From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Feb 26 17:15:21 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1R0FLjb032302; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:15:21 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1R0FHiu029380 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:15:17 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k1QLjhFI006039 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 16:45:43 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1QLjhFg006038 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 16:45:43 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k1QHexFI005531 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:40:59 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1QKAMeR026386 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:10:22 -0700 X-Envelope-From: hornbeck@s-hornbeck.com Sun Feb 26 13:10:21 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1QKALjb026377 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:10:21 -0700 Received: from smtp106.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp106.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.169.226]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k1QKAIM3022153 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:10:18 -0700 Received: (qmail 63770 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2006 20:10:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO shirley-.s-hornbeck.com) (shirleyhornbeck@sbcglobal.net@69.110.194.183 with login) by smtp106.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Feb 2006 20:10:18 -0000 Message-Id: <6.2.3.4.2.20060226120840.04214e40@pop.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.3.4 Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:09:46 -0800 To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com From: Shirley Hornbeck Cc: hornbeck@s-hornbeck.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] THIS AND THAT NATURALIZATION IMPORTANT DATES REGARDING NATURALIZATION: 1790 - Citizenship required a two year residency in the U.S. and one year in the state, to be of good character, and to be performed in a court of record. 1795 - Additional requirements were added of a 3-year residency to file a declaration of intention,a 5-year residency requirement (with 1-year in the state of residence) to file final papers,and required renunciation of titles of nobility and foreign allegiance. This act provided derivative citizenship for wives and minor children. 1798 - Additional requirements stated that a copy of the return was to be sent to the Secretary of State, and the residency was increased to fourteen years. This was repealed in 1802. 1804 - Widows and children of an alien who died before filing his final papers were granted citizenship. 1824 - The residency time between filing a declaration and final papers was shortened to two years. 1855 - An alien female who married a U.S. citizen was automatically naturalized. This was repealed in 1922. 1862 - Aliens over 21 who performed military service in the Army could become citizens after one year's residency. 1868 - African Americans became citizens by passage of the Fourteenth Amendment. 1872 - Alien seamen serving three years on a U.S. merchant vessel could be naturalized without fulfilling a residency requirement. 1882 - Chinese were excluded from becoming citizens. This was repealed in 1943. 1891 - The Office of Immigration was established. Polygamists, and those convicted of certain crimes or who carried certain diseases were excluded from citizenship. 1894 - Aliens serving in the Navy or Marine Corps could be naturalized under the same conditions of the 1862 law. 1906 - The Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization was established. Alien registration was required. Residency requirements were changed to two years to file intent, and five years for final papers. Derivative citizenship was still practiced. 1907 - A female U.S. citizen who married an alien lost her U.S. citizenship and took on the nationality of her husband. This was repealed in 1922, but citizenship was not restored until 1936. 1918 - Aliens serving in U.S. Forces during World War I could be naturalized without any residency requirement. 1921 - The first Immigration Act to establish quotas of immigrants based on national origin was enacted. 1922 - Women 21-years of age and over were entitled to citizenship. Derivative citizenship was discontinued. The residency requirement to file a declaration of intention was waived. 1924 - The Citizen Act of June 2, 1924 provided that "all non-citizen Indians born with the territorial limits of the United States be, and they are hereby declared to be, citizens of the United States." This included Indians living on tribal reservations. 1940 - The Alien Immigration Act required registration and fingerprinting at a local post office within 30 days of arrival. 1952 - The Immigration Act Amendment abandoned the national origins system of setting quotas on ethnic groups. Naturalization is voluntary. According to Census Bureau - of the foreign born persons listed on the 1890 through 1930 censuses, 25% had not become naturalized or filed their "first papers. Shirley Hornbeck - THIS & THAT GENEALOGY TIPS: