Montana Naturalization and Citizenship: Difference between revisions

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[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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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 *'''1856-1979''' {{RecordSearch|2091705|Montana, County Naturalizations, 1856-1979}} at FamilySearch  - [[Montana, County Naturalizations - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; images
 *[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=61420 Montana, County Naturalization Records, 1867-1970] - ($), Index and images
-*[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=61204 Montana, Federal Naturalization Records, 1880-1920] - Index and images, ($).
+*[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=61204 Montana, Federal Naturalization Records, 1880-1920] - Index and images($).
 *[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/panatoriginals/ Selected U.S. Naturalization Records - U.S. District Courts for the State of Montana, 1891-1929] - ($)
 *'''1918''' {{RecordSearch|1858291|United States Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers, 1918}} at FamilySearch  - [[United States, Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index
-*'''1944-2003''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=62493 U.S., Index to Alien Case Files, 1944-2003] at Ancestry — index, ($)
+*'''1944-2003''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=62493 U.S., Index to Alien Case Files, 1944-2003] at Ancestry — index($)