{"id":4050,"date":"2015-12-23T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T15:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4050"},"modified":"2015-12-23T00:02:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T06:02:44","slug":"the-question-they-only-asked-males-over-21-in-1900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/23\/the-question-they-only-asked-males-over-21-in-1900\/","title":{"rendered":"The Question They Only Asked Males Over 21 in 1900"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This 1900 census enumeration leaves the question of year of citizenship blank for these two ladies.<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1900-no-females.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4051\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1900-no-females.jpg\" alt=\"1900-no-females\" width=\"851\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1900-no-females.jpg 851w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1900-no-females-300x106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1900-no-females-624x220.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t an oversight. It was because the <a href=\"https:\/\/usa.ipums.org\/usa\/voliii\/inst1900.shtml\">census enumerator&#8217;s instructions<\/a> were to only ask the question regarding year of citizenship of males over the age of twenty-one. The likely reason is because women in 1900 didn&#8217;t have a separate citizenship status from that of their husband&#8211;the two literally were one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This 1900 census enumeration leaves the question of year of citizenship blank for these two ladies. It wasn&#8217;t an oversight. It was because the census enumerator&#8217;s instructions were to only ask the question regarding year of citizenship of males over the age of twenty-one. The likely reason is because women in 1900 didn&#8217;t have [&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-4050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050","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=4050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}