{"id":7849,"date":"2018-11-01T14:05:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T14:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7849"},"modified":"2018-11-01T14:05:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T14:05:58","slug":"the-right-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7849","title":{"rendered":"The Right to Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[this is not a political post]<\/p>\n<p>This blog post is a little different and is just to get readers thinking. I&#8217;m not even going to really post any answers&#8211;rather, we&#8217;ll just ask questions.<\/p>\n<p><b>Do you know when your ancestor got the right to vote?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Was it when he turned 21?<\/li>\n<li>Was it when he turned 18?<\/li>\n<li>Did he never get the right to vote?<\/li>\n<li>Was it when he became a citizen?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><b>Do you know when your ancestor became a citizen?<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Was it when he was born?<\/li>\n<li>Was it when her father naturalized?<\/li>\n<li>Was it when she got married?<\/li>\n<li>Was it when she naturalized?<\/li>\n<li>Did he never become a citizen?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Of course, gender and race are tied to these questions as well. Your ancestor&#8217;s gender was fixed. Your ancestor&#8217;s race might not have been so &#8220;fixed,&#8221; depending on the time period, location, etc. For some ancestors, the answers to these questions may not be straight forward.<\/p>\n<p>She who refuses to learn history might as well quit genealogy and take up another hobby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[this is not a political post] This blog post is a little different and is just to get readers thinking. I&#8217;m not even going to really post any answers&#8211;rather, we&#8217;ll just ask questions. Do you know when your ancestor got the right to vote?\u00a0 Was it when he turned 21? Was it when he turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}