Title: Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Green County): Naturalization Records
Inclusive Dates: 1837-1954

Creator:

• Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Green County)

Call Number: Green Series 59

Quantity: 10.4 c.f. (8 archives boxes, 2 flat boxes, 1 CD box, 23 separate volumes) and 13 reels of microfilm (35mm)

Repository:

Housed at the Southwest Wisconsin Room and Area Research Center, Ullsvik Hall, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; 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-Platteville Southwest Wisconsin Room / Platteville Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Record of naturalization cases in the Circuit Court of Green County, Wisconsin. Records include the main Index to Naturalizations (1837-1954), Declarations of Intention (1837-1952), Petitions (circa 1906-1954), Certificates of Naturalization (1841-1925), various indexes to these records, several Depositions, Citizenship Petitions Granted and Denied lists (1930-1954), and Notice of Application for Admission to Citizenship (1909).

Note:

The microfilm portion of this series was produced in 1987 and 2006 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-gree0059

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

General

The Green County Naturalization Records consist of the Index to Naturalizations, Declarations of Intention, Petitions, Certificates of Naturalization, various indexes to these records, several Depositions, lists of Citizenship Petitions Granted and Denied, and Notice of Application for admission to citizenship.

The original system of identifying volumes by number or letter was retained because the indexes are often keyed to this system. To eliminate confusion when requesting a particular volume, the researcher should specify not only the volume number but also the type of volume (e.g. Declarations of Intention) and dates.

For preservation purposes some volumes have been dismantled and placed in boxes. These volume numbers are designated by parentheses in the contents list below for identification purposes; the box number is listed for retrieval purposes. Other volumes though not dismantled have also been in boxed.

Some records are available in both original format and on microfilm.

Records

Researchers should begin by consulting the Index to Naturalizations, Volume 1. It is an alphabetical index recording individual's name, volume and page of Declarations of Intention, country of birth or allegiance, date of Declaration and court in which declared, date of final admission, volume and page of Certificates of Naturalization and Petitions, and number of document (if any given).

Bound Declarations can also be located using the Index to Intentions and Naturalizations, Volumes 1 and 2. These indexes provide the same information as the main Index to Naturalizations and were probably used to compile the main index. Researchers should use Volume 1 since the names are in more strict alphabetical order in this volume than in Volume 2, where the names are only in alphabetical segments by first letter of surname. The post-1906 Declaration volumes also contain internal indexes.

The Index to Declarations of Intentions index pre-1906 Declarations of Intention Volumes 2 and 3 which do not contain internal indexes. This index appears to have been compiled from the Register of Declarations of Intentions (Volumes 1 and 2). Researchers do not necessarily need to refer to any of these volumes since the information has been copied into the Index to Intentions and Naturalizations and is more complete in Volume 1 of that index.

A small quantity of index cards from 1951-1954 is found in Box 10. The information from these cards is transcribed in the Index to Naturalizations, Volume 1.

Certificates of Naturalization and Petition volumes contain internal indexes at the front of each volume, with the exception of Certificates, Volume 2 which has no index. Again, the Index to Naturalizations will provide access to specific Certificate and Petition volume and paper numbers. Certificates for 1907-1925 are in the form of stub books. The original Certificates and all Certificates after 1925 must be obtained from the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service.

The loose papers located in Boxes 7-10 consist mainly of early Declarations. These documents appear to be the originals of the records recorded in pre-1906 Declarations of Intention Volumes A and 1-3. Scattered Petitions and Depositions of Witnesses are usually included. There is no index to these documents; however, they are filed in alphabetical segments by surname.

Processing Information

Processed by Sue Ginter, 1991.

	Series: Indexes, 1837-1954
Volume   1 Reel   5-6	Index to Naturalizations, 1837-1954
Volume   1 Reel   6	Index of Intentions and Naturalizations, 1837-1906
Volume   2 Reel   6	Index of Intentions and Naturalizations, 1837-1906
Box   1	Index to Declarations of Intention Vol. 2 and 3, 1839-1884
	Register of Declarations of Intentions
Volume   1, in Box 1 Reel   6	1839-1876
Volume   2, in Box 1	1877-1906
Box   10 Reel   6	Index cards, 1951-1954
	Series: Declarations of Intention, 1839-1952	⇧
	Pre-1906
Volume   A Reel   11	1839-1849, Journal
Volume   2 Reel   7	1839-1882
Volume   3 Reel   7-8	1852-1906
Volume   1 Reel   7	1884-1896, #1-1296
	Post-1906
Volume   1, in Box 2 Reel   6	1907-1908, #1-100
Volume   2, in Box 2 Reel   6	1908-1910, #101-200
Volume   3 Reel   6	1910-1913, #201-500
Volume   4 Reel   6	1913-1916, #501-800
Volume   5 Reel   6	1916-1919, #801-1100
Volume   6 Reel   7	1919-1929, #1101-1600
Volume   7, in Box 3 Reel   7	1929, #1601-1611
Volume   8, in Box 3 Reel   7	1929-1936, #1612-1699
Volume   9, in Box 3 Reel   12	1936-1940, #1700-1799
Volume   10, in Box 3 Reel   12	1940-1943, #1800-1899
Volume   (11), in Box 3 Reel   12	1943-1952, #1900-1979
	Series: Petitions, 1906-1954	⇧
Volume   1, in Box 4 Reel   1	1906-1907, #1-50
Volume   2, in Box 4 Reel   1	1907-1908, #51-100
Volume   3 Reel   1	1908-1911, #101-250
Volume   4 Reel   1-2	1911-1912, #251-350
Volume   5 Reel   2	1912-1913, #351-450
Volume   6 Reel   2	1913-1916, #451-550
Volume   7 Reel   2-3	1916-1917, #551-650
Volume   8 Reel   3	1917-1921, #651-900
Volume   9 Reel   3-4	1921-1925, #901-1000
Volume   10 Reel   4	1925-1928, #1001-1100
Volume   11 Reel   4	1928-1929, #1101-1145
Volume   (12), in Box 5 Reel   5	1929-1933, #1146-1193
Volume   (13), in Box 5 Reel   5	1933-1937, #1194-1261
Volume   (14), in Box 5 Reel   12	1937-1940, #1262-1362
Volume   (15), in Box 5 Reel   12	1940-1943, #1363-1463
Volume   (16), in Box 6 Reel   12	1943-1945, #1464-1564
Volume   (17), in Box 6 Reel   12	1945-1954, #1565-1661
	Series: Certificates of Naturalizations, 1841-1925	⇧
Volume   2 Reel   5	1841-1884
Volume   1 Reel   5	1884-1903
Volume   3 Reel   8	1903-1906
Box   11 Reel   13	1907-1925
	Series: Other	⇧
	Loose Papers, 1837-1919
Box   7 Reel   8-9	A - F
Box   8 Reel   9	G - K
Box   9 Reel   9-10	L - R
Box   10 Reel   10	S - Z
Box   6 Reel   13	Citizenship Petitions Granted and Denied, 1930-1954
Box   10 Reel   13	Notice of Application for Admission to Citizenship, 1909