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Carbon County was formed from:
Northampton
MonroeCounties in 1843.
Neighboring counties are:
Monroe
Northampton
Lehigh
Schuylkill
Luzerne Counties.
Hi,my name is Barbara Lavin, and I am your county hostess/coordinator.
I took this site over from Adam Roberts on May 14th,1999. Hopefully you'll see
new and exciting things. Please bookmark this site as things could change
regularly. I hope you enjoy your visit and please come again.
County seat: Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk)
Many of our ancestors migrated to another county - generally one close by. Please try searching in the following neighboring counties..
We need your town histories!!! Please help us get them all-
we don't want any left out. All our Carbon towns and boroughs are important.
We need more on all of them - let's make this the best site it can be. To help,
e-mail me let me know which town you want to do and I'll add you to the list of angels.
You are cordially invited to sign up to be a Carbon County Volunteer. We could not possibly have enough wonderful people who are willing to help others to find Carbon County ancestors. We would love to have your help.
You may have an old history book with an index and be willing to check to see if someone's ancestor is listed. You might have Tax Lists, Census Records, Courthouse Records, Death Records. Someone needs your information.
Would you be interested in typing an index from any one of the old Carbon County history books? This would be a once and done, permanent help to all of us doing\ research.
If you would like to volunteer to make this page better, we sure could use the help! Please e-mail Barb Lavin
To do some of the volunteer work, you don't have to reside in the area. For some of the projects, the coordinators will snail-mail you the records to be transcribed, along with instructions. Or you could provide services for a project involving records that exist in your area. To learn more about volunteering to transcribe passenger ships' lists for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, who then upload the list onto their site on RootsWeb for all to access -- Click Here: ISTG - FAQ Read that entire page of questions and answers (just keep scrolling down the page). If this is something you'd be willing to help with, click on "Fill Out Application" at the bottom of that page.
The new queries will be posted automatically. You can leave your query,etc at
Hinkle's Board
National Archives 900Market st. room1350 Phila. Pa.
Post-1906, naturalizations are confined to the Attorney General and courts of record of general jurisdiction, meaning the highest trial courts in the area. 8 US Code section 1421 was changed again in 1988 to provide that the US Attorney General is the naturalizing authority, and that the AG is authorized to delegate the authority to administer the oath of citizen- ship to any US District Court and to any court of record of general juris- diction in any state or territory.
The National Archives at 9th and Market in Phila. holds federal court records for VA, PA, MD,WV, DE
Indices to Philadelphia Federal Court naturalizations are on microfilm. They are at NARA Philadelphia and the National Archives in DC in room 400. In addition, the naturalization records themselves are on micro through about 1930 and available in both places. Post-1930 records may only be available at the Philadelphia NARA.
Before July 4,1776, foreign immigrants who wanted to be naturalized swore allegiance to the King of England.
Philadelphia Naturalizations PA Naturalizations
First go to Roots web at Rootsweb Then on the left hand side click on the word "States" at this point you will need to scroll down the page until you find 'USA, State by State Resources:' Then click on the any of the states, in our case it would be 'Pennsylvania Resources Page' again scroll down this page until you reach the title "General Resources" and then click on the LDS research Outline for Pennsylvania
How to use and access NARA
2. put the word 'FORM' in the subject line 3. in the text of your message, include --the number of the form from the following list: GIL #7 (brochure for Military Service Records) Form 80 (Military service and pension records prior to World War I, including the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, and Spanish-American War); Form 81 (Passenger Arrivals) Form 82 (Copies of Census Records) Form 83 (Eastern Cherokee Applications) Form 180 (Military service records, World War I and later). --the quantity you wish to receive. Requests which do not contain the word 'FORM' in the subject line get routed differently and will take more time to process.
will take you right to where you need to be to search.. 1. on the left side, click on the phrase 'New in the NAIL database', 2. on the next page, click on 'recently added data' on the left side 3. on the next page, it will list the newest additions, as you scroll down...it will tell you the specific key word/s needed to access each set of documents, newly added 4. at the top of that same page.....at the end of the 1st paragraph click on 'batches' 5. that will give you a list of dates showing previous additions to the NAIL database. 6. just click on a date and scroll down each list...
