DEEP PURPLE NOW – Steve Morse confirmed Bob Ezrin (Kiss, Alice Cooper, etc.) as the likely producer for the band’s next studio album during a French interview. It shows a certain raising of the bar in this department (I wonder if they dare play him Rapture given the awful sound?). Read more on the blog here and see what others think of the idea.

DEEP PURPLE THEN – EMI released Smoke On The Water on a 7″ 45 as one of their contributions to Record Day in the UK, with a pressing limited to just 1,000 copies. It’s on purple wax too and issued in a “retro picture sleeve”. If anyone is after it drop Ann an email as we have been able to pick up a few copies from our local indie store this week. Read more about Record Store Day 2012 on the site here.
That Deep Purple Lyon 1973 recording we mentioned last newsletter? Collectors say it’s very poor and not even complete, so probably the same cassette that’s been doing the rounds for years.
Here’s a question for you; I was doing some photo research the other day when a strange reference to Machine Head turned up, claiming that Bernie Taupin worked on the record in some capacity. The photo library had no more information. I assume it’s tosh but…
New to look at on the blog if you missed it is a short article on the discovery of the Who Do We Think We Are studio location in Frankfurt at last with photos.

MACHINE HEAD – Metallica have been talking about contributing to a Machine Head tribute album this year. I’m not supposed to talk about the project – so I won’t, except to say my suggestions for bands and musicians to contribute appears to have been too esoteric by far! I just fancied seeing something beyond the usual suspects really. A US radio station has aired a Machine Head radio special recently, but it turned out to be a rejigging of one from an earlier show.

MORSE – Steve Morse has managed to organise some gigs during Deep Purple’s summer holidays, with shows during July 2012 in Germany, Russia and elsewhere. More details on his website. Meanwhile the Flying Colors debut release is finally shipping, and anyone who ordered from DTB Online Store will get the Ltd. Ed. version. They have also added a late vinyl edition to the formats which we have in stock too; nice to see that cover art proper size.

PAICE – Ian Paice was confirmed late on for a slot at the first UK Buddy Rich memorial show on April 2. 2012 (it is normally staged in America) and was presented with a lifetime achievement award too. Paice has also authorised a signature drum kit, the first we’ve ever heard of. You can read the press release here and start saving up now! It comes with a Machine Head drum head too, even though at that time he used a rival’s equipment. The most bizarre aspect of the whole offer is that the buyers of the kits (only 12 to be made) will be offered lunch with Ian Paice at his favourite restaurant, “cost not to exceed £50″…
Ian Paice has also signed on to be a member of jury in a High School Music Competition in Istanbul.

GILLAN – the first of those deluxe vinyl reissues is going to be Future Shock, remastered off the original quarter inch production tapes (I know this is true for once as we’ve loaned them a missing reel). The plan is to package it in hard-back book form, with all the artwork and booklet, plus detailed sleeve notes (by yours truly). It will be limited to 500 copies. No price information yet, but we will take pre-orders at DTB Online store and let people know as soon as we have details. Due early summer.
IG is also working on a charity album release at present, more details anon.

WHITESNAKER Bernie Marsden has lined up some shows to celebrate his forty year career this summer. They all take place in June. Check the tour poster here for the dates. He’ll be playing his own tracks and some favourites from Peter Green, Rory Gallagher etc.

LORD – Bruce Dickinson, Ian Paice and Jon Lord have been confirmed to appear at the sixth annual Sunflower Jam Rock & Roll Music Event in London. This will be at the Royal Albert Hall on September 16. The Sunflower charity raises money and awareness for different ways of treating cancer. You can check last year’s event here.
The 2012 Concerto is almost finished, and it looks like the release will come in a special hardback book edition with lots of photos, notes etc. We’ll add this to the DTB Online store for pre-ordering.

GLOVER – becomes guitarist Tolo Martin’s latest Deep Purple guest musician, at a one-off show in Italy at the end of April. Check the flyer here.

BLACKMORE – Nigel Young mentions the death on March 31. of Arvid ‘Silas Wegg’ Andersen, who worked with Blackmore and Jim Evans in The Three Musketeers, Neil Christian And The Crusaders, The Trip and others in the years preceding the formation of Deep Purple. Blackmore has noted Arvid’s passing on his site. Also lost to rock this month is Jim Marshall, with whom Blackmore worked closely over the years.
Niji Records issued a picture disc edition of Long Live Rock’n Roll to mark Record Store Day this year, there’s a shot of it on the site here. It seems to have been mostly limited to North America but is available via their US online store.

TRIBUTE BAND CORNER – DP tribute act CTTB who have done gigs with Glenn in the past are playing three shows at the end of April with Joe Lynn Turner, which will give them chance to air some of the S&M era tracks we assume.
I see Yes have just started a tour with a singer from a Yes tribute band replacing a singer from another Yes tribute band, who replaced original singer Jon Anderson four years back. Is this the future for our classic bands?!

