Our society will be meeting in person or on Zoom at 10 am on the third Saturday in the Prairie Sage One Room at the Fort Collins Senior Center for our monthly programs. We hold a hybrid meeting in person and using our Zoom video service. Capacity is 50 persons in the Prairie Sage One room. Lots of free parking at the senior center. We look forward to seeing you there!
Visitors (not LCGS members) who wish to attend via Zoom need to register below to receive the Zoom info and handout.
President Larry Doyle provides a brief overview of our society with the latest committee reports followed by our monthly program.
Program Information: Becoming an American: Naturalization
Since the founding of the United States, naturalization has been the way that immigrants became Americans. For most genealogists finding their ancestors’ naturalization records is a major goal. Not only do these records memorialize an important transition in an ancestor’s life, from being a citizen of a foreign country to becoming an American, but they can also be a source of important genealogical information such as the date and place an immigrant arrived in the U.S, names of other family members who accompanied him and even birth and marriage dates. To help genealogists in their quest for naturalization records, this presentation focuses on the process of naturalization (which varied over time) as well as the differences in naturalization faced by women, children and immigrants from non-European countries. The final section of the presentation will offer strategies and tools to help find sometimes elusive naturalization records.
Presenter Profile
Carol Stetser
Carol Stetser is an avid genealogist whose love for genealogy is a natural outgrowth of her background in English and history. She has served in various capacities, including vice president and recording secretary, for several Colorado genealogical societies. In addition to researching her own family, Carol presently volunteers as the researcher for Larimer County Genealogical Society to help out-of-area researchers access local records, as well as volunteers for one-on-one genealogy help sessions at the local library. As a former teacher, Carol enjoys giving presentations on various aspects of genealogical research.
Reminder: Visitors are welcome and can register below to receive the Zoom info and handout!
Be sure to use our Thursday afternoon (except holiday weeks) genealogy help session from 1 to 3 pm at the Fort Collins Downtown Library. Members or visitors: please send an email to [email protected] with your request, and if for an ancestor, please send your family tree info from Ancestry, MyHeritage or a family tree image from your genealogy software.
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