Using Navy Cruise Books in Your Research

If you have a military service member in your family, then you might know about cruise books. In my home, there is a USMC Cruise Book that captures stories and images about my husband’s squadron’s overseas deployment and the trans-Pacific flights to get there and back.

Fold3 has a Publication that contains these books: US, Navy Cruise Books, 1918-2009. Whether you are researching a Sailor or Marine who served on a ship, or an Army soldier who traveled by ship, you might want to give this resource a try.

As much as these book are part of the story of each crew member on a ship, they are tell part of the story of anyone who traveled on these ships. That means that these books also relate to the U.S. Army troops who were transported. Even though the service member’s name will not appear, the name of the military organization to which they were assigned will.

If you know the ship’s name you can search for her in this Publication. You can also search for the name of a military organization, as well as the names of Sailors and Marines.

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Example: WWI

In the Home Page search box, I entered the keywords: wwi cruise books. That brought me to the Search & Browse page.

I selected the Publication that is the first result.

Knowing that the 51st Pioneer Infantry Regiment had traveled on USS Kroonland, I entered the ship’s name in the search box on the Publication page, as a keyword. (Searching for a ship by name is not suggested, but you can always experiment.)

Another option would be to search for the keyword: Kroonland on the Home Page.

Once you find one page of the book in the search results, you can find the rest of the book from the a viewer page by clicked on the filmstrip icon.

View all the pages where the search result appears.

You can also search within these images.

There were four pages about the Atlantic crossing that was made by 51st Pioneer Infantry Regiment (except Company A).

Fold3 did not have cruise books for the other crossings made by the 51st Pioneers.

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The way that a search term is used can affect the results of the search. As you type in a search term, facets appear for: Keywords, Name and Place. (If you type in a number, Year would also appear.) Select the facet from the dropdown menu to let Fold3 how to use the search term.

• Kroonland as a Keyword returned pages from the cruise book.
• Kroonland as a Place refers to a Station, and search results are returned for people stationed on USS Kroonland.
• Kroonland as a Name returned no results.

Kroonland as a place refers to a Station, which means that the results might contain Sailors or Marines who were assigned to USS Kroonland.

To download an image, use the Action menu. You will be given the choice to download the Entire Page, or Select a Portion. (I recommend selecting the Entire Page for context.)

Each image of a page needs to be downloaded separately. You can download the pages that interest you, or for context, all the pages of the book. If there have been any annotations made to the page, you will have the option to download the image with or without annotations made by other users. Although I consider the annotations to be important part of this platform, when I downloaded images with the annotations they appeared across the page, obscuring parts of it. The filename for an image that included the annotations also had a less than useful name. I recommend keeping track of the annotations that apply to your search targets separately.

You will be asked to select the download format. JPG is always offered, but in some cases there is the option to download the image as a PDF file.

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You can also browse from the Publication page where you can filter on the names of the ships. Scroll down in the Ship (Classification) Column to view the names of the ships included in the Publication.

Select the Description tab to see the Ship classifications.

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You can also search for the names of Sailors and Marines that appear in the pages of these cruise books. In the Publication page search box, or on the search page.

Example: Vietnam War

The second result included my cousin’s name. He died in the fire on USS Forrestal 29 July 1967. Two pages listed the 134 sailors who died in that fire. The prior page was in memoriam of those men, and included “The Captain’s Prayer.”

Clicking on the filmstrip icon to see the rest of any cruise book is worthwhile. In this case, the events of the day were documented. Among the pages were the messages sent from the other ships, including a British ship and a message relayed from the Brazilian Navy, with sympathies and specific offers of help.

Good luck using these! Let me know how you do.

WWII A Pocket Guide to…

NOTE: Historical Content Advisory: The World War II publications discussed in this blog post reflect the language, attitudes, cultural assumptions, and stereotypes of the era in which they were written. Some descriptions of nationalities, ethnic groups, religions, and local customs may be considered inaccurate, offensive, or inappropriate by today’s standards. These materials discussed and linked to are presented in their original historical context for educational and research purposes. Their inclusion does not constitute an endorsement of the views expressed, nor should the guides should be evaluated as evidence of contemporary American military perspectives. Rather, they provide valuable insight into how the U.S. military portrayed other countries and cultures to American service members during World War II.

