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''[[United States Genealogy|United States]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[California, United States Genealogy|California]][[Image:Gotoarrow.png]][[San Francisco County, California Genealogy|San Francisco County]]''
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|title=California, San Francisco, World War I Enemy Alien Registration Affidavits, 1918
| title = California, San Francisco, World War I Enemy Alien Registration Affidavits, 1918
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| location = San Francisco (California)
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| start_year = 1918
| start_year = 1918
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| FS_URL_05 = [[California, United States Genealogy]] 
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| FS_URL_08 = [[Alien Registration Files]]
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| RW_URL_01 =[https://catalog.archives.gov/id/294758?q=enemy%20alien%20registrations NARA Collection Description Arizona]  
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| RW_URL_02 =[https://catalog.archives.gov/id/286181?q=enemy%20alien%20registrations NARA Collection Description Kansas]
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| RW_URL_03 =[https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5752917?q=enemy%20alien%20registrations NARA Collection Description Kentucky]
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| RW_URL_04 =[https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5889371?q=enemy%20alien%20registrations NARA Collection Description North Carolina]
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| Coverage =
| Inventory =
| DFNL = [[California, San Francisco, World War I Enemy Alien Registration Affidavits Digital Folder Number List|Digital Folder Number List]]
| RW_URL_01 = [https://www.archives.gov/files/publications/prologue/2014/summer/germans.pdf NARA article Alien Registrations]
| RW_URL_02 = [https://www.archives.gov/files/calendar/genealogy-fair/2014/handouts/session-16-presentation-handout-1of3-burnes.pdf Friend of Foe ?: Documenting Alien Ancestors during Times of War]
| RW_URL_03 = [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/602456 Alien Enemy Index, 1917-1919 NAID 602456] National Archives
| RW_URL_04 = [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5889371 Alien Registration Affidavits, 1918. North Carolina. NAID 5889371] National Archives
| RW_URL_05 = [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/4706580 Lists and Forms Relating to Alien Registration, 1918. Louisiana.] National Archives
| RW_URL_06 = [https://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/enemy-aliens/ww1 World War I Enemy Alien Records]
| RW_URL_07 = [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/286181 Enemy Alien Registration Affidavits, 1917–1921 Kansas] National Archives
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| custodian = San Francisco Public Library
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== What is in This Collection? ==
Subjects of the German Empire age 14 and older living within the United States were required to register with the Justice Department during World War I. This collection consists of registration affidavits for California and was acquired from the the San Francisco Public Library. This collection is being published as images become available. See also [https://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/enemy-aliens/ww1 National Archives World War I Enemy Alien Records]
This collection contains a digital browse. Clicking on the "Browse through images" link on the collection page will take you to a list of digital film numbers. The list does not contain any description of the content of the film. To see a description of the content see {{FSC|2637065|item|disp=California, San Francisco, Registration Affidavits of Enemy Alien, 1918}} in the FamilySearch Catalog. {{HR Add}}


== What Is in the Collection? ==
'''Related Reading '''
This collection contains a digital browse. Clicking on the "Browse through images" link on the collection page will take you to a list of digital film numbers. The list does not contain any description of the content of the film. To see a description of the content see [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/2637065 California, San Francisco, registration affidavits of enemy alien, 1918] in the FamilySearch Catalog.
*Julie Miller. "Enemy Alien Registration during World War I." NGS  Magazine 44 (April-June 2018): 21-28. FS Library 973 D25ngs
*[https://www.archives.gov/files/publications/prologue/2014/summer/germans.pdf Mary J. Manning. " Being German, Being American." Prologue (Summer 2014): 15-22.]


Subjects of the German Empire age 14 and older " living within the United States were required to register with the Justice Department during World War I. This collection consists of registration affidavits for California and was acquired from the the San Francisco Public Library. This collection is being published as images become available.
=== Index and Image Visibility ===
{{Image Visibility}}


== What Can These Records Tell Me? ==
== What Can These Records Tell Me? ==
The following information may be found in these records:
*Full Name of applicant  
*Full Name of applicant  
*Date Registration was Filed  
*Date Registration was Filed  
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*Children's Gender  
*Children's Gender  
*Finger prints
*Finger prints
== Collection Content  ==
== Collection Content  ==
=== Sample Images ===
=== Sample Images ===
 
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<gallery heights="120px" widths="160px" perrow="3" caption="California Registration Affidavit of Alien Enemy">
Image:California, San Francisco, Registration Affidavits of Alien Enemy DGS 4878421 45 1.jpg|Registration Affidavit Page 1 1918
Image:California, San Francisco, Registration Affidavits of Alien Enemy DGS 4878421 45 1.jpg|Registration Affidavit Page 1
Image:California, San Francisco, Registration Affidavits of Alien Enemy DGS 4878421 46 2.jpg|Registration Affidavit Page 2  
Image:California, San Francisco, Registration Affidavits of Alien Enemy DGS 4878421 46 2.jpg|Registration Affidavit Page 2
Image:California, San Francisco, Registration Affidavits of Alien Enemy DGS 4878421 47 3.jpg|Registration Affidavit Page 3
Image:California, San Francisco, Registration Affidavits of Alien Enemy DGS 4878421 47 3.jpg|Registration Affidavit Page 3
Image:California, San Francisco, Registration Affidavits of Alien Enemy DGS 4878421 48 4.jpg|Registration Affidavit Page 4
Image:California, San Francisco, Registration Affidavits of Alien Enemy DGS 4878421 48 4.jpg|Registration Affidavit Page 4
</gallery>'''Information in the Registration Affidavits''' generally include the following:
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=== Digital Folder Number List ===
== How Do I Search the Collection? ==
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== How Do I Search This Collection? ==
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*{{FSC|2637065|item|disp=California, San Francisco, registration affidavits of enemy alien, 1918.}}
Citations help you keep track of places you have searched and sources you have found. Identifying your sources helps others find the records you used.
*{{FSC|663093|item|disp=Kansas. United States District Court. Registration Affidavits of Aliens, 1918}}
*{{FSC|2520557|item|disp=Itasca County, Minnesota. Alien registration forms and declaration of holdings,1918}}
*{{FSC|3003567|item|disp=Karen Stein Daniel, extracted and compiled, ''World War I era alien enemy registrations for New Mexico, 1918 : extracts from the United States Marshal records for New Mexico,'' New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico : New Mexico Genealogical Society, 2016. FS Library 978.9 P4d}}
*{{FSC|663130|item|disp=Alien Registrations, North Dakota}}


'''Collection Citation''':<br> {{Collection citation | text= "California, San Francisco, World War I Enemy Alien Registration Affidavits, 1918." Database with Images. <i>FamilySearch</i>. http://FamilySearch.org : accessed 2017. Citing County Clerk. San Francisco Public Library, History and Archives.}}
=== FamilySearch Historical Records ===
*{{RecordSearch|1968530|United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918}}


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=== FamilySearch Digital Library ===
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*{{FSC|2224242|item|disp=Registration of Axis aliens in Kansas : January, 1918 through June, 1918.''Overland Park, Kansas : Kansas Statistical Publications Co., c1992}}
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