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From: katydid <>
Subject: [HUNGARY-L] Re: nat papers and passenger ships to NY
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 09:42:45 +0000

The easiest way to get Naturalization records in the NYC area is to email the
Varick St. Branch with the names and dates, give them your snail address (as they
respond that way with copies of the index cards they find that match the info you
give) and hopefully they have found your person.

Passenger lists into NY are not indexed from 1847-1897. You must know a date and
then obtain the film for that time, or search the year of arrival . Sending to
NARA for that information (for any year) is hopeless. NARA workers are given only
24 minutes to find the information sent in on ANY form to them, and if they can't
find it they mark it not found.
It is always better to search yourself.

Detailed information on obtaining naturalization records and passenger ship
information, along with lots of other things I have collected, can be found on my
Helpful Hints for Successful Searching webstie at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlwat/instruct.htm

Maura

> Hi to All,
> Having a problem trying to find out where my grandparents came from in
> Hungry. All I know is that they didn't fly. According to the 1900 census
> they were born in Hungry as Janos Pal and Marie Hamala. They were
> married there before coming to the states in 1874, they lived in New
> York City so must have come trhough Ellis Island, were Naturalized in
> 1880 and were living in the Bronx when the 1920 cenus was taken. I have
> written to the National Archives abd Records Administration and got back
> the forms but then found out they do not have any records for the years
> 1847 - 1896. The last nma ewas changed to PALL henthey went trhough
> Immigration ans was told to me by my mother many years ago. There is
> only my sister and I so there is no help from any other family members.
> I don't know where to find the Naturalization papers in New York City
> due to the fact I don't know where it took place. Found plenty of "PAL"
> at LDS but nothing with a Marie Hamala as his wife, have tried their
> ship list but found nothing there as I don't even know what port they
> sailed from.
> This is about all I know that I can think of at this time. Any more
> suggestions, I live in Texas so a trip to N.Y.C is out of the question.
>
>
>
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