{"id":16322,"date":"2023-02-22T05:54:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T11:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=16322"},"modified":"2023-04-20T09:44:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T14:44:34","slug":"naturalized-via-the-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/22\/naturalized-via-the-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Naturalized Via the Father"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your foreign-born ancestor who immigrated to America as a child and who was under the age of majority when his father naturalized would have become a citizen based on that father&#8217;s naturalization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children of the father who were over the age of majority would not have become citizens via their father&#8217;s naturalization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of <a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9926\">my homesteading relatives in Nebraska in the 19th century used his father&#8217;s citizenship to prove his citizenship<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the early 20th century in the United States, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/publications\/prologue\/1998\/summer\/women-and-naturalization-1.html\">the citizenship status of a woman was tied to that of her husband throwing an additional complication into the mix.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=9378&amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;kbid=9378&amp;m=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Search NewsBank\u2019s GenealogyBank for your ancestors.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your foreign-born ancestor who immigrated to America as a child and who was under the age of majority when his father naturalized would have become a citizen based on that father&#8217;s naturalization. Children of the father who were over the age of majority would not have become citizens via their father&#8217;s naturalization. One of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}