This post walks you through how to find and order a copy of the World War II-era Alien Registration Form for your 20th century U.S. immigrant ancestor.
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Repositories & Sources Research Methods
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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My Family History Repositories & Sources
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!