That is all true. I was simply giving the source for my statement about woman losing their citizenship of they married men who were aliens. And it is a good starting point on learning about Naturalizations. Cheryl ----- Original Message ----- From: MonicaBOS@aol.com To: cdynan@rcn.com ; irl-kerry@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 5:13 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Emailing: naturalization Hi Cheryl. Yes, that is a good link but it only discusses how women and minors can automatically become naturalized without going through the process. I was told by a very nice man at the Nat. Archives in Waltham, Massachusetts that women could apply for their own naturalizations and go through the process themselves but that very few did that. That is why I looked for Hanora McSheehy. Alas, she is not there and I can only assume she did not bother to apply on her own. But here is a link, also from the Archives that goes into further detail. What is most interesting to me in this discussion is how this access to naturalization differed from state to state, and how early some states "emancipated" women. This has all sent me off on a completely different tangent. www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1998/summer/women-and-naturalization-1.html Monica ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See what's new at AOL.com and Make AOL Your Homepage.