Title: Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Monroe County): Naturalization Records
Inclusive Dates: 1854-1946

Creator:

• Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Monroe County)

Call Number: Monroe Series 8; C2002/044

Quantity: 8.0 cubic feet (1 card index box, 7 archives boxes, and 18 separate volumes) and 14 reels of microfilm (35 mm); plus additions of 0.1 cubic feet

Repository:

Housed at the Special Collections & Area Research Center, Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

UW-La Crosse Murphy Library / La Crosse Area Research Ctr. (Map)

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

Abstract:

Records of naturalization cases in the Circuit Court of Monroe County, Wisconsin, 1854-1946. Records include Certificates of Naturalization (1883-1902), Declarations of Intention (1906-1943), Petitions (1903-1946), Military Petitions (1918), Orders Granting and Denying Petitions (1930-1944), Repatriations (1941-1943), Index to Declarations (1854-1906), Card Index to Citizenship (1868-1906), Index to Naturalizations (1868-1946), and Notice of Application for Admission to Citizenship, 1912.

Language: English

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

General

The Monroe County Naturalization Records prior to September 27, 1906 are incomplete because most of those naturalization transactions were recorded only in the Court Minute Book and not in separate volumes.

For preservation purposes some post-1906 Declarations and Petitions have been dismantled and placed in boxes. For these volumes thecontents list below gives the volume number in parentheses for identification purposes and the box and folder number for location purposes.

Most of these records have been microfilmed. Reels 1-2 and 11-14 were microfilmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, which holds the master negatives. Reels 3-10 were microfilmed by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, which holds the negatives.

Records and Indexes

The Index to Declarations of Intention, 1854-1906, is arranged in alphabetical segments by first letter of surname and therein chronologically by date of filing the Declaration. The name and the date of filing are the only pieces of information given in this index. The original Index to Declarations can be found in Folder 1 of Box 8 of the collection. The information in this index was rewritten into another volume referred to as Index to Declarations (New). With this information the researcher can locate individual Declarations in Boxes 2-4.

Pre-1906 Declarations are arranged chronologically by year and thereunder are alphabetical. The Declaration forms completed in Monroe County do not actually begin until 1854. However, Boxes 2-4 also contain copies of earlier Declarations from other courts. There is no index to these particular Declarations.

The alphabetical Card Index to Citizenship, 1868-1906, indexes the Certificates of Naturalization, 1883-1902 (Volume A), and the Petitions 1903-1906 (Volume B), as well as Petitions and Certificates not included in this collection. It gives the volume and page number of the Court Minute Book where the naturalizations are recorded. This index also lists the date of naturalization and the names of witnesses, county of birth or allegiance, and date and port of arrival in the United States.

The most complete index is the Index to Naturalizations, 1868-1946, listing those who completed the naturalization process. It is arranged in alphabetical segments by first letter of surname and therein chronologically by date of the Order of Admission to citizenship. Dates, volume, page, and document numbers for Declarations, Petitions, and Certificates are given.

The post-September 26, 1906 documents are complete and follow standard recording systems with one exception. That exception is the manner in which military petitions from soldiers at Fort McCoy were handled; they were treated separately and employ a separate numbering system.

This collection was received in multiple parts from the donor(s) and is organized into 2 major parts. these materials have not been physically interfiled and researchers might need to consult more than one part to locate similar materials.

• Part 1 (Monroe Series 8): Original Collection, 1854-1946
• Part 2 (C2002/044): Additions, 1912

Monroe Series 8	Part 1 (Monroe Series 8): Original Collection, 1854-1946 Physical Description: 8.0 cubic feet (1 card index box, 7 archives boxes, and 18 separate volumes) and 14 reels of microfilm (35 mm)
	Series: Indexes
Reel   1	Index to Declarations of Intention, 1854-1906 (New)
Box-folder   8-1 Reel   11	Index to Declarations of Intention, 1854-1906 (Old)
Box   1 Reel   1	Card Index to Citizenship, 1868-1906
Reel   1	Index to Naturalizations, 1868-1946
	Series: Pre-1906 September 27 Records	⇧
Box   2 Reel   11	Declarations, 1846-1871
Box   3 Reel   12-13	Declarations, 1872-1886
Box   4 Reel   13	Declarations, 1887-1906
Volume   A Reel   2	Certificates of Naturalization, 1883-1902
Volume   B Reel   2	Petitions, 1903-1906
	Series: Post-1906 September 26 Records	⇧
	Declarations
Volume   1 Reel   3	1906-1910, Nos. 1-100
Volume   2 Reel   3	1910-1918, Nos. 101-400
Volume   3 Reel   3	1918-1929, Nos. 401-554
Volume   (4), in Box 5, Folder 1 Reel   3	1929-1942, Nos. 555-650
Volume   (5), in Box 5, Folder 2 Reel   3	1942-1943, Nos. 651-656
	Petitions
Volume   1 Reel   4	1906-1909, Nos. 1-50
Volume   2 Reel   4	1909-1911, Nos. 51-150
Volume   3 Reel   5	1911-1913, Nos. 151-250
Volume   4 Reel   5	1913, Nos. 251-350
Volume   5 Reel   6	1913-1914, Nos. 351-450
Volume   6 Reel   6	1914-1917, Nos. 451-550
Volume   7 Reel   7	1917-1920, Nos. 551-650
Volume   8 Reel   7	1920-1925, Nos. 651-750
Volume   9 Reel   8	1925-1929, Nos. 751-787
Volume   (10), in Box 5, Folder 3 Reel   8	1929-1938, Nos. 788-837
Volume   (11), in Box 5, Folder 4 Reel   8	1938-1941, Nos. 838-887
Volume   (12), in Box 5, Folder 5 Reel   8	1941-1943, Nos. 888-925
Volume   (13), in Box 5, Folder 6 Reel   9	1943-1946, Nos. 926-1017
	Series: Military Petitions	⇧
Volume   1 Reel   9	1918, Nos. 1M-250M
Volume   2 Reel   10	1918, Nos. 251M-375M
	Series: Miscellaneous	⇧
Box-folder   8-2 Reel   14	Depositions, 1911-1940
Reel   14	Notices of Application for Admission to Citizenship, 1916-1936
Box-folder   5-7 Reel   10	Orders Granting and Denying Petitions, Nos. 785-979, 1930-1944
Box-folder   8-4	Directives and Orders from the INS, 1937-1942
Box-folder   5-8 Reel   10	Repatriations, Nos. 1-8, 1941-1943
	Stubs and Stub Books
Box   6 Reel   13-14	1909-1918, Certificate Nos. 46726-107490
Box   7 Reel   14	1918-1926, Certificate Nos. 1108101-1688500
Box-folder   7-1 Reel   14	1926-1937, Certificate Nos. 2432841-4175332
Box-folder   7-2	1938-1944, Certificate Nos. 4427839-5794925
Box-folder   7-3	circa 1939-1941, Certificate Nos. 827-909
Box-folder   7-4	1944-1946, Certificate Nos. 5794973-6389863
Box-folder   8-3 Reel   14	Miscellaneous, 1894-1946
C2002/044	Part 2 (C2002/044): Additions, 1912 Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (1 folder)  Scope and Content Note: Notice of Applications, 1912.	⇧