On the subject of naturalizations - children under 18 years naturalized automatically when their father naturalized. Men who stated that they came here prior to age 18 did not have file "first papers". Woman born in the US would lose their citizenship if they married an immigrant and regain it when he naturalized! Cheryl ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:35:50 -0600 >From: [email protected] >Subject: IRL-CORK Digest, Vol 4, Issue 76 >To: [email protected] > >Today's Topics: >> >> > > ----- Original Message ----- >> > > From: <[email protected]> >> > > To: <[email protected]> >> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:19 PM >> > > Subject: Reading the US census >> > > >Kathleen Bowen Simons >Falls Church, Virginia > > >________________ >Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:57:56 -0400 >From: "Helen" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Reading the US census >To: <[email protected]> > >Is your Aunt married? If she was she would have been naturalized pre 1922 if >her husband was naturalized. That event happened on one of mine -- she said >she was naturalized by way of her husband. Women did not get to do their own >naturalizations until after 1922 -- the right to vote occurred in 1920. >Calls to mind the expression -- you've come a long way baby!! Hard to >believe less than 100 years ago women in the US couldn't vote. >Helen >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Kathleen B. Simons" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:23 PM >Subject: Re: Reading the US census > > >> Yes, well, the enumerators sometimes did their own thing (which is great >> if >> it ADDS genealogy knowledge!) >> >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:17 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thank you all, you learn something new everyday !! >>> >>> I think this is interesting, one of my grandaunts naturalised, she was a >>> female over 21 >>> >>> 152. The question of naturalization (column 18) applies only to >>> foreign-born males 21 years of age and over. It does not apply to >>> foreign-born minors, to foreign-born females, or to any person, male or >>> female, who was born in the United States, either of native or foreign >>> parentage. >>> >>> >>> Brendan >>> ----- "Kathleen B. Simons" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Please go to the U.S. Census section of Cyndi's List: >>> > http://www.cyndislist.com/ (main contents page) >>> > >>> > http://www.cyndislist.com/census.htm (U.S. Census pages) >>> > >>> > if you click on the year of interest, they have explanations for all >>> > the >>> > fields (the 'rules' for the enumerators are very interested, and, as >>> > we all >>> > know, sometimes not followed!)l >>> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Helen <[email protected]> >>> > wrote: >>> > >>> > > NA is naturalized PA is the process has begun and AL is alien. No >>> > records >>> > > exist that I know other than draft cards for WW1 and WW2 which >>> > included non >>> > > citizens. >>> > > Helen