Title: Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Portage County): Naturalization Records
Inclusive Dates: 1844-1956

Creator:

• Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Portage County)

Call Number: Portage Series 17

Quantity: 8.4 c.f (3 card index boxes, 10 archives boxes, 2 flat boxes, and 12 separate volumes); and 16 reels of microfilm (35 mm)

Repository:

Housed at the Nelis R. Kampenga University Archives & Area Research Center, Learning Resources Center, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; 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-Stevens Point Library / Stevens Point Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Records of naturalization cases in the Circuit Court of Portage County, including indexes to naturalization (1856-1954); Declarations of Intention (1844-1953); Petitions for Citizenship (1906-1954); Certificates of Naturalization (1856-1906); Orders Granting and Denying Citizenship (1929-1956); Facts for Declarations of Intention (1913-1921); and Notice of Application for Admission to Citizenship (1907-1920).

Note:

The microfilm portion of this series was produced in 1995 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-port0017

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

General

The Portage County Naturalization Records, 1844-1956, consist of the Indexes to Citizenship, Declarations of Intention, Petitions, Certificates of Naturalization and Certificate Stubs, and ancillary records.

For preservation purposes, some volumes were dismantled and placed in boxes, however the original system of numbering volumes was retained since the indexes are often keyed to this system. For these volumes, the container list gives the volume number in parentheses ( ) for identification purposes, and the box and reel number for location purposes. Volume numbers in brackets [ ] were assigned by the Archives.

Almost all records are available both in original paper form and on microfilm.

Indexes

Researchers should begin by consulting the indexes. For persons naturalized from 1856 through 1884, use the "Index to Final Papers, 1856-1884." Entries are alphabetical by initial letter of the last name and chronological thereunder. The entry gives the year the Final Naturalization Papers were filed. Final papers may also provide the year that the Declaration of Intention was filed, and if the filing was done in Portage County, the Declaration can be found in this series.

For persons completing the naturalization process from 1907 through 1954, use the “Index to Citizenship.” Entries are roughly alphabetical by last name, and index Declarations, Petitions, and Certificates.

For persons naturalized between 1884 and 1906, and for persons not found in the other indexes, use the card index. Entries are arranged alphabetically by last name and index Petitions and Certificates. The years covered overlap those in the “Index to Citizenship” so many of the cards duplicate the entries in the “Index” volume.

Records

The Declarations of Intention date 1844-1953. Declarations from 1844-1906 are filed by year and alphabetically thereunder. Declarations from 1907-1953 are filed by declaration number, which approximates chronological order. Several of the post-1907 volumes have been disbound and placed in archival folders and boxes. Each volume contains an index.

The Petitions for Citizenship date 1906-1954 and are arranged by filing date and assigned a unique number. Each volume contains an index.

Naturalization Certificates date 1856-1906. Disbound Certificates for 1903-1906 duplicate those in the volumes. Each volume contains an index. Certificates for 1926-1936 are in the form of certificate stubs. After 1906, local clerks retained only the certificate stub books. The stubs are arranged by certificate number which is roughly chronological.

Ancillary documents include one folder of Orders Granting and Denying Citizenship, 1929-1956 (no index), Facts for Declaration of Intention, 1913-1921, and Notices of Application for Admission to Citizenship, 1907-1920.

The Facts for Declarations are worksheets used by the Clerk of Courts to gather information for filling out the Petition form. The information contained in the form is identical to that in the Petition form. The Fact sheets are arranged by date filed and assigned a consecutive number which becomes the petition number. This group of records contains Facts sheets for Petitions [1]-582, however each petition does not have a corresponding Fact sheet present.

The Notices of Application for Admission to Citizenship are monthly summaries of Petitions filed. The Notices were required to be posted, usually in the courthouse.

	Series: Indexes, 1884-1954
	Card Index, circa 1884-1954
Box   1 Reel   1	A-H
Box   2 Reel   1	I-O
Box   3 Reel   1-2	Q-Z
Volume   (1), in Box 4 Reel   3	Index to Final Papers, 1856-1884
Volume   [2] Reel   3	Index to Citizenship, 1907-1954
	Series: Declarations of Intention, 1844-1953	⇧
Box   4 Reel   3-4	1844-1870
Box   5 Reel   4-5	1871-1880
Box   6 Reel   5-6	1881-1887
Box   7 Reel   6-7	1888-1893
Volume   (1), in Box 8 Reel   7-8	, 1894-#001-100 , (March 1907-Dec. 1911)
Volume   2 Reel   8	#101-400 , (Dec. 1911-Feb. 1919)
Volume   3 Reel   8	#401-700 , (Feb. 1919-Aug. 1927)
Volume   (4), in Box 9 Reel   8	#701-745 , (Aug. 1927-June 1929)
Volume   (5), in Box 9 Reel   9	#746-845 , (Aug. 1929-Aug. 1938)
Volume   (6), in Box 9 Reel   9	#846-950 , (Aug. 1938-Apr. 1941)
Volume   (7), in Box 9 Reel   9	#951-1027 , (Apr. 1941-Oct. 1953
	Series: Petitions for Naturalization, 1906-1954	⇧
Volume   1 Reel   10	#0001-0050 , (Dec. 1906-June 1910)
Volume   2 Reel   10-11	#0051-0150 , (June 1910-March 1913)
Volume   3 Reel   11	#0151-0250 , (March 1913-Jan. 1914)
Volume   4 Reel   11	#0251-0300 , (Jan. 1914-Sept. 1915)
Volume   5 Reel   11-12	#0351-0450 , (Sept. 1915-Aug. 1918)
Volume   6 Reel   12	#0451-0550 , (Aug. 1918-Feb. 1921)
Volume   7 Reel   12-13	#0551-0800 , (March 1921-July 1927)
Volume   (8), in Box 10 Reel   13	#0801-0837 , (July 1927-June 1929)
Volume   (9), in Box 11 Reel   13	#0838-0887 , (Aug. 1929-Apr. 1936)
Volume   (10), in Box 11 Reel   13	#0888-0938 , (Apr. 1936-March 1939)
Volume   (11), in Box 11 Reel   13-14	#0939-0999 , (June 1939-Feb. 1941)
Volume   (12), in Box 11 Reel   14	#1000-1071 , (Feb. 1941-March 1942)
Volume   (13), in Box 11 Reel   14	#1072-1130 , (Aug. 1942-Aug. 1943)
Volume   (14), in Box 12 Reel   14	#1131-1200 , (Aug. 1943-March 1949)
Volume   (15), in Box 12 Reel   14	#1201-1300 , (March 1949-March 1954
	Series: Certificates or Certificate Stubs, 1856-1936	⇧
Box   13 Reel   9	1856-1882
Box   14 Reel   9-10	1883-1884, 1903-1906
Volume   1 Reel   14-15	#1-534 , (Nov. 1894-March 1903)
Volume   2 Reel   15-16	#1-600 , (Oct. 1903-Sept. 1906)
Box   16	#2432854-4066672 , (Dec. 1926-June 1936)
	Series: Ancillary Documents, 1907-1956	⇧
Volume   (1), in Box 15 Reel   16	Orders Granting and Denying Citizenship, #1-62 (1929-1956)
Box   15 Reel   16	Facts for Declarations of Intention, #[1]-392 (1913-1918)
Box   16 Reel   16	Facts for Declarations of Intention, #393-582 (1919-1921)
Box   16 Reel   16	Notice of Application for Admission to Citizenship, 1907-1920