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Subject: Re: [PAPHL] Missing Ancestors
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:30:55 -0400
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wrote:

> "Derivative citizenship was granted to wives and minor children of
> naturalized men. From 1790 to 1922, wives of naturalized men
> automatically became citizens. An alien woman who married a
> U. S. citizen automatically became a citizen."

Unfortunately, the reverse was also true. If an American-born woman
married an alien resident during those years, she became a citizen
of whatever country her husband was from. To further confuse the
matter, if her husband later naturalized before 1922, she became a
US citizen again. I've never looked into whether a US born female
married to an alien resident regained her citizenship automatically
after the 1922 immigrant law changes.

Marie

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