This report summarizes, by court location, naturalization applications relating to Armenians in the USA. These include two different forms: the Declaration of Intention (also known as "first papers") and the Petition for Naturalization. The Declaration of Intention was filed first. Within seven years, the immigrant could apply for citizenship by filing a Petition for Naturalization. These two documents are extremely valuable sources of information about Armenian immigrants, containing facts not normally found elsewhere. Many of them reveal the immigrant's village of birth; some give the date and place of their marriage in the "old country" and the name of a spouse who didn't survive the genocide. Most of those applying for citizenship were men; although some women applied in the later years.

This database table currently represents just a few of the communities in North America where Armenian immigrants can be found. The records abstracted are those where the images of the naturalization documents are available online. As more of these images become available, and as time permits, I will continue to expand the scope of this coverage. Volunteers are graciously providing assistance in transcribing records from other Armenian settlement communities.

To see what scope of records have been searched (or are currently being searched) for inclusion into this database table, press the button below.

Lists of naturalizations for Canada can be found at http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/citizenship-naturalization-records/naturalized-records-1915-1951/Pages/introduction.aspx. The actual certificates may be requested individually, but are yet not publicly available online.

Several options are presented below for customizing this report. By default, the report is includes both forms, sorted by court location. The scope of the report can be summarized at the court location detail level by unchecking the box labeled "Detail by Form Type?". The sort order can be changed to sort in descending order by count. (If sort is selected, a suppression filter can also be activated to not show the counts less than the desired percentage, in increments of 1%, 2%, 3%, etc.)

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