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Naturalization and Citizenship

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Online Resources

• 1795-1925 United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
• 1880-2009 Montana, Cascade County Records, 1880-2009 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
• 1865-2009 Montana, Granite County Records, 1865-2009 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
• 1868-1999 Montana Naturalization Records, 1868-1999 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
• 1887-2012 Montana, Judith Basin County Records, 1887-2012 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
• 1910-2012 Montana, Pondera County Records, 1910-2012 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
• 1866-2010 Montana, Sanders County Records, 1866-2010 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
• 1881-2012 Montana, Teton County Records, 1881-2012 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
• 1913-1960 Montana, Toole County Records, 1913-1960 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
• U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791-1992, Montana - ($) Index only
• Norske i Montana Naturalization - Index, incomplete for all counties
• 1856-1979 Montana, County Naturalizations, 1856-1979 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; images
• Montana, County Naturalization Records, 1867-1970 - ($), Index and images
• Montana, Federal Naturalization Records, 1880-1920 - Index and images($).
• Selected U.S. Naturalization Records - U.S. District Courts for the State of Montana, 1891-1929 - ($)
• 1918 United States Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers, 1918 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index
• 1944-2003 U.S., Index to Alien Case Files, 1944-2003 at Ancestry — index($)

County Naturalization Records by FamilySearch

• Montana, Cascade County Records - FamilySearch Historical Records - Images only
• Montana, Granite County Records - FamilySearch Historical Records - Images only
• Montana, Flathead County Records - FamilySearch Historical Records - Images only
• 1866-2012 Montana, Meagher County Records, 1866-2012 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
• Montana, Rosebud County Records - FamilySearch Historical Records - Images only

Availability

Naturalization records have generally been filed in the county and district courts of Montana. You can write to the clerk of the court and request a search of indexes to certificates of arrival, petitions, declarations, and final naturalization papers.

The FamilySearch Library has copies of some Montana naturalizations. The National Archives—Pacific Alaska Region (Seattle)has documents for:

• The four territorial district courts (1868-89). (Indexes on FS Library film 1490886 items 1-8.)
• U.S. district courts in Butte (1894-1929), Great Falls (1924-26), Helena (1892-1929). (FS Library films 1492066 items 1-4 and 1490886 items 11-27.)
• The U.S. Circuit Court (1891-98). (FS Library films 1490886 items 9-10 and 1492068 items 1-20.)

Post-1906 Records

In 1906 the Immigration and Naturalization Service (now United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) was created, forms were standardized and duplicate copies of naturalization records were sent to the INS. You can access these records through the Genealogy Program at www.uscis.gov.

References

• Montana Research Outline. Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., Family History Department, 1998, 2001. (NOTE: All of the information from the original research outline has been imported into this Wiki site and is being updated as time permits.)

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