Volume 5 Issue 9 The Mason Log Mason County Genealogical Society  Thursday, May 6th  7:00 p.m.  12th & Connection— Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints  Membership Dues to: Charlotte Martin  Singles: $15.00 yearly Couples: $20.00 yearly Writing Family History 2 The News That Was 2 Land Description Diagram 3 Table of Land Measurements 4 Goals For the New Year: How Are You Doing? 5 Sugarless Boiled Frosting 5 June 5th—Forest Festival Booth Call to Serve 5 Raised Chocolate Cake 6 Inside this issue: Trying to find out when and where your ancestor filed their naturalization paperwork? That can be a much harder question to answer than you think. According to the 1910 census my ancestor immi- grated in 1886 from Can- ada, French. Family lore says he is from Gaspe, Quebec. It also says that he is Naturalized. If these facts are true, I now know that he naturalized some- where in the US between 1886 and 1910. I’ve received his mar- riage license from Novem- ber 1894. He is using his new Americanized sur- name—White instead of LeBlanc. Clearfield county has no record of his naturalization. So the search is on. Was he naturalized prior to marriage? The license doesn’t say anything about that. Did he naturalize before com- ing into Pennsyl- vania? If so what was his route? How long did he have to live in a place to be considered a resident and there- fore eligible for natu- ralization? What is the first step of naturali- zation? What if any time constraints are there in the process? To answer these ques- tions there are lots of books and articles to guide you through the process. Guide to Naturalization Records of the United States, Christina K. Schaefer, 1997, Genea- logical Publishing Co., Inc. The Became Americans: Finding Naturalization Records and Ethnic Ori- gins, Loretto Dennis Szucs, 1998, Ancestry Inc. In a quick Google search I found multitudes of books/pamphlets on individual area naturali- zation papers and laws. Naturalization May 2010 A Puzzle The following is a puzzle that puzzles everybody: Take the number of your living brothers, double the number, add to it three, multiply by five, add to it the number of living sis- ters, multiply the result by ten, add the number of deaths of brothers and sisters and subtract 150 from the total. The first figure to the right will be the number of deaths, the middle figure will be the number of living sisters and the left hand figure the number of living brothers. Royalton Banner, Royalton, Morrison, Minnesota, Vol. XX No. 4, February 1905 May Meeting B K Anderson Land Records Paper clips seem like a good way to keep papers together, but they really become a headache when the clip is caught on the wrong paper or the folder itself. They can also rust, which spells disaster for archival papers. , OCR Text: Volume 5 Issue 9 The Mason Log Mason County Genealogical Society  Thursday, May 6th  7:00 p.m.  12th & Connection— Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints  Membership Dues to: Charlotte Martin  Singles: $15.00 yearly Couples: $20.00 yearly Writing Family History 2 The News That Was 2 Land Description Diagram 3 Table of Land Measurements 4 Goals For the New Year: How Are You Doing? 5 Sugarless Boiled Frosting 5 June 5th—Forest Festival Booth Call to Serve 5 Raised Chocolate Cake 6 Inside this issue: Trying to find out when and where your ancestor filed their naturalization paperwork? That can be a much harder question to answer than you think. According to the 1910 census my ancestor immi- grated in 1886 from Can- ada, French. Family lore says he is from Gaspe, Quebec. It also says that he is Naturalized. If these facts are true, I now know that he naturalized some- where in the US between 1886 and 1910. I’ve received his mar- riage license from Novem- ber 1894. He is using his new Americanized sur- name—White instead of LeBlanc. Clearfield county has no record of his naturalization. So the search is on. Was he naturalized prior to marriage? The license doesn’t say anything about that. Did he naturalize before com- ing into Pennsyl- vania? If so what was his route? How long did he have to live in a place to be considered a resident and there- fore eligible for natu- ralization? What is the first step of naturali- zation? What if any time constraints are there in the process? To answer these ques- tions there are lots of books and articles to guide you through the process. Guide to Naturalization Records of the United States, Christina K. Schaefer, 1997, Genea- logical Publishing Co., Inc. The Became Americans: Finding Naturalization Records and Ethnic Ori- gins, Loretto Dennis Szucs, 1998, Ancestry Inc. In a quick Google search I found multitudes of books/pamphlets on individual area naturali- zation papers and laws. Naturalization May 2010 A Puzzle The following is a puzzle that puzzles everybody: Take the number of your living brothers, double the number, add to it three, multiply by five, add to it the number of living sis- ters, multiply the result by ten, add the number of deaths of brothers and sisters and subtract 150 from the total. The first figure to the right will be the number of deaths, the middle figure will be the number of living sisters and the left hand figure the number of living brothers. Royalton Banner, Royalton, Morrison, Minnesota, Vol. XX No. 4, February 1905 May Meeting B K Anderson Land Records Paper clips seem like a good way to keep papers together, but they really become a headache when the clip is caught on the wrong paper or the folder itself. They can also rust, which spells disaster for archival papers. , Mason County Genealogical Society,Mason Logs,Mason Logs,2010,May+2010.pdf,May+2010.pdf Page 1, May+2010.pdf Page 1