{"id":9104,"date":"2019-08-17T02:11:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T02:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9104"},"modified":"2019-08-17T02:19:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T02:19:26","slug":"henry-fechts-1863-immigration-on-familysearch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9104","title":{"rendered":"Henry Fecht&#8217;s &#8220;1863 Immigration&#8221; on FamilySearch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/familysearch-immigrationdate-1024x470.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9105\" width=\"748\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/familysearch-immigrationdate-1024x470.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/familysearch-immigrationdate-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/familysearch-immigrationdate-768x352.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/familysearch-immigrationdate.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking at the original is always advised because indexes are occasionally incorrect and (because they are finding aids not transcriptions) sometimes incomplete. That&#8217;s old news for most genealogists who have been researching for a while. It&#8217;s also something that&#8217;s clear in the record entry in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/search\/collection\/1989159\">Illinois, County Naturalization Records, 1800-1998<\/a>&#8221; at <em>FamilySearch<\/em> <em> <\/em>for a Henry Fecht who &#8220;immigrated&#8221; in 1863. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A look at the actual record indicates that is not correct. Henry did not immigrate in 1863. The record image (Fecht&#8217;s naturalization from Madison County, Illinois) indicates that he declared his intention to naturalize in September of 1860 in Madison County and completed his naturalization there in April of 1863. That&#8217;s the year of his naturalization, not his immigration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Henry&#8217;s witness on his naturalization is a man named Joseph Gottlob. All we know about Gottlob from the record is that he was a United States citizen over the age of twenty-one. That was the legal requirement to vouch for someone completing their naturalization process. <em>FamilySearch<\/em> does not index names of witnesses on naturalizations&#8211;their index is not an every name index. It&#8217;s only an index to the individuals who naturalized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>FamilySearch<\/em> now allows for the &#8220;editing&#8221; of name transcriptions. I wish they did that for other data from the record as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A quick search indicates that this Henry Fecht is not the only entry in this database where a naturalization year has been confused with an immigration year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at the original is always advised because indexes are occasionally incorrect and (because they are finding aids not transcriptions) sometimes incomplete. That&#8217;s old news for most genealogists who have been researching for a while. It&#8217;s also something that&#8217;s clear in the record entry in &#8220;Illinois, County Naturalization Records, 1800-1998&#8221; at FamilySearch for a Henry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}