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Immigrant from Ireland has US Citizenship document listing her as subject of Germany. Why?

Immigrant from Ireland has US Citizenship document listing her as subject of Germany. Why?

Posted: 1 Jul 2015 11:46PM GMT
Classification: Query
My great Grandmother immigrated to the US from Ireland in the early 1900s. Her husband came from Germany. Her naturalization papers list her as a subject of Germany. Is this because her husband was from Germany?

Re: Immigrant from Ireland has US Citizenship document listing her as subject of Germany. Why?

Posted: 2 Jul 2015 3:26AM GMT
Classification: Query
YES, you were usually a subject of your husbands country, as a woman you had no rights.
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