Tag Archives: Citizenship
My Great Grandmother Registered to Vote?
[Another repost...Fearless Females-Women's History Month, March 19th: A Surprising Fact] While looking through the voter registration books for 1937, I came upon a surprising entry. My Great Grandmother, Maria (de Braga) Pacheco Smith, was listed. This might not have been so surprising had my Great Grandmother been a US Citizen. But, she wasn’t. In fact, …
Tuesday’s Tip: Locating Naturalization Records in Hawaii
Finding naturalization records in Hawaii can be confusing. Because Hawaii was a Kingdom, then a territory, and finally a state, the process is somewhat different. I’m going to concentrate on the territorial naturalizations because I think that this would be the era most people would be affected by. The first thing that you should know …