Citizens
Citizenship papers for Katia Merkin, wife of Halborn descendant Roman Freulich.
The Halborn family is a family of immigrants and the children of immigrants. Our Halborn web page is intended as a place to collect and share information about our extended immigrant family.
Below are just a few of the documents we have collected over the years for family members who immigrated to the United States and became citizens. These are all public documents available on the web. The details in the process of gaining citizenship has changed many times over the years, but paper work until the time computers took over was always plentiful. The least common document to find in public data bases is a certificate of citizenship, like the one for my mother, above. Hand written and typed Index cards and lists of naturalized citizenships are often the only record we have for some of our relatives. For others we have no record at all. The process was not, and is not, an easy one, sometimes requiring not just learning the English language and the American system of government but a number of bureaucratic steps — things like filing out declarations of intent and petitions for naturalization, swearing to give up allegiance to countries of origin and bringing in citizens who could swear to the truth of statements. But our family, like so many families, did it — they took the process seriously, they completed all the steps and became good and proud citizens of the United States. Below, at random, is a small sample of the documents for members of our family tree who immigrated to the United States.
Our family is a family of immigrants that now has members who are citizens of at least eight countries. If you have scans of documents our immigrant relatives submitted to become citizens of the United States or any other country, please send them and I will include them in this post.
