AGENCY: District Court (Fifth District : Washington County)

SERIES: 23597
TITLE: Citizenship certificate stubs
DATES: 1913-1929.
ARRANGEMENT: Numerical by entry number.

DESCRIPTION: This series contains stubs for certificates of citizenship issued by the court to newly naturalized citizens. The court clerk was responsible for sending the federal Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization a duplicate of the certificate, "and to make and keep on file in his office a stub for each certificate so issued by him, whereon shall be entered a memorandum of all the essential facts set forth in such certificate." The preprinted stub forms were in volumes issued by the Bureau of Naturalization.

The essential facts included both filing information and personal history data: certificate number; name; age; declaration of intention filing data; petition for citizenship filing data; name, age, and residence of wife; names, ages, and residences of minor children; date of order admitting to citizenship with volume and page recorded; and signature of holder.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

These records are in Archives' permanent custody.

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Historical

This disposition is based on the record's secondary informational value to researchers. These naturalization records are important sources for both the family historian and historical scholar studying immigration and ethnic settlement in Utah.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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