Julian Felicita Bernido
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content: Filipino Agricultural Workers Collection
bioghist: label: Biographical
content: Julian Felecita Bernido was born on January 28, 1904 in Anda, Bohol, Philippines. Philippine records document Bernido's marriage to Victoria Seroge. They gave birth to a daughter named Anastasia Bernido. According to a United States Federal Naturalization document Bernido departed from Manila, Philippines aboard the Dollar Steamship Line to San Francisco, California in September 1924. Bernido, standing at five feet two inches and weighing one hundred and seventy pounds, registered for the World War II draft on October 16, 1940. On the draft registration document, he identified Josephina Makinao, his half-sister, as the closest blood relative.  Subsequently, he applied for naturalization, obtaining citizenship in 1948. Throughout his life, Bernido frequently moved between Stockton and San Francisco, California. Like many Filipino immigrants, he engaged in various occupations to sustain himself in the United States including working as a barback in a hotel. The 1950 United States census documents Bernido as typically working forty hours per week and residing as a roomer with twenty-four other men. Julian Felecita Bernido passed away in October 1977 at the age of seventy-three.

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National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; WWII Draft Registration Cards For California, 10/16/1940-03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147; Box: 142

National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, DC; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Roll: 3416; Page: 9; Enumeration District: 38-21

The National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, DC; Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving At San Francisco; NAI Number: 4482913;

Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; Record Group Number: 85

Social Security Administration; Washington DC, USA; Social Security Death Index, Master File

Ancestry.com. Philippines, Select Marriages, 1723-1957 [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Incorporated.

1.	Original Data: Philippines, Marriages, 1723-1957. Salt Lake City, Utah: Family Search, 2013.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1971
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1515, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Consists of a letter written in Visayan and received by Bernido in 1971 from   Melitona F. Makinano from Bohol, Philippines. It provides little information relating to Bernido's life in Stockton, California. However, it serves as a primary resource for documenting life in the Philippines in the 1970s and understanding how and what people communicated to family and friends in another country.