Thank you. Would you have any idea where the old registration cards would be kept? Or would they have been destroyed as being useless? Or given to historical societies? Jacquie Maggie Kitts wrote: >Women's Suffrage was passed in the Wyoming Territory, Dec 10 1869. > >June 4, 1919, nationwide Women's was suffrage proposed by Congress. > >19th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified Aug 18, 1920, giving >women the right to vote. > >"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or >abridged by the Unisted States or by any State on account of sex." > >Then the League of Women Voters was founded. > >Maggie Kitts > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jacqueline Baral" <jacquiebaral@earthlink.net> >To: <OHSUMMIT-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 4:52 PM >Subject: [OHSUMMIT-L] Voter Registration Cards > > >>Hello everyone, >> >>Shame on me, I've completely forgotten my voting history. When did >>voting registration come into effect? And would anyone know where such >>records from the 1920s-'30s be housed in Summit & Union counties? I'd >>love to find out if my BISHOP grandparents, Harold Lee Bishop & Thelma >>Gladys (Inskeep) Bishop were ever registered. >> >>If things go right, my husband and I are finally taking a months >>vacation, leaving in mid August until mid September, first traveling New >>England for (of course) more genealogy, then back to "home" in Ohio for >>more genealogy research. >> >>Thank you. >>Jacquie >> >><OHSUMMIT-L@rootsweb.com> >><OHUNION-L@rootsweb.com> >>
Sorry, Jacquie, I haven't a clue. I live in Oregon and I have never searched for voter registration records. Maggie Kitts ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacqueline Baral" <jacquiebaral@earthlink.net> To: <OHSUMMIT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 10:38 PM Subject: Re: [OHSUMMIT-L] Voter Registration Cards > Thank you. Would you have any idea where the old registration cards > would be kept? Or would they have been destroyed as being useless? Or > given to historical societies? > > Jacquie <snip>