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From: "Kate Lynn" <>
Subject: RE: [APG] Re: Alien/Wife Citizenship?
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:43:31 -0600
In-Reply-To: <55.4a9d65f9.2ce1863b@aol.com>


>
> The mother, a U.S. citizenby birth, married an alien before 1920,
therby
> losing her citizenship, which she didn't realize. She became active
in politics
> after women's suffrage, voting in every election for years and even
serving as
> a party committee member and as an election officer. Her husband was
> naturalized after the 1922 Married Women's Act, which provided that a
wife's
> citizenship no longer automatically followed that of her husband, so
she continued
> unknowingly as an alien.
>
> An Act of March 2, 1907 had provided that citizenship of all married
women
> would follow that of their husbands, even women who were U.S.
citizens by
> birth, and whose citizenship hadn't previously been affected by
marriage.>>>>

Don & all,

I'm confused (not a surprise to my children); did the "loss of
citizenship" only apply to women who married immigrants from March, 1907
to 1922? What about US female citizens who married aliens prior to 1907
- was this act retroactive?

Catherine Foote Lynn
Genealogist - Family Historian




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