Naturalization and Citizenshipat PeakRadar

Naturalization is the process by which an alien becomes an American citizen. These records can provide a researcher with valuable information such as a person’s birth date, birth location in the Old Country, occupation, immigration year, marital status, spouse information, and witnesses’ names and addresses. Naturalization and the individual steps to citizenship could be done at any court of record, of which there were five thousand in the United States. Christine Cohen is currently the program director of the Whittier Area Genealogical Society, California. She is also a member of the Tualatin Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, and the Association of Professional Genealogists. Her interest in genealogy began in 1977 with the airing of the TV miniseries “Roots.” Her enthusiasm grew when she was given a typed pedigree chart, commissioned by her maternal grandfather, of the family’s Dutch heritage from the New Netherlands in the 1650s. A Californian native, Christine has a degree from UCLA in political science and has recently retired to pursue her genealogy interests full time. Members: Zoom links and handouts will be emailed to you before the meeting. If you still need the monthly meeting link, log in with your user name and password, then click on “Monthly Meeting Zoom Link,” the second button under Member Log In. Guests are welcome to attend the meeting via Zoom. Please request an invitation from the PPGS President@PPGS.org. Please note that members receive meeting handouts. If you are interested in joining PPGS go to PPGS Join / Renew. This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region’s one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.