shows how finding natu- 1926 and never became a citizen. es were not successful. From vari- ralization paperwork may jump So, what do you do now? ous censuses I knew that Matti start your search for a passenger Acey and family were listed as AL record. An additional bonus was HOW NATURALIZATION PAPERWORK (Alien) from 1900 to 1920 and PA that I subsequently discovered JUMP STARTED MY RESEARCH (First Papers Filed) for 1930 indicat- that the daughter independently Before I answer that, let me first tell ing that he had started the natural- became a citizen in the 1950s, you about one of my earliest ization process. meaning that her file — at the genealogical research break- In what I considered a desper- height of McCarthyism — was throughs 20 years ago. It was ate move at the time, I contacted very full compared to the few because of this success that I now the Essex County Courthouse. My papers of her father’s file. And, it search out naturalization paper- thoughts were that since Matti included a translation of a page work, regardless of whether I have lived in Peabody, Massachusetts from their original passport. This found passenger records. (Essex County) for the duration of document certainly confirms my www.internet-genealogy.com INTERNET Genealogy • February/March 2008 45 Nat papers.qxd 12/12/2007 3:40 PM Page 2 Passenger Records and Naturalization Records humble roots as it states: “the Arrived at: New York for someone who was naturalized bearer, Mathew, son of Isak Ship: Moltke in Massachusetts after immigrating, Kujanpja, a landless peasant”. Date: on or about 9 December 1905 probably via New York. The port If I hadn’t been able to find a name given is not one that you find NATURALIZATION PAPERWORK LEADS passenger record once I had this on the lists of available ports. TO PASSENGER RECORD type of detailed information, I Let’s start at the beginning. Now I will answer the question of would have been very frustrated. From the Juneau County what do you do now by focusing Though it was a little harder than (Wisconsin) Library I learned that on some of the families that I have expected, as 1905 should have been mentioned in the Juneau County researched and what was found 1904 and his wife (listed as “Declaration of Intentions” was: (or not) in terms of passenger Michalina Owezarch) with the chil- Name: Terrence Kelley records and naturalization records dren actually did not arrive until 12 Birthplace: Ireland and how one can be used to help August 1905 on the Etruria which Date: 1853 you find the other. Given the com- sailed from Liverpool and not with Entry port: Whitehall plexity of these records, this article Antoni (listed as Anton Owczarik). Date of entry: June 1849 will touch upon a few useful tools In addition, the different passenger Declaration: Mar. 14, 1853 and hopefully give you enough records indices each spelled his With this information, one fig- ideas to help you jump start your name differently: Owczarik (Ellis ures that Terrence was naturalized research. in Wisconsin after entering The following is an the country at Whitehall. example of a situation Whitehall? where the naturalization After several inquiries, I paperwork did help in ulti- still had no idea what mately finding the passen- Whitehall was referring to. ger record. In my experi- We do know that ence, it’s more likely that I Terrence and family origi- find either the passenger nally stopped in record or find the natural- Wilbraham, Massachusetts ization paperwork, and not for a few years and had a both. few children there. This would seem to indicate KALISZ, RUSSIA HAMBURG/ that Boston or New York LIVERPOOL NEW YORK would have been the likely Petition for Citizenship, dated 12 January 1906 for Antoni CHICAGO Owczarek, filed at Superior Court of Cook County. port of arrival. The Owczarek family emi- The actual naturaliza- grated just before 1907. Eventually Island); Owczarck (Ancestry, port tion paperwork for Juneau County they went by the name Ozark. of New York); Owczarek (Ancestry, is held at the University of From cemetery records, I port of Hamburg). This slowed the Wisconsin-Stevens Point as part of knew that the patriarch of the process down a bit. But, the passen- the Area Research Center, family who immigrated was ger record for Michalina and chil- http://www.wisconsinhistory.org Antoni Owczarek/Ozark and his dren was also found. /libraryarchives/arcnet/stevens.asp. wife was Michalena. I also knew Even with a naturalization The paperwork did clarify the from the census that they were record, some passenger records issue of Terrence’s port of immigra- Russian Polish, naturalized in 1915 remain elusive. tion, though it still perplexes me and by 1930 were using Ozark. Here are two recent examples that the Wisconsin archives has a It was assumed that they came of research where the passenger naturalization document that was through New York or Boston. An record was not found initially, the created in Hampden County, initial search of the passenger naturalization paperwork was then Massachusetts. records to those two ports did not found, and the passenger record This document states: reveal the Owczarek family. still remains elusive. The first exam- “Terrence Kelley of Wilbraham Fortunately, there is a Soundex ple is from the mid-19th century was born in Milton in the County index to naturalizations for Cook and the second is from the turn of of Clare Ireland, is now 33 years of County, where Chicago is located, the 20th century. At least finding age, he arrived at Whitehall in the and the name was unusual enough the naturalization paperwork pro- district of New York on or about that the case file was identified and vides another opportunity to learn the 24th of June 1849.” the documents acquired. more about the individual… some- Essentially, Terrence ended up The key details from the peti- times. being part of the massive Irish tion for citizenship, as far as finding emigration wave (1846-51). Now, I Antoni’s passenger record, are: IRELAND NEW YORK know that the reference to Birth date: 9 May 1870 MASSACHUSETTS WISCONSIN Whitehall indicates that he came Birth place: Kalisz, Russia Take this example of a naturaliza- through New York.
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