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Subject: Re: [PAPHL] Missing Ancestors
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 14:51:02 EDT
In a message dated 8/7/2006 2:48:38 PM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:
Joan,
I know that is not true now, marrying a citizen allows you to get permanent
residency but does not automatically make you a citizen and I suspect that
was
true then as well. It's also possible they married another immigrant and he
could have filed with them on the application so they weren't checked, I was
just asking if other possibilities were considered.
Liz Harrison
I'm not sure of the date of the change--but for quite some time in American
history a wife took whatever citizenship her husband held. That is why in
Colonial days you never saw a woman being naturalized. She either held the
citizenship of her father or her husband. We've come a long way, baby! <g>
Joan
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