Tag: Women’s citizenship

Regaining her Citizenship

January 26, 2024 Reeka Larsen filed an “Application to Take Oath of Allegiance” in Long Beach, California in 1955. This application was filed to reinstate Reeka’s U.S. citizenship. She’d lost her citizenship when she married James Larsen in 1912. Reeka was born in Meeker County, Minnesota in 1885. She was a natural born American citizen, …

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When Women Lost their Citizenship

January 29, 2021 Have you ever wondered whether any of your female relatives were stripped of their U.S. citizenship. Shades of Mata Hari, you might be thinking. Of course my ancestors didn’t lose their citizenship; they weren’t spies or seditionists. My family came to America in the 1600s. All of them were birthright citizens. In …

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