Walk through each section of a WWII-era Alien Registration (AR-2) form to uncover what you can learn about your U.S. immigrant ancestors while consulting the instruction manual issued by the Immigration & Naturalization Service.
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I had looked for several years for a birth record for my Mexican-immigrant great grandparents’ oldest child Guadalupe. But I was looking in the wrong place. She had been born 155 miles southeast of the family home, in a place identified on her birth record as Yngenio Rascon.
Yngenio Rascon, San Luis Potosí, Mexico: Birthplace of Great-Aunt Lupe Robledo Read More »
Hispanic Genealogy My Family History Repositories & Sources
A couple days ago, I blogged about finding the Información Matrimonio (Premarital Investigation) record for my 2nd great grandparents Silverio Robledo Nieto and Maria Jesus Sanchez Carbajal. I mentioned in that post that an actual marriage date is not referenced in that record. This is typical for Información Matrimoniales; the marriage event is documented in a separate marriage record, the matrimonio. On Sunday, I found that matrimonio record!
A Mexico civil death registration record confirms that great-aunt Celedenia Robledo died at just 18 months of age, one year prior to the family immigrated to the U.S. She is the older sister that my grandfather never knew.
Celedonia Robledo, the Mexico-Born Sister My First-Generation Grandfather Never Knew Read More »
Hispanic Genealogy My Family History Repositories & Sources