If you enjoy reading materials from WWII, you may find these short books especially rewarding. They offer a glimpse into how these places were described and understood at the time. If you are researching a soldier who was stationed in a location featured in one of these guides, consider that they may have held a copy of the very same book, turned its pages, and used its descriptions to explore unfamiliar surroundings. Reading one today offers a small but tangible connection to the world as they experienced it.

The series titled A Pocket Guide to…(1942-1945) and A Short Guide to…(1942-1944) were small, government-issued booklets prepared during WWII Published by the U.S. War and Navy Departments. These guides were intended to help servicemen understand unfamiliar cultures, communicate with local populations, observe local customs, and represent the United States appropriately overseas. They were written in a conversational, accessible style to introduce American military personnel to the countries where they might be stationed. These two publications are frequently grouped together in library catalogs under the Army Service Forces, Special Service Division.

Rather than being conventional tourist guides or military field manuals, they offered practical travel information, cultural orientation, elementary language instruction, historical background, and guidance on personal behavior. The booklets contained information about a country’s history and geography which included political circumstances. There was information about cultural customs which addressed local traditions, social expectations, etiquette, religion, and behavior that Americans of the time might find unfamiliar. The guides contained brief language help with common expressions, pronunciation guides, and practical vocabulary. Soldiers are challenged to build relationships to help German people join the world’s useful citizens by their behavior.

Although they contain stereotypes there is often interesting advice that addresses respect for the people who are met included in the content. The reader was advised to practice good military conduct by interacting respectfully with civilians, avoiding misunderstandings, and maintaining goodwill.

The Pocket Guide to Germany, published in 1944, begins in a serious tone with its first sentence: “Whether you fight your way in, or march in to occupy Germany under armistice terms, you will be doing a soldier’s job on the soil of the enemy.” It contains material about being vigilant, German propaganda about America and Americans, considerations when marrying a foreign girl, and a larger language guide

Some of the pocket guides are similar to the format of the small American Service Edition (ASE) books. You can read more about them in our blog post What WWII Military Ancestors Were Reading. These were truly touring oriented books for military personnel, with titles such as: Pocket Guide To The Cities Of Belgium And Luxembourg, Pocket Guide To Paris And The Cities Of Northern France, Pocket Guide To The Cities Of Southern France, Pocket Guide To Italian Cities, Pocket Guide To The Cities Of Denmark, and Pocket Guide To The Cities Of Norway. All of these had the same Introduction:

Click to see a transcription

ATTENTION

About the only thing in this booklet that can be guaranteed is the terrain. The rest of it is up to the fortunes or misfortunes of war. Many of the towns and cities described here have been bombed and shelled by us as we approached, and shelled by the enemy as he retreated. And many of them will still show the marks of the destruction visited upon them when these lands were being conquered and occupied by the Germans.

The short historical notes and city plans concerning most of the towns are correct as of the outbreak of the war. But the changes of war were still happening in many places when this pocket guide went to press.

You may find that art treasures described and located in these pages have been looted or destroyed, and it may be years before those that can be restored are sights to see again. On the other hand, some of them, by a stroke of good fortune, may be left intact and you will be able to enjoy them.

At the end of the Introduction to these versions was a statement encouraging service members to see what they could now, rather than pay more money to travel after the war:

Click to see a transcription

Anyhow, so far as your military duties permit, see as much as you can. You’ve got a great chance to do now, major expenses paid, what would cost you a lot of your own money after the war. Take advantage of it.

Quite a few can be located on the internet, with a good selection at the Internet Archive. The link to our Week Of Genealogy list is https://archive.org/details/@awog/lists/5/wwii-a-pocket-guide-to-

The Navy History and Heritage Command hosts Pocket Guide to New Guinea and the Solomons at: https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/p/pocket-guide-new-guinea-solomons.html

Others can be read at HathiTrust, but to download the whole book you need to be affiliated with a member institution.

Aliens in Their Own Country, Stateless Women and AI

While researching the registration of aliens in the U.S. in 1940 and learning how to obtain an ancestor’s AR-2 form covered in Born in Brooklyn: An Alien in WWII, I wondered if other countries might have had similar laws at the time. (NOTE: This blog post is not intended as definitive, and is not intended as legal advice.)

I am always looking for resources to help to investigate topics. AI has become a resource to find and interpret credible sources. As a genealogical assistant, an AI can explain concepts to me and help me reason through how these laws applied to my ancestor.

The first sections describe the prompts I used, then a list of do’s and a couple of do not’s, with the last section summarizing what I learned about Canadian and British laws, and how they affected my ancestor.

