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 '''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 2015. Citing County Clerk. San Francisco Public Library, History and Archives.}} <br><br>