ANCESTRY WORSHIP GENEALOGY BLOGSPOT

Our genetic and spiritual ancestors help us with our research quests 

and, while we follow a linear research path, 

amazing dreams and synchronicity abound. 

We explore multicultural ancestry worship 

and the use of genealogy for past-life verification, 

as well as practical ways and means to achieve your research goals.

NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PORTUGAL : Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo : INCLUDES A WORLD WAR II HOLOCAUST COLLECTION

Portugal has been in the media quite a bit lately, as a good place to move to, but somehow the history of the country seems obscure to me. The country's archive goes back into the mid 1600's and yes, there is a digital archive porthole for your research to begin.  A special note is that Portugal has a World War II Holocaust Collection. I was humored to read that the archive page mentions there are two bars nearby!

PORTAL EHRI PROJECT EU PORTUGAL

Link to the Holocaust Collection : PORTAL EHRI JEWISH HOLOCAUST COLLECTIONS

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NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF SPAIN : Archivo Histórico Naciona : DIGITALIZED RESOURCES UNIFY VARIOUS ARCHIVE LOCATIONS

I haven't had anyone from Central or South America ask me to do their research so I'm not experienced in the specifics by country, but I do know that many families who are from Mexico or other "Latin" countries have ancestry in Spain. Spain was in the Americas while colonies on the eastern seaboard of Colonial America struggled. Like, Italy or France, Roman Catholic archives are also useful to any family history or genealogy quest in Spain. Like some other countries, the actual physical archives are in various departments/places but there is a more unifying porthole. The main branches of the National Archives of Spain include the General Archive of the Indies in Seville, the National Historical Archives in Madrid, the General Administrative Archives in Alcala de Henares, and the General Archive of Simancas.

Excerpt:

Portal de Archivos Españoles (PARES) is a documentary archive established and hosted by the Spanish Ministry of Education. It offers free access to digitized images of the Spanish Archives.

Here's where you go to find digitalized images from the archives: PARES CULTURA GOB SPAIN : DIGITAL NATIONAL ARCHIVES

At another time I'll get to posting archives in Central and South America, but for now, let's continue to focus of Europe.

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NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF ITALY : Archivio Centrale dello Stato : FAMILY HISTORIES - CIVIL REGISTRY - MILITARY ENLISTMENT

Italy is the home of a number of archives, including Roman Catholic Church archives, that are useful to genealogists. However, knowing the desire for genealogy oriented documents, the country has established a resource just for genealogy.

As you may know, Italians coming into the United States would often say they were Calabrese, or Sicilian, rather than Italian. Risorgimento is the word for the Unification which happened about 1861 but ethnic self identity continued in this way.

ANTENATI CULTURA GOV (ITALY GENEALOGY)

This archive has records before the Unification of Italy.

Excerpt on holdings:

The State Archives hold many private and public sources that are essential to the genealogical research and the History of some families and persons. The main sources are: The Civil Registry together with the attached 1 year and 10 year origin indexes. Enlistment and military career documentation (e.g. Conscription Lists and Military Records) Notary public archives, family and personal archives....

As always, explore the site and don't hesitate to contact an archivist!

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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF FRANCE : THE FRENCH REVOLUTION and AMERICAN HISTORY TOO

ARCHIVES OF FRANCE  see the language selection EN for English  SP for Spanish FR for French

Want to research the French Revolution, Napoleon, or perhaps Thomas Jefferson in Paris? THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF FRANCE is a great place to research American History too! 

Excerpt: The Archives Nationales, a civic-minded institution for France's collective history. The Archives Nationales was created by decree of the National Constituent Assembly in 1790. It has three sites (in Paris, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, and Fontainebleau) whose role is to collect, preserve, and provide access to documents produced by the central administrations of State since the 7th century.

NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF FRANCE ONLINE CATALOG LINK

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NATIONAL ARCHIVES : DON'T FORGET TO USE THESE FANTASTIC RESOURCES

Last fall (2024), I posted links to the National Archives of Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England, Great Britain, Canada, and Australia. Now I'm going to provide you links to some European National Archives that are also useful. Databases do not have everything and I think some researchers have forgotten about the archives of nations.

