Scottish American Heritage MonthApril is Scottish American Heritage Month and we are sharing these i
Scottish American Heritage MonthApril is Scottish American Heritage Month and we are sharing these images of Scottish immigrants naturalizing in the U.S. between 1939 and 1943. Meet Alison McKinley Campbell, age 57, a practical nurse from Cowdenbeath; Catherine Archer Smith, age 62, a nurse from Dundee; William Wilson, age 46, a plumber from Glasgow; Clementina Sinclair Heddle Smith, age 55, a housewife from St. Andrews; Charles Leslie Brown, age 39, an actor from Aberdeen; and Alexander Thomson, age 37, a blacksmith from Thurso. Did your ancestors immigrate to the U.S. and become naturalized citizens? If they naturalized in southern California, Arizona, or Clark County, Nevada, we may have their documents here. We have over 1 million naturalization documents in our holdings!Series: Petitions for Naturalization, 1887 - 1991. Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009. (National Archives Identifier 594890). -- source link
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