{"id":10191,"date":"2026-04-06T14:19:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/2026\/04\/06\/seven-types-of-documents-americans-are-using-to-prove-their-canadian-citizenship-by-descent\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:19:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:19:45","slug":"seven-types-of-documents-americans-are-using-to-prove-their-canadian-citizenship-by-descent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/2026\/04\/06\/seven-types-of-documents-americans-are-using-to-prove-their-canadian-citizenship-by-descent\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven types of documents Americans are using to prove their Canadian citizenship by descent"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u200bA change in Canada\u2019s 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\u2019s 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n

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\u200bA change in Canada\u2019s 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cic-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}