Seven types of documents Americans are using to prove their Canadian citizenship by descent

​A change in Canada’s citizenship laws late last year has many Americans scouring their attics, searching for shoeboxes stuffed with old documents. Birth certificates of great-grandparents laid away for decades. Marriage records in French. Baptismal certificates from Quebec parishes that may or may not still exist. Such documents, once mere sentimental tokens, have for many
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A change in Canada’s citizenship laws late last year has many Americans scouring their attics, searching for shoeboxes stuffed with old documents. Birth certificates of great-grandparents laid away for decades. Marriage records in French. Baptismal certificates from Quebec parishes that may or may not still exist. Such documents, once mere sentimental tokens, have for many […]

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