A petition for naturalization for Annie Gumma under section 4 of the act of September 1922 ? Don't quite understand that she was born In Ishpeming Michigan 20 November 1884 - William was born In Glamorgan 2 October 1976
Examination took place 7 May 1940
Sandra
I think this explains that -
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1998/summer/women-and-naturalization-1.html"Under the act of March 2, 1907, all women acquired their husband's nationality upon any marriage occurring after that date. This changed nothing for immigrant women, but U.S.-born citizen women could now lose their citizenship by any marriage to any alien."
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"Happily, Congress was at work and on September 22, 1922, passed the Married Women's Act, also known as the Cable Act. This 1922 law finally gave each woman a nationality of her own. No marriage since that date has granted U.S. citizenship to any alien woman nor taken it from any U.S.-born women who married an alien eligible to naturalization."
