Collection Overview
Title: Naturalization Records: Polk County, Minnesota, 1870-1957
ID: OGLMC/1115
Extent: 30.0 Microfilm Reels
Date Acquired: 00/00/1988
Languages: English [eng]
Abstract
1870-1957
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The naturalization records of Polk County include Declaration of Intention, Naturalization Records and Petition and Record documents. Declaration of Intention (first papers) contain name, place and date of person wishing to become a citizen. Naturalization Records (second papers), which grant citizenship, contain name of applicant, country of origin, and date records were supplied. In 1906, the form was renamed "Petition and Record" and required greater detail in family and personal history.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions:
Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.
Acquisition Method:
Purchased on microfilm from the Minnesota Historical Society; Acc.88-1594
Original/Copies Note:
The original documents are preserved by the Minnesota Historical Society.
Finding Aid Revision History:
Finding aid input to Archon in June 2016.
Other URL:
http://library.und.edu/holdings.php?id=ODIN_ALEPH000755238
Box and Folder Listing
- Microfilm Reel 1: First Papers: Volumes A-B, 1873-1882
- Microfilm Reel 2: First Papers: Volumes C-D, 1882-1888
- Microfilm Reel 3: First Papers: Volumes E-F, 1888-1896
- Microfilm Reel 4: First Papers: Volumes G-I, 1896-1903
- Microfilm Reel 5: First Papers: Volume J, 1-2, 1903-1911
- Microfilm Reel 6: First Papers: Volumes 3-5, 1911-1929
- Microfilm Reel 7: First Papers: Volumes 6-8, 1929-1952; Second Papers: Volume A, 1879-1884
- Microfilm Reel 8: Second Papers: Volumes B-C, 1884-1888
- Microfilm Reel 9: Second Papers: Volumes E-F, 1889-1895
- Microfilm Reel 10: Second Papers: Volumes G-H, 1895-1898
- Microfilm Reel 11: Second Papers: Volumes I-J, 1898-1901
- Microfilm Reel 12: Second Papers: Volume K-L, 1901-1906
- Microfilm Reel 13: Second Papers: Volume 1, Minors, 1894-1904 and Volumes M-O, 1906-1909
- Microfilm Reel 14: Second Papers: Volumes P-Q, 1909-1914
- Microfilm Reel 15: Second Papers: Volumes R-S, 1915-1919
- Microfilm Reel 16: Second Papers: Volumes T-U, 1919-1922
- Microfilm Reel 17: Second Papers: Volumes V-X, 1922-1929
- Microfilm Reel 18: Second Papers: Volumes Y, Z, A1, 1929-1944
- Microfilm Reel 19: Second Papers: Volumes A2-A3, 1946-1955; Citizenship Petitions Granted and Denied (1 volume), 1929-1957; Applications to Take Oath of Allegiance (Naturalization by Repatriation) (1 volume), 1941-1949; Loose Naturalization Papers, A-Z, 1870-1902; Index: A
- Microfilm Reel 20: Loose Naturalization Papers: B-E
- Microfilm Reel 21: Loose Naturalization Papers: F-J
- Microfilm Reel 22: Loose Naturalization Papers: K-M
- Microfilm Reel 23: Loose Naturalization Papers: N-R
- Microfilm Reel 24: Loose Naturalization Papers: S-Z
- Microfilm Reel 25: Index to First Papers, 1873-1887
- Microfilm Reel 26: Index to Second Papers, A-I, 1879-1906
- Microfilm Reel 27: Index to Second Papers, J-R, 1879-1906
- Microfilm Reel 28: Index to Second Papers, S-Z, 1879-1906
- Microfilm Reel 29: Retake Reel
- Microfilm Reel 30: Index, 1947-1957