Re: returning to home country
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In reply to:
returning to home country
missy bengtson 8/04/08
Missy,
You will not find manifests for ships departing from US ports... period!
If she returned to Europe and was not yet a US Citizen, then she would have traveled using her foreign passport. As the other poster mentioned US passports were not required for US Citizens... HOWEVER you will find plenty of Passport Applications at Ancestry for Naturalized Citizens who were returning post WW I... and you can see the proof they needed when they applied for those passports at US Embassies/Consulates in foreign countries.There was a good deal of anti-foreign sentiment due to the war and Americans were wary of aliens.
Robert Jerin
Croatian Heritage Museum
Cleveland Ohio