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I asked AI to help me research similar laws in other counties, specifically in Canada and Britain:

I am interested in learning more about women’s citizenship in Canada and UK when they married an alien

What followed was an informative conversation, where I asked for sources and clarification. ChatGPT provided relevant details and provided sources for the laws.

I then asked the AI to help me reason through how these laws affected my ancestor. Since these people have been dead for many years, I used initials. I could have used single initials or “Person 1” or “Person A” to be less precise. ChatGPT had asked if I had a specific woman I wanted to research, and this time I my prompt was a response:

K.S. (woman) was born in the U.S. and married J.Y. (man) born in Scotland. They married in New York City in 1913. J.Y. died in 1929. K.S. remarried in 1932 to J.G. (man) who born in the U.S.

ChatGPT outlined the timelines of the laws and how K.S. was affected by them, and asked for clarifications at times.

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When writing the previous blog post I asked:

Can you find me a source that urged people who thought that they might be aliens to register in 1940? Give me the source. If you find a poster of flyer from the time, show me and of course, give me the source where it might be found

The response contains some very good sources for me to use, including the regulations published by the Department of Justice/Immigration and Naturalization Service published its Regulations Governing the Registration and Fingerprinting of Aliens in the Federal Register, including the section number.

and The National Registration of Aliens: Instructions for Registration and Specimen Form,” issued by the U.S. Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Alien Registration Division.

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Do

• Include in the prompt “Cite sources”
• Anonymize people’s names for privacy
• Ask for explanations of terms and passages that may not be straightforward
• Ask for help to find additional sources

Do not

• Hesitate to ask “Where in the document did you find this information”
• Forget about peoples’ privacy when using AI tools

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What I learned about Canadian and British laws, and how multiple countries’ laws affected my ancestor:

Like much legislation, the laws surrounding women’s citizenship were complicated. Repeated subsequent legislation would later their status.

What I learned was that women’s situations were similar to the United States in Britain and Canada (although British law considered that there were other countries where a woman to automatically become a citizen of her husband’s country). The following is a simplified version covering some of the key events; you will want to dig farther into the details for your specific ancestors.

Britain’s Naturalization Act of 1870 tied a women’s nationality to her husband’s nationality. The British Nationality and Status of Aliens (BNSA) Act of 1914 explicitly stated, “the wife of a British subject shall be deemed to be a British subject, and the wife of an alien shall be deemed to be an alien.”  The 1914 British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act allowed women who were widowed or divorced the status of British subject.  

Until 1947 there were no Canadian citizens because Canadians were considered British subjects. That meant before 1947 a Canadian woman marrying a foreign national, became an alien. Before15 January 1932, a woman married to a man who naturalized became a British subject even if she was not named on his certificate, and a married woman who was a British subject lost her nationality if her husband became a citizen of another country. After 15 January 1932 a women marrying an alien lost her British nationality if her husband’s country considered her to be a citizen. In 1947, the Canadian Citizenship Act gave women separate citizenship that they retained separate from their marriage. The “Lost Canadians” did not have their citizenship returned automatically. It was legislation in 2009 that retroactively returned their citizenship. In 1948 UK women were given separate citizenship. (In 1947, a woman who married a Canadian did not automatically derive her citizenship from her husband.)

On 22 September 1922, the Cable Act repealed the 1907 Expatriation Act, and women no longer lost their citizenship based on their husband’s nationality. But for women married before then, the situation was more complicated. In 1936, divorced or widowed women could repatriate via an application, and upon its approval taking an oath of allegiance. As of 2 July 1940, an act allowed women to repatriate no matter what their marital status was. The repatriation oaths could be filed in any county, state or federal. They might be separate in a court’s naturalization records (as in Westchester County, NY).

Consider this situation pre-1932: a woman born in Canada (British subject) marries an American man in 1930. By Canadian law she loses British nationality. But after the U.S.  Cable Act of 1922 did a foreign woman did not automatically become an American citizen when she married an American. This woman would be stateless, neither British, nor American.

The widowed Kathryn remarried in 1932 to an American citizen, so she did cease to be a British subject. Since this was after 1922, her marriage to an American citizen did not automatically make her an American citizen. Therefore, legally she may have been in limbo, neither British nor American. She may have been stateless at that time.

