Series: Alien Registration Program

The official instruction manual from the U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service helps us better understand the information reported in an Alien Registration Form.

What You Can Learn From Your Ancestor’s Alien Registration (AR-2) Form

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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Learn how U.S. Alien Registration impacted your 20th century immigrant ancestors.

Alien Registration & Your 20th Century U.S. Immigrant Ancestors

For those of us whose ancestors immigrated to the United States in the 20th century, your ancestors might have had to register with the federal government as an alien. If so, those records can yield genealogy gold! This is the first post in a new series about researching your immigrant ancestors’ alien registration documents.

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