Some countries are newer at having National Archive resources digitized. YOU WILL WANT TO INTERACT WITH THEIR ARCHIVISTS IF YOU HAVE MORE QUESTIONS and perhaps, the old fashioned way, send for copies or pay them to research for you.  Contacting an archivist is usually possible through e-mail. Some will ask you to set up an account, others not.

I use Google translate function when the site does not provide language options!

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PROQUEST HISTORY VAULT - HISTORY OF IMMIGRATION IS ALSO LABOR HISTORY

These days, so much about immigration - legal and illegal.  With Labor Day coming up I thought you might be interested in learning more American history because labor in the United States has always been tied in with immigration.

https://congressional.proquest.com/historyvault

Includes history of Immigration and Naturalization Service...

Read about anarchism, labor strikes, subversive and illegal aliens - deportations and expulsions.

I use this at a genealogy library... check to see if your library makes Proquest History Vault available to library card holders at no charge.

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ANCESTRY WORSHIP GENEALOGY BLOGSPOT

Our genetic and spiritual ancestors help us with our research quests 

and, while we follow a linear research path, 

amazing dreams and synchronicity abound. 

We explore multicultural ancestry worship 

and the use of genealogy for past-life verification, 

as well as practical ways and means to achieve your research goals.

CITIZENSHIP : UNITED STATES OF AMERICA : #4 COLONIALS WHO BECAME CITIZENS OF THE NEW UNITED STATES : REVOKING BRITISH CITIZENSHIP and BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP

UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION : CONSTITUTION ANNOTATED

Here's an excerpt: Read the whole article at the link!

During the eighteenth century and prior to American independence, the British Parliament passed laws that allowed certain foreign nationals to naturalize and become subjects if they met specific requirements under those laws. For instance, a 1709 law allowed the naturalization of foreign Protestants who took an oath of allegiance and paid a small fee.8 More significantly for the American colonies, in 1740, the British Parliament passed a law that uniformly provided for the naturalization of any foreign national residing in a British colony for at least seven years, effectively superseding the naturalization policies of the individual colonies.

image of Lady Liberty is from GraphicsFairy

CITIZENSHIP : UNITED STATES OF AMERICA : #3 EVOLUTION OF THE DECLARATION OF INTENT "FIRST PAPERS" : IS CITIZENSHIP A RIGHT OF BIRTH IN THE UNITED STATES

 ARCHIVES GOV : HISTORY OF THE DECLARATION OF INTENT (CITIZENSHIP)

Read here about the changes through history and the Old Law (1795 till 1906) in which various courts had different forms, and the New Law (in which the forms were unified).

The "3 papers" we often seek were in general from 1906 until 1952.

Excerpt: Waiting Period between filing the Declaration of Intent and more paperwork.

January 29, 1795 and June 17, 1798 3 years
June 18, 1798 and April 13, 1802 5 years
April 14, 1802 and May 25, 1824 3 years
May 26, 1824 and December 23, 1952 2 years


Remember that filing a Declaration of Intent does not meant the person(s) followed through and actually became citizens.

Check by state for "walk into the courthouse and swear on a Bible" Citizenship. A typical walk in would be a person who just turned 18, who was brought into the country by immigrant parents (or who was born in the country to them) and they didn't complete the process due to their deaths or some other factor. Such a person and their situation was usually known to the community.

Has BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP in THE UNITED STATES CONSITUTION - The 14th Amendment - always been interpreted the same way? 

This has become controversial.

Here is a link to THE FEDERAL REGISTER at the NATIONAL ARCHIVES (NARA), a Daily Journal of the United States Government in which President Donald Trump's notions have been published: A Presidential Document by the Executive Office of the President on 1/29/2025

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/29/2025-02007/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship

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A FATHER NURTURES A SON'S INTERESTS

It's not easy to find a free downloadable vintage public domain image of a father nurturing a son.

I think the dearth of these images, compared to those available for mothers and Mother's Day, is telling.