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    1. [GM] Re: US Naturalization for a woman
    2. Charles Sullivan
    3. > My grandmother was Canadian, married to a US citizen in 1905 (in > Canada). They lived their entire married life in the US. I know she > voted after women won the right to do so. Before 1919, I believe was no > advantage to citizenship for her, and in any case, she was married to a > US citizen. I don't see anything anywhere that she would have had to go > through a citizenship process and therefore have left a paper trail. > Still, if there is one someplace, I'd like to have it. Anyone? > > "Elizabeth Richardson" <erichktn@worldnet.att.net> Prior to 1920, the citizenship status of a wife automatically became that of her husband. If the husband was (or became) a citizen, then she was a citizen. If the husband was an alien, then she was also, regardless of her status prior to the marriage. Thus many women born in the USA are listed as aliens on censuses.

    04/22/2003 05:51:14