Thursday, September 8, 2016

Steve Ramik's Naturalization Documents

I've struggled to find Steve Ramik's (my mother's mother's father) naturalization documents. I had them for his wife Anna, but not for him. I put out a request for help at a Genealogy Facebook group that I joined a few weeks ago, and I had immediate results. There are some seriously great genealogists there who I have learned a lot from. It was Jan Mitchell-McDermott, one of the two administrators, who helped me.



The reason I couldn't find these documents is because they are not indexed, meaning they haven't been typed up yet. However, images of them are available and you can browse through them because they are in alphabetical order at FamilySearch.

Probably the best information I found here is a confirmation of his birth date. I have conflicting data with his birthday, and this is very helpful in pinning down the right date. Also of note are alternate spellings, or even names (possibly nicknames) for a couple of his children, including my own grandmother.

I was hoping for some insight into his place of residence or birth in the old country. He wrote the same thing here that he had on other documents, so nothing new there.

Here they are (if you click on the link above each picture you can see the pictures zoomed in, and much clearer).

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSMW-DY37?i=957&cat=1147528


https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSMW-DY7P?i=958&cat=1147528


https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSMW-DPVP?i=959&cat=1147528


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