When my grandparents first came over in 1906, they listed their cousins' address on Elizabeth St. in Little Italy (NY) as their destination on the ships manifest. So I was looking around for pictures of Little Italy around that time and found this picture of Mulberry St.

I thought some of you ...

Hi Fiat82!

Is that something that is fixable? I thought I have read from others who have experience with this that naturalization papers can not be corrected. Can anyone confirm that?

If they made a mistake on the naturalization papers and you have all other supporting documents that have the ...

Hi Julie,

Is Archives owned by the same company as Ancestry?

Gina

I found this on War Resisters' International website for those interested:

http://www.wri-irg.org/programmes/world_survey/reports/Italy


When conscription was enforced, legal provisions for conscientious objection were laid down in the 1998 Law on Conscientious Objection (230/19988). If ...

I agree with you J O T S, I joined then cancelled a subscription to Archives.com when I realized they had no more than ancestry. The difference being that you could pay per view a few bucks for a document, with a low annual fee. I guess if you knew you only wanted to see a few specific things it ...

I am concerned about this for my children should I obtain Italian citizenship for them....

I understand that the military is voluntary at this point and there is no mandatory service with citizenship. However if there is a draft instated due to a war, is there anything similar to CO status in the ...

I find the USCIS website replete with contradictions and mistakes. Another one one is this:

"To request only the certificate, write "Dual Citz--Natz Certificate Only" on your request form G-1041A or in the "optional information section" of your online request."

Guess what. There is no "optional ...

Hi Johnny on the spot!

Yes I had thought of that, the problem being that the form says the certificate number can be up to 7 digits long, if you add the "C" it becomes 8 as my grandfathers number is already 7 digits long. I guess I was worried about waiting a long time to find out I didn't have the ...

Hi Julia,

I was really confused when I read the NYC Vital records website as well. I too need to get the birth certificate of my deceased father. So I called them. The woman on the phone said all I needed to do was bring in a COPY of a death certificate and they can issue me a birth certificate ...

The video class on Italian Geneology by the LDS was very helpful to me as a non Italian speaker in extracting pertinent info from Italian vital records.

https://fch.ldschurch.org/WWSupport/Cou ... layer.html

For future reference:

I just spoke to Mike in the records room at Kings County Clerks office. For the years 1907-1924 they do hold the actual documents, not copies or microfilm. They are mostly petitions, they do not have "certificates" as far as he knows.

Was this Sebastiano too old?

First Name: Sebastiano
Last Name: Salafia
Ethnicity: Italy, Italian South
Last Place of Residence: Mellili, Messina
Date of Arrival: Aug 03, 1907
Age at Arrival: 50y Gender: M Marital Status: M
Ship of Travel: Re d Italia
Port of Departure: Naples
Manifest Line ...

Three times at USCIS for the certificate! Mazzzini did you happen to ask at USDC in Manhattan when you were certifying documents if they had copies there as well?

Considering that the USCIS is making copies from 50+ yr old microfilm of COPIES according to their website (no doubt they are terrible ...

In the fairly recent past, most consulates did not require the certificate. It seems that some which did not before do so now; I believe New York is one of these.

Yes, the current NY consulate web site states it does require the certified certificate, so USCIS it is. If they are the only ones who ...

Congratulations Mazzini! It sounds like you had a fairly smooth process in LA, and so fast! I know NY is going to take me a while....

Thanks for clarifying, I think I have a plan now.

I need to get the certificate from USCIS BEFORE I go to the courts, who I believe can supply me with the other ...