Naturalized citizens would have an entire paper trail from when they were resident aliens and then finally got their citizenship.
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and a connecting paper trail...
The number from my Alien Registration Card (Green Card) is printed onto my Naturalization certificate...
Under the Naturalization number...
and theres a photo of 26 year old Nana attached..
and some interesting words...
“Be it known that at a term of the United States District Court of ....held pursuant to law at ....on January 23, 1975 the court having found that Tennessee Nana then residing at ....intends to reside permanently in the United States (when so required by the Naturalization Laws of the United States) had in all other respects complied with the applicable provisions of such naturalization laws, and was entitled to be admitted to citizenship, thereupon ordered that such person be, and (s)he was admitted as a citizen of the United States of America.
In testimony whereof the seal of the court is hereunto affixed this 23rd day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seventy-five”
I had never noticed that the Alien Registration number was on the certificate. When I read your post I had to run and check it... yes, it's there! All I can think is that my picture is so bad that I had never spent much time looking at the certificate!!! Instead I have the US flag they gave me at the swearing in ceremony, it is kind of faded but it still waves over my desk. My husband and children know that I want to be buried holding it in my hands.