# 1918 Alien Registration series *A 1918 record series named in the at-issue record as an adjacent source for reconstructing the Commission of Public Safety's activity in Carver County, Minnesota.* The 1918 Alien Registration series is one of three bodies of material that a single at-issue item names as the working sources for reconstructing what the Commission of Public Safety did in Carver County. The other two are the [[Americanization Committee]] records and the county's own newspapers.[^1] The item states that these sources are needed because the Carver County branch file that would answer the question directly does not exist. It also states that the county's loyalty record must therefore be inferred from adjacent series.[^1] The pack does not describe the contents of the registration series itself. It does not establish what those records show about any person or about the county branch.[^1] ## What The at-issue item (AI-Carver-055) states that reconstructing what the Commission of Public Safety did in Carver County "now requires working from the 1918 Alien Registration series, the Americanization Committee records, and the county's own newspapers."[^1] The same item gives the reason. It says the county-branch file "that would answer the question directly does not exist," and that the county's loyalty record "has to be inferred from adjacent series."[^1] The item lists two underlying sources, on the domains mnhs.org and libguides.mnhs.org. Neither source URL is carried in the pack.[^1] ## In the at-issue record Item AI-Carver-055 is ranked 55 in the Carver package. It falls in the block titled *Motordale: The Gesture and the Delivery* (Pairs 41–58) and is keyed to the year 1918. It is tagged as requiring reconstruction from adjacent series.[^1] The row is anchored to a White House presidential action dated March 2025.[^2] The pack records the pairing but does not show that the 2025 action addresses Minnesota's 1918 records or the Carver County branch file.[^1][^2] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota wiki at-issue record, *Motordale 5000 Steelman dossier*, item AI-Carver-055 (2026-09-02) — states that reconstruction of the Commission of Public Safety's Carver County activity requires the 1918 Alien Registration series, the Americanization Committee records and county newspapers, because the county-branch file does not exist; source domains listed as mnhs.org and libguides.mnhs.org (URLs not in pack); URL given is the row's anchor. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/ [^2]: The White House, *Presidential action* (March 2025) — the anchor document paired with at-issue item AI-Carver-055. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/