{"id":3135,"date":"2015-07-16T09:15:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T14:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2015-07-16T09:15:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T14:15:49","slug":"naturalizing-the-day-before-an-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/16\/naturalizing-the-day-before-an-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Naturalizing the Day Before An Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I discussed an <a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=528\">1876 naturalization in a post yesterday on\u00a0<em>Rootdig<\/em><\/a>. A reader noticed that the date of the naturalization was the day before the\u00a0presidential election. That&#8217;s a good point.<\/p>\n<p>The proximity of the date should be noted because it makes one wonder if the naturalization processed was hastened in any way. It doesn&#8217;t mean the immigrant wasn&#8217;t an immigrant or that his place of birth, etc. was incorrect. If anything it could mean that the naturalization process was sped up in order to allow him to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Or it could simply mean that he wanted to complete his paperwork before the election and there was nothing shady going on.<\/p>\n<p>And thanks to a\u00a0<em>Rootdig<\/em> reader for pointing out the proximity of the date of naturalization to the date of the election for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discussed an 1876 naturalization in a post yesterday on\u00a0Rootdig. A reader noticed that the date of the naturalization was the day before the\u00a0presidential election. That&#8217;s a good point. The proximity of the date should be noted because it makes one wonder if the naturalization processed was hastened in any way. It doesn&#8217;t mean the [&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-3135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135","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=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}