From: CJ Sperl <cjsperl@gmail.com> Subject: [ALL] Naturalization To: paallegh@rootsweb.com >What was the procedure for naturalization when the child was a minor. My mother and her parents emigrated in 1926, my mother was 4 at the time. I have found my grandfathers certificate and my grandmothers at a later date, but I have found no paperwork on my mothers citizenship. On my grandfather¹s it does not say anything about my mother. Hi Claudia, Age of children, and year of immigration are necessary information to answer your question. I know that Larry¹s answer is misleading. My FISCHER family immigrated in 1891: mother, three sons [19, 18, 16] and daughter [9]. My great-grandfather immigrated in 1882. All three male ³children² went on to become naturalized, as well as their father, in an Western District of Pennsylvania District Court [ie Federal] in Pittsburgh: > The 16-yo immigrant Hugo Fischer became naturalized 24 Oct 1896. > The 18-yo immigrant William H. Fischer became naturalized 7 Sep 1896. > The 19-yo immigrant August Fischer became naturalized 15 Jan 1897. > Father, immigrant Herman Clemens Fischer naturalized 23 Sep 1895. Great-grandmother Augustina Fischer [Out of 696 passengers onboard the SS Switzerland, one of just four who gave ³ad² [adult] for her age on the passenger list) was NOT noted in either of her census appearances: 1900/1910, with any naturalization information. In the only census Catharina Fischer Weber appeared, at 19 yo, there was no indication of naturalization, only immig year and years in US. However, she had been a minor child at immigration; and by 1900 was married to a naturalized immigrant, Theodore Weber. Thus a naturalized citizen, by derivation, twice over! Here¹s a very nice summary of historic USA Naturalization laws through the years, from the Genealogy Collection, Archives and Public Records, of Arizona State Library, dated 10 May 2007: http://www.lib.az.us/is/genealogy/handouts/documents/Naturalization.pdf And from that summary - Highlights re: ³children²: > 1795: Act provided derivative citizenship for wives and MINOR children. > > 1804: Act provided citizenship to widows and children of an alien who died > before filing his final papers. > > 1906: Before 1906 biographical data on children and spouses rarely existed in > declarations and petitions because they automatically received citizenship by > derivitive citizenship from father and husband. After 27 Sep 1906, it became > mandatory to include the names, ages, birth date and place, marriage date and > place, and names of minor children, their birth dates and places and > residences. [AND this regulation says there SHOULD be information somewhere > out there about your mother as a minor child in 1926!] > > 1922: Besides citizenship being entitled for women 21 and over, derivative > citizenship was discontinued. [I don¹t know and this doesn¹t say anything > specific to minor children.] Hope this provides some more information of value....... Cari Thomas