Petition for Naturalization for Giovanni Jaciofano, Cleveland 1903
Petition for naturalization for Giovanni Jaciofano in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, Cleveland, recording birth in Italy on 20 July 1880, arrival in the United States on 23 July 1897, occupation laborer, and residence at 57 Norman, Cleveland.
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What it says
Petition for naturalization for Giovanni Jaciofano in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, Cleveland, recording birth in Italy on 20 July 1880, arrival in the United States on 23 July 1897, occupation laborer, and residence at 57 Norman, Cleveland.
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Type
Naturalization Record
Date
30 March 1903
Review
Checked
Confidence
High
What it says
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petitioner name
Giovanni Jaciofano
petitioner name as recorded
Giovanni Jaciofano
principal name as recorded
Giovanni Jaciofano
document type
petition
petition court
Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas
court name
Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas
country of birth or allegiance
Italy
birth date
20 July 1880
birth date as recorded
20 July 1880
birth place as recorded
Italy
arrival date
23 July 1897
arrival date as recorded
23 July 1897
declaration date
30 March 1903
declaration date as recorded
30 March 1903
residence
57 Norman, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA
residence as recorded
57 Norman
occupation
laborer
signature or mark as recorded
Giovanni Jaciofano
summary
Petition for naturalization for Giovanni Jaciofano in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, Cleveland, recording birth in Italy on 20 July 1880, arrival in the United States on 23 July 1897, occupation laborer, and residence at 57 Norman, Cleveland.
Petition
Petitioner
Giovanni Jaciofano
Document Type
petition
Court Name
Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas
Person
Birth date
20 July 1880
Residence
57 Norman, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA
Occupation
laborer
Arrival
Arrival Date
23 July 1897
Other details
Petitioner Name As Recorded
Giovanni Jaciofano
Principal Name As Recorded
Giovanni Jaciofano
Petition Court
Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas
Country Of Birth Or Allegiance
Italy
Birth Date As Recorded
20 July 1880
Birth Place As Recorded
Italy
Arrival Date As Recorded
23 July 1897
Declaration Date
30 March 1903
Declaration Date As Recorded
30 March 1903
Residence As Recorded
57 Norman
Signature Or Mark As Recorded
Giovanni Jaciofano
Summary
Petition for naturalization for Giovanni Jaciofano in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, Cleveland, recording birth in Italy on 20 July 1880, arrival in the United States on 23 July 1897, occupation laborer, and residence at 57 Norman, Cleveland.
Manual transcription from the rendered PDF image; embedded text extraction captured only the citation page.
The handwritten surname is difficult, but the best reading is "Jaciofano." This matches the already-ingested cross-reference card stating that the court record reads "Jaciofano" while papers were recorded under "Iaciofano."
FamilySearch full-text OCR rendered the name inconsistently, including "Grovan Jacorfanno," "Grovanni Jacofainno," and "Govanni Faciolane"; those OCR readings are not used as document facts.
The petition page gives only "Italy" for birthplace and country of birth/allegiance; it does not visibly state a sovereign. The adjacent accepted oath/endorsement page records the former allegiance line as Victor Emmanuel III.
The petition page does not state an arrival port, ship, spouse, children, parents, witnesses, or exact Italian town.
The downloaded page does not itself show the accepted index card's Petition No. 20829 or 4 April 1903 naturalization date; preserve those facts in source-naturalization-index-card-for-giovanni-iacofano-1903 unless the adjacent cover/oath image is separately ingested.
User accepted this source on 3 June 2026 after visual review against the rendered petition image and citation page, with the unsupported former-allegiance field removed from extracted facts.
Located through signed-in FamilySearch full-text search in DGS 005492575 for "57 Norman" after exact searches for Giovanni, Iaciofano, Iacofano, Jaciofano, and 20829 returned no useful candidate in that DGS.
Linked to person-giovanni-iacofano-1880 because it matches the accepted index-card source by name variant, birth date, arrival date, residence, and court. Do not use this proposed source to merge him with person-john-iacofano-1874 unless the user accepts it and additional identity-bridging evidence supports the merge.
This is a distinct FamilySearch image group from source-naturalization-index-card-for-giovanni-iacofano-1903 and source-naturalization-name-cross-reference-card-for-giovanni-jaciofano, so it is preserved as a separate source record.
PlaceCleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA
Citation
Where the record came from
Petition for Naturalization for Giovanni Jaciofano, Cleveland 1903; FamilySearch; Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States records; image group 005492575; image 99 of 2016; Cuyahoga County Archives (Cleveland, Ohio), Ohio Historical Society (Columbus, Ohio), Ohio. County Court (Cuyahoga County); accessed 1 May 2026.