As many spotted, Deep Purple, the horse not the band, was running in this year’s Grand National. Over to our man in the deerstalker Keith Livingstone: “Deep Purple still running… Ian is setting the Paice, Roger is (Gl)over Beechers, Gillan looks in Trouble, Steve Morse is trying to avoid a Major Impact and Don looks a bit Airey at the Chairy.” The horse pulled up and refused a fence second time round but lives to race another day, unlike some on the day. Over on ITV Tim McSummers adds “more ‘The Mule’ than ‘Speed King’ then…at least it wasn’t ‘Time to Kill’”
And congrats to DTB man Tim Corbett who wisely avoided the temptation to place a bet on the nag and instead got first and third place winners.

Thanks to Tim Summers, Toby Cruse, Mark Jones, Stuart Hamilton, Danny Fox, David Browne, Tarik Burcoglu, Jo Henning Kåsin

NEW IN THE STORE THIS MONTH – The first reissue of the PAL Live broadcast for years is in stock. Total Abandon live reissue. Flying Colors CD and LP limited editions.

And finally… if you’re staying in the Clarks Shiraz Hotel, Agra (nr. Taj Mahal) in India, check out this purpley named cafe, it would appear that the manager must be a fan. Thanks to David Black for the snap, he went for the “puff + coffee” at 125/-.

Record rack photo copyright fensterbme

Today I will talk about using Naturalization records as a Manifest finding aid. 

First find your relatives in the census. Last week’s blog gives some census search tips http://passagetothepast.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/finding-missing-ancestors-in-the-census/

• 1900: If foreign born, year of immigration and whether naturalized
• 1910: If foreign born, year of immigration and whether naturalized, language spoken if not able to speak English
• 1920: If foreign born, year of immigration, whether naturalized, year of naturalization
• 1930: If foreign born, year of immigration, whether naturalized, language spoken in home before coming to US, and ability to speak English

Review the census entries (which aren’t always accurate) and look for “Al” alien, “Pa” papers, which means your ancestor had declared his intent to become a citizen, and “Na” which meant he was already naturalized (meaning he became a US a citizen). If they were naturalized, you are in luck!

The naturalization record for your ancestors will usually list when they arrived and a town of origin plus lots of other great information. Hopefully the dates on the census records will be close to the actual arrival date, but always expand your search by a few years. The declaration and naturalization dates may be estimated using the arrival date + 2 and arrival date +5: immigrants had to be in US for two years before they could “declare intent” and then another three years before finally being naturalized (although there were exceptions to this rule).

Exceptions included (copied from http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/naturalization/naturalization.html)

The first major exception was that “derivative” citizenship was granted to wives and minor children of naturalized men. From 1790 to 1922, wives of naturalized men automatically became citizens. This also meant that an alien woman who married a U.S. citizen automatically became a citizen. (Conversely, an American woman who married an alien lost her U.S. citizenship, even if she never left the United States.) From 1790 to 1940, children under the age of 21 automatically became naturalized citizens upon the naturalization of their father. Unfortunately, however, names and biographical information about wives and children are rarely included in declarations or petitions filed before September 1906. For more information about women in naturalization records, see Marian L. Smith, “Women and Naturalization, ca. 1802-1940,” Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Summer 1998): 146-153.

The second major exception to the general rule was that, from 1824 to 1906, minor aliens who had lived in the United States 5 years before their 23rd birthday could file both their declarations and petitions at the same time.

The third major exception to the general rule was the special consideration given to veterans. An 1862 law allowed honorably discharged Army veterans of any war to petition for naturalization–without previously having filed a declaration of intent–after only 1 year of residence in the United States. An 1894 law extended the same no-previous-declaration privilege to honorably discharged 5-year veterans of the Navy or Marine Corps. Over 192,000 aliens were naturalized between May 9, 1918, and June 30, 1919, under an act of May 9, 1918, that allowed aliens serving in the U.S. armed forces during “the present war” to file a petition for naturalization without making a declaration of intent or proving 5 years’ residence. Laws enacted in 1919, 1926, 1940, and 1952 continued various preferential treatment provisions for veterans.

Naturalization records usually name the vessel, the arrival date and the name of the port where your ancestor arrived. You can then use that information to locate ship records.

The petition for naturalization and declaration of intent  have a wealth of information. If you have an Ancestry.com subscription, below is a link to an example of what you can expect to see (be sure to “page forward” a few screens to see the different documents):

http://search.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=1554&iid=31313_132656-00254&fn=Pat&ln=Acres&st=r&ssrc=&pid=2518844

Where you can search for the naturalization records depends on when they applied. Before 1906 your ancestors could apply to any court, so most went to the county courthouse because it was convenient. Starting in late 1906, all applications had to instead be made in a federal court.

Ancestry.com recently posted the index of naturalization records from the World Project for a number of states.  The index might give you the court that they went to to be naturalized (i.e. US District Court). If you find the information in the index, you can order a copy of the document online at the National Archives (or you can visit a branch of the Archives).  http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/naturalization/#find

Here are the related databases in Ancestry.com

• Selected U.S. Naturalization Records – Original Documents, 1790-1974 (World Archives Project)
• Index to Petitions for Naturalization filed in New York City, 1792-1989
• Selected U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791-1966 (Indexed in World Archives Project)
• U.S. Naturalization Records Indexes, 1794-1995
• U.S. Naturalization Records – Original Documents, 1795-1972

You will get better results searching in each individual database. Click the search button on the top of the screen in ancestry, then on the right select “View All Ancestry Titles” and then search for those titles. Make sure you are using “old search” – it works much better than “new search”.

