Title: Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Washington County): Naturalization Records
Inclusive Dates: 1845-1963

Creator:

• Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Washington County)

Call Number: Washington Series 10

Quantity: 7.0 c.f. (1 archives box, 7 card boxes, 30 separate volumes), 5 reels of microfilm (35mm), and 1 reel of microfilm (16mm)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries’ Archives Department / Milwaukee Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Records of naturalization cases in the Circuit Court of Washington County, Wisconsin, including declarations of intention (1855-1959), petitions and certificates (1845-1963), an index to these records, and orders granting and denying petitions (1929-1959).

Note:

The microfilm in this series was produced in 1984 by the Genealogical Society of Utah which holds the master negatives.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-washi0010

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See a general description of the naturalization process and naturalization records.

The alphabetical Card Index to Naturalizations (1845-1963) provides access to these Declarations, Petitions, and Certificates. Blue cards index Declarations, and white cards index Petitions and Certificates.

For Declarations, the index gives the volume number and page number for documents in Volumes 1-10 (1855-1929) and the volume number and Declaration number (shown on the Contents List below) for documents in Volume 11 (1929-1950). Declarations in Volume 12 (1950-1959) are not included in the Card Index, but this volume does have at its beginning its own index.

Prior to 1906, Washington County treated Petitions and Certificates interchangeably, perhaps because the information in each is very similar, although Petitions often provide an additional fact or two. Thus, some of Volumes 1-9 (1845-1906) are Petitions and some are Certificates. The volumes are numbered consecutively and all are indexed by white cards in the Card Index. For some individuals there is both a Petition and a Certificate. In these cases there are two index cards.

For Volumes 1-14 (1845-1929) of the Petitions and Certificates, the index gives the volume number and the page number. For Volumes 15-19 (1929-1963), the index gives either the volume number and Petition number, or just the Petition number. (Petition numbers are shown on the Contents List below.)

Because the volume numbers are repeated, the research when requesting materials should be sure to identify the type of record--Declaration or Petition/Certificate--as well as the volume number.

	Series: Card Index to Naturalizations, 1845-1963
Box   1 Reel   6	A-C
Box   2 Reel   6	D-G
Box   3 Reel   6	H-Kn
Box   4 Reel   6	Ko-Mi
Box   5 Reel   6	Mo-R
Box   6 Reel   6	S
Box   7 Reel   6	T-Z
	Series: Declarations of Intention	⇧
Volume   1 Reel   1	1855-1857
Volume   2 Reel   1	1857-1861
Volume   3 Reel   2	1861-1872
Volume   4 Reel   2	1872-1906
Volume   5	1906-1915, Nos. 1-100
Volume   6	1915-1918, Nos. 101-199
Volume   7	1918-1919, Nos. 200-299
Volume   8	1919-1923, Nos. 300-398
Volume   9	1923-1928, Nos. 399-498
Volume   10	1928-1929, Nos. 499-540
Volume   11	1929-1950, Nos. 541-700
Volume   (12), in Box 8	1950-1959, Nos. 701-723
	Series: Petitions and Certificates	⇧
Volume   (1), in Box 8 Reel   3	1845-1852, 1856
Volume   2 Reel   3	1853-1855
Volume   3 Reel   3	1854-1868
Volume   4 Reel   3	1855-1860, 1862, 1871
Volume   5 Reel   4	1856
Volume   6 Reel   4	1860-1872
Volume   7 Reel   5	1873-1903
Volume   (8), in Box 8 Reel   5	, 1874-1902 (includes index)
Volume   9 Reel   5	1904-1906
Volume   10	1908-1913, Nos. 1-49
Volume   11	1913-1917, Nos. 50-148
Volume   12	1917-1920, Nos. 149-245
Volume   13	1920-1923, Nos. 246-345
Volume   14	1924-1929, Nos. 346-412
Volume   15	1929-1934, Nos. 413-463
Volume   16	1934-1941, Nos. 464-563
Volume   17	1941-1956, Nos. 564-700
Volume   18	1956-1958, Nos. 701-792
Volume   19	1959-1963, Nos. 793-887
	Series: Miscellaneous	⇧
Volume   1	Orders Granting and Denying Petitions, 1929-1959
Box-folder   8-9	Repatriations, 1941-1944
Volume   2	Orders, 1960-1963