In 1933, the situation was remedied for Kathryn and other women in her situation. The British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1933 changed the rule. “Under the 1933 Act, a woman would not be deemed to have ceased to be a British subject automatically on marriage to an alien (or when, during the marriage, her husband ceased to be a British subject) if she did not actually acquire her husband’s nationality” (Resumption (History)). Retroactively, women in Kathryn’s situation, who had not gained citizenship through their marriage, regained their British subject status.

On 20 December 1940, Kathryn filed an Alien Registration Form, reporting her citizenship as “Great Britain” (without any notation in the margin that “Applicant doubts need for registration”).

Learning More

When Saying “I Do” Meant Giving Up Your U.S. Citizenship by Meg Hacker https://www.archives.gov/files/publications/prologue/2014/spring/citizenship.pdf

Historical background information on nationality (accessible), Updated 22 May 2023. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/historical-background-information-on-nationality/historical-background-information-on-nationality-accessible

Resumption (History) [Archived]. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a81dce5ed915d74e3400763/resumption.pdf

Ethnic Origin And Nativity Of The Canadian People, EIGHTH CENSUS OF CANADA, 1941. https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/statcan/CS98-1941M-35-eng.pdf (See document pages 114–115 describing the national status of married women.)

Good luck with your research and let me know how you do!

1945 Morning Reports Are Online…On Fold3

1945 morning reports are online now. There are on Fold3, and not in the NARA Catalog. Hold on, don’t panic! In this blog post, I’ll tell you how to search for the Morning Reports, AND remind you of ways to access Fold3 if you do not have a personal subscription. Then there is a little context and when they should appear in the NARA catalogue. Let’s start with where to find Fold3.

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Where to Find Fold3

If you are in Maryland, you are set! (NOTE: The subscriptions at any library are not guaranteed to stay the same, so check the libraries yourself.)

Check to see if your Maryland county library has access to the Library Edition of Fold3. In Maryland, Anne Arundel County Public Library, Frederick County Public Libraries, Harford County Public Library, and Enoch Pratt Free Library offer it. You should have an Enoch Pratt Free Library card anyhow to use other subscriptions! (Check out www.prattlibrary.org/library-cards and see eCard to apply.) Google how to get a library card from one of these counties.  For example, I can use my Anne Arundel County Public Library card to access Fold3 from home, but you need to check if your library allows access from home.

If your county in Maryland does not offer access to Fold3, you can get a library card from any other county in Maryland and access it using that card number. Always be sure to get an actual library card number from the other country.

If you live outside of Maryland, check your county library’s genealogy resources for Fold3. If your county does not have it, check the policies for getting a library card from a library in your state that does have it. Speak to your local Librarian – they are incredibly helpful, and you might want to find out how to voice your opinion about what genealogy databases they should consider!

You can access Fold3 from NARA locations.

You can usually access Fold3 from FamilySearch Centers. (Check with the FamilySearch Center before visiting.)

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How to Search Fold3 for 1945 Morning Reports

An easy way to get started is from the Fold3 homepage. What you’ll notice is that these records are 100% complete. They were published on Fold3 on August 19, 2026, and last updated September 30, 2026. (I’ll remind you what that last date might mean later on.)

NOTE: On Fold3, you can search in many different ways. This is just one of them.

Start at the Fold3 homepage. Type morning reports in the search box, and select Keywords from the drop-down menu.

The search results will have two Publications of Morning Reports. You’ll want to look at the publication: US, Morning Reports, 1945.

The search result to select is the Publication: US, Morning Reports, 1945.

Even though the description gives 1940-1946, the Publication name contains only 1945.

In the search box on the publication page, I entered my search terms: James C McMahon and selected Name from the dropdown menu when it appeared.

I had several results that were for this soldier right away.

Remember to use the Actions button for downloading them.

Clicking on the film strip icon lets you view the other Morning Reports. You have to download them one at a time.

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NARA Digitization Agreements

(NOTE: I am not a lawyer, I don’t play one on TV, and this is not intended to be legal advice or opinion. The following contains links where you can learn the details of NARA’s Digitization Partnerships.)

Having digitization partners can speed up the effort to scan and get records online. It can stretch the financial and personnel resources of NARA. In this case, although Fold3 is a subscription database, it is one that can potentially be accessed through a library.

For a list of Microfilm Publications and Original Records Digitized by NARA’s Digitization Partners, https://www.archives.gov/digitization/digitized-by-partners.

NARA Principles for Partnerships to Digitize Archival Materials are at https://www.archives.gov/digitization/principles.html.

