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 |title=Illinois, Northern District Naturalization Index, 1840-1950
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-== Collection Time Period  ==
+== Record Description  ==
+These indexes are for records that cover the years from 1840 to about 1979.
+Naturalization is the process of granting citizenship privileges and responsibilities to foreign-born residents. Most counties recorded naturalization procedures in the court records as legal proof of citizenship. The courts handling naturalizations changed several times so the card index was created as a way to quickly access specific records.
-These indexes are for records that cover the years from 1840 to about 1979.
+The information found in the index is usually reliable. However, there was always a chance for misinformation. Errors may have occurred because of the informant’s lack of knowledge or because of transcription errors or other circumstances.
-== Record Description  ==
+== Collection Time Period  ==
-=== First Collection ===
+These indexes are for records that cover the years from 1840 to about 1979.
+=== First Collection  ===
 The first collection consists of card index to naturalization records for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois, in Chicago. The card index was compiled from the following series: "Naturalization Petition and Record Books, 1906 - ca. 1975" (ARC Identifier 281842), "Petitions for Naturalization, 1906-1991" (ARC Identifier 593882), and "Overseas Naturalization Petition Books, 1942-1956" (ARC Identifier 1183015).
-===Second Collection ===
+=== Second Collection  ===
 The second collection is a soundex card index to petitions for residents of northern Illinois, northwestern Indiana, southern and eastern Wisconsin, and eastern Iowa. It includes no records from Cook County, Illinois, prior to 1871 as these records were destroyed by fire. For more information about Soundex indexes and instructions for coding names, see the Wiki article “[[Soundex|Soundex]].”
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 Index cards for naturalizations taking place prior to 1906 typically contain the following:
-[[Image:Illinois, Northern District, Soundex Index to Naturalization Petitions (10-0397) (11-0450) DGS 4640946 109.jpg|thumb|right]]
+[[Image:Illinois, Northern District, Soundex Index to Naturalization Petitions (10-0397) (11-0450) DGS 4640946 109.jpg|thumb|right|Illinois, Northern District, Soundex Index to Naturalization Petitions (10-0397) (11-0450) DGS 4640946 109.jpg]]
 *Name of the petitioner
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 *Try a different index if there is one for the years needed. You may also need to search the naturalization records year by year.
 *Search the indexes of nearby counties.
-=== Why the Record Was Created  ===
-Naturalization is the process of granting citizenship privileges and responsibilities to foreign-born residents. Most counties recorded naturalization procedures in the court records as legal proof of citizenship. The courts handling naturalizations changed several times so the card index was created as a way to quickly access specific records.
-=== Record Reliability  ===
-The information found in the index is usually reliable. However, there was always a chance for misinformation. Errors may have occurred because of the informant’s lack of knowledge or because of transcription errors or other circumstances.
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