Here you go, Kathleen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expatriation_Act_of_1907 Yes it was an American law and only applied to U.S. citizens. Barb ------------------------------ Kathleen Scarlett O'Hara Naylor [email protected] I've been wondering about this recently. Did it only apply to women who were US citizens, or would, say, a woman with Brazilian citizenship who married a man with Italian citizenship in NY also have acquired her husband's nationality? (I have a great-grandmother whose nationality is not what I'd expect it to be on her naturalization paperwork, and I'm wondering if it changed when she married, even though neither was a US citizen when they married.) Kathleen