Footnote.com also has some Naturalization records.

Otherwise go to the National Archives (link above) and order a copy of the document online

A great book is (get it at your  library, via  interlibrary loan or at Amazon.com): Schaefer, Christine. Guide to Naturalization Records of the United States (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1997).

 The book  is divided by state, county and city. It  identifies naturalization repositories, giving the types of records held, coverage dates, and the location of both originals and microfilm. More info: http://www.genealogical.com/products/Guide%20to%20Naturalization%20Records%20in%20the%20United%20States/5177.html

It also should be noted that in 1922 women aged 21 years and older could become citizens regardless of marital status. Wives no longer became citizens upon husband’s naturalization. Also in that year, the residency requirement was reduced to three years.

Last, Federal Naturalizations did not start until the early 1800s. There were oaths of allegiance done in the 1700s which are recorded in the published Pennsylvania Archives. Philadelphia was the largest port in the 1700s and the Germans were coming in for land and freedom of religion, so the English had ship passengers swear oaths of allegiance to King George. If they were  British, this was not a requirement, thus their name was not recorded.

Happy searching!

My mother thought that “Ellis Island” officials changed our Lithuanian surname. However, I have found there is not much truth to that bit of lore. While immigrants’ surnames may have changed as they adjusted to their new lives, rarely were names changed upon their arrival at Ellis Island. Here is a great article: http://genealogy.about.com/od/ellis_island/a/name_change.htm

So how did I find these ancestors in America?  I will share some Ancestry.com “search tips” that helped me in locating them in census (and other) records:

First always start in “old search” (not sure why, but I seem to have better luck with the old search tool).    Go to the main search screen and on the top right hand side there will be a link that reads “old search”.  Don’t try to search in the main search form on ancestry. Go right to the database you want to search, for example the 1900 census. Pick the advanced search.

1. Use a wild card to search (this requires at least three letters)
Try Joh* for Johansen

When using wildcards you can also use them at the BEGINNING of a name. For example when searching on the Johansen you can try *ansen or *sen

You can also use them within the word, as long as you have three characters total.  So for Johansen try: Jo*en OR *han*en OR J*h*n.  

Sometimes you get a weird error message from ancestry.com, but for the most part it works.

2. Check name variations like: Reed, Reid, Ried;  George, Goerge, Gorge; Joseph, Joesph, Josef.   Try spelling the name phonetically. For Johansen try things like Joehanson.

3. Leave the last name blank, and search on first name only or a few letters in the first name with a wildcard (*) if it’s an unusual or uncommon first name. 

4. Leave the first and last name blank

By doing this, you might get hundreds of hits. Try to narrow down your results by adding additional  information:

Add State, County, City, birth year (+/- 2 years or more), place of birth, etc. You also have choices like head of household, wife, son, daughter, white, black, etc.

When all else fails, I look for my ancestors in the city directory for the census year (city directories can be found on Ancestry.com). 

If the directory you need is not on ancestry.com, you could do a google search for the local library in the city where your ancestor was living. The librarian may be able to help you with street directories if they are not online.  Many times they will copy the pages for you for free or just charge a small fee for copying.

Once you find them in the directory, you will have a street address.

The data for the directory was sometimes collected a year in advance, so be sure to check the year of the census as well as the years before and after to get an address. If the family moved within the directory year, many times the directory will tell you what city they moved to.  Many of the directories list the names of people who died in town that year, so always check for that as well.  It is usually in the back of the directory, so browse those pages.

You can then go to the free Steve Morse site: http://stevemorse.org/ and search for that street name on a census (see the link called “1900-1940 Census Street Finder”). Once you find the street on the census you can look through all the census pages for that street until you find your ancestors.

Another great thing to do is look at neighbors. Say you find them in 1920 but can’t find them in 1930. Look at their census page in 1920, find some neighbors with “easier” names. Search for them in the 1930 census. Chances are that your relatives will still be nearby (you might have to do this for a few neighbors).

 You may also want to try checking other census indexes.  If their name was improperly indexed on ancestry.com, it may be properly indexed on HeritageQuest (http://www.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/index you can usually get free access to this at your local library), footnote.com (http://www.footnote.com/ ) or Family Search (http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start).

It’s a rare occurance, but sometimes there are people who were just never captured in the census data.  My g-grandmother Georgianna Clough is found in the 1900 Lynn, MA city directory living at the same address as her mother and her step-father Kittie and Frank Shipman.   Kittie and Frank are listed at that same address in the 1900 Lynn, Essex County, MA census without Georgianna. Perhaps Georgianna moved during the census year and was missed at both locations or perhaps the family wasn’t home and the census taker asked a neighbor about the family and the neighbor wasn’t aware that Georgianna had moved in with her mother.    

Have fun searching and please share any additional search tips that you use!