Immigrant and Passenger Arrivals Click on catalog of microfilm publications, then on immigrant and passenger arrivals you can find the immigration and passenger lists available on microfilm. Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York do include the years 1871 and 1881. Some cities are indexed but after the 1840's New York is not. There are numerous reels of film for each of year. As far as I know the LDS has them all available for loan
~ United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Landing Reports of Aliens, 1798-1828 "3 multi-page volumes have been digitized from this series. The digitized documents relate to Section 2 of an Act passed on April 14, 1802, which required all persons who were aliens and desired naturalization to report to the Clerk of the Court. They were to provide the Clerk with certain information and were then given a certificate of this registration. Information requested was: name of alien, race, place of birth, age, nationality, occupation, date and place of arrival in the United States, and the reason for entering the United States. . . To retrieve the 3 multi-page documents, select the 'NAIL Digital Copies Search Form' and enter 'Landing Reports of Aliens" in the first Keywords box. For more complete descriptions, and searching tips, visit:
Go to the following website -- Naturalizations: Researching Philadelphia Records which is about naturalization records at the Phila. City Archives. Fee for copy of Naturalizations on file at Phila. City Archives (1793 to 1930): $4.00 per set of papers for each name searched. If the naturalization occurred after 27 Sept 1906, contact the INS through Form G-639 (see the end of that web page for more details). The Immigration and Naturalization Service (I.N.S.) has duplicate records of all naturalizations that occurred after 27 Sept 1906. 26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY 10278 NARA: Naturalization Records )
The INS in Washington has files on people who were nationalized after Sept. 27, 1906. If any of your family were naturalized before Sept. 27, 1906 then those records are housed at the courthouse in the county seat where the nationalization occured. The telephone number as of June 97 was 1-800-870-FORM. Ask for Form G-639 and make photocopies . The request is under the Freedom of information Act (FOIA), it takes about 6 months to get a return, also bring a FOIA request, you don't have to state a relationship.
The only neccessary information is Full name, Date and Place of birth
(Exact or Approximate). Any other info will greatly speed the process.
Mail the form in an envelope to: You should receive a letter from the INS/FOIA acknowledging receipt, the letter will have a CO# on it that you will need if you should call.
Sponsors then did the same as now - Sponsors tell the INS that they will be financially responsible for the welfare ($ or a job) of the people that they are asking the government to admit. In 1882, Congress passed the first laws limiting the people allowed in the states. This act kept out criminals, those considered "insane" and those likely to become public charges. Also by 1882, there was an agreement to keep out Chinese immigrants - this was called the Oriental Exclusion Act. By 1907 there was an agreement that limited the number of Japanese laborers to the US and that was the year that 1.3 million people from all over were admitted. Within 10 more years, Congress passed much more restrictive laws - such as a law that required that an immigrant could at least read and write one language. In 1921, Congress passed a quota law, limiting the number of immigrants from each country. That law has continued to evolve to today with the last major changes in the late 1990s from the Shamrock-L list.
IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE (INS) HISTORY, GENEALOGY, AND
EDUCATION PAGES
However, Not all of the World War I alien registrations were destroyed for all the states. For example, the Kansas registrations can be seen at the Central Plains Region branch of the National Archives, in Kansas City, MO. Check state by state for those Alien Registrations, because they are wonderful sources, and often even include a photo of the person.  War MedalsYou can obtain some of the war medals given to your veteran ancestor! If you are interested Nara has a site Military Personnel Records - Military Medals and Awards
You need to distinguish between the World War I draft (persons born roughly 1872-1900) and the 4th registration for the World War II draft (persons born roughly 1877-1897).
The original cards for the WW1 draft are at NARA Atlanta. NARA Philadelphia has microfilms. They are arranged by draft boards. Within each draft board, the cards are (mostly) alphabetical.
It is only the original cards that are in state / county / alpha order. Someone posted a message to one of the lists that NARA was planning on re-filming the cards since they are now in state / county / alpha order. If such a thing is underway it is unknown to the East Pointe archive staff and they should know if such a thing was in the works. If you request a copy of your ancestor's draft card from any NARA branch other than this one they will be searching the LDS microfilm and you will have to know the state and draft board for them to make a copy. It is only at the East Pointe location that you can request a copy by state and then county and the copy will be made from the ORIGINAL card.