To learn more about the NARA Digitization Partnerships and to read the agreements, visit https://www.archives.gov/digitization/partnerships. In the The Ancestry.com Letter of Intent (2024) Item (2)(e)(iv) shows the WWII US Army Morning Reports.

This Publication was last updated on September 30, 2026, and it is 100% Complete. By the NARA digitization agreements with its digitization partners, the digitization partner is has exclusive use of the images for an embargo period, “the period of five years, which begins on the first of January after the end of the scanning phase for the Digital Images covered by a Project Plan or segmented portion of a series of Digital Materials in a Project Plan, within which all Digital Materials for that series or segmented portion created by Ancestry will be published exclusively by Ancestry.” (Ancestry.com Partnership Agreement)

“If resources permit, we will try to make the digital materials available in our online catalog within the same year they are no longer in the embargo period.” (“NARA Principles for Partnerships to Digitize Archival Materials”) So if the effort is complete, the embargo period should begin in January 2027, and we might possibly see the images loaded into the NARA Catalog sometime in 2031. BUT we did not see a year or years of Morning Reports on the Letter of Intent, so we don’t know if 1946 Morning Reports are part of that item. If they are, then start the clock when those go online.

For tonight I will travel back to 1945. Let me know how you do.

Born in Brooklyn: An Alien in WWII

Researching women can be challenging. Research married women can be more challenging. Researching women who marry an alien can become more complex. Researching this topic was intriguing and challenging. Then, finding a way to explain its complexities clearly and understandably made this blog post take considerably longer to write than I had anticipated. I learned a lot, and hope you will too! Additional resources to learn more are listed at the bottom of the post.

I always try out databases, and there was only one person I could think of in my family tree who might not have been a citizen in the 1940’s. She married a subject of Great Britain. After her Scottish husband’s death, she had remarried a U.S. citizen, so I did not think I would find her in the database of people who registered under the Alien Registration Act of 1940. (Other countries had similar laws: stay tuned for another blog post about that.)

Surprisingly, her name appeared.

On 6 Aug 1913 my great aunt married James Howie Young, a man who lived in Scotland in her parent’s home. They sailed off to travel through Europe, then live permanently in Glasgow, Scotland. James died in 1929. Later, she married a citizen, John J. Greene in 1932.

The Expatriation Act was passed on March 2, 1907, and at that time “any American woman who marries a foreigner shall take the nationality of her husband.” On 22 September 1922, the Cable Act repealed the 1907 Expatriation Act and women no longer lost their citizenship based on their husband’s nationality when they married. But for women married before then, the situation was more complicated. In 1936, divorced or widowed women could repatriate via an application, and upon its approval taking an oath of allegiance. As of 2 July 1940, an Act allowed women to repatriate no matter what their marital status was. The repatriation oaths could be filed in any county, state or federal. They might be separate in a court’s naturalization records (as in Westchester County, NY). What we do know from the AR-2 is that even though a statutory path to repatriation existed by 1936, Kathryn apparently had not completed it by the date of her 1940 alien registration (20 December 1940).

My first reminder that she had been affected by the Expatriation Act was when her citizenship was listed on a ship manifest for a cruise from Bermuda in 1931. She was shown as a citizen of Britain. (Race or people: German; Returning Resident; Place of birth: Brooklyn.) The record was definitely for her, as she lived at the same address on Stuyvesant Avenue in Brooklyn as the person she was going to join, her mother. (This was also a known family address.) The German race or people was interesting; her late father was a German immigrant to the U.S. who naturalized.

Further searching uncovered that she had returned to the U.S. in 1929 on SS Laconia. Her nationality (country): Britain; Race or people: American. She was a widow, with her nearest relative in the country she departed being her mother-in-law, and she was going to join her mother in Brooklyn. She had been in the United States from 1928 to 1929.

After watching Researching Immigrant Ancestors: Alien Registration (AR-2) Forms Elizabeth Burnes and John LeGloahec in the 2025 NARA Genealogy Series https://www.archives.gov/calendar/genealogy-series/2025#Session%205, I searched for an AR-2 for Kathryn. (Use the link to view the video of the presentation, and to download the presentation slides.)

The parts of the Alien Registration Form are shown below. NARA has the AR-2 itself, but additional parts of the form may be found in A-Files or may no longer exist.

I searched from Access to Archival Databases (AAD) at https://aad.archives.gov/aad/and selected the Flexoline Index Database, which is the finding aid to the AR-2 forms.

