National Archives at Atlanta

It's #FunFriday and #FolderListFriday! Check out the digitized Construction Progress negatives for the Yellow Creek Nuclear Plant in our Tennessee Valley Authority collection here: https://catalog.archives.gov/search

Our staff shares our condolences on the passing of Jimmy Carter Presidential Library employee Sheila Mayo with our colleagues at the Library as well as with her friends and family.

Check out our list of cases from the US Circuit Court records out of Bowling Green, Kentucky (NAID 2581095)! This small series is a glimpse of what's to come from our collection of RG 21, records of the U.S. District Courts! #folderlistfriday Browse here: https://catalog.archives.gov/search

We've gotten so many vessel documentation case files from the Coast Guard in the past few years that we've had to update and add our indexes of vessel names and official numbers! Keep an eye out for indexes out of Greenville, Louisville, Savannah, and Wilmington, and updated indexes from Miami, Brunswick, and Tampa! #FolderListFriday You can access our original indexes of vessel documentation case files here as well, or search the Catalog at catalog.archives.gov: https://www.archives.gov/atlanta/finding-aids/maritime#rg_26

We have names of general counsel files within the records of the short-lived Office of Defense Transportation available in the Catalog. Such files detail the limits of personal and business transport for domestic war efforts during WWII. #FolderListFriday https://bit.ly/3byAjS1

We found the one! This naturalized immigrant from Ireland had his own Valentine's Day each year, with his birthday falling on this day. Happy birthday, Valentine Kerry Noble!

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Iradj Tarassoli was born on 11/09/1936 in Darab, Iran, and had black hair, brown eyes, and stood at 5' 10" according to the physical description form accompanying his petition!

It seems notable that Boleslaw Broznowski (b. 11/08/1894) renounced his allegiance to and citizenship under "the present govt. of Russia", as he filed this petition while the Russian Revolution was in full swing (1918).

James William List was born on 11/07/1939 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand (which is 8,357 miles from his home in Walterboro, SC). This photograph showing the Lower Hutt region was taken by Space Station Mir in 1996. Photo: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/22997764

Some countries may have series of outgoing passenger lists, which may say a little more about the journey the immigrant has gone through. An example is Geoffrey Sutcliffe (b. 11/06/1891), who left England 7/24/1947 and arrived in NYC 8/4/1947! Shown list: https://www.ancestryinstitution.com/search/collections/2997/

The Immigration and Nationality Act in 1952 updated the laws for parental-derived citizenship. Children adopted from overseas had their adoptive parents file a petition for them. This was the case with Karen Crenshaw (b. 11/05/1949), who was 5 at the time of her naturalization.

Carlos Melgarejo (FKA José Carlos Melgarejo) was born on 11/04/1896 in Veracruz, Mexico. Thanks to FamilySearch, we were able to track down a record of his birth from the Civil Registration archival repository in Veracruz (entry is on the bottom right). https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1922413

It's always fascinating to see what occupation an immigrant had when filing a petition, but we think this may be the first one we've seen where the occupation's listed as "retired"! Since Mitchell Owen (b. 11/03/1885) arrived in the U.S. in 1911, he was working here for a while!

On petitions, immigrants have the option to change their name. German Santiago Nopo (b. 11/02/1939) decided to change his name from Santiago German. Usually, there will be a slip notating that the order to change the name was approved, kept with the certificate stub.

Hans Willemans den Herder was born on 11/01/1926 in Paree, East Java, Dutch East Indies. However, while that was true that it what is was called prior to 1949, that place is now (and was at the time of the petition) Pare, Java, Indonesia due to Indonesian independence.

Eveline Winifred Britton was born 10/31/1906 in Ireland, and immigrated into the U.S. through the port of New Orleans. You can find her on the fifth line of this passenger list, held on microfilm publication A 3658. More info here: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/2848463

Morris Wabner (b. Morris Yedvabnick, 10/30/1896) filed his declaration of intention in the Southern District of New York, but his petition in the district court at Louisville, KY. Therefore, we have a copy of his DOI with his petition, but the National Archives at New York has the original DOI!

When you request a naturalization record, we will copy or scan all of an individual's records we can find. For example, Constance Fadis (b. 10/29/1911) has a petition, declaration, and certificate of arrival all in the same folder! There is also usually a certificate stub.

Anastacia Lomahan Chronister (b. 10/28/1939) has two petitions across NARA: the first, filed in Tacoma, WA and denied, is available on Ancestry and at the National Archives at Seattle. The one filed at Fort Gordon (court of Augusta), GA, which was approved, is in our collection!

Florence Cowie (b. 10/27/1886) had to petition for her natural-born citizenship after marrying her immigrant husband Harry, thanks to the 1907 and 1922 immigration acts where a woman gained the citizenship of her husband upon marriage and the subsequent changes. More information here: https://www.archives.gov///women-and-naturalization-1.html