The "codger's draft registrations" are available, and for PA and MD, easy to use because they are alphabetized by state. They also have great information, like date and city of birth, employer, name and address of next of kin. They are easy to read. They have more detailed personal descriptions than the WW1 cards. 1. Not everyone obligated to register did so. 2. NARA has the original file cards, not microfilm, so you cannot simply arrive and expect to inspect. You need to give them a day's notice of your arrival, and the specific surnames you will be seeking, so they can bring those boxes of cards in from storage. To get a World War II record that is not open to you through the Archives, try the nearest office of the Veterans' Administration. I know people who say they've gotten World War II records that way.
WW bonus applications The service number is also shown on these State Bonus Applications [However, Bonuses were paid by many jurisdictions. Veterans were usually required to furnish a copy of separation papers but not always. The biggest problem here is that a great many veterans never applied.] The VA may or may not have a service number because it isn't needed. The VA assign their own file numbers.
You can send a request to the Pennsylvania State Archives for WWI
Bonus Applications. Although the site only references WWII, you may receive a
copy of the application. WWI veterans were to receive their bonuses 17 years after the war; briefly said, protested and finally marched on Washington during the Depression, were finally granted their bonuses in 1934.
If you have a family member who died in one of the wars and is interred in an over-seas cemetery, the State Dept. [upon request and with no fee] will send you a beautiful lithograph of the cemetery with an information booklet describing it. They'll go out and photograph the grave and for a small fee put flowers on it [seasonal], due to weather hardships in foreign countries.
The Sacramento German Genealogy Society issued the "German Card for Genealogical Research", plastic, folds into 2 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.,includes German script, symbols, terms, soundex and more. SGGS, P.O. Box 66061, Sacrament, CA 95866-0061. Useful and portable. Present Price unknown
"The "f" in the middle of the word almost certainly should be an "s" in the Gothic script that was once commonly used in German texts. The "s" at the end of a word takes the form of the "s" that you are more accustomed to seeing, but in the middle of a word the form of the "s" looks more like an "f" without the right side of the mark that crosses the letter horizontally." Since this time, I've also found the f/s use in handwritten documents. I haven't yet determined any rhyme or reason to when or where it might appear, but it's out there. Hope this was of some help.
For example why was "s" sometimes written like an "f"?
Bureau of Archives and History P.O. Box 1026 Harrisburg, PA 17108 sells warrantee twp maps which show the original land grants within present township boundaries as well as names and other information for the original warrantee and patentee. contributed by Rene Phelan
Keep in mind when dealing with an Abstract - they can contain lots of other information besides names, dates and legal descriptions. Often they contain transcriptions of Wills, Divorces, various lawsuits, etc.
Records of U.S. Merchant Marine Personnel are now kept by the U.S. Coast Guard in Washington, D.C. However, back in those days (1895-1905) the U.S. Merchant Marine records would have been kept by the following U.S. Gov`t Depts.
1852-1903 Dept. of the Treasury If such records are still avaiable they would be in the National Archives. Under records group RG 41.2.4 Records relating to vessel personnel
The U.S.C. G. present day files.
Since 1974, the Buckley Amendment prevents any school receiving federal funds from revealing any student information without the written consent of the student. That would definitely apply to the student's academic record. Some schools believe that, before publishing a directory of names and addresses of students, they must give students the opportunity to "opt out" of it by checking a box on the registration forms. This may not apply to students and former students presently living, or whether the right descends to the heirs of the former student. May also not be grandfathered.
Social Security Administration Office of Central Records Operations FOIA Workgroup P.O. Box 17772 300 N. Green Street Baltimore, Maryland 21290
Tell them you are invoking the Freedom of Information Act,
5U.S.C. Section 552, and you are requesting a copy of the SS-5 application
for the following person.
Here's a tip
Confused about the SSDI?? You aren't alone. Here is some info for you It has nothing to do with whether or not the person was already receiving Society Security benefits, which are benefits paid to living people after retirement. The survivor may receive those death benefits, but the decendant's name may not be in the index, although many other deaths are. Sometimes the death is not reported to the right department. You may find the survivor's name on the list. Until the early 1950s, farmers were not on Social Security, so mnay farmers are not listed for their deaths, even though they died after that date. In short, there are various reasons for names not to be on the Social Security Death Index.
If you have any additions or corrections to this list, please let me
know. Send email to Barb Lavin
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