Alternatively, you can go directly to the search page at https://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-description.jsp?s=5259&cat=all&bc=sl

If you are having issues finding a person, remember to try advanced searches with broader information like surname and location, and alternate spellings. There were no results for either of her two married names, but there was a result for her maiden name. The use of wildcards is also an option (e.g. Kath* Small).

There was only one result.

I viewed the record.

I clicked on the icon in the View Record column to see the result. (Only the top of the full result is shown below.)

From the information in this search result compared to what I knew of Kathryn’s life, I was sure that this was a record for her. Alien Registration: A4790720

Using the instructions in the presentation, I used the A-number to search the NARA Catalog to see if NARA had an Alien File (A-File) for her. That search was unsuccessful.

I began the process to order her AR-2 file from NARA by sending the email that is described in the instructions at https://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/alien-registration-ar-2. This page also contains a link to sample forms. Since she was born over 100 years ago, the process was simpler than for deceased individuals who were born more recently than 100 years ago.

There was an automated email response reminding me to be sure that I had submitted the required information. I had sent the email on a weekend day, and on the next business day, a NARA Archivist responded that their search in the Flexoline Index had returned a record for Kathryn, and provided both of her married names. (Her married names were not included in the search result from the AAD.) The email also confirmed the results of my search, that NARA did not hold an A-file for her. If you find that NARA has the A-File for your ancestor, follow the instructions in the NARA video for information about how to order it.

The email contained information about how to complete the payment for the order. There is no option to pay online, so follow the instructions. Not wanting to email my credit card information, I elected to wait a couple of days to be sure the order number existed in their system, then called to my provide payment. Within a couple of weeks, a link to download the form was emailed to me. The link is advertised to only stay active for 30 days, so be sure to download it.

Kathryn’s Alien Registration Form gave her physical description, showed her profession as a housewife, and included that she had not been arrested. The date of the affidavit was 20 December 1940. People who were unsure that they were an aalien were encouraged to register, and in the Federal Register, August 14, 1940, §29.4(n), the official was instructed to write “Applicant doubts need for registration” in the margin of the form. According to the Statement by the Department of Justice paragraph in Congressional Record of the Senate, 1941, thousands of people doubted their status and registered for their own protection. Kathryn has no such notation.

Upon not finding an A-File at NARA, the suggestion is that I could possibly pursue if USCIS might still hold an A-File for her, and had not yet transferred it to NARA. What I learned from the Westchester County, NY, courthouse was that these women could have filed an Application to take Oath of Allegiance as a Naturalization Repatriation. (The database had no entry for her in that County of her residence.) USCIS may not hold an A-File for her, and searching for one incurs a cost, so I may not do this check. It is also possible that she never did repatriate.

Upon prompting, ChatGPT put together an infographic about the AR-2 to A-file process using information at: https://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/alien-registration-ar-2. Google Gemini verified the information in this image using information found at the NARA AR-2 webpage.

The laws concerning a women’s citizenship in these days was not straightforward, so I did a little more digging. Stay tuned for another blog post with more information about other countries’ similar laws and how Kathryn may have been stateless after her second marriage.

Learning More

Alien Registration (AR-2) Forms https://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/alien-registration-ar-2

To learn more about Flexoline files, go to https://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/flexoline

Researching Immigrant Ancestors: Alien Registration (AR-2) Forms Elizabeth Burnes and John LeGloahec in the 2025 NARA Genealogy Series https://www.archives.gov/calendar/genealogy-series/2025#Session%205

When Saying “I Do” Meant Giving Up Your U.S. Citizenship by Meg Hacker https://www.archives.gov/files/publications/prologue/2014/spring/citizenship.pdf

Westchester County County Clerk: Index for N – O https://archives.westchestercountyny.gov/county-clerk/n-o#series11

Federal Register, August 14, 1940, https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1940-08-14/pdf/FR-1940-08-14.pdf (see §29.4(n) on p 2840)

The National Registration of Aliens: Instructions for Registration and Specimen Form https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/rnpj9e5

U.S. Congress, Congressional Record, 77th Cong., 1st sess., April 1, 1941, vol. 87. https://www.congress.gov/77/crecb/1941/04/01/GPO-CRECB-1941-pt3-9-1.pdf (see Statement by the Department of Justice paragraph 3 p 2773 )

Give it a try, and let me know who you find!