Alien Registration Form Update
Image: rawpixel In "Immigrant Ancestors and Alien Registration," I wrote about a new Ancestry database, " U.S., WWII Alien Registration, 1940-1955 ." In the database, I identified six of my immigrant ancestors who were required to register as aliens during WWII, and I began the process of obtaining copies of their AR-2 Forms. Here's my update. First Steps Prior to my first post on this subject, I watched the webinar "Finding and Using Alien Registration Forms for 20th Century Immigrants ." This video was recorded earlier this year, before the Ancestry database came out in late July. While the video discusses searching the government's Flexoline database to obtain an individual's alien registration number, the Ancestry database is based on the Flexoline data. Once you have that alien registration number from the Ancestry collection, you can email your request to NARA. The video is still very helpful for the background on alien registrations ...
